Marc Palumbo

Current

Owner and Technical Consultant at Apogee Arts
High Tech Romantic Artist at Apogee Arts

Past

Executive Committee Member at SoCalFreeNet.Org
Senior Production Engineer at Boston Scientific
Senior Production Engineer at Symbiosis Corp. (now Boston Scientific)

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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Company

Marc Palumbo’s Summary

Creative Engineer and Entrepreneur skilled in the business case for applied technology. Consultant and analyst with a proven track record deploying cutting edge technology for manufacturing, urban planning, communications, television, media management, and entertainment venues. Master of several disciplines, including optics, laser applications in manufacturing and visual displays, video, imaging, DRM, pneumatics, PLC, CAD systems, high speed label printing, bar code, RFID, packaging applications, and FDA regulated documentation, workstations and vertical market networks, prototype production, and graphic design.
Digital Entertainment - System Integration and Whole House Automation. Networks for Home and Business. Television Production and Technical Management. Wireless Convergence
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Marc Palumbo’s Specialties:

State of the Art Network for Television production, studio capture, storage, NLE for HDCAM EX3 MPEG4 editing. Factory Automation, FDA regulated manufacturing and document control, large scale public installations, Neon, Lasers, and large scale photography, HS, Infrared, Technical Imaging.

Marc Palumbo’s Experience

Owner and Technical Consultant

Apogee Arts

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1988 — Present (21 years 11 months)

* 10 years experience in Wireless design and implementation across multiple platforms on multiple vendor hardware. Experience includes: antenna design. Radio hardware (900Mhz, 2.4Ghz, 4.9Ghz, 5Ghz, 60Ghz), EIRP, electrical parameters for power supplies (solar powered, battery powered, and AC), FCC regulations, and user safety and documentation. Wireless experience also includes routers and routing, redirection, creating relays, PtP, PtMP, solving intense interference issues in urban and rural locations, and building high bandwidth long haul (40 miles) video links for the military. Testing and installation experience includes extreme conditions from desert heat and dust to high altitude extreme cold. Experience with hazardous and explosive environments. Built Wireless surveillance systems deployed in Baghdad, Iraq and for Homeland Security.

* Versed in a wide range of Information Technologies, including both large and small enterprise networking. Worked on the One Laptop Per Child Project and the Lego League Foundation for the Symbiosis Foundation.

* Career roles have included executive manager, team leader, team member, and entrepreneur. Developed new products and designed multi-million-dollar production networks using leading edge manufacturing equipment. Supervised more than 50 professional staff in an US FDA regulated manufacturing environment.

* Multiple years experience in completing complex and innovative projects, designing task-specific computer networks, and software as tools for development and production. Device design/build experience includes team role in development of first graphical “paint” software-hardware packages for the PC, the first consumer-based tonal hardcopy on an inkjet, and prototype networked vision hardware now commonly used in digital photography and manufacturing.
High Tech Romantic Artist

Apogee Arts

(Arts and Crafts industry)

April 1977 — Present (32 years 8 months)

COMMISSIONS AND SHOWS (Partial List)
• "On the Way to the Airport" photographs and color Xerox, 8ft. x 8ft., New York Avant-Garde Festival, New York, NY 1980.
• "Firmware" color Xerox prints, Quissett Gallery, Ardmore, PA, 1983
• Bloomingdales, Neon Lips, Boston, Massachusetts, February 1983.
• "Diner" Neon and Plexiglas sign for Ashton Peery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1987 and 2008
• Planned Parenthood for Greater Miami, Design ad campaign. Theme, Ad Copy, Prepress, Production, mailing, 1997.
• "Clytemnestra" steel and glass, sound activated, pyrotechnic sculpture on Main Street and poster for the Telluride Tech Festival, Telluride, CO, 2000.

TELEVISION and FILM
• "Race for the High Ground", Frontline News with Jessica Savitch, S.D.I. Demo of Star Wars Defense System, laser destroying satellite, W.G.B.H., Boston, MA, April 1983
• "Business Briefing", William Rukeyser moderator, production assistance and backdrop special effects lighting, with Cambridge Studios for Fortune Magazine P.B.S. June 1984
• "Ring of Truth,” science series, W.G.B.H., Boston, MA, for Public Broadcast Associates, 1987- 88.
• "American Built” Major motion picture, American Built Productions of Los Angeles, Harold Brown, producer. Special effects consultant.
• Production and on air talent for Discover Magazine TV show with James (Amazing) Randi, “A Skeptic’s Guide”, March 1999.
• Interview on KPBS, The Morning Show with Tom Mudge, May 2006
TECHNICAL PROJECTS
• Spinnaker Software, Cambridge, MA, consultant, integration of image authoring work station, R & D for paint package for SPLASH!.
• Siggraph AMC, Design and execution of signature computer generated graphic image for Siggraph '89 Boston, MA March 1988.
• Kalliroscope Corp., design and construction of AC power controllers for thermal imaging display. Consulting on image systems, motion control systems, and other computer applications, art installations, for Paul Matisse. Work for the Matisse family, 1978 to 1992.
Executive Committee Member

SoCalFreeNet.Org

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

March 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 7 months)

Designed & Deployed Wireless Networks for under served and low income areas in San Diego County. Created Safety, help desk, and installation policy.
Senior Production Engineer

Boston Scientific

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Senior Production Engineer

Symbiosis Corp. (now Boston Scientific)

(Medical Devices industry)

October 1992 — October 1997 (5 years 1 month)

• Design and implementation of automation systems for production assembly and FDA regulated documentation.
• Supervised production line with staff of 50. Successful deployment of Windows 3.11 Network.
• Reduced redundant inventory and created real time automated packaging/labeling systems saving $500,000/year. Implemented barcode technology to track production from raw material to end user (patient)
• Directed $5M project to develop endo-laparoscopic prototype surgical robot.
• Working with Miami Springs High School and our corporate sponsor, Symbiosis, created team to build robot to compete in US First Competition. Program to encourage engineering careers for high school students.

Marc Palumbo’s Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fellow , Center for Advanced Visual Studies , 1978 — 1982

I worked on several national broadcast shows for PBS, Nova, Discovery, and a Star Wars weapons demo for Frontline with Jessica Savitch. I produced the lead image for the 1988 Boston ACM Siggraph, a large scale Iris ink jet print using 4 different digital mediums, "Red Cod"

Activities and Societies:

I attended both schools (UMBC & MIT) at the same time for nearly two years. I worked on neon and high voltage power supplies for animated neon and lasers. I built, installed and performed large scale performance works (sky operas, light shows, holography, neon, acoustic images, harmonic resonance pieces, photography, video, electronic jewelery, steam works, and cutting edge digital imaging) throughout Europe, Mexico, and America.
University of Maryland Baltimore County

BA , Visual and Performing Arts , 1977 — 1981

Worked on gas discharge phenomenon, high voltage power supplies, control systems, and designed and built my first computer. Created dance company, "Counter Point" and performed large scale installation art, "40 planes and 40 Dancers" where people danced with planes flying in the sky. I applied for a grant from the Smithsonian Institution and met Otto Piene who invited me to work at MIT via the "Centerbeam" installation on the Washington D.C. mall.

Activities and Societies:

I was a TA in the photography department and managed the campus photo lab with over 110 printing stations and advanced color process development. I designed and built the first voice activated, interactive, pyrotechnic sculpture, "Clytemnestra"

Additional Information

Marc Palumbo’s Websites:

My Company

Marc Palumbo’s Groups:

San Diego Mayor's Science and Technology sub-committee, PBAWG (Public Broadband Access Working Group)
SoCalFreeNet.Org
NEBSRA (New England Belt Sander Racing Association)