Glenn Sirkis

Glenn R. Sirkis
Like Hayes, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology, but neither recalled meeting there.
Career
His summer jobs during college were at local television stations.
He wrote the original instruction manual for a one-of-a-kind Power Amplifier "to increase the WREK transmitter power from 10 Watts to 425 Watts" and "reaching into the Atlanta suburbs and other area college campuses." "Sirkis was General Manager of WREK in 1970 and 1971."
From 1975-1978 he worked for the data processing subsidiary of Cox Broadcasting, working on automating aspects of the control room.
Having majored at Georgia Tech in industrial management, the height of his technology-sales career was at Stradis. Formerly CEO and now Chairman, Sirkis's
company focuses on video compression and MPEG-2 digital decoders, for which the broadcast industry is a major purchaser. The company was a participant in a Federal loan program.
During the 1980s, Sirkis and his wife Jill Kirn funded (and ran) the renovation of a ,
a project that was begun by a friend who suddenly died at age 64.
Recognition
Computer Retailing Magazine, in recognition, described his modem accomplishments, pre-Stradis (and pre-theatre) as "nurtured a technology into a thriving industry."
Sirkis was awarded a "Captain’s Letter of Commendation" for his service in the US Navy aboard a ship in Vietnam.

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