Machine Vision Consulting Staff

Jeff Dannay, President & Co-Founder

As the President of MVC, Mr. Jeffrey Dannay provides the overall strategic guidance for the company and manages high level client relationships. Mr. Dannay has 15 years of direct vision and vision management experience. His focus has been on providing vision technology solutions across many domains (medical, food & beverage packaging, semi-conductor, manufacturing, pharmaceutical) for a variety of customers including OEMs, End Users, and Systems Integrators. Mr. Dannay takes pride in developing strong customer relationships by providing a "do whatever it takes" philosophy for complete customer satisfaction.

Mr. Dannay works with prospective clients to evaluate their vision application and to recommend an architectural solution using state of the art Cognex vision systems. He then develops an easy to understand proposal, assigns the appropriate vision engineering consultant, and provides a final vision solution to meet the client's requirements. He works directly with clients from initial contact through final system implementation.

Mr. Dannay holds a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts.

Phil Gouin, CTO & Co-Founder

As the Chief Technology Officer at MVC, Mr. Phil Gouin develops and oversees the technical architecture for all MVC projects, and oversees all corporate technical decisions. Mr. Gouin has over 25 years of machine vision experience ranging from the development of core vision algorithms to product and project delivery management. He is an experienced leader of software development, having managed many successful product introductions from conception through release. Mr. Gouin has strong C++ development skills and is highly proficient in many Cognex products including CVL, VisionPro, OMI, PVE, and Checkpoint.

Mr. Gouin works with prospective clients to fully understand the machine vision requirements, translating them into a working design. He then personally manages the delivery of the project, working closely with the project engineer and the customer.

Mr. Gouin holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

Joe Carapezza

Mr. Joseph Carapezza has over twenty years of experience designing electromechanical systems and leading projects from conception to production. In addition to extensive military products, Mr. Carapezza has worked on and led commercial equipment design projects, projects for the medical industry, and holds a patent for components of a live gas main inspection system.

Mr. Carapezza holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, and acquired his MBA from the University of Massachusetts. His principal role is in developing new products, improving existing products, and managing product implementation at customer sites.

David Bentley

Mr. David Bentley joins Machine Vision Consulting through MVC's first acquisition. Formerly, the President of Bentley Automation, David brings a wealth of experience as a designer and manufacturer of custom automation control and vision inspection systems. David joins MVC as the Director of Operations.

Nelson Tarr

Mr. Nelson Tarr has over 15 years of experience in image analysis software and algorithm development. For over 7 years he has been developing machine vision technology and delivering world-class machine vision solutions to automotive, consumer goods, semiconductor and pharmaceutical customers. With extensive experience in factory-floor integration, Mr. Tarr specializes in delivering easy-to-use applications that exceed customers' expectations in real-world environments. His machine vision expertise includes project management, light/optics design, software design and algorithm design. He has worked extensively with almost all Cognex hardware and software platforms, C++, C#, and Visual Basic.

A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Tarr holds a Masters Degree in Image Processing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Kevin Treen

Mr. Kevin Treen has over 30 years of software development experience building complex systems. His focus has been on the machine vision industry where he spent 14 years designing and developing vision applications to solve an array of problems in the semiconductor and medical industries. Mr. Treen has strong development and programming skills and is extremely proficient in object oriented programming, C/C++, COM, Windows, networking, and machine control. His ability to blend strong software skills with his expertise in machine control make him an ideal engineer to solve real world machine vision problems.

Mr. Treen holds Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lowell Technological Institute.

Tony Aiello

Mr. Tony Aiello has over 14 years of machine vision industry experience, ranging from applications development with on-site integrations to core software development and management for Cognex's In-Sight® line of embedded vision systems. He also has years of experience in defense R&D where he specialized in man-machine interfaces and human factors, as well as 3 years' recent experience in advanced computer graphics and animation R&D. With his extensive technical background and wide network of industry contacts and applications, Tony knows how vision has been done, how to do it right, and how to help customers do the same.

Mr. Aiello holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, and has a patent-pending for an LCD-controlled illumination system.

Joe Gugliotti

Mr. Joe Gugliotti has been a part of the machine vision industry for over 20 years. He spent 10 years with a leading distributor of cameras, optics, and lighting systems for use in machine vision applications, working closely with Vision OEM's, Systems Integrators, and End Users to evaluate their image formation needs and provide the appropriate solution. Joe spent the next 10 years as an OEM Account Manager and Senior Sales Engineer for a leading Machine Vision OEM. His familiarity with what it takes to do vision right, his attention to detail, and his exposure to hundreds of different applications make Joe well-suited to his Sales and Marketing position at Machine Vision Consulting. Joe holds a BS degree from Babson College.

Kathryn Dannay

Ms. Kathryn Dannay, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), has over 20 years of project management experience leading teams in the development of complex software applications. Ms. Dannay provides support in a number of roles including: human resources, project management, user interface design, and marketing. Ms. Dannay holds a Master of Science, Information Systems from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science, Applied Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Calvin Henderson

Mr. Calvin Henderson has over 20 years of experience in the implementation of machine vision solutions for a high speed manufacturer of consumer products. During this time, Mr. Henderson was responsible for the system design, installation and integration of over 80 Cognex In-Sight vision systems performing various quality inspections at rates of over 10 parts per second. Calvin has also developed PC based measurement systems using VisionPro in the fields of video microscopy and thermal imaging. Calvin's sensitivity to the special needs of each customer make him a valuable ally in the development of a practical and robust solution to your machine vision application.

Mr. Henderson has a Bachelor's degree in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Akron, and received training in Guidance Systems from the United States Army Air Defense Electronics School.

Charles Gouin

Mr. Charles Gouin has been an intricate part of several projects since starting with MVC in January of 2009. He is currently based out of the Westborough office, but he also a key member of MVC's support team, supporting MVC customers around the world. Mr. Gouin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Science from Skidmore College in 2008.

Shannon L. Browne

Ms. Shannon Browne has over 7 years experience in project management, process automation, and manufacturing support. Ms. Browne has extensive experience in manufacturing environments, process control, & quality control.

Ms. Browne is an ASCP certified Medical Technologist and holds an Associate Degree in Math/Science from Jefferson Community College.

Tone Engel

Mr. Tone Engel has over 16 years of machine vision experience including application development, software vision tools development, system architecture, and product development. He is an expert in taking complex technical problems and providing custom vision solutions that meet and exceed customer requirements. He is proficient in all Cognex programmable environments (VisionPro, CVL, etc.) using the latest development environments (multi-threaded applications using C++ & Csupport.html within .NET). Mr. Engel is also an expert in the inspection of Surface Mounted Devices where he holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus for Inspection of Surface Mounted Devices."

Mr. Engel is graduate of Dartmouth College where he earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and a graduate of Brown University where he earned a Master of Science in Computer Science and Applied Math.