Robert V. Conti

     Bob began his career as a legal secretary at the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay.  He also studied Court Reporting (the stenograph machine), and received a Bachelor's Degree in Business and Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. 

     Bob has been Secretary/Treasurer and a Board Member of SHOUT for the past ten years, helping to organize nine Pittsburgh Employment Conferences for Augmented Communicators.  He also compiles and edits the annual Proceedings for PEC@.

     Bob is an ESOP Trustee of the Prentke Romich Company in Wooster, Ohio.  Their international business is rehabilitation technology.

     Bob has written articles for selected publications dealing in rehabilitation technology, and he has received an award for his Outstanding Contributions to People with Disabilities from Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology at Temple University.

     Bob joined Semantic Compaction Systems (SCS) in 1984, and his achievements include a number of patents and products.  For the past 23 years, Bob has been responsible for the administration of SCS, and has helped the company grow into a successful entity in the field of rehabilitation technology.  He has been involved in developing and licensing intellectual properties and graphical user interface (GUI) technology.