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OUR MISSION VisiSound Technologies' mission is to create and market innovative multimedia technology and products that will enhance the entertainment, the creative and artistic, and the educational experience for young people. It is distinct in that it is accomplishing this through the application of leading-edge technology that is enhanced by principles of psychology. The company's Visonance technology, which includes Voice Painter and VisiStrokes, offers interactive multimedia that will give its young users positive aesthetic experiences, enhanced learning experiences, and will enrich them accordingly. The company's focus is on enhanced visual and multimedia creation, design and experience through the innovative use of software that capitalizes on the characteristics of the human sensory and information processing systems. The company's youth-focused products are being designed to enable them to use technology to express and develop their creativity in positive ways, and produce works they can be genuinely proud of. The underlying technology has been designed to allow it to evolve in functionality over time as more and more young people use it. The company is also proceeding in a way that takes full advantage of the Internet in making its products and technologies available to as many young people as possible. Tom Riedl, Ph.D. Founder Tom’s undergraduate work and degree were in Science and Electrical Engineering. He earned a Masters and Ph.D. in Human Information Processing, an inter-disciplinary area of Sensory Psychology and Computer Science and Technology. His primary research was in Visual Information Processing, and focused on how the human visual system extracts information from visual content. His business and professional experience has included design engineering, corporate and project management, research project management and consulting with companies in a various areas. Tom’s experience includes being: a communications design engineer for Harris Semiconductor, a NASA sub-contractor on the manned-space program; Director of Software and Systems Development at Cambridge Medical Systems; a primary researcher in Human Information Processing at New York University (NSF funded); a research graduate student in the Neuromagnetics Lab at NYU (ONR, NIH funded); a systems project manager at AT&T Information Systems, and a research project manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories, focused on education and human expertise in advanced software design. He's been an independent contractor and consultant in the software education and training field, and in Internet and E-commerce systems and software. He's worked with various organizations, among them: IBM, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Chubb Advanced Training, The US Justice Department, the Department of the Navy, Addison-Wesley’s education division, Paine-Weber, Goldman-Sachs, Bloomberg Information Systems, and Lehman Brothers. He's been published in a variety of professional journals and publications (including the John Wiley Encyclopedia of Software Engineering) in software design and testing, psychology, management, education, research and development, and in human-systems design and interaction. He holds a number of copyrights and patents pending for various inventions and designs. Since leaving industry, Tom has focused his time and attention on providing interactive multimedia software for young people. For a number of years, through a company he founded, VisiSound Technologies, he’s made interactive software available at events for kids to use and enjoy. Having always been interested in the interaction between the visual and sound and people, and in education and learning, he could see substantial possibility of such technology for young people. The events, which were held at a variety of venues in NYC and the East End of Long Island (Waldorf Astoria, Parrish Museum, Camp Karole and the Oceanside JCC camps among others.) gave him the opportunity to observe first hand literally thousands of kids using software that allows them to be creative in positive and fun ways. His observations and research convinced him that kids would flock to anything that lets them be creative, and that software which allows them to be so in positive ways could significantly benefit them. He also saw that bias still exists about girls, a bias that acts to discourage them from pursuing educations and careers in mathematics, science and technology. And, like many, he could see on a larger scale that the leadership position of the country in these areas was slipping year after year. He recognized both the need for change and means for change achievable through suitably designed and presented interactive multimedia software products and services for young people.Caroline Fernandes New Business and Marketing Caroline Fernandes started her career with Advertising in the TV Traffic Department. She moved from there into Children's Television, working at Children's Television Workshop (CTW) in the Community Education Services. CTW is the producer of Sesame Street. 3-2-1 Contact was a science program aimed for 8- to 12-year olds, focused on science and technology. 3-2-1 Contact's goals were to promote scientific thinking, participation in science activities, and awareness of science as a career, particularly for women and minority children. She worked closely with the writers and producers. She moved onto Nickelodeon where she was Unit Coordinator for Livewire, a talk show with a kid audience, aimed at kids. She caught the technology bug as office manager of a NYC law firm. She continued her technology course and went to work for one of the largest not for profit women's organization in the world. She worked closely with staff and manage ment supporting users with technology issues. Caroline studied Liberal Arts at the College of Staten Island, where her interest in the Arts began and her love of photography began. She continued her studies at Baruch College studying Advertising and Public Relations. She previously consulted for a major non-profit company as a Festival Producer. Caroline coordinated and produced two of New York City's largest street fairs as part of their major fundraising efforts. She also published her own guide to Arts & Crafts in New York City. She is consulting with Visisound Technologies with a focus of making Voice Painter a hit with kids by promotion, product development and creative solutions. She is excited to be part of something that brings out the best in kids and is eager to explore the many possibilities that will bring joy to kids wherever they may be. David Brian Wallach Youth Product Advisor David Brian has been a NYC High School teacher for the last 35 years. With a theatrical background and many years of producing disco events and performing in Broadway shows, he has always had a penchant for the new and exciting when it comes to entertaining the masses. In conjunction with his educational career, he became interested in Visisound Technologies several years ago. He was just as pleased when he introduced it to his seniors two years later to find they were excited to use it at their prom. He continues to present these new and innovative ideas to groups of students, associates and friends since he is aware of the extensive possibilites of Visisound Technologies and its multimedia technologies ... |
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