1. Resume - Robert Jesurum
Summary
Inventor, developer and founder of new businesses. Established and maintained standards at
companies I founded, including Electronic Information Systems, Inc. (EIS) and Port City Air, Inc.
Most of my career involved the design and development of computer operating systems and
applications running on mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers. Coding Assembler
language and C, with familiarity with Object oriented languages, as well.
1995 to Present Port City Air, Inc. President
Established new aircraft fixed base operator, Port City Air, at Pease Airport
in Portsmouth, NH. In 2003, purchased NH Helicopters to add to our
maintenance capabilities. Port City Air has over 40 employees to service
and fuel corporate, cargo and airlines. Port City Air has grown to become
the only FBO at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (KPSM).
1993 to Present Jesurum Scientific Instrument s , Inc..
President
2011 to Present Designed, patented and developed differential GPS
based system for pet containment and leash- less walking. Demonstration
software runs under an Android platform.
1993 to 1995 Conducted research into advanced digital hearing aids.
1980 to 1992 Electronic Information Syste m s , Inc.
Stamford, CT
1993 to 1999 Director
1991 to 1993 Chairman
Sell hardware and software to automate outbound telemarketing and
market research. From first production system in the Fall of 1988, grew to
become the leading supplier in the field. System includes special purpose
PBX, real- time operating system, data- base manage m e nt and sales-
scripting. EIS went public in July, 1992, 1992 revenues were $26M and grew
to approximately $100M.
1988 to 1991 Chairman and Chief Technical Officer
1988 to 1991 - Hired first CEO who later served as VP of Sales and
Marketing. Raised $660,000 in venture capital to launch EIS in
telemarketing business. Developed hardware and software for first
production installations, A.C. Nielsen and MCI. Grew company to 15
employees and selected a CEO who would be able to lead the business to
further growth.
2. 1985 to 1988 - Decided to develop telemarketing hardware and software
system. Sold development contract to Dun & Bradstreet which paid for over
half the effort. Designed hardware and software and personally designed
and wrote entire software system in C for a large and complex product.
Software controlled an outbound dialing switch with built in real- time OS,
and telemarketing application software supporting agent stations on dumb
terminals with sub- second response times under Linux. A single 32- bit
microprocessor could support 80 agents. Established relationship with
manufacturing subcontractor who is still the primary subcontractor for our
equipment. Sold first system to a telemarketing service bureau to serve as
beta- test site.
1983 to 1984 – Designed and developed all the software for MIRAN-1B, a
portable gas chromatograph sold by the Foxboro Company.
Developed internal electronic mail system for Exxon Research and
Development.
1980 - 1982: Developed prototype software for Menumat, a Windows- like
operating system while Microsoft was successfully selling MS-DOS for which I
was unsuccessful in obtaining funding or first customers.
1969 to 1980 National CSS, Inc. Wilton, CT
1978 to 1980 Director, R & D
1977 to 1978 Director, Advanced Technolo gy
1969 to 1977 Manag er, Syst e m s Develop m e n t
Computer time- sharing company bought by Dun & Bradstreet for $170M.
Leading supplier in the field on the strength of customer support, efficiency
and data- base access tools. We developed our own operating system,
providing virtual IBM 360’s and 370’s to our dial-up customers. We also
developed our own ARPA type packet- switched network to balance the load
between mainframes running on the East Coast in Stamford, CT and the
West Coast in Sunnyvale, CA
1967 to 1968 CII Paris, France
Manag er, Syst e m s Develop m e n t
Managed operating system development in French effort to produce
mainframe computers.
1965 to 1967 IBM Yorktown
Hts, NY
Syste m s Programm er
Helped design and develop IBM's first time- sharing operating system.
3. 1963 to 1965 TWA Kansas City,
MO
Scientific Programm er
Designed and developed international flight planning programs.
Education: M.I.T., BS in Mathematics and Literature, 1963.
Patents
Pet Restraint System(#US 8,851,019)
October 2014
In various embodiments, a method of controlling a position of an animal includes tracking a
position of the animal using a positioning system, such as a global positioning system. A time-
varying position of a base object is also tracked using the positioning system, and a relative
position of the animal with respect to the base object is determined, based on the positions of the
animal and the base object. When the relative position exceeds a minimum value, a stimulus is
provided to the animal to encourage the animal to reduce the relative position. A user of the
system may define a region for the animal using a map of the surrounding territory.
Telephone line monitoring system (#US 4,742,537)
May 1988
A device for detecting voice signals in the presence of supervisory signals on a number of
telephone lines so as to determine when machine-placed telephone calls have been answered. The
device comprises a zero crossing detector for each telephone line monitored to determine the zero
voltage crossings in the voltage of an incoming telephone signal, a latch associated with each
detector for storing the occurrences of each zero voltage crossing detected and a microcomputer
for processing the frequency-related information of the incoming telephone signals according to a
voice detection algorithm. The voice detection algorithm comprises timer interrupt and analysis
routines that direct the microcomputer to count the number of occurrences of different
wavelengths of the waveforms composing an incoming telephone signal in determining the
condition of response on a respective telephone line.