RCA Broadcast Systems Department
TV Terminal Advanced Development Engineering Group
Class B Engineer, July 1950
Circuit development for sync generators, video switching, and other terminal equipment. Also consulted on circuit design problems in TV cameras.
Class A Engineer, July 1952
Circuit development of the TK-40 and TK-41 color cameras—the first commercial color cameras for the NTSC video system.
Class AA Engineer, July 1954
Circuit development troubleshooter in all areas of Broadcast Studio Equipment including cameras, monitors, switching, and terminal equipment.
Leader, TV Terminal Advanced Development, July 1958
Responsible for management of the group doing work as described above. Began transistorization of broadcast products.
Electronic Recording Engineering Department
Manager, Advanced Development, 1962
Responsible for new video recorder development. During this period, the TR-22 was developed by this group. It was the world’s first all solid-state video recorder.
Manager, Electronic Recording Equipment Engineering, 1966
Responsible for all engineering of video recorders including mechanical and electrical design and development and magnetic head engineering. During this period, the TR-70 highband recorder and the TCR-100 Video Cartridge Recorder were developed. The latter was the world’s first completely automatic system for playing sequences of individual video tapes, such as needed to play commercials during station breaks. RCA later (1973) won an Emmy for this product.
RCA Broadcast Systems Division
Manager, Broadcast Engineering, 1971
Oversaw the engineering programs of all the units of Broadcast systems, which included Recording, Cameras, Terminal Equipment, Audio Equipment, TV and Audio Transmitters, and Antennas. For a while this responsibility also included Electron Microscopes.
Chief Engineer, Broadcast Systems
This was a change of title for the position described above.
RCA Commercial Communications Systems Division (CCSD)
Chief Engineer, CCSD, 1975
CCSD embraced not only Broadcast Systems, but also Mobile Communications Systems, Avionics Systems, and Film Recording Systems. The role of the Chief Engineer was to oversee the planning process of all units, insure that best technology resources were being applied, and solve technical or engineering management problems.
Division Vice President, Engineering, CCSD, 1980
This was a change of title for the above-described position.
RCA Broadcast Systems Division
Division Vice President, Engineering, Broadcast Systems, 1981
Overview the engineering programs of all the units of Broadcast systems, which included Recording, Cameras, Terminal Equipment, Audio Equipment, TV and Audio Transmitters, and Antennas.
RCA Laboratories, Princeton, NJ
Senior Staff Scientist, January 1984
Joined the project team developing the digital audio/video system that became DVI Technology. Role was in planning, management (ran the entire project during 1986), hardware and software development for the audio part of the system, and software development for demonstration of the system (this work led to MEDIAscript.)
Retired from RCA, December 1987
Arch Luther Associates, Merchantville, NJ
President, January 1988 to present
Consulting in multimedia computing for Intel, IBM, Southwest Research Institute, and others.
General consulting in analog and digital electronic design for several clients in different fields including medical electronics and ASIC development.
Expert witness consulting in patent litigation for television and computers;
clients are Fish & Neave (NY), Kenyon & Kenyon (NY),
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (San Diego), Tobor & Goldstein (Houston),
McKool-Smith (Austin and Dallas, TX), and others.
Subjects include television machine vision, computer video display chips, and other areas of video.
Software development in multimedia authoring (MEDIAscript).
Software development for Write-n-Record.
Writing technical books.
Artisan's World, LLC (1999 - 2001)
Partner and Chief Technology Officer
Web site design and management
Digital photography for site content
Muniz Ranches Property Owners Association
Board member and Treasurer, 1999 to present