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From the skyBuilders Business Plan
The Company's founder and CEO is Bob Doyle (Robert O. Doyle, Ph.D., Harvard) who brings nearly thirty years of industry experience to bear in this latest endeavor. His resumé includes Super8 Sound, which he founded, six electronic games including Merlin (5.5 million sold by Parker Brothers), the iXO Telecomputer, and MacPublisher, the first desktop publishing software for Apple Macintosh.
From Conference Speaker Description
Inventing tools (and occasional toys) for people since shortly after Harvard Ph.D. in late 60's. Managed ground-based observing program for SkyLab astronauts (1970-72). Founded Super8 Sound (low-cost film production 1973). Invented 6 electronic handheld games (including Merlin, Wildfire 1975-80) for Parker Brothers. Developed hand-held computer terminal (iXO telecomputer 1981). Developed/programmed first desktop publishing program (MacPublisher 1984) in the year of the Mac (before PageMaker). Digital Video Editor for NewMedia magazine (1994-99). Since 1999 developing skyBuilders timeLines (open-source relational-database-backed web site enterprise management tools - multilingual content, community, commerce, portals, e-learning, presentations, forms generation, discussion groups, event calendars, with browser-based visual editing.) at http://www.skybuilders.com.
More formal CV
Education
B.Sc. Physics, Brown University, 1958
M.A. Astronomy, Harvard University, 1962,
Ph.D. Astrophysics, Harvard University, 1968
Work
1968-1973, Assistant to the Director of Harvard College Observatory.
1971-1973, Coordinator, NASA Coordinated Ground-based Observing Program for the SkyLab missions.
1973 - 1977, CEO, President, Founder of Super8 Sound, Inc., developers of low-cost sync-sound filmmaking equipment used in film schools and film productions around the world.
1974-1981, Partner, MicroCosmos, developers of electronic games, including six games publised by Parker Brothers between 1977 and 1981, total sales $150 million, and of the MicroTerminal, precursor of iXO Telecomputer.
1979-1984, Founder, Vice President Research, iXO, Inc. Raised $13 million in venture capital to market a hand-held terminal to access transactional database services over multiple computer networks.
1984-1988, developer of MacPublisher, the first ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get") desktop publishing program for desktop computers (Apple Macintosh). Sold through Boston Software Publishers ($300,000 sales) and then sold to Letraset ($475,000).
1993-1999, Digital Video Editor, NewMedia magazine, covering the development of digital media tools for desktop computers.
1999-present, CEO, President, Founder of skyBuilders.com, Inc. skyBuilders timeLines is a small-enterprise information and asset management system. http://www.skybuilders.com.
Publications
1968, The Continuous Spectrum of the Hydrogen Quasi-Molecule, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
1970, Editor, A Long-Range Program in Space Astronomy, U.S. Government Printing Office.
1993-1999, dozens of articles on digital video in Videomaker and NewMedia magazines.
