Background & Experience of Cipher Principals
Charles S. (Chuck) Mauro, Jr.
- Over 30 years experience in product development at Apple, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Video-7. Pico Machines and Cipher Systems
- Analog and digital design, software/firmware engineering in C, C++, Assembler and hardware/firmware integration
- Program management, product life-cycle planning, component engineering, value engineering, re-engineering, and purchasing
- Contract negotiations and legal coordination
- Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Santa Clara University
James D. Seymour
- Over 25 years experience in embedded systems product development at Cipher Systems
- 8, 16 and 32-bit microcontroller and microprocessor firmware engineering in C and Assembler
- Embedded and real-time operating systems, including eCos, FreeRTOS, and others
- Hardware/firmware integration
- BSCS, Oregon State University
Carl B. Van Wormer, P.E.
- Over 30 years experience in product development companies including ESI and Cipher Systems
- Metrology, analog design and instrumentation
- Video conversion and embedded data stream insertion and extraction
- Failure analysis
- Registered Oregon Professional Engineer
- BSEE, Portland State University