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PFI offers solution design and implementation as well as operational support for customers with image and video analytic and investigative needs.
Our primary focus is around image and video analysis as well as retrieval products and services. We provide integrated solutions that merge the best aspects of commercial off-the-shelf software with applied research. We believe this hybrid approach to solutions is the best way to provide leading edge yet practical solutions that address ever increasing customer requirements.

At PFI, there is an implied and persistent requirement for increased analytic and investigative efficiency in the solutions we deliver. Many years of working with customers and solving problems have taught us the following:

   Customers invariably have too much data and not enough information
   A Customer's time to analyze data and review results is always in short supply
   Adopting a new solution is a practical process and must always consider current workflow
   A new solution must work correctly from inception
   A new solution must provide tangible benefits in terms of time savings, and/or increased decision support and product
      generation capabilities

At Pixel Forensics we strive to keep the aforementioned in mind as we work through each engagement. Our employees are highly motivated and talented individuals with experience in program management, software development, integration, testing and support. Each team member has a background in developing image and video processing solutions. Why not leverage our experience and understanding of your challenges?

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Armedia
As an 8(a)/SDB business and technology consulting firm, Armedia specializes in enterprise solutions- particularly content management, application security, and application architecture.

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Jeff Karnes                           CEO

Jeff is a proven software and Internet executive with over 14 years experience in multimedia products and technology. He has successfully managed multimedia-based businesses and product lines ranging from large scale enterprise software to consumer services in roles spanning product, marketing, business development, and sales. Most recently he founded MediaRunner Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy and go-to-market for online media-based technology companies. Prior to this, he held various executive and senior-level positions with VoloMedia, Yahoo!, WebEx, Virage, and Cinebase Software.

While at VoloMedia, Jeff identified and managed the company’s key performance indicators, developed and launched a new corporate identity and website, rebuilt and accelerated public relations, and defined and launched the company’s first and second generation products with clear differentiation and customer value. At Yahoo!, he led the video efforts growing Yahoo! Video by over 150% to 18m unique users, launched and managed an advertising-based business model, acquired and integrated Jumpcut (product and people), and advanced MediaRSS as a industry standard for media-based syndication. During his time at Virage, he managed the award winning VideoLogger that became #1 in its category, evaluated and signed channel and technology agreements with vendors in the areas of indexing, encoding, speech and audio analysis, face recognition, optical character recognition, and search, and managed a company-wide product Internationalization and Localization effort.

Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Sociology from Bucknell University. He enjoys spending time with his family along with running, golfing, skiing, biking, and generally being outdoors.

Andrew Merlino                           President, Founder

Andrew Merlino brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Pixel Forensics. He has gained technical, business and management skills from companies large and small. While at Raytheon, he was part of Raytheon's electronic part analysis program involving CAD/CAM and decision tree analysis. At MITRE Corporation, Andrew managed "Broadcast News Navigator", breaking new ground in automated on-demand news processing. At Virage, he established and managed the Virage Advanced Technology lab in Massachusetts; building it into a successful, self funded research and product development organization. Most recently, Andrew established and managed a successful and profitable image analysis group at BBN Technologies. Pushing technology in new exciting and innovative ways is a repeated career theme which continues as Andrew leads Pixel Forensics forward. His thirst for taking on new challenges and developing solutions that address complex challenges is a driving force behind Pixel Forensics.

As prior customers and business associates will attest, Merlino has a reputation for delivering on time and on budget while keeping customers informed every step of the way. Andrew's core business values are simple: Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence. A favorite saying is a guiding principle in his life:

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."- Alan Simpson

As a recognized leader in his field, Andrew has attended and presented at numerous technical conferences. He has taken numerous business and management courses at Boston University as well as corporate seminars. Andrew graduated with a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University. He currently holds 1 patent and has published a variety of papers. Andrew lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters and son.

Dean Doody
                     CTO, Founder

Dean Doody has more than 25 years of experience and success with meeting customer challenges. Dean spent 16 years at Hewlett Packard Co. where he held a wide range of technical positions from managing escalated hardware and software support issues, to teaching X-Windows programming, to selling and supporting computer aided software engineering (CASE) products. Dean served as 'Performance' lead on the Navy TAC-4 bid and proposal team where he gained important insight into what 'performance' really means. HP won TAC-4 valued at $672M. As Technical Lead on the National Weather Service AWIPS II program, Dean helped to win the deal for HP with custom developed 2D and 3D graphics applications. While at Netpower, Dean helped to push the first Intel-based high performance workstations for video and 3D graphics processing into the marketplace and was an evangelist for video based distance learning tools. As part of a successful Virage Sales team, Dean sold and supported state-of-the-art video indexing, encoding and search tools as well as video archiving and webcasting solutions. Before helping to found PFI, Doody spent 3 years with BBN Technologies as part of a nascent image processing organization where he architected and implemented user interface components.

Dean is a firm believer in meeting with customers early and often to gather requirements for system design and implementation. But that's only part of the solution. Pushing beyond requirements to understand other potentially related workflows and challenges is equally important. Doody believes by doing this- "You discover the unintended consequences, both good and bad, that result from a particular solution design".

More than 25 years of a hands-on approach to project life cycle management has worked for Dean. His ability to listen to and work with his customers has brought him success and praise. Dean graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. While he's not working, Dean lives in Maryland with his wife and 2 sons.

Jared Berg
                     VP Engineering, Founder

Jared Berg brings more than 10 years of academic, research and industry experience to Pixel Forensics. Jared spent 6 years at the Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, California, where he focused on developing custom solutions for analyzing and processing both geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data. Analyses included, but were not limited to, geophysical trend analysis (global atmospheric water vapor, surface temperature and precipitation) and atmospheric content detection (airborne volcanic ash, Asian dust). He was also a primary designer and constructor of the Parallel Image Processing Environment (PIPE), a large 48-node (96 processor) Beowulf compute cluster used specifically for the efficient distribution and large-scale processing of satellite data.

Jared then spent 3 years at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the image analysis group. There Jared used his expertise in numerical analysis, machine learning and image processing to develop image pattern extraction and recognition solutions to work on photographs and documents for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Jared graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.S in Computer Science and Engineering, and is currently a coauthor on eight peer-reviewed scientific papers related to image analysis and/or image processing.

Jared leads the Pixel Forensics engineering team in designing new, creative solutions that leverage original and prior research to solve real customer problems. "Research is important, but must eventually be applied outside of the academic vacuum. Results and satisfaction are what ultimately matter."

Board of Advisors

Paul Lego
Mr. Lego brings over 25 years of experience in start-ups including over 20 years as a President, COO, or CEO at companies such as Dash Navigation, Virage, Avid, and DigiDesign. Mr. Lego has also held positions at Pyramid Technology Corporation, the General Electric Company, and Digital Equipment Corporation. In addition, Mr. Lego worked as an associate at Sutter Hill Ventures and as an executive in residence at Trinity Ventures.

Dr. Jay Allen Sears
Dr. Sears adds over 35 years of expertise in Federal markets and multimedia research from his positions as program manager for DARPA, Assistant Director for Technology Transfer in the Information Technology Office, senior-level posts with MITRE and Unisys, and most recently as Vice President at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

Dr. Richard Upton
Dr. Upton, an Executive In Residence with General Catalyst Partners, has over 25 years experience as an executive specializing in the development and growth of technology-oriented services and integration businesses in Intelligence, Healthcare and Defense markets having held executive-level positions at companies such as BBN Technologies, TASC, and BAE Systems.

Pixel Forensics Names CEO and Board of Advisors

 

Growing multimedia technology firm makes key appointments to help expand business into Federal and Commercial markets

 

June 15, 2010

 

BURLINGTON, MA; REDWOOD CITY, CA – Pixel Forensics, Inc., a leading provider of multimedia technologies and solutions, today announces the hiring of Jeff Karnes as Chief Executive Officer and the appointment of Paul Lego, Jay Allen Sears, and Richard Upton to its Board of Advisors.

 

Jeff Karnes is a proven software and Internet executive with over 14 years of experience in multimedia products and technology. He has successfully managed multimedia-based businesses and product lines ranging from large scale enterprise software to consumer services in roles including product management, marketing, business development, and sales. Most recently he founded MediaRunner Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy and go-to-market for media-based technology companies. Prior to this, he held various executive and senior-level positions with VoloMedia, Yahoo!, WebEx, Virage, and Cinebase Software.

 

The Board of Advisors brings together decades of expertise in executive management, strategy, business operations, and business development for large scale software systems and services organizations. Paul Lego brings over 25 years of experience in start-ups including over 20 years as a President, COO, or CEO at companies such as Dash Navigation, Virage, Avid, and DigiDesign. Mr. Lego has also held positions at Pyramid Technology Corporation, the General Electric Company, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Dr. Jay Allen Sears adds over 35 years of expertise in Federal markets and multimedia research from his positions as program manager for DARPA, Assistant Director for Technology Transfer in the Information Technology Office, senior-level posts with MITRE and Unisys, and most recently as Vice President at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. Dr. Richard Upton, an Executive In Residence with General Catalyst Partners, has over 25 years experience as an executive specializing in the development and growth of technology-oriented services and integration businesses in Intelligence, Healthcare and Defense markets having held executive-level positions at companies such as BBN Technologies, TASC, and BAE Systems.

 

“This marks a defining moment in the history of our company,” notes Andrew Merlino, Founder and President of Pixel Forensics. “Since 2007, we have been able to grow into a profitable company. Now it’s time to accelerate growth and leverage our collective knowledge and experience to expand the business. We are extremely thrilled to have Jeff and the Board of Advisors join Pixel Forensics as it validates the strength of our team, product, and market opportunity.”

 

“Andy and the team have built a great, early stage company, and I am thrilled to become a part of what they are doing to help scale the business,” says Karnes. “Multimedia, in particular video, is growing exponentially as a source for key information, and Pixel Forensics’ deep technical expertise and skill in delivering products into mission-critical environments puts the company in a great position to succeed.”

 

 

 

About Pixel Forensics, Inc.

Founded in 2007, Pixel Forensics provides products and services to locate, analyze, and search all forms of multimedia such as video, images, and audio. The team collectively brings more than 75 years of software development and support experience ranging from applied research and prototyping to commercial software product development. The company values strong, mutually successful relationships with its customers, and offers a personal commitment to deliver on its capabilities and promises. PFI has offices in Burlington, MA, Redwood City, CA, and Maryland. http://www.pixelforensics.com

Location: Washington D.C. Area or Boston, MA.

Digital Media Analysis Software Engineer: (Internship or full-time)
We are looking for self-motivated software developers to grow our digital media analysis development team.

This position involves innovative design, development and testing of digital media processing techniques. This position requires a thorough understanding of current techniques in digital media analysis. Responsibilities include designing and developing media analysis tools with a team of software developers.

Skills / Experience Required:

• Excellent MS Visual Studio C++ software development skills and experience
• Oracle database experience
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Digital media processing routines experience applications
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

Education / Work Experience:

• BS in EE, CS, Math or equivalent discipline
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent relevant discipline or experience

Other:

• Java programming experience is desired
• Javascript/CSS/HTML programming experience is desired
• Some travel involved

Interested candidates please send resume to

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