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Member: Tom Sharples
Epinions.com ID: sharples
Location: Vancouver, WA 98664
Member Since: Apr 09 '00
Homepage: Qorvus Systems, Inc.
 
Favorite Websites: Ebay
  Qorvus Systems, Inc.

President of Qorvus Systems, Inc., wireless consultants and interactive product development.  more
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About sharples
Prior to founding Qorvus Systems in 2001, Mr. Sharples served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Technologist of Imagicast, Inc. an innovative provider of interactive wireless merchandising kiosks and networks for use at retail. Prior to that he served as President and co-founder of Telescan Systems, Inc. a leading manufacturer of ruggedized video and music sampling and merchandising systems, whose rapid growth earned it Business Times award as the second-fastest growing privately-held company in Silicon Valley in both 1995 and 1996 . Before that he served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Personics, a pioneer in electronic distribution of digital music, where he oversaw the company's R&D effort and supervised manufacturing during the company's development. Mr. Sharples also served as Engineering Manager of R&D at Otari Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of professional broadcast and studio recording equipment, and as co-founder and general partner of The Hyde Street Studios, one of Northern California's largest multi-track recording facilities. Mr. Sharples holds five US and international patents, is a member and lecturer in the Audio Engineering Society, the Technology Network and a co-recipient of the 1990 Smithsonian-Computerworld award for technical innovation in information technology, and the 1997 and 1998 Technical Achievement Award of the POP Advertising Institute. Mr. Sharples also holds FCC General and Commercial licenses, and is a member of the IEEE and the ARRL. Mr Sharples studied at Lewis and Clark College and the University of Munich. That was a long time ago.


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