Jerry Petrole
     President

Mr. Petrole is President and CEO of VTI and founded the company in 1992. Mr. Petrole earned his technical from Ryder Technical Institute and completed additional courses in business administration and management at The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Petrole’s 2 years of experience in the high-end electronics field includes positions with NASA, United Aircraft, Bendix Field Engineering and Mitsubishi Electronics. As a national executive for Mitsubishi, Mr. Petrole established a business relationship with AT&T that, over a seven-year period, resulted in the growth of $40M in annual sales for Mitsubishi products.

Mr. Petrole currently focuses his energies on Valley Technologies, Inc.’s strategic business development and growth-oriented activities, as well as managing all aspects of finance and international trade.

  Blaine M Arnold
     Director of Engineering

Mr. Arnold has over sixteen years of experience in software design and implementation. His extensive software experience includes basic research, Object Oriented Analysis / Design, Artificial Intelligence modeling, human factors research, Human Computer Interface (HCI), and maintenance of multi-million-line software systems. He developed a series of Applications Programming Interface (API) libraries for the PMC modules, designed and managed the development of the MAGI Software Deployment Environment (SDE). Worked nine years at the Raytheon, State College, PA Facility (formally HRB Systems) as a Senior Software Engineer. And 9 years as a Signals Intelligence analyst in the United States Army, instructor/author for the Electronic Battle Division, Internal Signals Analysis responsible for reporting of electromagnetic emissions emanating from airborne equipment, missiles, and satellites to national level consumers.

  Brent Miller
     Senior Electrical Engineer

Mr. Miller earned an A.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology in 1994 and went on to earn a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Computer Engineering in 1997 from the Pennsylvania State University. His diverse technical background includes certification in Black-Magic (High-Speed Design), Cadence EDA; Mentor Graphics, HyperLynx, Altera Corp. (FPGA), OrCad and ModelSim Corp. EDA tools.

At Valley Technologies, Inc. Brent's responsibilities encompass:
     Conceptual Design, Requirements development, and Technical specifications
     • Planning and Documentation: Design, Test, Certification and Integration Phases
     • Circuit design, debug, and formal verification
     • Interfacing with and information dissemination to customers, vendors, and external design  services.
     • Mentoring Jr. Engineers

Brent had an extensive USA Government work history (SIGINT) and collaborated with several Tier-1 Telecom OEM’s; Copper Mountain Networks, Corvis Inc, Sowilo Networks, Tyco - Tycom Inc, and ATT Submarine Systems to provide cost-effective, state-of-the-art communications platforms.

  Rodney J. Ebersole
     Senior Software Engineer

Mr. Ebersole has over 15 years of experience in software and firmware design/implementation. He has created software for web and .NET based user-interfaces to JNI-wrapping, embedded Linux device-drivers, boot-time hardware initialization.

His current position at Valley Technologies, is leading the software effort on our Mux/Demux Project. This software will allow user(s) at centralized site(s) to communicate and control custom embedded modules that may be located and operating at remote site(s). The software has user-interface, data-management, communication, and (embedded) hardware-control components. Components operate in a mixed environment of Windows XP/.NET 2.x and embedded Linux (2.6 kernel). He also has written software that initializes, controls, and tests our custom-designed boards. These boards are been based upon a variety of architectures.

Prior to joining Valley Technologies in 2000, Rodney worked for five years as a Software Engineer for Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Inc. He worked on a variety of projects related to the transportation, fleet management, and power utility fields. These projects ranged from embedded, in-vehicle applications and firmware to full-featured Windows™ applications using MFC and Visual C++.

  Jeffrey A. Taylor
     Advanced Software Engineer

Mr. Taylor earned an A.A.S. in Electronics Technology from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in 1994, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 2000. He completed VxWorks training from Wind River Education Services in December, 2006, and Linux Device Driver training from MontaVista Software in August, 2007. He has 8 years of experience in software design and development, including embedded as well as desktop applications. He has written software for a wide range of applications including DVD navigation, audio processing, internet communication, and algorithm control systems. He has experience with numerous software technologies including C, C++, Java, XML,UML, and OpenGL. In his current position at Valley Technologies, Jeff is the lead engineer on the Magi project.