Fractional CTO for confidential electric motor startup:

• prototype motor, motor controller, and test fixture design review

• product-market fit retargeted to a specific high-volume commercial market

• design, specification, and calibration of motor efficiency lab good to 0.5% accuracy

Founder coaching and pitch deck work for Los Angeles startups resulting in a $15M contract.

Advanced Video/Audio Platforms for Medical and Pro A/V Markets | Team: 15 engineers

• Led team from schematics through full bring-up for AMD/Xilinx Zynq-7000-based 4K60 video system, achieving 1st-pass functionality on complex three-board design

• Built a 1,100-document 60601/13485-compliant Design History File for nine products to pass a two-day customer and ISO audit, enabling re-qualification with top-tier customer

• Authored 23-page Wireless Tech Comparison, a 26-page SOW, and a PCBA Failure Analysis

• Founded structured project meetings and executive project tracker to replace weekly 3-hour, drove methodical multi-staff design reviews, trained staff on hiring/interview methods

CTO/Head of Product:

UX, design,specification, development, test, debug, release and daily operations of mobile and back-end technology and staff for three-way trusted in-home and remote care on a enterprise-grade platform with provider and customer mobile applications. Security and privacy governance. Direct marketing, collateral design and production,

COO: caregiver recruiting and training, client onboarding, customer service, daily operations

Founder responsibilities:

Fundraising, pitch deck, partnership development, business models, and pricing analysis

Jupiter Systems is the leading worldwide supplier of display wall processors for command and control applications. At Jupiter, I'm responsible for engineering design, development, release and support of all systems, software, firmware, boards, FPGAs, mechanical, test & regulatory. Drove Jupiter’s next gen PCIeGen3/GPU architecture and implementation. Drove development & release of Canvas - enterprise client-server collaboration application for Display Wall Processor, PC clients and mobile (IOS/Android) – H.264 multicast, HLS streaming, WPF annotate, chat & invites, role/object-based security. HDCP system architect.

Created hockey stick growth to 2x revenue from 2007-2011 with refresh and expansion of established product lines and creation of two new product families (Switcher & Control Applications).

Responsible for all software, firmware, boards, FPGAs, mechanical, test & regulatory for video product line including client-server control room application software, HDMI/HDCP compliant video wall processors and multi-format digital video switchers, and compression/recording/streaming devices.

Personally drove hiring of 29 over 4 years to double engineering staff; created Test, GUI, and Engineering Services groups; tripled FW staff. Created highly loyal team.