Experience

Swift Sensors, Inc.

• Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  • Architected Swift Sensors next generation Series 3 BLE radio platform which transformed product reliability, scalability, customer experience, and ability to rapidly release new sensors. • Scaled the product offering to over 30 wireless sensors in less than 18 months. • Led the R&D organization to deliver new products, research forward looking technologies, and manage a high mix / low volume product line. • Developed and implemented recruiting process for R&D, including hardware and software talent. Show less



Sage CTO (formerly Bitwise CS)

• Founder

  • Apr 2011 - Present

  • Delivered organization building consulting services including technology, strategy, process, and recruiting to provide robust, on time solutions that exceeded customer expectations and delivered on business goals. • Scaled startups by implementing the technical and talent roadmap to meet short and long term business goals. • Architected and implemented distributed embedded systems for real-time machine monitoring and control. • Designed and implemented complete system technology stacks from UI to Firmware to ensure high performing and robust product solutions. Show less



National Instruments

• Retail Office Equipment

• Principal Engineer : Wireless Networking

  • Mar 2010 - Apr 2011

  • Lead a small team of engineers to improve the reliability and performance of a ZigBee wireless networking system. • Reduced the mesh construction time for the system by an order of magnitude and managed vendor relationship.

• Principal Engineer : LabVIEW Platform

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2010

  Researched and productized forward-looking technologies for LabVIEW in the areas of high-performance data transfer, application scaling and code reuse, and core language enhancements.

• Principal Engineer : LabVIEW FPGA

  • Apr 2004 - Mar 2009

  • Led technical development of LabVIEW FPGA from a pioneer technology to a full-fledged product.• Designed and implemented high speed DMA data transfer infrastructure and language constructs.• Architected solutions for FPGA product integration into core LabVIEW services.

• Senior Group Manager : Data Acquisition

  • Oct 2000 - Apr 2004

  • Provided managerial and technical direction for the core NI-DAQ team during the DAQ 7.0 (DAQmx) redesign, releasing a robust and scalable architecture that is still in use today.• Recruited extensively to build high-performing teams, performing over 30 interviews each season, completing over 300 career interviews.

• Group Manager : Embedded Data Acquisition

  • Apr 1999 - Oct 2000

  • Led a small team of software engineers to successfully deliver NI’s first port of NI-DAQ to a real-time operating system.• Improved performance of single-point data acquisition by an order of magnitude to enable high-speed control applications

• Software Engineer and Group Manager : ComponentWorks

  • Aug 1996 - Apr 1999

  • Led a team of 4 engineers to develop ActiveX controls for data acquisition, user interface, and mathematical analysis.• Developed ActiveX controls for mathematical analysis and data acquisition.• Sole implementor for the ComponentWorks IMAQ Vision product.



AMD

• France
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development Engineer : K5 Core Design

  • May 1995 - Aug 1996

  • Responsible for functional regression testing and database administration of K5 RTL model. • Increased throughput and reliability of full chip gate level regression testing. Developed x86 instruction performance profiler. • Responsible for functional regression testing and database administration of K5 RTL model. • Increased throughput and reliability of full chip gate level regression testing. Developed x86 instruction performance profiler.