Christopher Cole, Mba, Bsee Email & Phone Number

Hudson, Ohio, US

• A technology consultancy serving the medical and industrial space providing product development expertise.
• Created novel medical device tracking system leveraging Machine Learning with Neural networks.
• Developed a method to drive additional revenue for a customer by leveraging NB-IoT and LTE Cat-M1 cellular connectivity solutions to monitor customer material supply levels.
• Designed an industrial automation solution for a quality control device using a cobotics platform from Universal Robots.

Akron, OH, US

• Laird Connectivity simplifies the enablement of wireless technologies with market-leading wireless modules and antennas, integrated sensor and gateway platforms, and customer-specific wireless solutions.
• Led an international product development team across the US, England, Taiwan, Malaysia. Team of 6 direct reports and a department size of 80 engineers.
• Launched next-generation of nine wireless connectivity products and several antenna designs in 2017.
• Drove execution of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, LoRa, and 802.15.4 radio solutions for medical and industrial markets, including infusion pumps, patient monitors, and cold-chain monitoring solutions.
• Led technical due diligence and integration for several strategic acquisitions, including LS Research in 2015, doubling revenue.

Akron, OH, US

• Negotiated key software source licensing with strategic suppliers enabling differentiating features of our flagship products to outperform the competition and enabling superior customer support.
• Increased development speed through unified tools and processes, such as agile software development, throughout organization.
• Initiated the DevOps team, which further improved efficiency of the engineering team by removing the need for them to perform administrative tasks, keeping them focused on development.
• Drove collaboration and innovation initiatives as a member of the Technology Leadership Team, promoting the creation of patentable intellectual property.

Akron, OH, US

• Pioneered the development of Linux-enabled connectivity products across the company, which enabled access to the medical markets.
• Managed execution of software development, releases, and maintenance across remote teams.
• Partnered with medical device manufacturers to integrate wireless technology into their own platforms such as infusion pumps and patient monitors.
• Built a global software engineering team with a culture of accountability and communication.

• Summit provides wireless connectivity solutions for mission critical applications in harsh RF environments.
• Ported embedded Linux to Summit's WB40NBT AT91 ARM-based wireless bridge module
• Optimized and supported Broadcom and Atheros WLAN Drivers under Linux
• Schematic design and PCB layout for various embedded WLAN solutions
• Integration support for customers utilizing Summit's Wi-Fi and BlueTooth radios

Hudson, Ohio, US

• Embedded software development for medical, military, and scientific instruments
• Embedded Linux, ported Linux to various ARM and MIPS-based platforms
• Electronic design including schematics, Spice simulation, PCB layout, prototyping
• Implantable medical device microelectronics design and firmware development

Milpitas, CA, US

• Ported and maintained Embedded Linux on a Cavium Octeon 64-bit 3G Femtocell platform
• Extensive work with Precision Time Protocol, PTP IEEE 1588 for time synchronization
• Developed PTP driver for Marvell Alaska PHY with hardware time stamping capability
• Developed SPI driver for on-board communications between radio subsystems
• Wrote firmware downloaders for PicoChip DSP and Altera CPLD platform components

• Designed low power micro-electronics for artificial inter-vertebral disc implant
• Designed inductive power coupling system to charge lithium-ion battery in vivo
• Developed wireless telemetry system and protocol stack using MICS RF transceivers
• Extensive work with piezoelectric energy harvesting and efficient power conversion
• Developed real time visualization tool in C++ that enables collection of data from disc implant
• Circuit schematic design, rigid and flex circuit layout, self-hand assembled prototypes, testing

• Extensive knowledge of StrongARM, XScale, OMAP, and EP9312 ARM microprocessors
• Ported Linux, Windows CE (PPC2003 and.NET), and boot loader to various ARM platforms
• Wrote device drivers for Ethernet, serial, USB, LCD, touch, SPI, I2C, IDE, camera, audio
• Developed Radio Interface Layer for GSM/GPRS and CDMA phone modules
• Developed embedded Linux operating system distribution, 'Accelent Linux'
• Maintained Linux server for development group (NFS, SMB, NIS, DHCP, TFTP, CVS)

• Designed Internet-enabled data acquisition modules using Microchip PIC and CS8900
• Developed TCP/IP stack for embedded microcontrollers with web server and DHCP
• Developed minimal Linux distribution suitable for firewall and router applications
• Assisted in maintaining multi-port serial interface adapter (PCI and ISA) product line
• Maintained company server running Linux, as well as corporate LAN

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Designed PDI SmartSensors(TM) using Microchip PIC microcontrollers
• Embedded C/C++/ASM programming using Crosscode / SingleStep by SDS for 68332 micro
• Developed RS-485 networked sensors using Intel 8051 and Microchip PIC microcontrollers
• Data acquisition using pressure transducers, strain gauges, accelerometers, encoders, acoustics
• Traveled to various sites worldwide to provide installation and technical support

• Designed and implemented computer networks with Cisco routing equipment and Sun Servers
• Co-developed a web-based, net-centric scripting language, PariServ, written in Java
• Developed WANs for several clients in conjunction with Ameritech
• Programmed SQL database applications using Java/JDBC
• Wrote automated payment and Internet commerce software in Java using CyberCash services

Akron, OH, US

• Supervised a network of Silicon Graphics and Sun Workstations used for molecular modelling
• Extensive experience in Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, and Linux administration
• Managed laser printers, line printers, and wax-transfer printers
• Sourcing for networking and computing software and hardware
• Created and maintained a public FTP and World Wide Web server on the Internet

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Global Technology Innovation

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering