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Harry Tarnoff, Electrical & Computer Engineer

DataPlex Founder and CEO

Harry Tarnoff has developed over one hundred new products over his 30 year career.  His specialty areas are electronics, hardware design, software engineering and new product design and manufacturing.  Mr. Tarnoff is internationally recognized as a key inventor and developer of several innovative technologies and has provided technical consulting to several successful start-ups.

Mr. Tarnoff served as Director of Engineering for Axiom Edwards-CPE, Inc. a printer manufacturer where he oversaw the design, development and production of various types of printers.  One of his designs became the basis for the label printer now used by the United States Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

Mr. Tarnoff was on the initial engineering teams for 3D Systems, Inc. and Soligen, Inc., companies that now define the solid imaging and rapid prototyping markets.  At 3D Systems, he was Software Manager and also part of the advanced research team.  He has designed unique hardware and software systems, built prototypes, and successfully resolved interoperability issues with computer networks' data formats and communication protocols.  Many of his original designs validated novel concepts, including the RevBots™ "reverse bot" invention, and he is named on over thirty patents.

Mr. Tarnoff provides engineers software applications using modern programming languages, databases, and tools such as C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Javascript, AJAX, Microsoft Office, Borland Delphi and various assembly languages.  Some recent software projects have included:

  • implementing relational and SQL database applications
  • engineering traditional & novel web server operations
  • developing order processing and fulfillment applications
  • programming a loan servicing and collection database, network and system
  • creating a real-time film to digital media converter
  • constructing data acquisition systems
  • performing engineering analysis and making recommendations
  • engineering remote and local, wired and wireless survey systems
  • prototyping new consumer products with user-friendly operations
  • contributing to new business processes (e.g. for start-ups)
  • developing intellectual property (e.g. utility patents)

At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Mr. Tarnoff engaged a study program that combined Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics, worked in the UCLA laboratories where the Internet was born, and, in 1983, graduated from UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Recently, Mr. Tarnoff developed DataPlex's line of advanced audience response and vote tabulation systems under the Metadox brand, used by venerable market research and television production companies.


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