John McCaskill has over 30 years of experience designing and implementing both embedded and high-performance data acquisition and digital signal processing systems for both consumer and defense applications ranging from audio signal processing for Polycom video conferencing systems, designing and programming SIMD VLIW vector processors at Texas Memory System (now an IBM Company) and a variety of FPGA based products at Faster Technology. John is an award-winning AMD – Xilinx certified trainer, has published technical papers and invented US patent 6980485 “Automatic camera tracking using beamforming”.