Robert Warren is a software and multimedia developer with extensive experience in systems integration, database management, user interface design, network and IP video, multimedia design, remote telemetry integration, and video production. He began work in these fields with high-seas automated chemical mixing systems for the oil industry in the North Sea (Scotland, Holland, Norway, Denmark) in the early 1980s and followed up with a number of National Science Foundation/IBM/Gates Foundation multimedia educational projects with BSCS at The Colorado College from 1985 through 1990.
In the early 1990s he founded Pegasus Learning Company and Pegasus Multimedia Company, which produced textbook, interactive videodisk, CD-ROM, and Internet-based technology programs for major textbook and media publishers. In that capacity he produced over 200 titles that were adopted and used in K-12 schools nationwide.
From the late 1990s through today he has consulted on developing software, web interfaces, user interfaces, voice-recognition interfaces, and data management software for automated television broadcasts, commerce websites, hardware command-and-control systems, dynamic message signs, matrix signs, radar sensors, video recognition devices, cameras, matrix switchers, streaming video, SNMP devices, video, and other systems integration tasks.
Rick has been responsible for the operation of 524 signal control systems, fiber optic communication design and implementations, and wide region data radio systems. He has designed and installed data and communications systems and solar and wind power communication nodes. He designs and develops specialized cabinets for data radio stations and has installed Impath fiber optic systems for communicating with ITS devices Dynamic Message Signs, microwave detectors and data radio (IP) communication devices.
During his career he has managed advanced signal operations and communication system. He has managed wiring of Traffic Management Centers and has installed and designed video wall systems. He has specialized in integration of various commercial off-the-shelf hardware into control-room scenarios.
During John's career he has supervised and managed major division projects and supervised engineers and technicians developing sign and marking design, software engineers who developed ITS applications, and engineers and technicians responsible for designing and timing traffic signals. He has held wide responsibility for transit operational personnel including drivers, dispatch personnel and mechanics and professional engineers involved in city planning and development review.