Graham Hammell: Harman Professional SDIG

Harman Professional has made Graham Hammell Director of its core research and development team – the System Development and Integration Group (SDIG) – as the group’s mandate is broadened to address more Harman Professional product families and also a greater number of application markets.

‘SDIG has developed HiQnet, System Architect and our internal AVB programme to such a point that we now have extremely strong, scalable core technologies that we are beginning to deploy in a whole host of markets and applications,’ says Rob Urry, VP and GM of the Harman Professional Signal Processing Group. ‘Market experience, product design and integration experience at the leadership level will be critical to minimise the ramp-up time and optimise efficiency. Graham has this experience and I am confident it will manifest itself in an exciting array of innovations that will be seen throughout Harman Professional and soon after in the market.’

Hammell joined Harman in 2000 as software engineer at BSS, and was instrumental in developing the BSS Soundweb London product family. This role he continued during and after the migration in BSS management to the Harman Signal Processing business unit in Salt Lake City, helping to ensure a smooth transition. In 2008, he was appointed Director of Applications Development, overseeing software interface development for Harman brands BSS, dbx, Lexicon and Digitech.

As Director of SDIG, he will lead the global Harman HiQnet development teams in the US and India, and will be responsible for strategising the future of Harman’s core technologies – the HiQnet control protocol and its core system configuration application HiQnet System Architect. In addition, he will coordinate HiQnet development with all brands of the Harman Professional division and will direct the integration of the Ethernet AVB protocol into Harman’s system strategies.

‘I’m extremely excited to have the opportunity of spearheading the development of Harman Professional’s core technologies, and integrating the next generation of Harman products,’ he says. ‘The adoption of the AVB protocol is hugely critical to the future of Harman systems and I look forward to integrating the protocol seamlessly into the Harman HiQnet ecosystem.’

Former Director Lynn Eggli will take up a new position at SDIG focusing on managing an engineering team dedicated to developing system design software targeted at specific markets.

More: harmanpro.com

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