Richard Roth, CEO
Rich Roth, CEO and CTO of TNR Global, has been in the computer field for over 35 years and has been involved in development and marketing software products for personal and larger computers since 1975. Under his direction, TNR has grown into a leader in the field of enterprise search implementation. Rich Roth is an expert in software design and in cross-platform computer technology. Rich has been a UNIX user, administrator and developer since the early 1980’s, and assisted with early business planning for RedHat Linux.
Masters of System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973
Natasha Goncharova, Managing Director, Business Development
Natasha Goncharova is a co-founder of TNR Global. Natasha is responsible for TNR's operations management and business development. She has over a decade of experience in finance and business development. Prior to her work at TNR, she gained international experience in financial consulting (IBTCI) and in corporate finance. Her experience includes financial management, budgeting, and market analysis.
MBA, Isenberg SOM, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003
Masters of Finance, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, 1998
Michael McIntosh, VP, Enterprise Search Technologies
Michael McIntosh leads the technology development and innovation efforts for TNR's search engine and database development services. Michael brings more than 16 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. He has extensive experience developing, integrating and maintaining search technology solutions for companies such as FAST Search and Lycos. He spear-headed migration efforts from physical servers used for search engine clusters to cloud computing (Amazon) platform.Michael has worked with a number of Web 2.0 technologies, most recently developing a real-time Ajax-driven query keywords suggestion tool. He has hands on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including: Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ajax, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, and Unix/Linux.
Computer Management, ICM School of Business, 1995
Michael Klatsky, VP, System Administration
Michael Klatsky has over a decade of experience in developing and deploying highly-available internet systems. He is proficient deploying Amazon Web Services for use in development and production systems. His industry expertise includes administration of authentication, authorization, and accounting systems, client/server architecture, wireless internet access networks, ISP architecture, distributed and cloud computing, particularly EC2, and single sign-on systems. Michael is proficient in deploying databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Berkeley DB, LDAP), mail servers (SMTP/POP/IMAP), wireless internet systems, clustering and HA Systems, VOIP technologies, messaging systems, and anti-spam/anti-virus systems.
Westfield State College, 1989
Ross Farinella, Sr. Software Engineer
Ross Farinella is a member of the Enterprise Search Team at TNR Global. Ross has been the lead developer for several software projects and has worked in all aspects of the software design process. Ross' interests in enterprise search include performance tuning, end-user experience, and learning algorithms. He has hands-on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including Java, C++, PHP, Python, XHTML/CSS, Javascript, Apache, MySQL, Windows Server, and various Linux distributions.
Computer Science, Information Assurance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
Henry Cavillones, System Administrator
Henry Cavillones is a systems administrator with over ten years of experience. He is proficient in high volume apache web server implementations, content delivery network deployments and automated remote server administration of cloud computing infrastructures using the Puppet open source configuration management framework.
Natural Sciences, Hampshire College, 1991
Jeff Peck, Software Engineer
Jeff is a highly skilled web developer with 10 years of experience working on web related projects. He specializes in PHP frameworks and is also proficient in Perl, Python, and other web server technologies including Apache SOLR. He has worked extensively with front-end technologies such as Prototype and jQuery, as well Actionscript 3, Flex, and other technologies such as Cocoa and iPhone development.
Masters of Computer Science & Engineering, Cryptography & Computer Security, University of Connecticut, 2007
Tamar Schanfeld, Joomla Project Manager
Tamar manages Joomla! projects at TNR Global, including ShofarSites. She is an experienced technical and marketing writer, and has written manuals, specifications, user guides, and articles for high tech and financial firms in the United States and Israel. She specializes in making technical material interesting and accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
Marlboro College, 2001
