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Clear River Technical Services Corporation
948 East Wallum Lake Road
Pascoag, RI 02859
(V) 401.568.3419
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Royal Laurent - President and Principle Designer

Royal Laurent started his own business (Tech Ltd.) at an early age when he performed audio repair services to both professional and home audio systems. Eventually this business grew to include theatre production, and road crew organization, specializing in stage lighting, sound, and theatrical special effects.

Royal received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from the Ohio Institute of Technology. He also attended DeVry Institute of Technology, Woodbridge, New Jersey.

After graduation, he worked as a senior level technician and then as engineer on the advanced development team at Codex Corporation. He developed high speed modem technology and managed the advanced development laboratory.

In 1991, Royal was a senior engineer and a key player in a new startup communications company. The product was based on ISDN technology (Supernetics, Inc.) While there, he designed equipment for ISDN, telecom, DSL, Fiber Optics, T1, and T3 technologies. He was the architect in a VSAT equipment project. He also managed the individual projects as well as the engineering process.

In 1993, Royal launched full time with Tech Ltd. which would later become Clear River Technical Services Corporation of which he is the president.

Royal Laurent is married with three children. He attends Berean Baptist Church of Rhode Island and serves on the Board of Trustees. He is also the Chair of RISE on Broadway, a local community theatre organization as well as their technical advisor.

Christine Laurent - Assembly Operations

Christine Laurent attended the Ohio Institute of Technology in the early 1980's. She was manager of inspection services at ATM Assembly for two years where she underwent training in quality management. She has been involved in assembly operations at Clear River Tech since 1995 and performs minor miracles in soldering and rework.

Christine is married with three children (Royal's wife if you haven't guessed) and she also attends Berean Baptist Church of Rhode Island where she serves as secretary, is a member of the Outreach Committee.

Jennifer Collins - Office Manager

Jen Collins has worked as secretary/sales assistant/office manager in research and development and engineering since 1989. She joined the CRTS team in 2005. She attended both Rhode Island College and Katherine Gibbs where she graduated in 1989 from the executive secretarial program. She is "certified" in typing, transcription, and shorthand.

Her duties here include Accounts Payable/Receivable, Quotations, Invoicing, and general office management.

Raised in Burrillville, RI, She also lives there presently with her husband and 3 children.

Jen is active in her church where she has the title of Christian Education Director. She also is a coach for cross country in the Burriville school system. She loves to read and spend time with her family.

Carl Sangiolo - Senior Designer

Carl Sangiolo had over 13 years of experience in R&D and manufacturing when he joined CRTS. He also has his own custom audio installation business where he has been seasoned with customer service experience for over 10 years.

Carl is a graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology class of 1993. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronic engineering technology and an Associates Degree in Electrical Technology.

Upon graduating from Wentworth, Carl took a quality assurance engineering position with Datasonics, Inc., an oceanographics engineering firm in the North Falmouth MA area. After two years, he assumed the position of Quality Manger.

Feeling the need to spread his wings Carl left the good old cape to work as a system designer/project manager at Smithcurl, a firm that provided the design and installation of medical signaling products in hospitals and nursing facilites.

Missing the smell of the ocean, as well as the R+D environment, Carl returned to Datasonics, Inc. to work on the geo-physical sonar R+D team.

In the fall 1999, Carl joined CRTS and contributed his knowledge of assembly and customer satisfaction. He has advanced quickly from entry level designer to full designer in less than 5 years!

Carl is married and has 2 children.

Tom Atkinson - Senior Designer

Tom Atkinson moved into his forth decade of electrical/mechanical engineering shortly after joining CRTS. He brings varied experience in many areas of electronics. Better than ten years at IDE Associates as senior PC Board design engineer working very tightly with hardware engineers. Products included terminals (monitors), PC add-ons, PCMCIA cards, telecommunication products. Cost, manufacturability, reliability were all priorities and yet pushing the technology of the day. More than 6 years as senior electronic engineer at Aware, working with sensitive analog circuits and high-speed DSPs. Aware was primarily intellectual property (DSL) and reference design oriented, therefore a lot of customer interaction was involved. At Reveal Tom was responsible for hardware design of two generations of CT baggage scanners that required expertise in many different disciplines: Power supplies, RF datalinks, cables, PCs, motor controllers, sensitive X-Ray detectors and the interaction between them all. Tom started ATACO as a moonlighting venture back in 1981. It grew to sole source of income and shrunk to a little work on the side and back again. Simple soldering through entire product design has been done by this sole-proprietorship over the years.

Tom is married, has two boys and enjoys living in southern New Hampshire.

Tom enjoys music, sailing and canoeing, and anything Lego®.