Gary Croucher     
Gary is a conscientious technical engineer and project management expert. His leadership experience is gained from more than 19 years of working in the computer industry. He has mastered the ability to assimilate requirements, co-worker abilities, technical roadblocks, and find creative solutions to drive a project to successful completion.

Gary has worked for Systems Engineering Laboratories as a system developer; Apple Computer, where he developed the Macintosh Hierarchical File System; Gould Computer Systems, where he helped pioneer the first truly parallel real-time version of Ada; Encore, where he helped productize their Intelligent Storage Controller; Sun Microsystems, as manager of Core Software Mainframe and Systems Development; and CommerceQuest, as manager of the IT Product Development Groups. Since joining Salient, Gary has worked on several technical contracts, including streaming video web site design and firewall and networking constructs. He has a Bachelors degree in Math/Computer Science from Furman University and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida College of Engineering.

Bob Goldfarb     
Bob has over eighteen years experience in the computer and technology industries. His broad knowledge of these industries brings creative insight and experience to the table. Bob has worked in software development, project leadership, and marketing support with a wide array of technologies. Most recently, he has done full life-cycle product development in Java and XML, and is considered an expert in these areas. Bob usually is called upon to work on projects involving hard-to-understand tasks and technologies that are new to a project. He is the person assigned to quickly learn new technologies, start a project, and lead other engineers.

Bob has worked with leading organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Cyberguard, CommerceQuest, Encore Computer, and Nova Southeastern University. Bob has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Franklin and Marshall College, and a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Delaware. He has also taken extensive coursework in Java technologies, and computer design issues, from Nova Southeastern University and Sun Microsystems.

Don Law     
Don is a complex systems expert. He has a history of solving difficult problems and working in a challenging and dynamic environment. He has 17 years of experience in systems development with Gould, Encore, and Sun Microsystems.

He has worked on many different aspects of multiprocessor Unix systems, including I/O controllers, language and runtime development, operating systems, real-time systems, and high-performance databases. He has functioned as project leader, quick-response team leader, technical instructor, software architect, on-site customer support, and software engineer. Don has a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Paul Fong     
Paul is known for being meticulous, resourceful, and effective in his software development projects. He has 16 years of experience in the computer industry with leading-edge companies.

He has worked at Unicomp Corporation of America developing customized information systems, as well as software for the health care industry; Gould and Encore, implementing system analysis/monitoring tools and sophisticated communications systems; Sun Microsystems, creating a multi-tiered storage controller management system; and CommerceQuest, developing database connectors/portals for the B2B arena. Paul has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Florida, where he graduated with high honors.

Kathy Cullen     
Kathy is a natural leader and organizer. She has an ability to illuminate hidden obstacles and then overcome them. Kathy has 14 years of experience in advanced systems development.

She developed system-level test suites for Gould using their UTX Operating System (BSD Unix). She then moved to the UTX OS development group, and was promoted to Section Manager of the Commands and Utilities Group. At Encore, she was instrumental in porting their System V Unix from a proprietary minicomputer to a RISC microprocessor platform. She was also the Project/Team Manager for advanced experimental storage projects, such as ports of the Data Storage Product software to a proprietary multi-quadrant single-board computer and to an open architecture system. At Sun, Kathy managed an enterprise storage snapshot project from its initial design to its successful release. Kathy has a BBA in Accounting from Stetson University, a BA in Math/Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University and a Certificate of Professional Graduate Studies in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.