Dick Pierce Email & Phone Number

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Product concept, system architecture, designer and implementer of Keltron next-generation IP-KOM and Net9000 intergrated Ethernet Life Safety Event Transducer on advanced embedded Ethernet serial/parallel device server.Product concept, system architecture, designer and implementation of Keltron LS Net Ethernet Life Safety Event Transceiver base on embedded Ethernet serial device server.Product concept, system architecture, design and implementation of Keltron LS CSR Ethernet Life Safety Event receiver system on embedded Ethernet serial device server.System architect and designer for Keltron LS 7000 Life Safety Event System. Expanded system capabilities include multiple 3rd-party system interfaces, tiered auto-fallback multi-system designs, hot-redundant auto-failover architecture and more on Windows platforms

Various

Independent consultant in software, system and loudspeaker design. Projects include:* High-intelligibility voice prompting system for portable electronic defibrillator,* Loudspeaker annunciation and intercom system for consumer-use fuel delivery systems,* Acoustic-based QC test system for cast-iron brake caliper manufacturing line,* Complete concept and design of consumer-oriented high-end high fidelity loudspeaker systems for a number of manufacturers,* Loudspeaker manufacturing and test systems,* Astronomical radio-telescope antenna online test and calibration system.* ...

Greater Boston Area

Assist in development and integration of advanced time management systems into on-air, real time broadcast applications and networks. Senior contributor, Voltair advanced broadcast audio watermarking system: designed and implemented confidence engine, developed performance verification tool set, managed integrated build and delivery system.Senior contributor, Intercom monitoring system: designed and developed integrated DSP-controlled high-quality compact loudspeaker system for in-rack, desktop and portable communications monitors.Conducted research in voice properties and enhancement schemes for embedded audio watermarking systems: developed tool set for evaluation efficacy of watermarking strategies and algorithms.

Grass Valley, Ca

Directed new system architecture of Graham Patten's D/ESAM 8000, multi-track audio-for-video editing system for use with TV, DTV, DVD and other digital media.

Greater Boston Area

Provided design and implementation of connection between Radio On-Air traffic systems and web site manager providing real-time target market and user ad substitution.

UI, top level, file system, and I/O design an implementation of Orban's highly successful DSE 7000 and Audicy: turn-key, multi-track audio editing systems targeted to the radio spot production market. Systems provided a highly efficient, versatile, quick to learn and easy to use editing systems for the creation and production of sophisticated, complex short-form audio programs. Ran market research program and provided ongoing end-user support.

Technical manager of Atex's ClassPage: a classified pagination system for Atex's pre-press product line

Greater Boston Area

Directed design and manufacturing of high-quality OEM component loudspeaker drivers. Implement test and QC procedures.

Greater Boston Area

Designed and implemented logic signal display for Genrad's new generation of combinational circuit board test systems. Designed interface protocol between graphics display and test engine. Implemented overall system performance analysis tools.

Greater Boston Area

In charge of design and implementation of hardcopy output for high-end 3-D CAD/CAM software company running on VAX/VMS hardware base. Implemented plot queue system with intuitive VMS command-line interface. Designed device-independent 2D drawing representation file format. Designed device-specific plot converters for a variety of third-party plotters, e.g., HP 74xx series, Calcomp 900 series. Implemented vector plot optimization utility reducing plot time on pen plotters by as much as 90%. Implemented VAX/VMX system device drivers for Applicon-proprietary I/O devices (serial, etc).

Greater Boston Area

Software support for diverse line of I/O interfaces for DEC Q-Bus, Unibus and TI TI-line mini- and microcomputers. Interfaces includes high-speed, high-precision A/D and D/A, current loop and digital I/O.Wrote test and diagnostic OS and development system for I/O interfaces.

Brussels Area, Belgium, Greater Boston Area

Design and developed communications interface drivers for DEC RSX-11 based system for doing message trace and debug on ITT's new generation of computer based subscriber telephone switching systems. Diagnostics architecture for proprietary inductrial controller system.Designed real-time graphical status display for regional gas distribution system on IBM Series-1 minicomputer.