Fort Supply Technologies, LLC develops and distributes effective animal tracking and traceability systems for producers, government, and food chain processors.My job is to provide visionary leadership to develop and deploy novel technology solutions to the large animal beef market.• Determine strategy and tactics to implement idea from concept to sale-ready product.• Lead long-range planning with industry leaders to develop products that meet industry needs.• Oversee and guide engineering team to develop integrated software and hardware solutions on web, handheld and across platforms using Agile methods.• Develop sales and marketing strategies through early years of company.• Actively engaged with national standards committees for data transfer, data management and bovine ID standards.• Negotiate national and international purchasing and sales contracts.• Company lead for two patents awarded and two patents currently pending related to sustainable technologies to reducing the amount of antibiotics used in production beef.• Negotiate investment as necessary.• Develop UHF reader hardware, firmware and product lines to meet industry needs.

Provide leadership to develop and manufacture novel brain implantable arrays.• Develop new process for high volume manufacturing to increase productivity.• Develop novel wire bonding process to attach arrays to conduct neural signals to transdermal head stages.• Develop and manage engineering team.• Contribute to patent portfolio. Key Achievements • Implemented clean room and purchased all processing equipment (total $10m) to manufacture silicon-based MIMS neuro arrays resulting in Governors Award from State of Utah for CKI.• Developed novel wire bonding process to attach arrays to conduct neural signals to transdermal head stages.• Prepared manufacturing and development documentation for approval of Human Clinical Trials.

Engineering support and development for automative sensors, computer cursor sensors, and quality control.Selected for several tiger teams to address hot and work directly with customers.

Process Engineer responsible for sputter and LPCVD processes. Selected for retention list when factory shut down was announced.

Full time missionary for two years working with the folks in southeast Asia.