Impact Embedded is a product development consultancy with expertise in creating embedded systems and a passion for executing multidisciplinary technology development projects.We provide services to a variety of organizations, from startup companies working to bring their concepts to market, to large companies expanding their engineering teams to meet temporary spikes in demand, to solo inventors seeking to embody their ideas in real proof of concept prototype devices. Located in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, we enjoy serving local clients as well as collaborating remotely with organizations throughout the United States. While specializing in embedded systems hardware, firmware, and software development, we love working on electromechanical systems with integrated electronics, sensors, actuators, and mechanical packaging, whether our designs are being integrated into a system owned by our customer, or we take on responsibility for the complete device design. Impact Embedded staff members have broad industry experience creating integrated devices in fields including robotics, medical devices, automotive, defense, and telecommunications.Partial client list:• Laird Technologies • Physcient, Inc. • Panaceutics • Nuvotronics • GuidePro 3D • Double E Company • Trio Labs • Hangar6 • ECSI FIBRotools • Aurora Insight • Physical Devices • Organic Transit Please feel free to contact us to discuss how we can help transform your great ideas into reality.

Responsible for people, tools, and process management of the Maritime Research group; technical, schedule, and financial management of multidisciplinary DoD funded R&D projects; led the detailed design, fabrication, lab and field testing of all project electrical components; provided costing estimates and technical content to project proposals• Direct supervisor of up to 10 person multidisciplinary engineering/research team, including responsibility for semiannual performance reviews and professional development – tripled employee satisfaction survey results in the year following my appointment• Led the design of electronics for 4 generations of prototype torpedo countermeasure devices over 7 years, culminating in a winning proposal and development of the production intent next generation device for the submarine fleet – rapid development most recently included 7 rigid PCBs and 2 flex circuits designed and fabricated in a period of 4 months• Developed a custom brushless sensorless motor controller capable of driving 600 Watts from a 2.8” diameter PCB• Project lead, electrical design, and firmware contributions for a modular AUV developed to demonstrate the feasibility of MCM (mine countermeasure) missions; successful oversight of multidisciplinary design effort and management of $750k total budget over 5 years led the government point of contact to specifically request iRobot's response to a following solicitation for the production intent development of MCM systems for the Navy• Flexible, modular detailed design of AUV electronics subsystem enabled design reuse in subsequent platforms, saving significant engineering development time• Programmed a time saving data analysis script within 2 hours of picking Python back up after a 14 year absence – ultimately developed a full blown visualization program to search a network of legacy data, retrieve and parse the relevant files, and display 3 dimensional plots of the data

Nekton Research was a small business of approximately 25 employees, pursuing and executing programs centered around maritime defense, funded largely by SBIR (small business innovation research) awards. In September 2008, Nekton Research was acquired by iRobot as the Maritime Systems division.Responsible for defining electrical and software engineering development tools and processes, oversaw EE lab equipment and staff, led hardware architecture and detailed design projects, managed multidisciplinary development projects• Project lead, electrical design, and software development for a passive acoustic sensor system to detect and report position of maritime vessels of interest; managed $650k budget over 1.5 years including delivery of 4 units; successful execution of the project resulted in follow on funding of several million dollars for related technologies• Was brought in to revive a floundering hardware development project – with only four person-weeks of funding remaining, completed the architecture, detailed design, fabrication and integration of custom PCBs and cabling for a biologically inspired fin propelled UUV• Developed hardware, software, and mechanical packaging for an extremely low power serial interface and RF data transfer device running on the power generated by a sediment biological fuel cell energy harvesting system• Completed firmware development and contributed to PCB design for a biological water quality sensing system – documented assembly and factory test procedures to enable successful production of 12 prototype devices for delivery to the EPA (environmental protection agency)• Electrical, mechanical, and software development of an ultrasonic blood pressure monitoring system for patient triage – completed significant debugging and circuit updates to a consultant designed PCB to enable correct detection of the Doppler shift of 0.04% of the carrier frequency

Now called Abbott Diabetes Care, the MediSense division developed blood glucose monitoring equipment for diabetes management in the home and in the hospital.Worked in a three-person hardware team to develop electronics around a 32-bit Motorola Dragonball processor for a portable hospital grade glucose monitor • Doubled the battery life of previous generation device with design of new three-level power supply system • Increased LCD lifetime by 20% by working with LCD manufacturer to modify existing design• Designed schematic and managed production of 15-button keypad• Researched 802.11 vs. Bluetooth implementation schemes for future wireless communication capabilities• Relieved the critical path mechanical engineering schedule by creating assembly models and fabrication drawings of PCBs• Documented design and testing practices in preparation for FDA device approval• Developed test code to prove functionality of 8051 core ASIC

• DARTSAT project: Developed command and data handling module (8051-based embedded system) and antenna deployment mechanism; acted as project manager for student-developed picosatellite• Course project highlights: Error-rate indicator for wireless digital networks, AM radio receiver, heart-rate-triggered emergency auto-dialer, robotic "minesweeper," Stirling engine, scale truss bridge, CNC-machined miniature cannon, thermoformed tool tray• Taught small sections of Systems, Introduction to Computer Science, and Introduction to Engineering Design classes• Assisted in fixture design and ice laboratory testing of applied electrical potential effects on ice adhesion

Simbex is a small research and development business focusing on products based on biomechanics expertise.• Worked as an engineering intern to develop a LabVIEW graphical user interface for the IBEX (In Bed Exerciser) project.

Worked with the advanced engineering team on the development of a continuous glucose monitoring system• Enabled a patient safety feature by creating a custom capacitive sensor to electronically measure fluid flow down to 2µL/hr• Prototyped a short-range inductive wireless communications system that could be used to transmit both power and data

MOTO was a product development consulting firm with projects in the medical, consumer, and telecommunications spaces. It has since been acquired by Cisco.Conducted mechanical design and finite element analysis (FEA) using Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/MECHANICA• Ensured tamper-proof operation of automated medication storage system by strengthening the design of injection molded lids• Solved intermittent failures of electromechanical switch system built with shape memory alloy materials

Teradyne Connection Systems designed and manufactured large backplane circuit boards for use in telecommunications.• Decreased manufacturing defect rate of $25,000 backplane by 60% and eliminated a costly custom fixture by designing and overseeing the manufacture of an adjustable assembly and inspection rack

Opticom was a start up developing software tools to help network managers analyze their IT infrastructures.• Learned Python programming, designed, implemented, and debugged portions of Opticom’s first web-based network management application, AssetView