Immediately after graduating from Villanova University with a B.S. in Mathematics and M.S. in Computer Science in 1965, George joined Leeds & Northrup to engineer and manage the deployment of real-time industrial process control systems for utility companies here in the USA and oversees, candymakers, steel companies, and other heavy manufacturing. In 1970, he joined the fledgling Macro Corporation. Since that time, George has successfully satisfied dozens of engagements with clients all over the world. For the last 12 years, George has been responsible for all operations under Macro’s masthead. George and Fred (below) are two of Macro’s pioneers.

Fred joined Leeds and Northrup in 1961 immediately after graduating from Drexel University with a B.S.E.E., then in 1975 followed George to Macro Corporation where he soon introduced Macro to the rail transportation sector. During his long service with our firm leading the engineering and overseeing the installation of rail control centers, centralized train control systems, and traction power systems, for Amtrak as well as public rail transit agencies such as New York City (MTA), Toronto (TTC), New Jersey (NJ Transit), Philadelphia, Los Angeles, (LACMTA), among 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 currently chairs its Rail Operations Control Centers Technical Forum. Today, Fred leads our Rail, Control Center, and Infrastructure practice area. Fred is one of Macro’s original consultants.

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 safety and public transit wireless communications systems for such clients as Westchester County (White Plains, NY) DOT and the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit 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, an M.S.E.E. from Penn State, another Leeds and Northrup alumni, joined Macro in 1981. 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.

Larry joined Macro in 1996. While finishing his B.S. in Mathematics with a concentration in computer systems at Penn State University in the early 1970s, Larry started with Union Switch and Signal, referred to in rail transportation circles more simply as “The Switch”, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While there, Larry was responsible for programming train control and switchyard system software for the USA’s class I railroads and also transportation companies globally. Such progressive success earned him increasing leadership assignments, through the supervising of all software development for control center systems, and finally as Director of Systems. Larry is now responsible for the business development and external corporate communications for our firm’s three practice areas.