Oz DiGennaro has been active in software and hardware development for thirty years, and has experienced the computer revolution first-hand.  His work has included computer graphics, speech recognition, factory automation, image processing, printers, telecom, RFID, and web services for malaria control.
 
In addition to being an accomplished software developer, Oz has been an avid participant in the advance of the Internet.  Oz worked with UNIX (version 1.0) on DEC PDP-11 using the newly-invented (and very strange language) called “C”, in 1979.  He encountered the new “object-oriented methodology” in the early 1980’s; and he experienced email and “www” browsing in the early 1990’s.
 
Startup Experience

In the early 1980’s Oz was software manager at Verbex, owned by Exxon Enterprises.  This was a division of Exxon that today we would call “venture capital”.  The software developed at Verbex, after many re-incarnations appears as Dragon Systems today.

As CTO, Oz has run a startup doing customization and integration of high-end image processing systems (Signum Inc.).

In engineering management, Oz worked with an RFID startup from its “garage” stage (five employees working in 500 square feet) to receiving $18M from VC organizations (Skyetek).

Recently Oz served as CTO of Volkscast, an HD video acquisition and distribution startup out of New York City.

Now, Oz is Founder and CTO of Galgal Systems developing a suite of website enhancement tools:  “4Dtext”.