Tronarch ISR

1996 - 2002

AT A GLANCE

Company

Integrated Systems by Rich

Pioneering before the industry had names for it.

Role

SE Manager & Architect

Team Size

8 Engineers

Product

Tronarch Platform

There's a moment in every technology cycle when someone is doing the thing before it has a name. Before there's a conference about it. Before there's a framework, a methodology, a certification course. This was that moment. And I was six years into my software development career.

WHAT WE BUILT

Mobile control before smartphones. Voice control before Alexa. Whole-home audio streaming before Sonos. A context-aware presence and priority arbitration system that still hasn't been matched by most home automation platforms today.

Tronarch was a fully integrated home control platform managing lighting, security, climate, audio, video, and access control from a single system.

THE CLIENTS

Tronarch was installed in some of the most remarkable private homes in America — Michael Dell, Wayne Huizenga Jr., Frank Thomas, Bill Coleman, and Blas Garcia Moros among them.

Bill Gates spent the night at Michael Dell's house and told him our system was more capable than his own. We pulled the log files to verify.

WHAT THIS PERIOD MEANS

I've been building things before the industry had a name for them, my entire career.

"I'm not searching for any opportunity. I'm looking for the right one."