26 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • JANUARY 2021
THE 2020 TOP TECHIES OF LONG ISLAND
WHO ARE THE TOP TECHIES ON LONG ISLAND?
FRANK JACOVINO
Frank Jacovino is Vice President Operations
and Product Development
for A+ Technology & Security and its
parent organization Advanced Convergence
Group. He oversees operational
and product development and guides
the strategic direction and product
development for their Physical Security
product lines. He is a strategic,
business-focused, operational, and
engineering leader with consistent
success creating value from breakthrough
technologies across different
industries, accelerating large-scale
organizational transformation and
innovation while reducing risk and
complexity, and inspiring organizations
to develop world-class customer
experiences. Frank has co-authored
several patents including pending
patents for the HALO IoT Smart Sensor.
From 2010 to 2014 he was Vice
President Worldwide Engineering
for Vicon, a manufacturer of cameras
and Video Management Software for
the security industry. In prior years,
2001 to 2008, Mr. Jacovino was General
Manager for RVSI, a manufacturer of
LIDAR and machine vision software
for the semiconductor industry. Mr.
Jacovino joined RVSI in 1986 as a software
engineer and held leadership
positions of increasing responsibility
in both the engineering and operations
organizations. Mr. Jacovino holds BSEE
and MSCS degrees from Polytechnic
University.
RYAN COYNE
Long Island native Ryan J. Coyne is
a tech consultant, public speaker,
podcast host, and civic technology
visionary who serves as the VP of IT
firm Overview Technology Solutions,
chief technology officer of the media
centric real estate company SERHANT.,
helmed by Ryan Serhant of Bravo's Million
Dollar Listing NY, and cofounder
of the branding agency Age & See.
Formerly the chief technology officer of
501(c)(3) LIINCS and special tech consultant
to the Nassau County Comptroller’s
Office, Coyne served on the Town of
Oyster Bay local planning committee
for the New York State Downtown
Revitalization Initiative alongside
members of the town council as the
technology voice.
Ryan is currently lobbying the federal
government to reimagine the
USPS as a profitable modern tech
giant with The New Dealivery, and
successfully exited Long Island tech
startup Explorify 3D in 2018 after
pioneering virtual attendance with
3D capture, drones, 360° video, and
virtual reality, garnering investment
interest from Goldman Sachs and
Foursquare.
A proud member of Summit.co since
2014, Ryan’s been a featured speaker at
IBM, Herman Miller, SUNYCUAD, CRN
XChange, NexGen, Douglas Elliman
Summit, Bethpage FCU, SUNY Farmingdale
Business School, and more.
AMANDA VIGILANTE
Amanda Vigilante is the Lead Project
Manager at Maxburst, Inc. She oversees
every project and assists her team
in initiating, planning and executing
the many tasks needed to achieve
the goals and criteria of a successful
website.
BY PAUL TRAPANI
This year more than any other
has shown the value of technology
allowing people to
keep working, children
to keep learning, and
companies to keep doing
business. But technology
requires people to figure
out what needs to be done, to
build or create it, and then to keep
it working smoothly. The people we
are honoring with the Top Techie Award
are some of the people on Long Island who
make that happen.
What does it mean to be a Top Techie? The word
“techie” has been used to describe programmers,
web developers, designers, consultants, project
managers, IT support specialists, network and system
administrators, scientists, engineers, professors,
CIOs, CTOs, CEOs and much, much more. Techies can
have almost any job title
and work in just about
any industry. But one
thing that does set
them apart is that
they are experts
in their field.
They have
the technical
knowledge and
know-how to apply it
to solve problems.
As we know from having to
upgrade our phones every couple
of years, technology advances
quickly. Top Techies stay on top of
this by continually learning. This often
means reading, watching educational videos,
and testing things outside of their normal
working day — that is, when there’s time to do
that. Sometimes, they learn on the fly to solve a
new problem that cannot wait. Other times, they
will be the ones to create a solution when one does
not seem to exist and then share that knowledge
with others.
Top Techies also understand that trends come
and go. So, while they are always expanding their
knowledge, they evaluate new technologies and
ways of doing things before adopting them. They
will research, talk to peers, and do their own testing
to make sure that if they do implement new
technology, things continue to run smoothly.
Finally, the number one thing that makes someone a
Top Techie is that they understand that technology
itself exists to make things better for people. They
are the ones who channel all the collective intelligence
of technology into something that can benefit
a company as well as its employees and customers.
LISTnet and the Long Island Press are excited to
announce the 2020 Long Island Top Techies and
to thank them and all the other Top Techies for all
that they do.
Vice President Operations
and Product Development
A+ Technology & Security
Vice President
Overview Technology Solutions,
Chief Technology Officer
SERHANT
Lead Project Manager
Maxburst, Inc.
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