Michael Barger Email & Phone Number

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

Camas, Washington, US

• (Responsibilities expanded to include Systems and Controls Engineering disciplines, in addition to Electronics Engineering.)Directs the Electronics, Systems, and Controls Engineering disciplines at SIGMADESIGN.
• Frequently estimates NRE labor and materials costs for T&M and fixed-bid engineering projects.
• Meets with current and potential clients, collaborating with Business Development to clarify and distill requirements, set technical expectations, and develop path-to-productization plans.
• Architects hardware solutions to realize Clients' products while minimizing cost, risk and time-to-market.
• Functional engineering management (approx. 20 engineers and managers), including hiring, interview, discipline and separation decisions.
• Collaborates with Marketing on department-specific marketing and outreach efforts.

Camas, Washington, US

• Led and directed the Electronics Engineering discipline at SIGMADESIGN.
• Frequently (several times/week) estimated NRE labor and materials costs for fixed-bid engineering projects.
• Met with current and potential clients, collaborating with Business Development to clarify and distill requirements, set technical expectations, and develop path-to-productization plans.
• Architected hardware solutions to realize Clients' products while minimizing cost, risk and time-to-market.
• Functional engineering management (approx. 15 engineers and managers) across multiple geographic locations, including hiring, interview, discipline and separation decisions.
• Collaborated with Marketing on department-specific marketing and outreach efforts.

• Hardware (systems, electronics, photonics/optical) and software engineering for real-time camera-based computer/machine vision applications.
• Systems engineering of micrometer-scale machine vision metrology systems, including requirements analysis, Product Requirements Document (PRD) generation, and hardware/firmware architecture.
• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to develop Convolutional Neural Network centric embedded vision algorithms and related NN inferencing edge hardware platforms.
• Electronics schematics and PCB design in Altium Designer for cameras and real-time video processing computer systems.
• Authoring of computer/machine vision software and high-level camera drivers in C++ with OpenCV.
• Single and multi-camera calibration software development in Python with NumPy and OpenCV.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Project, Product, and Functional Management for multidisciplinary team of ~13 engineers (direct reports): electrical, mechanical, computer vision, embedded firmware, and FPGA RTL.
• Designed and successfully delivered the KRONOS 360-degree/spherical/panoramic/VR video camera: up to 4K UHD @ 60 fps (no blind spots) over PoE Gigabit Ethernet, waterproof.
• Designed and successfully delivered the ARES portable stitching and recording solution: powers (rechargeable lithium batteries) and records (SATA SSD) up to 4 hours of UHD 360 footage from a KRONOS camera; live.
• Designed and successfully delivered ZEUS: 8K UHD / 45 FPS 360-degree/spherical/panoramic/VR video camera over USB 3.0 for use in Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
• Conceptualized, designed and proposed projects based on market research and requirements discussions with internal stakeholders and potential customers.
• Developed and presented engineering R&D and product roadmaps, schedules, and budgets to executives and investors.

• End-to-end engineering of custom, 360/panoramic/VR video cameras, including: - Electronics Engineering: schematic capture and PCB design in Altium Designer of complex video-related digital systems with fundamental.
• Proposed, interviewed, hired, and managed the beginnings of a multidisciplinary team of camera engineers: electronics, mechanical, firmware, FPGA RTL, etc.

• Developed (from scratch and single-handedly) real-time, GPU-accelerated panoramic video stitching software: - Utilized lockless producer-consumer ring buffers, static memory allocation architecture (no leaks or.
• Developed Linux/*NIX/POSIX compliant camera drivers for proprietary and third-party specialty video cameras: - Gigabit Ethernet (libpcap) - FireWire 800 (libdc1394) - USB 3.0 (libusb)
• Developed HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript web GUIs, often with WebGL GPU acceleration, to enable end-user interactive playback of panoramic video.
• Used OpenCV (C, C++, and Python APIs) to prototype and develop camera calibration tools.

Portland, OR, US

• Maintained and refactored a Java "semantic modeling engine" as part of a small team.
• Single-handedly designed and implemented a JavaScript-based semantic segmentation algorithm that could extract only body/article text and associated images from any news website, bypassing navigation elements, ads.

Atlanta, GA, US