Anthony Coppola

Current

Webmaster at Over Thirty Baseball, Inc.
President at Coppola Consulting

Past

Consultant at Reboot Computer Service
Principal Software Engineer-SQA at Avid Technology
Mac Specialist at Apple Computer

Principal Software Engineer-SQA Project Leader at Digital Equipment Corporation
Engineering Manager-Semiconductor Equipment Engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation
Design Engineering Manager-Semiconductor Equipment at Disc Technology Corp.
Equipment Maintenance Technician/Supervisor at GCA Corporation
Manufacturing Technician-Audio at H.H. Scott
Audio Engineer at I.T.M.B. Productions

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Education

Northeastern University
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Anthony Coppola’s Summary

Sixteen years of Software Quality Engineering, software test, SQA with most of the time spent in Project leadership role. Areas of specialty include software for video and audio editing, ingest, playback, shared storage, 3rd-party applications, and networking. Strong focus on Apple Macintosh, OS X, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro.

Project leader and technical lead on Macintosh products for 11 years at Avid Technology and 5 years at Digital Equipment Corp.

Anthony Coppola’s Specialties:

Apple Macintosh software testing, usability testing, troubleshooting, mentoring, customer training, support, project leadership.

Anthony Coppola’s Experience

Webmaster

Over Thirty Baseball, Inc.

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1997 — Present (12 years 4 months)

Created and maintain websites two men's Over 30 baseball leagues in Lowell, MA.
http://www.otbinc.com/
http://notb.otbinc.com/
President

Coppola Consulting

(Computer Networking industry)

January 1995 — Present (14 years 7 months)

Consulting and training for small businesses, specializing in Apple products. Advise clients on equipment purchases, design wired and wireless networks.

Website design, setup, hosting for small businesses.

Freelance audio work for TV broadcasts for Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics.
Consultant

Reboot Computer Service

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year)
Principal Software Engineer-SQA

Avid Technology

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AVID; Computer Software industry)

August 1996 — July 2007 (11 years)

SQA Project Leader for Avid's Open Storage Initiative (OSI), testing 3rd-party applications on Avid's shared storage products - Unity MediaNet and ISIS. Third-party products included Apple Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, Boris FX, Autodesk Combustion, Cleaner, Sony Vegas, Microsoft Office.

SQA Project Leader for Avid's flagship product, Media Composer.

SQA Project Leader for Avid AirSpeed, an ingest & playout broadcast server product.
Mac Specialist

Apple Computer

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

July 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 7 months)

Worked part-time as a 2nd job in Northshore Apple Store, Peabody, MA. as a Mac Specialist. Specialized in Pro Applications - Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Adobe PhotoShop, as well as consumer video and graphics applications - iMovie, iDVD.
Principal Software Engineer-SQA Project Leader

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1991 — August 1996 (5 years 1 month)

SQA Project Leader for Apple-Digital alliance product "Pathworks", a suite of products for Macintosh that allowed users to use Macs to connect to DEC servers, included email, terminal emulation, FTP, DECnet, Pathworks Listener, and more.

Led team of 5-10 software quality engineers in the scoping, analysis, product requirements review, test planning, and execution of client and server software for 4 major releases.

Managed relationship with key business partner, Apple Computer, in the testing of pre-release Mac models including the first PowerPC and OS's such as System 7.0 and System 7.5. Worked closely with Apple's Customer Quality Focus group to provide feedback on Apple's HW/SW products as well as qualifying newer products from Digital on Apple's new systems.

Maintained strategic relationships with other key business partners such as Pacer Software, 5PM Software, White Pine, Thursby, and others in compatibility testing of Digital's software in conjunction with 3rd-parties.
Engineering Manager-Semiconductor Equipment Engineering

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1988 — August 1991 (3 years 4 months)

Managed Equipment Engineering maintenance group of 30 people in the production of Digital’s Alpha AXP RISC chips. Managed 3 shift/24 hour staff of 3 supervisors, 3 senior engineers and 24 technicians. Equipment Engineering group was responsible for the calibration, service, and maintenance of semiconductor chip manufacturing equipment.
Design Engineering Manager-Semiconductor Equipment

Disc Technology Corp.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

December 1983 — May 1988 (4 years 6 months)

2/86 - 5/88: Responsible for equipment design and re-design used in the process of manufacturing of 5-1/4” magnetic discs for computer hard drives. Directed teams of electronic designers, board designers, mechanical engineers and technicians in the design and prototyping of specialized manufacturing equipment.

12/83 - 2/86: Senior Equipment Engineering technician repairing and troubleshooting process equipment in the manufacturing of 5-1/4” magnetic discs for computer hard drives. Also supervised group of equipment technicians in a 3-shift, 5 days/week operation.
Equipment Maintenance Technician/Supervisor

GCA Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

January 1982 — December 1983 (2 years)

Troubleshoot and diagnose GCA's line of photolithography equipment such as wafer steppers and coater/developers while supervising a team of 6 junior and senior technicians.
Manufacturing Technician-Audio

H.H. Scott

(Consumer Electronics industry)

January 1981 — January 1982 (1 year 1 month)

Assembled and tested H.H. Scott's professional line of component speakers.
Audio Engineer

I.T.M.B. Productions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

April 1976 — January 1981 (4 years 10 months)

Sound engineer for recording studio and live concert performances.
Road manager for crew of 3 for moving musical equipment, PA systems, etc.
Bands include The Incredible Two Man Band, ICE, Image, August.
Produced 2 albums, "On My Way" and "ITMB 2".

Anthony Coppola’s Education

Northeastern University

Software Engineering 1984 — 1985

Undergraduate courses towards Associate's Degree.
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Computer Science 1982 — 1984

Computer Hardware and Software, Electronics, IC design.
Formerly known as GTE Sylvania Technical School, Waltham, MA. GPA 4.0.

Additional Information

Anthony Coppola’s Websites:

My Website

Anthony Coppola’s Interests:

Baseball - active player in 2 leagues; Red Sox season ticket holder; movies & books on baseball. Technology - gadgets galore - specializing in Apple toys from iPhone back to the original Mac. Video, audio, music, movies - capturing, editing, watching, archiving.

Anthony Coppola’s Groups:

Apple Consultant Network (ACN), Apple Developer Community (ADC), Avid Boston User Group (BAVUG), Over Thirty Baseball board of directors, Over Thirty Baseball Technology Committee, Over Thirty Baseball players