The Team

Ned Lecky, PhD

Ned is a nationally-known innovator in machine vision solutions and the inventor of the popular and widely installed Sherlock industrial machine vision software, now distributed by DALSA. At Lecky Integration, he is our chief technical leader and guru, as well as president and irrepressible jokester.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Vermont, Ned began his career at Control Automation, Inc. and quickly moved onto starting his own business, Intelec Corporation. Since selling that company to Imaging Technology, Ned has been a college professor, developed graduate-level courses, worked a range of companies from alternative energy start-ups to GE Global Research, and authored many articles on software design, algorithms, imaging, embedded systems, and machine vision.

In his very limited spare time, he plays piano and composes music, hikes in the Adirondacks, mountain bikes, and reads current events and history.

He is a member of the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, (ASME), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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Mike Vittiglio

Michael was born and raised in New York City. His interest in technology manifested early on with an attraction to video games. He completed his “Network Engineer” certification at the Computer Career Center in Rego Park, NY, and then worked for Advent Software for six years, moving from the Junior Help Desk to Senior IT Engineer. He then attended Full Sail University where he obtained a BA in Game Development in September, 2008. Following graduation, he worked in a variety of positions, including as a tester for a AAA game studio and a software consultant/customer rep for a defense contractor. He continues to work on game development. His combination of Cuban and Italian heritage shows up as a marked gregariousness, affinity for metaphors and hand gestures, as well as prowess in the kitchen.

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Joshua Johnson

Josh is a skilled software engineer, with particular expertise in analysis and distribution. At Lecky, he is a senior developer and lead software architect, focused on overall task planning. Josh’s professional experience includes over 2 years at IBM where he worked on developing a start-up application that was globally distributed and creating and testing various software elements for internal system tools; he has also contributed to many video games, including: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PS2), Great Battles: Medieval (XBOX360, PS3), and Dungeon Defenders (XBOX360, PS3, PC, Mobile). His educational background includes a degree in Computer Science from William and Mary and a degree in Game Development from Full Sail University.

Josh is also an avid gamer, be it board games, card games, or video games. His friends will tell you that he is the best magic card player that the east coast has ever seen, but Josh is known for being extremely shy and humble about his skills. Always one to defy convention, Josh enjoys short walks on the beach, hates Pina Coladas, and ritually carries an umbrella to prevent getting caught in the rain.

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Keith Morgado

Keith graduated from Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL with a BS in Game Development and immediately began developing his own video game design company. Keith's background in game development complements his current work in machine vision: in the past, he created images and gave them intelligence, and at Lecky Integration he'll pull intelligence from images taken by cameras. In Keith's opinion, either way, he's still analyzing millions of pixels on a screen. Drawing on 7 years of programming experience, Keith also adds expertise in C++, Web Development, and User Interface Design to the Lecky team. Information and a free demo of Turba, a puzzle rhythm game and his first commercial project, can be found at www.turbagame.com.

A native of Boston, MA, in his spare time Keith can be found snowboarding all over the Northeast, honing his photography skills, and maintaining his website (www.keithmorgado.com).

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Dustin Holtz

Dustin is skilled in machine vision algorithm implementation and spends his time at Lecky Integration working on camera interface software. A graduate of Full Sail University with a bachelor’s degree in Game Development, Dustin has experience programming in a variety of code languages and excels in software architecture.

Outside of the office you can find Dustin trying to involve himself in any outdoors activity he comes across; yet, he finds himself more often than not gregariously meandering about society in an attempt to make sense of this place we call home.

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Timothy Clark

Tim is a mathematician and college professor who also bends his brain to creating advanced algorithms that help the coders at Lecky improve our optical character recognition capabilities. Mathematically, he is interested in commutative algebra, combinatorics and topology. Pedagogically, he is interested in helping students rid themselves of preconceived notions of mathematics and presenting mathematics as a vibrant subject for the intellectually and philosophically curious. In addition to these arcane pursuits, Tim also enjoys more earthly pleasures such as brewing beer, expanding his barbecue repertoire, refining his baking skills, and participating in sports.

Liz Rounds

Liz Rounds keeps tabs on people, projects, and processes at Lecky Integration. Her job is to make sure everyone and everything is going according to plan, which means she helps out with travel arrangements, marketing efforts, shipping, receiving and ordering, and updating mailing lists, time logs, job tracking, and spreadsheets. She has experience as a teacher's assistant, childcare provider, and customer service rep and attended Herkimer County Community College.

When she is not wrangling the Lecky troops, she runs, bakes, camps, cheers on her children, and enjoys time with her extended family.

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Laurel Saville, MFA

Laurel Saville has more than 25 years experience in corporate communications, copywriting, marketing, and branding for corporations, non-profit organizations and start-ups. At Lecky Integration, she is responsible for staying in touch with clients, keeping projects on track, developing marketing programs, and jumping in to keep things and people running smoothly. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature, with honors, from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.

She is also the author of numerous articles, books, essays, and short fiction and enjoys long walks with her gimpy Border Collie, hiking, mountain biking, drawing, and bird watching along the Mohawk River.

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