Technology Advisory Board

Dr. Bing Chen

Dr. Chen technically advises VizzVox in a number of areas including video processing, web application infrastructure, and end user functionality.

He is currently a Sr. Consulting Engineer at Apple Computer where he has been developing a variety of information management systems for high profile clients such as Warner Music, MCI, Disney, and Modern Postcard. As an early adopter of NeXT Computer's innovative pure object-oriented language Objective-C, he brings almost two decades of experience developing object-oriented software using a variety of derived languages, including JAVA.

Dr. Chen has a Ph.D. in Computational Nuclear Physics, California Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, Princeton University, and a B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology.

Geoff Hopson

Geoff Hopson serves as a technical advisor to VizzVox with an emphasis on architecture for content management and localization. He has over twenty years software engineering experience working on major projects for British Telecom, Harvey Nichols, Fortnum & Mason, and the UK government.

He is currently the principal architect of the UK's national vehicle tracking database, which is based on the biggest Oracle database in Europe, handling over 100 million web service calls per day, peaking at 3000 per second. The data mining tools that he has developed against this database are used by UK law enforcement agencies to aid national crime investigations.

Mr. Hopson was the lead architect and original concept creator of the award-winning e-billing product at Solant, Inc. which has been installed by Dell, Office Depot, Unisys, BC/BS, Telfort (now BT) and others. He was a technical architect at Systor AG in Zürich where he creating a concept for "customer self-care" (eCRM and eBilling) that eventually became the primary product around which Solant (now Avolent) has grown its success. Prior to Systor, he was a senior engineer at British Telecom's world-respected Research Laboratories for eleven years in Ipswich, England where he worked on several leading-edge projects including Concert (global dynamic bandwidth management), dynamic network service creation and an OSS/NMS for satellite and cable TV systems management including the first Pay-Per-View systems in the UK.

Mr. Hopson earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Birmingham University in England and a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Kings College in London, and in 2005 was a medalist in the 'IT Developer of the Year' category at the British Computer Society awards.