Ralph Heredia is the director of business development for the Consumer Media Systems business of Aeronix, in Greenville, S.C. He is directly responsible for all aspects of product development, innovation, research, marketing and customer support. Aeronix owns the Zipit product and associated intellectual property.
Heredia has more than 22 years of experience in the consumer electronics, personal computer and multimedia industries. Prior to helping establish the Consumer Media Systems division at Aeronix in 2002, he held management and product development positions with several mid-sized technology companies, including Escient/OpenGlobe and avACTIVE. He was the systems architecture manager for Cirrus Logic. Prior to that, he held several positions, including senior principal analyst for NCR Corporation and Member of Technical Staff at AT&T’s Bell Labs (now part of Lucent Corporation), where he worked for almost 14 years.
He has worked in a management, product development or marketing role on developing the technology used in many of today’s “staple” electronics products, including MP3 players, DVD recorders and players, Internet radio receivers and many more.
Heredia has had an extensive education in all aspects of electronics and computer sciences, has authored an article in an encyclopedia for electrical engineers and has been granted 5 US patents for various inventions related to his field
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