CEO, AV Exit, LLC, US Patent 11,614,474 (Issued April 4th, 2023). Inventor of the AV Exit Safety System. See www.avexit.comInventor, designer and builder of wireless processor-based wearable support devices and advanced intuitive user interfaces. Also, designer and builder of automated manufacturing systems often using robotics and vision systems, communicator ring (www.connectring.com), battery-as-propeller (www.battprop.com, patents), inward aiming LED bulbs (patents), double-lumen micro projector (patents), see-through touch display screens (patents), and DIY solar systems (patent pending). Founder and executive of advanced technology companies. Invented and built advanced automation manufacturing systems including robotics and vision systems for such companies as Goodyear, 3M, Ford Motor, Schwan’s, Northwest Airlines, General Dynamics and McDonald’s. Finalist for 'Inc.' magazine’s' National Entrepreneur of the Year. As Founder and CEO achieved Minnesota’s Fastest Growing Technology Company of the Year Award 2000 (Deloitte and Touche). Awarded 'Sharing the Dream' from McDonald’s for inventing and building advanced service automation including French fry dispensers used in stores worldwide. Multi-year winner of Top Sales Distributor for (GMF) Fanuc robotics RAM Center. Designed, patented, built and sold flexible-wearable PCs including the first wrist-based device for DARPA. Also for DARPA, conceived and led team under contract to build the first near real-time mobile/wearable continuous-speech two-way language translator. This was used by the US Army in Bosnia and later in many languages/countries. Conceived and directed the design/build/test HW and SW for Navy ONR wearable PC system to direct early unmanned drones. Over 100 issued US and International patents including 'see-through' touch display keyboard, a top 6% USPTO referenced software patent (acquired and prosecuted by former MS CTO Nathan Myrvold)Speaker and presenter at robotics, computing, and speech recognition conferences. Received Minnesota Governor’s Innovation Award in 2007 for the second time. Awardee, National Religious Coalition on Creation Care (NRCCC.org) for national efforts to address climate change (Awarded in Washington DC on December 7th, 2022). 7X Invitee to the Whitehouse plus EPA, DOE meetings and 60 Senatorial Climate Change solutions and educational meetings. Monitor of advancing science, materials and production systems in mobile support processing areas such as photovoltaics, solid-state, flex circuits, graphene, UI, processors and sensors.