Dean Doody

Dean has over 30 years of experience and success with meeting customer challenges. Dean spent 16 years at Hewlett Packard Co. where he held a wide range of technical positions from managing escalated hardware and software support issues, to teaching X-Windows programming, to selling and supporting computer aided software engineering (CASE) products. Dean served as 'Performance' lead on the Navy TAC-4 bid and proposal team where he gained important insight into what 'performance' really means. HP won TAC-4 valued at $672M. As Technical Lead on the National Weather Service AWIPS II program, Dean helped to win the deal for HP with custom developed 2D and 3D graphics applications. While at Netpower, Dean helped to push the first Intel-based high performance workstations for video and 3D graphics processing into the marketplace and was an evangelist for video based distance learning tools. As part of a successful Virage Sales team, Dean sold and supported state-of-the-art video indexing, encoding and search tools as well as video archiving and webcasting solutions. Before helping to found Pixel Forensics, Inc., he spent 3 years with BBN Technologies as part of a nascent image processing organization where he architected and implemented user interface components.

Dean is a firm believer in meeting with customers early and often to gather requirements for system design and implementation. But that's only part of the solution. Pushing beyond requirements to understand other potentially related workflows and challenges is equally important. Doody believes by doing this- "You discover the unintended consequences, both good and bad, that result from a particular solution design".

His years of experience and hands-on approach to project life cycle management has worked for Dean. His ability to listen to and work with his customers has brought him success and praise. Dean graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. While he's not working, Dean lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.