Steven Sasson of Steven J. Sasson Consulting LLC (Digital Imaging consulting)

Biography:

Steven J. Sasson began his thirty-five-year career at Eastman Kodak Company in 1973 as an electrical engineer working in an applied research laboratory. He engaged in several early digital imaging projects.  Among these was the design and construction of the first digital still camera and playback system in 1975.  Steven continued to work throughout the 1980s in the emerging field of digital photography receiving over 10 key digital imaging patents. Steven has received numerous recognitions for his work that includes his 2007 Induction into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, 2011 election to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2009 Economist Magazine Consumer Products Innovation Award and the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation that he received in 2010 from President Obama. 

Before retiring from the Eastman Kodak Company in 2009, Steven Sasson served as the project manager for a major IP litigation at Eastman Kodak Company.  This resulted in three separate testifying appearances on behalf of Kodak before the International Trade Commission court in Washington DC.  Previously, he was the R&D development manager for the retail photofinishing platform, which delivered the Digital Lab System software platform on several partner minilab hardware platforms around the world. In the 5-year period preceding this role (1996 to 2001), Steven was the director of Output Systems for the Professional Products organization.  This organization developed and introduced several groundbreaking products, which included two families of thermal printers that provided the output engines for the large kiosk placement that occurred during this time.  In addition, printers based on AgX, laser thermal and Inkjet marking technologies were commercialized in support of the Professional photography and Graphics markets. 

During the first half of the 1990’s Steven served as the chief engineer on the “Colorease” printer project which produced Kodak’s first high volume page size thermal printer that served as the basis for the introduction of Kodak’s self service kiosk program. During this timeframe he was the development manger for the emerging thermal printing platform. 

During the 1980’s Steven served as a group leader and individual contributor for several digital imaging projects.  Among these were an image transmission system and the first mega pixel digital still camera utilizing DCT compression for storing images to flash memory cards. 
 
Joining Kodak in 1973 Steven worked throughout the seventies as an individual contributor in the KAD research laboratories and he engaged in several early digital imaging projects. Among these were the design, construction and demonstration of the first digital still camera and playback system in 1975.  

Steven grew up in Brooklyn N.Y and is a 1972 (BS) and 1973 (MS) graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering. He has 10 US patents and is married with two children and slits his time between living in Rochester NY and Charlottesville VA.