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