Digital Brook Technologies, LLC

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  Dave Hill, CEO and Founder

  Dave is an experienced engineering executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years of innovative, diverse, hands-on engineering leadership. He has lead projects ranging from chip verification and operating system design to multi-tiered web sites and interactive television.

  Before founding Digital Brook Technologies, Dave managed 20+ member teams as Senior Firmware Manager at Zoran, Director of Engineering at Gemstar-TV Guide, and VP of Engineering at Bare Bones Software. With international business experience, including Japan, India, UK, Taiwan, China, Germany, Israel, and Korea, Dave has had repeated success in architecting and delivering strategic new technologies. His customer-driven, collaborative management style has resulted in numerous award-winning products and web sites.

  Dave holds a triple-major Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Applied Math (Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He enjoys sailing, singing, skiing, and spending time with his wife and three children.

Numerous Awards

• Multiple MacUser Eddy and Macworld World Class awards
• Top municipal web site by Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA)
• Presented "Managing Your Web Presence" at MMA Conference in Boston
• eGovernment Award received at the Massachusetts State House
• Several top employee awards

Extensive Hands-on Technical Experience

• Formal software engineering background from top schools like Carnegie Mellon
• Significant experience with product life-cycles (0.x to 1.0, 1.0 to 1.1, 1.x to 2.0, end-of-life)
• Expertise in structured, object-oriented, and dynamic programming methods in a wide variety of languages
• 17 years of user interface design experience
• 13 years of performance profiling experience, isolating and solving bottlenecks
• 10 years of device driver development experience
• 9 years of real-time embedded systems development experience
• 9 years of web application development experience
• 9 years of printer development experience
• 6 years of shrink-wrap application development experience
• 6 years of real-time operating system (RTOS) design experience
• 6 years of board support package (BSP) development experience
• 6 years of database design experience
• 3 years of manufacturing software development experience

Seasoned Management Experience

• 17 years of project and group management experience, leading both hardware and software products
• Management of up to 12 simultaneous projects and multi-disciplinary, geographically-scattered teams up to 23 people
• 6 years of program management experience coordinating documentation, procurement, agency approvals, product marketing, and manufacturing
• Startup and international business experience (UK, Germany, Israel, India, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan)
• Significant experience through product life-cycle (0.x to 1.0, 1.0 to 1.1, 1.x to 2.0, end-of-life)
• Led adoption of best-practice development guidelines throughout career
• Experience with a variety of development models (waterfall, iterative, spiral, agile, XP)
• Successful technical leader and manager for many mission-critical high-revenue projects