CTP Core Members

Charles Hickey - President

As President of CTP, Charles Hickey represents the ideal handshake between the corporate and technical domains. From his years at NASA, laying the foundations of their ground-support network, to his work with products designed for tomorrow's information super highway, his career has grown right alongside this rapidly evolving technology. Throughout his distinguished career, Charles has always brought his technical fluency together with a unique, personal touch to guide projects from their initial specifications, through implementation and introduction, into new markets as the applications for this technology expanded. His project management and international marketing experience in the data-communications industry, combined with his ability to see things from the customer's point-of-view, make him invaluable member of the CTP core.

Transwitch Charles was the product line manager for Asynchronous Products in the semi-conductor industry and was responsible for

Identifying target markets'
Defining products and competitive analysis, and
Introducing products to the marketplace and supporting the sales force.

Channel Net As Systems Engineering Manager, he developed IBM compatible mainframe channel extenders and was responsible for Fiber Optic system analysis, project design and requirements definition.

ITT (Advanced Technology Center) Charles was the principal member of the technical staff for telecommunications switching equipment for the North American market where he

Developed design requirements for subscriber line interfaces,
Defined system power and grounding requirements, and
Coordinated designs with international and domestic marketing groups.

NASA As a project manager at Kennedy Space Center, he designed the mission-critical Data Transmission and Switching systems connecting the various ground support facilities - including those connecting the firing room to the launch pad. This work included defining transmission requirements, traffic routing networks, test plans and test procedures. This work pioneered early digital systems (introducing mid seventies CMOS designs) and culminated with introduction of 50 megabit fiber-optic links for early orbiting GPS systems.

George Gnall - Director of Hardware Engineering

There is little in the development of digital logic, fiber-optic channel extenders and switching systems that George missed as he advanced from an electronics technician to a senior-level engineer and project leader. George's rise through the telecommunications industry over the past fifteen years is based on a steady accumulation of practical knowledge ranging from ASSEMBLY-level chip programming and net list generation to sophisticated backplane and enclosure design. George has practical experience with all aspects of today's microprocessor-based technologies, mainframe channel extension, switching systems, and has facility with a wide assortment of advanced engineering software (CAE) tools.

Most recently, George has expanded his areas of technical expertise into the new object-oriented programmable-chip architectures. Like other CTP members, his project management experience means that is always conscious coordination between the design intent and its implementation.

Data Switch George developed telecommunication and fiber-optic channel extension and switching systems for IBM and compatible mainframe computers. These designs; which included

Hardware compression/decompression interfaces,
Multiport FIFO for IBM Bus and Tag to ESCON converter,
ESCON to TELCO Extender,
Microprocessor-controlled Fiber Switch, and
Parallel / serial interfaces;
used high-speed synchronous digital logic incorporating TTL, CMOS, and ECL technologies. His programming experience there included Z180 chip ASSEMBLY code for Time-division multiplexors and Fiber Switches.

Phillips Medical Systems George was responsible for prototyping, troubleshooting, and design of high speed digital logic. This included beta-site installation and providing support for new products.

James D. Mott - Director of Software Engineering

Prior to his work in the development of software/firmware for digital logic control systems, Jim was a cutting edge software engineer in the CAD/CAM/CAE industry. In this capacity he specialized in the design of technically-oriented math applications and high-speed computational algorithms (Jim has dual degrees in mathematics and physics). Today his expertise spans all aspects of software development from DSP firmware to Java solutions for intranet management.

To CTP, Jim brings a dimension missing from other engineering groups--even from the competing industry giants: full-featured, user-friendly Windows software that can control, configure, and test digital hardware with a few mouse clicks. Thanks to Jim, scores of engineers today are saved from countless hours of repetitive command-line entry. Jim's expertise in serial, parallel, ISA, PCI, and networked PC interfaces allow CTP to traverse the entire width of today's digital highway -- from modem to mainframe, from LAN to ESCON link.

Transwitch	Charles was the product line manager for Asynchronous Products in the semi-conductor industry and was responsible for Identifying target markets' Defining products and competitive analysis, and Introducing products to the marketplace and supporting the sales force.
Channel Net	As Systems Engineering Manager, he developed IBM compatible mainframe channel extenders and was responsible for Fiber Optic system analysis, project design and requirements definition.
ITT (Advanced Technology Center)	Charles was the principal member of the technical staff for telecommunications switching equipment for the North American market where he Developed design requirements for subscriber line interfaces, Defined system power and grounding requirements, and Coordinated designs with international and domestic marketing groups.
NASA	As a project manager at Kennedy Space Center, he designed the mission-critical Data Transmission and Switching systems connecting the various ground support facilities - including those connecting the firing room to the launch pad. This work included defining transmission requirements, traffic routing networks, test plans and test procedures. This work pioneered early digital systems (introducing mid seventies CMOS designs) and culminated with introduction of 50 megabit fiber-optic links for early orbiting GPS systems.