Brian L. Pitre
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Year by year

Filter by the kind of work. Dates overlap where the résumé overlaps — military leave inside Graphic Controls, school during those same years, and SkyOp beginning while dockside.net was still operating. Nothing here is inferred past the résumé.

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  1. June 1967 – October 1976

    Graphic Controls Corporation

    Project Manager / Senior Systems Analyst

    His first long stay in the industry. The résumé includes military leave inside these years. He advanced from computer operator to programmer, systems analyst, and project lead.

  2. 1968 – 1971

    United States Army

    General Electronic Cryptographic Repairman

    Military service during the Graphic Controls years. He served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.

  3. 1971 – 1976

    State University of New York at Buffalo

    Business management

    Studied while his Graphic Controls career continued. The résumé names Millard Fillmore College and a concentration in business management.

  4. September 1976 – September 1978

    Data General Corporation

    Sales Engineer

    Selling Data General minicomputers into engineering, education, government, data processing, and OEM accounts.

  5. September 1978 – September 1979

    Collective Computer Marketing, Inc.

    Executive Vice President & Co-Founder

    A company taken from an idea to a written business plan, with capital raised through private and commercial avenues.

  6. September 1979 – March 1982

    Prime Computer, Inc.

    Branch Sales Manager

    Managed Prime’s Upstate New York field sales operation, selling general-purpose computers.

  7. March 1982 – June 1985

    Scientific Calculations, Inc.

    Director of Sales — North America

    Reported directly to the president as part of senior management. Scientific Calculations was an industry leader in CAD/CAM products for electronic design automation.

  8. June 1985 – May 1987

    Cygnet Group, Inc.

    Vice President & Co-Founder

    A distribution company for personal-computer CAD/CAM and engineering products, planned for a national market.

  9. October 1987 – August 1989

    Wang Laboratories, Inc.

    Account Executive — Eastman Kodak

    Primary business interface between Wang Laboratories and Eastman Kodak on a worldwide basis.

  10. August 1989 – February 1993

    Selectronics / Microlytics, Inc.

    Vice President, Sales and Marketing

    A Xerox venture company. He managed worldwide OEM licensing of linguistic software, and Selectronics’ handheld computers and custom electronic publishing.

  11. Founded 1984 · role February 1993 – February 1995

    DockSide Equipment, Inc.

    President & Founder

    Founded in March 1984 as the Kap Strap Company. In May 1993 the Kap Strap hat retainer was sold to Ultimate Products, Inc. of Tampa, Florida, and the corporation was renamed DockSide Equipment, Inc.

  12. December 1993 – January 1995

    Data Compression, Inc.

    President & Founder

    A software-licensing company for computerized data compression.

  13. February 1995 – February 2016

    dockside.net Inc.

    President & Founder

    SMART Internet Marketing, a suite of internet tools for mass email, surveys, sweepstakes, and marketing tracking.

  14. January 2013 onward

    SkyOp LLC

    Managing Member & Co-Founder

    The résumé, current as of September 2020, names him Managing Member and Co-Founder from January 2013 onward. SkyOp develops drone-training courseware, licenses it to partners, and delivers it to end users.