Mark Zaller Email & Phone Number

Carson City, Nv, Us

United States

Botanical surveys. Maping rare and invasive plants using ESRI. Worked on the Social and Ecological Resilience (SERAL) project to improve wildfire resilliancy in the forests of the Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers.

Offices In Nevada And France

International consultant primarily in North America and Europe. Provide technical documentation, product development, and marketing to Beyond Flight, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Courtney Aviation.Implemented and managing Courtney Aviation's Virtual Reality (VR) systems for multiple aircraft. Wildfire product development for Beyond Flight "AI that thinks like a pilot" enabling existing Wildfire Aircraft to fly optionally piloted utilizing TruePass hazards radar, drone like intelligence and Air Attack VR for ground based aerial supervision.

Columbia, California

Designed real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) for wildland firefighters. Worked within multiple agencies and partners to establish live aerial intelligence to ground firefighters as a standard. Enabled Air Tactical Group Supervisor (ATGS) Aerial Supervision from the ground using Augmented Reality (AR).Developed thermal infrared (IR) and color superzoom for aerial firefighters from concept to delivery. Used auto tracking 360-degree drone gimbals and 5-band step-stare AI mapping system on manned aircraft live streaming to Incident Command (IC) teams. Pioneered 16-bit gigapixel ortho-mosaics with refined ESRI classification that enabled precision fire mapping and hotspots during the day (previously night only). Simple aerial video, geo-located polygons and near real-time maps on everyone’s mobile device create shared Situation Awareness (sSA) and Common Operating Picture (COP). Utilized manned aircraft, cellular FirstNet and 2-million-acre Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) network. Partnered with Verizon and Boeing Insitu to fly the first aerial cell tower for emergency services (Flying COW).Established standards with government agencies to use and transmit IR/EO (Electro-Optical). 12-year member of NASA and USFS Tactical Fire Remote Sensing Advisory Committee (TFRSAC).Reduced government expenditures, saving many communities from fire and open-sourcing the technology for all to use worldwide. The IOT technologies increased Courtney Aviation's revenues and profits.Other responsibilities included: NIROPS pilot, CAL FIRE Intel, ESRI ArcGIS Pro wildfire mapping, and systems operator

Alaska, California And Idaho

Outdoor and aerial tour guide leading and caring for groups on whitewater river and wilderness trips. Aerial tour guide and pilot over Yosemite, Sequoia/Kings, and Death Valley National Parks. Presentations of through-hiked Pacific Crest Trail and Continental Divide trails from Mexico to Canada. Photos and videos for magazines and websites.

Oversaw imaging systems, buildup, and deployment. Ran field operations.Developed hi-res multispectral aerial imaging systems for precision-ag. FAA-approved systems with moving maps were automated using Linux, iPads, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hundreds of gigabytes of multispectral 2 cm pixel imagery were auto-processed daily into simple heat maps for farmersBuilt up a network of 50 flight operator-partners using 3D printing to fit automated cameras to a variety of manned and unmanned aircraft. Scheduled many missions per day and completed them. Mavrx increased agricultural harvest, lowered farming costs and reduced additives through extensive aerial analysis of plant colors into exact meanings for crop health, watering, weeds, etc. Produced prescription files for automatic tractor dispensing.

San Carlos, Ca

Led an aerospace and imaging startup in Silicon Valley. Turned around an $8M funded startup from preparing Chapter 7 bankruptcy to profitable in one year. Tripled sales and eliminated debt with no additional funding. Strategically seized the intersection of manned-unmanned flight turning adversarial businesses into symbiotic growth. Transformed UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) only companies to be more successful when combined with manned aircraft.Developed and manufactured gyrostabilized camera systems for Law Enforcement, precision ag, oil spills, solar farms, wildfire, wildlife, power/pipe line and surveying. Combined UAV technologies into manned aircraft. FAA approved system was resold by Cessna/Textron for factory install. Led NASA/Forest Service (TFRSAC Tactical Fire Remote Sensing Advisory Committee) working group to define tactical infrared on wildfires for manned and unmanned aircraft.Director of Product Development, Oct 2011-Nov 2013:Aircraft systems included vibration isolated robotic gimbals with dynamic image recognition and auto-tracking of moving objects. Includes: Multispectral, Superzoom FLIR IR- EO (Electro Optical) live to phones and 250-megapixel photogrammetry cameras with 40,000 pixel swath.Automated air to ground augmented reality using satellites, 3G/4G cellular and 80 Mb/s microwave mesh networks: Live video with moving GIS map to mobile phones, Internet of Everything (IoT) and Google Earth overlaid. Intellectual Property (IP) included: Multiple FAA awarded STCs (Supplemental Type Certificates), PMA (FAA ISO9000 Parts Manufacturing Approval), software, and aerodynamic structures.

Grenoble, France And San Francisco, Ca

Business Development in Europe, America and Asia -Lead consultant at Proof of Concept (POC) data center advocating cloud computing and mobile solutions. $70 million in new sales per year.-Worldwide leader of HP’s IP-TV Center of Excellence defining Telco delivery of television, hi-definition movies & audio.-Led 30 business and new product development teams. Many are now common apps on mobile phones.-Initiated and proliferated HP’s worldwide “Plug’n Play” enterprise servers with Windows & Linux server preloads. -Developed a wide range of European GSM Smartphone applications using HP’s Mobile Service Delivery Platform (MSDP) eco-system.-Owned multi-continent Deep-Dive sales trainings of elite HP Business Dev Mgrs (BDM) & Technical Consultants for 3 years.-Go-to-Market (GTM) launch for 6 new enterprise servers: Analyst Relations, solutions strategy, and international marketing materials.

Grenoble, France And Santa Clara, Ca

-Defined and led sales strategy to win HP as a new account and become 2nd largest customer ~ $80M/yr. HP later bought 3Com. -Led ten laptop and desktop computer development project teams spanning three continents with on-time delivery.-Created “Joint-Qual” program that turned alliance partners into a large OEM customer while reducing QA costs.-Led software products for Network Interface Cards. Dominated over 65% share of a $4B/yr market. Established Ethernet worldwide in the1980s and still a standard today.-Market Requirement (MRD), Product Requirement docs (PRD) & leader for eleven development teams contributing $2B/yr.-Managed Microsoft, Novell and Intel strategic relationships making “co-opetition” a winning advantage.-Virtualized PC and server boot-up. Successful technology/corporate acquisition. Pre-eXecution Environment (PXE) now a ubiquitous standard. -Negotiated patents to become Microsoft’s original "Windows Plug’n Play", and industry standard.-Representative to industry steering committees, standards organizations, and Desktop Management Taskforce (DMTF).-Initiated and led business teams for Wireless LAN, Internet, and home networking. Each became a separate division.-Product development: Award-winning Network Operating System acquired by Microsoft and still in Windows.