About Pixel Forensics, Inc.
Founded in 2007, Pixel Forensics provides solutions to rapidly locate, analyze, organize, and search all forms of multimedia such as video, images, and audio enabling forensic and investigative applications. The team collectively brings more than 75 years of software development ranging from applied research and prototyping to commercial product development.Jeff Karnes CEO
Jeff is a proven software and Internet executive with over 16 years experience in multimedia products and technology across Government, Enterprise, and Consumer markets.
He has successfully managed multimedia-based businesses in roles spanning product management, marketing, business development, and sales. Most recently was Vice President of Marketing and Product for VoloMedia, a video and audio ad network for portable media, such as podcasts. Prior to this, he held various executive and senior-level positions with 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 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 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 Advanced Technology, Founder
Jared 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, currently CEO of Bespoke Innovations, brings over 25 years of experience in start-ups 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, currently President at Near Infinity Corporation, 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, BAE Systems, and General Catalyst Partners (Executive-in-Residence).
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
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 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 Advanced Technology, Founder
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, currently CEO of Bespoke Innovations, brings over 25 years of experience in start-ups 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, currently President at Near Infinity Corporation, 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, BAE Systems, and General Catalyst Partners (Executive-in-Residence).
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