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Formed company along with several partners. Took over Chyron's ChyTV digital signage product line as a separate corporate entity. We continue to sell the existing ChyTV product line as well as developing new software and hardware solutions.• Have developed and fostered strong working relationships with prominent companies and government agencies, including the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, U.S. Air Force, Comcast, Caterpillar, Hooters, Frost Cutlery, Bosch, Echostar, Globecomm, Brookhaven National Labs, various colleges and universities, local governments and municipalities and many, many more.• Provided many custom software solutions including gathering and converting data and images from Web sites, XML and RSS feeds, Excel spreadsheets and more.• Proficient in all phases of business development including corporate management, payroll and taxes, financial management, merchant services, sales, marketing, support and engineering.

Co-founded and directed all phases of ChyTV product lifecycle from design specifications through release to production and enterprise customer support. The ChyTV products are digital signage products used to display text and graphic information and advertising in public spaces such as restaurants, waiting rooms, lobbies, etc. • Designed and directed development of software applications for content authoring, content project management and delivery, graphics animation creation and security and alert interfaces. Applications were developed using Microsoft C++, .NET Framework and Visual Basic .NET.• Designed and directed development of server based content delivery methods and interfaces. Technologies and protocols used include FTP, Asp.net / C# 3.5, Sql Server 2005, Window Services and Ajax methodology.• Over a four year span, the ChyTV products brought in over 2,500 new customers and generated over $3,000,000 in revenue.

Managed software development and technical team for developing products for Interactive Television market (ITV). This involved a variety of products and patented technologies for creating and delivering interactive content to consumer set top box platforms such as Microsoft TV, WebTV, AOLTV, Liberate, OpenTV and more.• Used ATVEF (Advanced Television Enhancement Forum) protocol to deliver live 'triggers' to various set top box platforms to cue interactive content for live event programming, including successful projects such as HGTV's Rose Bowl parade.• Developed ATVEF compliant authoring interface to generate HTML content particularized for the wide variety of set top box formats.• Regularly interfaced with high profile officers within the ITV community from companies such as Microsoft, Intel, AOL, Sony, NDS, OpenTV and more.• Engaged in successful ITV projects with television companies such as the Scripps Network and PBS.• Technologies used include XML, VBI (vertical blanking interval) insertion, HTML, Java Script, Avid MetaSync and Flash.

Managed all aspects of software development and teams for iNFiNiT! family of software. This included managing the complete software cycle from developing the initial software specifications through implementation, internal testing, Beta customer testing and release to production.• Developed support for international languages, including complex languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic.• Interfaced directly with high profile customers from a variety of major television networks to assess needs, solve problems and develop new features.• Was directly involved in prominent television graphic events such as the Olympics, elections coverage, Super Bowl, Indianapolis 500 and more.

Lead software engineer for Chyron's flagship iNFiNiT! family of broadcast television character generators. Customers included CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, ESPN, TNT and many more. The product line included a long run from 1989 through the early 2000's generating sales in excess of $300,000,000 in that time. These are all non-Windows, embedded products running on Motorola CPU boards based on the real-time pSOS operating system.• Developed sophisticated user interface running on dedicated Motorola 162 CPU platforms. This interface was pre-Windows however included button and mouse driven menus and very high quality anti-aliased characters.• Developed high-level graphics algorithms driving intelligent hardware frame buffers to display crisp television text, graphics and animations far beyond the capabilities of off-the-shelf computers. Applications written in C interfaced directly with sophisticated hardware on a low-level register control level.• Developed RS-232 control protocol "Intelligent Interface" which became an industry standard supported by a wide variety of automation equipment companies and is still in wide use in the television industry.• Implemented sophisticated support applications including FTP Client and Server applications, NFS (network file system), disk management and more.

Developed sub-contracted software as a consultant for Palltronics Corporation (i.e. Pall). Developed visual PC interfaces and reporting for filter integrity test equipment, including the Pall FFE03 and Tru-Flow products.• Developed front end PC interfaces to perform sophisticated testing of filter integrity by controlling a system of valves and measurement devices contained within the test equipment. Communication of test commands and results between PC and device was via RS-232 serial control.• PC interface was Windows using Microsoft C++ and Developer's Studio. Test equipment controller was C on embedded processor.• Both FFE03 and Tru-Flow products were very successful for a number of years.

Software engineer for computer consulting firm. Sub-contracted custom work for a number of companies as well as developed in-house applications.• Consulted regularly at Cybex working on computer and printer display of complex fitness testing and rehabilitation information in both numeric and graphical forms.• Developed interactive tax generation software including initial adoption of IRS Electronic Filing protocol.• Developed visual interactive application for real estate development.