Chief Architect / Technical Lead

TCG Experience

Since its inception in 1994, Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, affectionately known as "Butch", has worked with the Turner Consulting Group. As Chief Architect, Butch's goals are to promote consistent architecture standards and share lessons learned between development projects. He has also worked as Technical Lead, providing technical management and system-level orchestration of projects utilizing n-tier architectures.

Background and Education

Butch, with a full Presidential Scholarship, conducted undergraduate work at Rutgers College as a dual Mathematics/Computer Science major. In 1994, he graduated with a BS degree as Valedictorian and membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the General Honors Program, the Honors Program in Mathematics, and the Honors Program in Computer Science. He was awarded his MS in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in 1999 from the University of Pennsylvania with the thesis Compression and Segmentation of Images Using an Inter-Subband Wavelet Probability Model.

Business Experience

Prior to coming to TCG, Butch worked as a Programmer/Analyst at Bell Communications Research, designing and implementing client/server-based remote system-administration applications. At the University of Pennsylvania was a researcher in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab and was a Teacher's Assistant for "Advanced Algorithms", "Programming Languages", and "Image Processing".

Technical Experience

Since 1994, Butch has developed Web applications in J2EE, Perl, and C++. He has experience designing and tuning SQL databases, client/server applications, Java, JavaScript, sound processing, and image compression and analysis.

With Albert Crowley, Butch co-designed the SteelBlue application server. SteelBlue is written in C++ for both Unix and Windows. It connects natively to Oracle, mySQL, and mSQL databases and can connect to any ODBC data source on Windows NT. SteelBlue provides a Web application developer with automatic security features, client and server side data checking, and a strong framework for database access with business rule enforcement.

Special Interests

Butch is an avid pianist and singer who in his free time enjoys composing in his little MIDI studio. When Butch's wife Jennifer, a pediatrician, is not working, they enjoy playing Dance Dance Revolution, Laser Tag, skiing, going to Hershey Park, playing video games, or just staying at home and watching TV.

Online Publications

R Buccigrossi, A Crowley, and D Turner. A Comprehensive System to Develop Secure Web Accessible Databases. Webnet'96. San Francisco, CA. 1996.

Robert W Buccigrossi. Compression and Segmentation of Images Using an Inter-Subband Wavelet Probability Model. PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science, Philadelphia PA, June 1999. Full Text (2,392k, gzip'ed PostScript)

R W Buccigrossi and E P Simoncelli. Image Compression via Joint Statistical Characterization in the Wavelet Domain. GRASP Laboratory Technical Report #414. University of Pennsylvania. 30 May 1997. Revised: 14 Oct 1998. To appear in in IEEE Trans Image Processing. Abstract / Brief Description & Software / 30 May 1997 Original (552k, ps.gz) / 14 Oct 1998 Revision (552k, ps.gz).

E P Simoncelli and R W Buccigrossi. Embedded Wavelet Image Compression Based on a Joint Probability Model. 4th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. Santa Barbara, CA. October 26-29, 1997. Abstract / Brief Description & Software / Full Text (37k, gzip'ed PostScript) / Full Text (72k, pdf).

R W Buccigrossi and E P Simoncelli. Progressive Wavelet Image Coding Based on a Conditional Probability Model. Int'l Conf. Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing. Munich, Germany. April 1997. Abstract / Brief Description & Software / Full Text (293k, gzip'ed PostScript)

R W Buccigrossi. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Blind Signal Separation. WPE-II, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science, Philadelphia PA, March 1997. Full Text (1,017k, PostScript)