College Career

Paul graduated from the prestigious Stevens Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a concentration in Computer Engineering.

He chose Stevens Institute of Technology because of its ABET accreditation as well as the well-rounded engineering program which breeds talented and highly capable multi-disciplinary engineers.

WCPR - Castle Point Radio

While in college Paul was quick to get involved in the community by involving himself with WCPR, the campus radio station. He held the positions of Chief Engineer and General Manager (1 year and 3 years respectively.) His experience and vision created tremendous growth within the organization.

Paul was able to increase membership, campus awareness, and station funding through restoring the station's mobile DJ and entertainment division, creating campus partnerships, and sponsoring events.  He brought in other creative minds to create a morning show, build a regular programming schedule, and increase brand awareness.

In his 3rd year as General Manager the station was bringing in $13,000 a semester in funding, an increase of nearly $11,000 a semester over the previous executive board.

Paul created partnerships with the Campus television station (of which he was the Chief Engineer) and created a media spotlight and TV/Radio Guide. This cross outlet media magazine showcased the TV, Radio, and Newspaper media outlets. The publication was distributed to 1000+ undergraduates across campus each month.

Paul's experience and vision created tremendous growth within the organization.

Castle Point Records

As if the pressure of classwork, operating and renovating a radio station, and re-designing the campus TV station was not quite enough for Paul; in his junior and senior year he took a Music Business Law class and then joined the founding members of Castle Point Records to form a student run record label. It was the only college run record label in the US designed to sign talent from outside the parent college. Over the course of a year the company inked a deal with 2 bands to produce 3 exclusive songs each and signed 6 other artists to re-master their existing songs and include them on a compilation album. Paul spent every free moment in the recording studio watching guerilla recording sessions unfold with amazing artists and two of the greatest producers. After recording, it was on to mastering sessions, pressing 1000+ CDs, setting up distribution deals, and releasing the album at a huge release party at Maxwell's in Hoboken.

Senior Design

For his senior thesis and engineering design project, Paul lobbied his senior advisor to allow him to study home automation and smart home design. As any Star Trek fan knows, life would not be complete without an automated home. In fact Paul grew up with many technological advancements as his father was an electronics guru and had created many automated home features in the early 1980's well before they were mainstream. Paul knew he could take his understanding of computers, programming, databases, and electronics and develop a much more sophisticated and centrally managed automation system. He had been developing advanced automation routines through his high school career and spent many hours in college working on UI designs. Working with voice recognition, hardware I/O, IR and RS-232 protocols; Paul used the guise of school work to continue his work on his smart home passion. Paul merged smart home technology and marketing aspects to showcase the project at the design fair and demonstrate how the platform could be adapted for sale to the general public. The design project was featured on the home page of Stevens Institute of Technology's career advancement website leading up to the design fair.