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Principal
Mr. Marshall is Owner, Operator and
Founder of
TorsionTec. He has
had a long and diverse career in Electronics, Electromechanical, and
Computer
technology development.
A gift for technology was evident
even in elementary
school
and at the age of 17 he graduated from
high school as Class Salutatorian with Matriculation and
a Scholarship to study Electrical Engineering at the University
of Calgary. His outstanding academic achievments earned him several
more scholarships and the prestigious distinction of working
for
Canada's Defense Research Establishment Suffield as a designer
in
their Electronics Labs through the DRES coop summer student
program.
At DRES Mr. Marshall's
passion for technology
development was
realized for the first time in a career oriented institution. In four
months
as a coop summer student he developed data logging systems for
use in the military.
After graduating with honors in Electrical/Electronic/Computer
Engineering
he quickly became a guru in large mainframe computer
systems
used for Seismic and GIS data processing.
At the Alberta Research Council
and Civil
Engineering Hydrology
Lab on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, he
used
the early kit computers as microcontrollers to develop data logging
and
servo-control systems for various projects including; an automated
three-dimensional
flume-based probe positioning & measurement system, an oil-sands
heavy-oil
bitumen processing pilot plant, an automated coal gasification
prototype,
a flywheel-based concrete tensile strength tester, and an automated
precision
micrometer lead-screw tree ring measurement system for Paleontology
research.
Back in Calgary he went
to work for a leading well log and seismic data
services company where he was responsible for development of several
"leading-edge" electronic, microcontroller, and software systems, used
internally in capturing, organizing and providing data services, as
well
as being resold to many of the major Oil & Gas exploration
companies
worldwide. As Research & Development Manager, Mr. Marshall
conceptualized,
analyzed and coded much of the software for these systems, as well as
coordinating
the efforts of other team members. Some of the projects included; PBD
(Paint
Brush Digitizer) - a scanning system that automatically recognized
oscillograph
curves in oil well log images, Farmland Valuation System - an
innovative
land mapping and database system used extensively by government
agencies
to automate the land valuation process, Sonibase - a
geological
well log data delivery system, Logbase - a full well log
management
and data delivery system,.and Geowell - a map-based complete
oil
well data management and data delivery system. After
a corporate takeover, Mr. Marshall started TorsionTec -
high torque generators/motors, and AcreMap - land valuation
software.
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