Tom Sharples

Current

• President & CTO at Qorvus Systems, Inc.

Past

• Chief Technologist at Imagicast Inc.
• President & co-founder at Telescan Systems, Inc.
• SVP Engineering and co-founder at Personics Corporation

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Education

• Lewis and Clark College
• Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
• Menlo College

2 more...

Recommended

6 people have recommended Tom

Connections

95 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Tom Sharples’s Summary

Let Qorvus design and build your next outdoor wireless video surveillance network - we combine German megapixel optics and image processing with American wireless and software engineering for dramatic, photo-realistic video, extreme ruggedness and reliability, secure remote access, and outstanding cost-of-ownership:

http://www.qorvus.com/

As a founder or key engineering executive and architect at a number of high-tech companies, I have a 20+ year record of hands-on success driving the development of robust equipment, software and systems used in diverse professional applications requiring high reliability. Some examples include:

• Qorvus Qnode™ and Qcell™ heavy-duty outdoor wireless IP routers

• MeshCam™ hi-resolution wireless IP video CCTV & surveillance equipment

• Qscan™ web-based customer portal application

• Imagicaster video-on-demand wireless retail kiosk

• Telescan music and video interactive touchpanel merchandisers

• Personics in-store custom music delivery system and digital audio sampling system

• Otari MTR-90 multi-track recorder and related timecode equipment for video post-production

• Several large-scale rural wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks

I've also designed and implemented custom wireless mobility and outdoor wireless video surveillance systems installed at the US Coast Guard (Memphis), the US Army (Fort Derussy), and the Ports of Honolulu and Maui, and a variety of devices and solutions for interactive streaming media, interactive retail merchandising, recording industry, and professional broadcast markets.

I love fast-growth and start-up company environments where my contributions can "move the needle." I have extensive experience in product design and management, defining customer requirements, refining and debugging hardware and software, intellectual property protection, negotiation and patents, and in hiring and mentoring excellent engineering, manufacturing, and development staff.

Tom Sharples’s Specialties:

Reliable, high-performance wireless video and data solutions for difficult mission-critical environments
Low-cost design, development, and debugging of hardware and embedded Linux software / LAMP architectures
Outdoor deployment of long-range wireless video, mesh, PtP, & PtMP systems
Linux scripting for Atheros-based wireless applications
Design and installation of pro audio & video equipment
IP analysis, negotiations, & patent prosecution
Start-up company founding, operations, & growth

Additional Information

Tom Sharples’s Websites:

• My Company

Tom Sharples’s Interests:

Antique radios and communications equipment, classic cars from the 1950's, jazz, investing (stocks and real-estate), outdoors

Tom Sharples’s Groups:

IEEE, ARRL, QCWA, CHRS, AOPA, NRA, CLC, ASQ, NARM (1987-1991),AES (1979-1991) TechNet (1998-2001), Washington State GOP (2007-present), Delavar for Congress committee (2008 - present)

•    Executive Suite
•    Wireless Communications Alliance
•    Mobile Insiders
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Republican Liberty Caucus
•    Menlo School Alumni Group
•    Consulting Pulse
•    Real Estate Investment Group
•    Linux Users
•    videosurveillance
•    SalesBlogcast.com
•    Security Industry Group
•    Surveillance Technology
•    Menlo College Alumni Association
•    CCTV and Video Analytics users
•    WISPA
•    Networked Video Surveillance systems (NVSS)- CCTV, NVR- Video Analytics
•    Otari-Ex
•    IP Video Market Info
•    The Personics Distingushed Alumni Group

Tom Sharples’s Honors:

2008 Republican convention delegate (State of Washington)
2001-2007 Who's Who in the West
1990-2007 Who's Who in Engineering
2007-08 Mobotix MVP award
1984-2007 US patents incl. 7254825, 4811325, 4772966
1998 Design of the Times Gold Award
1998 POPAI Gold and Silver awards
1995-6 Top 5 fastest-growing Pvt. Co. in Silicon Valley (Telescan Systems)
1990 Smithsonian-Computerworld technology innovation award