Duxbury Staff

	Don Breda - Technical Support Director, DBT Tech Support
	Bob Fleischer - Product Tester
	Caryn Navy - Senior Technical Staff
	Anne Ronco - Executive Assistant
	Scott Ronco - Shipping
	Andrew Sullivan - Production
	Genevieve Sullivan - Treasurer
	Joe Sullivan - President
	Peter Sullivan - VP of Software Development
	Dan Thibert - Network administrator, DBT Technical Support

Don Breda is Technical Support Director. Don has extensive training in blindness-related products of all kinds through his prior work at National Braille Press and Perkins School. Don does the bulk of technical support for DBT.

Bob Fleischer is our product tester. He is our newest employee; one day he just showed up in our midst. He has worked at Digital, Compaq, and HP without having to change his job. Bob uses a combination of automated testing and intuition to locate problematic aspects of Duxbury products.

Caryn Navy handles technical support for MegaDots. She also does a variety of other tasks, including developing and supporting our JAWS script files, and Hebrew translation in DBT. She has a Bachelor's degree from MIT, as well as a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. Caryn is the Chair of the Refreshable Braille Technical Committee for BANA. Caryn, along with her husband David, is providing funding for the new Cosmo Brailler.

Anne Ronco has been part of Duxbury since 1999. She manages many of the databases at Duxbury, and facilitates some of Joe's communications. She received her BA degree from Merrimack College.

Scott Ronco has been working behind the scenes in shipping since 1997.

Andrew Sullivan has been full time since 1992. He handles order processing. He is not nostalgic for the days of floppy disks.

Genevieve Sullivan is the company treasurer. She has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Northeastern University. Like Joe, Gen enjoys International Folk Dancing with the Framingham Folk Dancers.

Joe Sullivan is the company president and the chief architect of the original Duxbury Braille Translator software. He is a mathematician by schooling (Boston College H.S. 1958, Boston College A.B. Mathematics 1962, Northeastern University M.S. Mathematics 1968), and has designed software for most of his working life. He worked at the U.S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin, at Bunker-Ramo Corporation, and at MITRE Corporation before helping to found Duxbury Systems. Joe's present affiliations include:

Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) committee, International Council on English Braille (ICEB)

Past affiliations include:

Treasurer, member of the Executive Committee and member of the U.S. delegation to the ICEB
ACM representative on the BANA Board
Member, Texas Commission on Braille Textbook Production
Chairman of Committee II (the basic code design committee) of the Unified Braille Code Research Project of the ICEB
Member of the Literary Braille Technical Committee, Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
Member of the Computer Braille Technical Committee, BANA

Publications include "Braille Translation" in Uses of Computers in Aiding the Handicapped (Raviv, North-Holland, 1981).

Awards include:

The Golden Keys award from the National Association to Promote the Use of Braille (1994)
The Winston Gordon Award from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (1995)
The Migel Award from the American Foundation for the Blind (1996)
The Braille Excellence Award from the Braille Authority of North America (1994)
The Blind SA Medal of Honour from Blind SA, presented in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 7, 2012
Named one of President Obama's Champions of Change for STEM Equality for Americans with Disabilities in a White House ceremony also coincidentally on May 7, 2012
"Hands On!" Awardee at the National Braille Press gala, October 28, 2016

Joe is married to Gen and together they have seven children, three of whom work at Duxbury, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Peter Sullivan is Vice President of Software Development. Peter has a bachelor's degree from MIT. If it relates to the windows, menus, fonts, or the putting together of all the pieces in the modern editions of any of our software, Peter probably did it. Click here for Peter Sullivan's CV. He directed the project to set up the nightly build process which has enhanced the quality of all of Duxbury software.

Dan Thibert is chief of operations and does some DBT technical support. He has a BS from Salve Regina University in Rhode Island and trained as an electronic technician in the US Army. He's been with the company since 1998. Motorcyles are is life. He likes to commute on his Haley-Davidson Heritage Classic