Duxbury Staff

Don Breda - Technical Support Director, DBT Tech Support
Bob Fleischer - Product Tester
David Holladay - Senior Technical Staff
Neal Kuniansky - Marketing Director
Caryn Navy - Senior Technical Staff
Anne Ronco - Executive Assistant
Scott Ronco - Shipping
Andrew Sullivan - Production
Genevieve Sullivan - Treasurer
Joe Sullivan - President
Peter Sullivan - VP of Software Development
Dan Thibert - Network administrator, DBT Technical Support
Dana Winikates - Software Engineer


Don Breda is Technical Support Director. Don has extensive training in blindness-related products of all kinds through his prior work at National Braille Press and Perkins School. Don does the bulk of technical support for DBT.

Bob Fleischer is our product tester. He is our newest employee; one day he just showed up in our midst. He has worked at Digital, Compaq, and HP without having to change his job. Bob uses a combination of automated testing and intuition to locate problematic aspects of Duxbury products.

David Holladay plays a variety of roles maintaining embosser and language information, as well as maintaining various internal and external web sites. David has an SB degree from MIT. David was the founder and president of Raised Dot Computing. David, along with his wife Caryn, is providing funding for the new Cosmo Brailler. He recently wrote some fiction.

Neal Kuniansky joined Duxbury in 1996. He is responsible for marketing and sales at Duxbury. One of Neal's passions is braille literacy and he has been known to carry this soapbox with him around the world. Neal has a BA in Publications Management from the University of GA and a Masters of Taxation from Georgia State University.

Caryn Navy handles technical support for MegaDots. She also does a variety of other tasks, including developing and supporting our JAWS script files, and Hebrew translation in DBT. She has a Bachelor's degree from MIT, as well as a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. Caryn is the Chair of the Refreshable Braille Technical Committee for BANA. Caryn, along with her husband David, is providing funding for the new Cosmo Brailler.

Anne Ronco has been part of Duxbury since 1999. She manages many of the databases at Duxbury, and facilitates some of Joe's communications. She received her BA degree from Merrimack College.

Scott Ronco has been working behind the scenes in shipping since 1997.

Andrew Sullivan has been full time since 1992. He handles order processing. He is not nostalgic for the days of floppy disks.

Genevieve Sullivan is the company treasurer. She has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Northeastern University. Like Joe, Gen enjoys International Folk Dancing with the Framingham Folk Dancers.

Joe Sullivan is the company president and the chief architect of the original Duxbury Braille Translator software. He is a mathematician by schooling (Boston College H.S. 1958, Boston College A.B. Mathematics 1962, Northeastern University M.S. Mathematics 1968), and has designed software for most of his working life. He worked at the U.S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin, at Bunker-Ramo Corporation, and at MITRE Corporation before helping to found Duxbury Systems. Joe's present affiliations include:

Past affiliations include:

Publications include "Braille Translation" in Uses of Computers in Aiding the Handicapped (Raviv, North-Holland, 1981).

Awards include:

Joe is married to Gen and together they have seven children, three of whom work at Duxbury, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Peter Sullivan is Vice President of Software Development. Peter has a bachelor's degree from MIT. If it relates to the windows, menus, fonts, or the putting together of all the pieces in the modern editions of any of our software, Peter probably did it. Click here for Peter Sullivan's CV. He directed the project to set up the nightly build process which has enhanced the quality of all of Duxbury software.

Dan Thibert is chief of operations and does some DBT technical support. He has a BS from Salve Regina University in Rhode Island and trained as an electronic technician in the US Army. He's been with the company since 1998. Motorcyles are is life. He likes to commute on his Haley-Davidson Heritage Classic

Dana Winikates worked for Duxbury in "the old days" and returned to the company in 2009. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Boston University and contributes to software development on NimPro, the Activation Wizard, and other Duxbury products. On occasion, he helps edit Duxbury's extensive Help documentation.


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