Creative Executive, Manager and Inventor with technical depth and proven record of bringing innovation to companies in roles ranging from Vice President in a $20B public company to founder in several startup companies. Unique ability to strike a successful balance between innovation of ideas and development of products. Recognized for leading software and hardware projects from inception to end of life and creating work environments which inspire staff to take appropriate, innovative risks to deliver short term results with long term vision.
· Directed technical research and operations in multiple world class industrial research labs; Sun Labs, Oracle Research, Interval Research, Research in Motion to drive long term vision and create value.
· Founder or early employee in 5 different start-up companies.
· Created novel, Java-based, wireless sensor platform. Manager and primary investigator from concept to low volume worldwide production (25,000+ installed base in 34 countries and
100s of universities) designed to inspire students, researchers and hobbyists. Operated as start- up inside Sun; team built entire system from scratch - HW, OS, Java VM, tools, apps and service. HW and SW is open source and hundreds of user videos on YouTube. Java VM now used in FIRST robotics competition.
· Transitioned engineering team from technology focused research group to spin-off start-up then through acquisition and assimilation into production-oriented, standards-based software for DSL-based data and telephony applications for large-scale custom communications chips.
· Created pioneering audio disk recorder and mixer applications for high-end, digital audio workstation resulting in a technical achievement Academy Award for its affect on the film industry.
· Co-created vision for a new, distributed, digital consumer electronics architecture and ecosystem. Invented and oversaw development of consumer oriented embedded systems and services including tablet computer and multi-stream audio/video/telephony server/recorder that predated iPad, WebTV and Tivo in the mid 1990s. Co-invented MediaWire Digital Home Network
100Mbit media network based on existing wiring resulting in start-up, Avio Digital Corporation.
· Simultaneously held roles as Research Director and Director of Operations with two separate staffs and very flat (25:1) hierarchy resulting in an efficient and productive organization.
· Founded and drove all aspects of digital photography software company; concept/design, engineering, marketing, sales, finance.
· Co-created a venture capital-like marketplace and incentives inside a $20B company to encouraging development of new ideas. Currently being deployed.
· Performed technical due diligence for many investments: Identified opportunities, reviewed business plans, evaluated technical teams and assisted investment staff. Investments included Metricom, Web TV, Terrastor, United States Satellite Broadcasting, Starfish, Silicon Gaming. Evaluated joint venture and acquisition opportunities including Apple Newton, First Person (Java), Intel, Sony, Panasonic. Developed new strategy and restructuring of Asymetrix.
· Served on the Sun Sustainability Council to promote environmentally sustainable business strategies and practices and corporate accountability resulting in industry leading corporate social responsibility report.
Research In Motion Vice President, Advanced Research 2010 – 2012
Sun Microsystems/Sun Labs (& Oracle) Sr. Research Director, Operations Director 2004 – 2010
Pixlabs President / CEO / Janitor 2002 – 2010
(via Acquisition) Centillium Communications Manager, Software Engineering 2000 – 2002
(via Spin-off) Avio Digital, Inc Director Software Engineering 1998 – 2000
Principle Architect / Co-Founder
Interval Research Corp Research Staff Member 1993 – 1998
NoolaTech Consultant 1991 – 1993
WaveFrame Corp Software Engineer 1988 – 1991
Martin Marietta, Denver Aerospace Software Engineer 1985 – 1988
· Software development - Java, C/C++, C#/.NET, Python, Smalltalk, Lisp,
· Platforms - Android, Arduino, embedded Linux (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone)
· Wireless Sensor Networks - Ad Hoc Nets, AODV, IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, RF Propagation
· Robotics - Sensor fusion, Servo control, PID, Kalman filters, Particle filters, Basic electronics
· Audio/Video - FIR, IIR filters, Video motion estimation, Rights management,
· Distributed Systems - Peer-to-peer, Distributed hashtable, yotta-byte scale storage
· Networking - DSL, ATM / Frame Relay, VoDSL, Router, VPN / Firewall
· #7,321,307 – Chemical time modification of an object
· #6,611,537 – Synchronous network for digital media streams
· #5,889,843 – Methods and systems for creating a spatial auditory environment in an audio
conference system
· Pending - Methods and apparatus for use in mapping identified visual features of visual images to location
· Pending – Methods and apparatus for managing a document - commercialized as Print-to-PlayBook.
· Winner Sun Innovation Award 2008.
· Sun SPOT Project named InfoWorld #1 “must have gadget for the discerning geek” 2007
· Winner Computerworld Horizon Award 2006.
· Awarded a Scientific and Technical Academy Award 2004 for the impact of our hard disk recording technology on the film industry (WaveFrame)
· Runner-up, Best New Multimedia Product, COMDEX 1992 for Studio Magic project.
· BA, with distinction, Cognitive Science with concentration in Artificial Intelligence, University of Rochester, 1985, Rochester, NY
· Personal Blog - http://digitaldiner.blogspot.com
· Prior Professional Blog - http://blogs.oracle.com/roger