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Jeff Sondermeyer
was born in
Denville, NJ, in 1963. He received his
B. S. in electrical engineering from
Mississippi State University, MS, in
1987 and his M. S. in electrical
engineering from the University of
Colorado, CO, in 1993. His thesis
research was conducted in speech
recognition where a Backpropagation
Neural Network was used to recog-
nize stressed isolated words. During and after his graduate
work, he was a Digital Design Engineer for Peavey Electron-
ics where he designed numerous audio effects processors to
include algorithms for pro audio gear. Presently, he is a Senior
Design Engineer/Digital Design Lead for Mackie Designs
where he has designed the low-cost EMAC multi-effects card
for the PPM and CFX mixers and the DX8; a two-rack 8x2
digital mixer. He is a member of the IEEE and AES.
Dale Shpak
was born in Seattle,
WA, in 1957. He received his B. S. elec-
trical engineering from the University
of Calgary, Alta., in 1980 and his
M. S. in electrical engineering (elec-
tronics) from the University of Calgary,
Alta., in 1982. He received a Ph.D.
in electrical engineering from the
University of Victoria, B.C., in 1989.
Presently he is the Vice President of
Software Development with SysCor R&D Inc. He has done
research in digital lter design, signal processing for: audio,
speech, and telecommunications. Additionally he had done
work with networks to include networked Java applications. He
is the author of the DSP Blockset, Signal Processing Toolbox,
and a New Toolbox for Matlab/Simulink. He has numerous
publications in IEEE and one in AES (see:
www.ece.uvic.ca/
~dale/cv.pdf)
.
Dr. Shpak is a member of the IEEE.
Brian Roden
was born in Ragina,
Sask. Canada, in 1963. He received a
Diploma of Technology in 1983 from
Camosun College, Victoria, Canada
and his Bachelor of Engineering from
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.,
Canada. He was previously employed
by IVL Technologies in algorithm
development and DSP implementa-
tion. He co-authored a patent on
Vocal Gender Shifting for IVL Technologies. In 1998, he was
the co-founder of Acuma Labs Inc. and is currently a Senior
Design Engineer.
Chris Jubien
was born in Mon-
treal, Canada, in 1967. He received
his B. A. of Science from Waterloo
in 1990 and his M.A. of Science
from the University of Victoria,
B.C., Canada, in 1993. Previously he
work for IVL Technologies in algo-
rithm development and audio effects
design. Presently he is the DSP man-
ager for Acuma Labs Inc. of which he
co-founded in 1998. His passion is real-time DSP algorithm
and effects development and has a strong interest in using
cutting edge technology to create new sounds and products.
Costa Lakoumentas
comes from
Vancouver, British Columbia, where
he lived for 29 years. From 1981 until
1999, he owned two sound contract-
ing businesses and represented nearly
all of the leaders in the pro-audio
industry. Joining Mackie Designs
Inc. in 1999, he was responsible
for the development and launch of
the company’s new Mackie Industrial
division. Mr Lakoumentas is currently Vice President of Busi-
ness Development at Mackie Designs and is responsible for
all product concept and product development activities at the
Company.
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