Larry Hill is available to clients as an individual contributor or as a reliable single source for complete, outsourced engineering projects. To execute large projects Mr. Hill draws on an established community of expert engineers to bring the best skills and knowledge to our clients.

Larry Hill, President
A consultant since the mid-nineties, Larry Hill offers over thirty years of experience in the industry, in both business management and engineering. He holds thirteen patents, has authored several technical publications, and holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.

In addition to his consulting activities, Mr. Hill is President of dbi Corporation. dbi licenses IC/SS, his unique power line technology, to manufacturers worldwide.

Prior to consulting, Mr. Hill founded and was President of Cyplex Corporation, a manufacturer of private-label modems. At Cyplex, he developed a short-range wireless control system for automated guided vehicles, and also designed IC/SS, a power line carrier communications system for electric utilities. He subsequently licensed IC/SS to National Semiconductor, which manufactures integrated circuits based on this design. Mr. Hill himself has developed several products using IC/SS, including applications for the automation of electric power distribution and vending machine inventory control.

Mr. Hill began his career at MITRE Corporation where he was a designer of JTIDS, a spread spectrum radio data link for command-and-control, today widely deployed by the U.S. military. He then moved to Modicon, a leading manufacturer of industrial control systems, where he played a key role in the development of their 484 and 584 programmable controllers. He was also a developer of MODBUS, which became an industry standard for manufacturing automation networks.