About Us

From Syncleus Wiki

A little bit about us

Syncleus is an experienced technology development firm. We have been developing software and hardware technology solutions for over a decade and we're still going strong. We provide professional, enterprise quality, solutions to the largest corporations as well as the smallest. Even the smallest companies receive the same attention as our other clients. While our smaller clients are too numerous to mention, we have been contracted out by several large companies including Department of Defense, Freewebs, and Federal Emergency Management Agency.

We have a unique corporate structure and team designed to deal with a wide range of technologies with experience and intelligence. Our approach also allows us to grow quickly by rapidly gaining new clients and workforce. We have an excellent reputation, and we have learned that a reputation follows you. Often our best publicity is a job well done. Most of our clients are so impressed with our work they're all too eager to recommend us to their friends and business partners.

Our Team Leaders

Jeffrey Freeman
Chief Technology Officer & President

Jeffrey “Jeff” Freeman is a brilliant hardware and software developer and entrepreneur who started his first successful venture, Swapoo, at only age fifteen, at the dawn of the dotcom heyday. By the time he was seventeen he had been featured several times in magazine and television article and interviews, such as the front page of USA Today, MSNBC TV News, Cnet radio news, fortune magazine, and hundreds others. After selling the company and moving on to a vibrant career as a engineer and consultant for a variety of clients, including FEMA, the Department of Defense and several start-ups, Mr. Freeman became fascinated with the commercial possibilities of AI and evolutionary computing, assessing that despite the buzz around these concepts that outside of some relatively inefficient and proprietary applications, these powerful algorithms were not realizing their full potential usefulness. He created a comprehensive and growing library of neural network, genetic, wavelet and other AI algorithms, and founded Syncleus, Inc., to bring these potent techniques to bear on important applications like business analytics, fleet management, voice recognition and natural-language processing, market analysis, security threat assessment, actuary, resource allocation and optimization and the near-infinite other areas that Syncleus can significantly benefit. Today the Syncleus APIs, much of which Syncleus has released under open-source licensing, represent the culmination of years of intense research and development into the optimal application of these techniques.

Besides captaining Syncleus to spearhead the AI revolution, Mr. Freeman is an amateur radio operator with hobbies in chemistry, machining, geology, ecology, electronics, nature hiking, kayaking and canoeing. He's an animal lover who resides with a sweet, energetic dog, and is as sociable as he is intellectual. Mr. Freeman's vision and leadership combined with his humanistic and empowering business philosophy and well-rounded lifestyle promise remarkable results for Syncleus and their customers.

Lewis Bloch
Chief Executive Officer

Lewis “Lew” Bloch is a virtuoso software developer of over three decades' professional experience running the gamut from mainframe FORTRAN and assembler programming through C and C++ to today's modern Java desktop and Enterprise systems, encompassing not only design, architecture and implementation of applications but databases as well, for both transactional and data-warehousing purposes. No stranger to deployment and administration of custom systems, Mr. Bloch has also been an empathetic customer-support maven, written and customized low-level software drivers, led project development teams, mentored journeyman developers, installed and maintained networks, and effectively consulted for both large and small organizations. His easygoing nature combined with intense focus and commitment to effective results has been a powerhouse force for successful applications ranging from interactive television to tax-processing software for the government and individual filers to mortgage-underwriting software to insurance processing and reporting to financial systems to scientific data processing. In short, Mr. Bloch is a Renaissance man of software development.

A classic geek growing up, Mr. Bloch in childhood read everything he could find about the emerging discipline of software development, a nurturing habit he continues today, but his interests have always been multi-faceted. Son of a musically-talented single mom who completed her college education and graduate school before going on to a career as a college English professor, Mr. Bloch has studied the violin and viola, public speaking, acting, the martial arts, and horseback riding. Summers on his great-aunt's farm instilled an early appreciation for the values of hard work and responsibility. He completed his college undergraduate studies with a full course load while working full time as a busboy and waiter before landing employment as a computer programmer for NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center in 1981. Since then he has grown in his career, conquering a variety of challenges with his innovative style and ability to pull together teams of committed individuals for a common purpose. Today Mr. Bloch stands poised for the next level to lead a dynamic enterprise with unique technology to revolutionize business analysis and information management.

Mr. Bloch shares his life with his beautiful wife Melissa and three equally beautiful cats.

Astra Thomas
Chief Marketing Officer

Ms. Astra Thomas is an entrepreneurial visionary and marketing expert. Throughout her career, she has orchestrated successful financial marketing campaigns for a wide variety of Smallcap and Microcap companies. Working behind the scenes, Ms. Thomas has pushed the limitations of technology with marketing ideas that combine human psychology with consumer behavioral studies. As CEO of Syncleus, Inc., Ms. Astra Thomas adds her unique perspective and marketing prowess to achieve new heights for the Company.

Prior to joining Syncleus, Inc., Ms. Thomas was Director of Marketing for QualityStocks, an Investor Relations and Promotional firm. There she completely revamped the firm's commitment to providing multi-faceted marketing campaigns. Before QualityStocks, Ms. Thomas served as Vice President and Marketing Director for Trilogy Capital Partners, a financial services company engaged in merchant banking, strategic planning, financial marketing, and communications. There she worked as the central project manager and nucleus on all marketing activity for their expansive list of portfolio clients. Ms. Thomas most recently served as President of Analyze Consulting, Inc., an independent marketing advisory and consulting firm.

On her off-time, you can catch Ms. Thomas teaching her 2 year old son the finer points of finger-painting. She also has a passion for costume design and attends the San Diego Comic Convention every year to showcase her artistic creations.