Richard Zulch has been immersed in the computer industry for over 30 years, with deep experience in software and hardware, and a broad background in the business of technology. Richard has been responsible for technology and products used by millions of people over the course of more than 100 product releases. He understands the issues involved with creating innovation, encapsulating it in a software package, delivering it to customers, establishing and delighting a loyal customer base, generating income, and building a successful business.
Richard is the founder of Zulch Laboratories Inc., a research and development company creating innovative lighting control technology for the entertainment industry.
Prior to Zulch Laboratories, Richard was Vice President in the software group at storage leader EMC Corporation. Richard joined EMC as the result of their acquisition of Dantz Development Corporation, where he was chairman, CTO, and co-founder. Dantz developed and published the critically-acclaimed Retrospect family of backup software available in six languages for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX computers. During its two decades Dantz products won numerous industry awards and generated aggregate sales exceeding $100,000,000 across more than 50 countries around the world.
Earlier in his career, Richard designed and developed firmware for the Hewlett-Packard 4953A protocol analyzer, conducted hardware and software consulting for numerous clients, and created microprocessor-based instrumentation for diverse applications such as phototypesetting and precision retinal cell stimulation for ophthalmology research.
Richard is a member of the ACM and IEEE professional organizations, recipient of a Macworld Lifetime Achievement award in 1997, and a guest lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he received his 1982 Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been awarded two US Patents.
Richard’s specialties include the following:
- Engineering analysis of problems, architectures, interfaces, and topologies
- Software design, algorithm development, functional and procedural programming
- Embedded systems, microprocessors, and firmware
- Product design, feature sets and user interfaces
- Reliable systems, design for reliability, failure prediction, fault analysis
- Technology assessment, including language/framework/component choices
- Product development, team management, tools, systems, and life cycles
- Strategic planning and team building
- Patent and trade secret analysis and optimization
- Networking, storage systems, formats/protocols, concurrency, object systems, localization, portability, scalability, device drivers, compilers, and OS internals
