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  ESI Supplemental Engineering Resources
  Our suppliers are among the pioneers in the industry developing new cutting-edge technologies for high-performance real-time computing and participate in many standards committees responsible for setting new VITA and PICMG computer standards. ESI's added value is our ability to call on these technical experts to help our customers in the design and proposal process for new products and government program bids. This helps shorten the process and assures adherence to industry standards. Below are examples of supplemental resources available to ESI to help us meet our customers needs.
   
  Alfred N. Brower, President and CEO DSPCon, Inc.

Al leads the design and proposal team. Before co-founding DSPCon in 1990, Al worked for Bell Laboratories and the Government Defense Electronics Group of ITT. He has a long, successful track record designing systems for customers such as Northrop Grumman, TRW, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Naval Research Labs, GE and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Mr. Brower earned an engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Business Administration from Rutgers. For more information about DSPCon, visit: www.dspcon.com.
   
  Robert Franz, Vice President DSPCon, Inc.

Mr. Franz has over a dozen years of experience with real-time computer software, digital signal processing algorithms and hardware design. As Vice President of DSPCon, he is responsible for the development of over 50 real-time multitasking, system integration, and signal processing applications. Mr. Franz earned a B.E. in Computer Science and M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. For more information about DSPCon, visit: www.dspcon.com.
   
  Rodger Hosking, Vice President, Pentek, Inc.

Rodger H. Hosking is vice-president and co-founder of Pentek, Inc. where he is responsible for new product definition, technology development and strategic alliances. With over 30 years in the electronics industry, he has authored hundreds of articles on software radio, data acquisition and digital signal processing. More than a dozen years ago, Mr. Hosking introduced digital receiver technology to the government electronics industry through numerous presentations and his widely-read publication “The Digital Receiver Handbook.” He has actively promoted the adoption of FPGAs for DSP and software radio applications through a series of webcasts, seminars and articles spanning the last four years. Within the past year he has presented papers on FPGAs and emerging switched serial fabrics technology at four major software radio conferences in London, Orlando, and Alexandria, VA. Prior to his current position, Mr. Hosking served as engineering manager at Wavetek/Rockland and holds patents in frequency synthesis and spectrum analysis techniques. He earned a BS degree in Physics from Allegheny College and BSEE and MSEE degrees from Columbia University. For more information about Pentek, visit: www.pentek.com.
   
  John Pecina, Director of System Engineering, DSPCon, Inc.

As the Director of Engineering at DSPCon, Mr. Pecina is responsible for the specification, design and project management of digital signal processing and recording systems and software. He co-authored and presented, "Evolving spatially-localized projection filters for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) automatic target recognition" at the Evolution Programming Society (1998), and, "A system for the automatic inspection of image intensifer tubes" at the SPIE AeroSense Symposium (1996). Mr. Pecina earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.For more information about DSPCon, visit: www.dspcon.com.
   
  Scott A. Snyder, Director of Software Engineering, DSPCon, Inc.

Mr. Snyder has been the director of software development at DSPCon for 10 years. He directed the design and development of a commercially successful advanced graphical signal processing algorithm developer's environment (WinFTL) supporting a wide range of signal processing hardware and appliations. Mr. Snyder earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. For more information about DSPCon, visit: www.dspcon.com.