MACRO Corporation

Our Management Team

The missions and objectives of each of the three primary sectors we serve are entirely different, yet they all rely on a common set of technology areas to do their jobs:

Transportation agencies such as mass transit operators need to move people and/or goods safely and cost efficiently. For example, public transit rail operators control the movement of their trains from sophisticated control centers offering information rich, real-time, situational awareness displays using wide-area communications with train operators, real-time vehicle location and routing systems, and on-board and platform passenger information displays.

First responders in public safety maintain peace at home, keep our families safe, enforce our laws, fight our fires, manage disasters within our community, rescue us when we’re lost, and help us when we’re hurt. Police, fire, and emergency services are managed from highly secure and hardened control centers where call-takers and dispatchers use real-time 9-1-1 and computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems, and communicate with field personnel such as police officers and firefighters via secure, critical-grade, private land-mobile radio systems and broadband mobile data networks linked together with microwave datalinks or fiber optic networks.

Utilities such as energy suppliers and water management agencies rely on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to oversee electrical distribution, flood control, water delivery, and hundreds of other functions remotely – many times across an area spanning many states. Along with private voice radio and mobile data communications with field personnel, real-time SCADA communications with these remote sensors and controls are all networked across a reliable, wide-area interconnect network to centralized control centers.

Thus, even though their respective design, functionality, and performance requirements are dramatically different, the category of technologies to meet their respective mission and objectives between them are similar: real-time management and reporting systems, control centers/infrastructure, and wide-area communications networks. The figure below presents how our firm’s structure aligns cross-functionally with these sectors and technology areas to form our three principal practice areas.

George Peterman, President

Immediately after graduating from Villanova University with a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science, George joined Leeds & Northrup Company, where he concentrated on the application of process computer systems installed in fossil and nuclear power generating stations and in other real-time industrial processes. During his tenure at Macro, George has continued his involvement in real-time, process monitoring and control systems, having been involved in systems applications in the industrial, manufacturing, transportation, communications, and electric utility markets. Over the years, he has served as project manager for many large projects, including both technical and managerial positions. As a result, he has acquired extensive experience with technical system details as well as with the project management details of multi-million dollar system procurements. When KEMA acquired Macro in 1996, George became responsible for all operations under Macro's masthead and he continues in that capacity today. In addition, from 1996 to 2007, George was Chief Information Officer for all of KEMA's consulting operations in the US.

Fred Martino, Executive Consultant – Rail, Control Center, and Infrastructure Practice

Fred joined Leeds and Northrup immediately after graduating from Drexel University with a B.S.E.E., then followed George to Macro Corporation where he soon introduced Macro to the rail transportation sector. During his long service with our firm, Fred has led the engineering and overseen the installation of rail control centers, centralized train control systems, and traction power systems, for Macro rail transit clients including Amtrak, Toronto Transit, New Jersey Transit, SEPTA (Philadelphia), LACMTA (Los Angeles), and many others. In fact, almost every major rail transit operation in the USA has benefited directly from Fred’s innovation, integrity, and ingenuity. Fred has presented numerous papers to the American Public Transit Association (APTA), and is a former chair of its Rail Operations Control Centers Technical Forum. Today, Fred leads our Rail, Control Center, and Infrastructure practice area.

Allen Beatty, Executive Consultant – Public Safety/Telecommunications Practice

Allen (“Al”) is one of Macro’s most recent additions, joining our team in 2003 from L. Robert Kimball and Associates. With a B.S.E.E.T from Point Park College, Al has personally led the engineering design and technical support for public transit wireless communications systems for such clients as Westchester County (White Plains, NY) DOT and the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia, PA, while also responsible for all of Macro’s engagements with public safety agencies across the USA. Al’s work history also includes his prior roles as Director of the CyberSecurity Center at the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI), and as Telecommunications Manager for Equitable Resources, Inc., a $2 billion per-year integrated energy company operating across 22 states. Al leads Macro’s Public Safety/Telecommunications practice area.

Dave Schmauk, Executive Consultant – Fleet Management Systems Practice

Dave has an M.S.E.E. from Penn State and is another Leeds and Northrup alumni. Originally involved with many of our firm’s early industrial automation and control engineering assignment in the mid 1990s, Dave soon became one of the public mass transit industry’s true visionaries by seeing the promise of a newly commercialized technology previously restricted only for military use – the Global Positioning System, or “GPS” – for non-military vehicle location and service management. Dave’s first client relationship in this new discipline was leading our firm’s engagement for AC Transit based in Oakland, CA. Since then, his focus on service excellence and integrity has been instrumental in establishing Macro Corporation as the leading independent consulting engineering firm nationwide for the planning and engineering of CAD/AVL and related wireless communication networks for public mass transit bus and demand responsive agencies. Due to his broad “hands-on” experience successfully serving mass transit bus agencies in such locations as Las Vegas, San Diego, Rochester, and the State of Connecticut DOT, Dave now oversees all fleet management engagements for our firm.