Tracy Potter Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX

• Equip, manage and maintain laboratory/test space from bare building
• Product assembly and test of existing 915Mhz generator for cancer ablation
• Protocol documentation and Qualification testing of new ablation antenna.
• Product support at the technician level

Austin, TX

• One of the first research technicians for a Portable Oxygen Concentrator (medical) start-up that was grown successfully to profitability and then purchased by an international company – ResMed.Prototyping for research.

• Chosen to be the personal tech for the former Chief Technical Officer of Bell Labs Mesquite when he started his own company (PwrCon, Inc.).Prototype Specialist for a 4 man company of ex-Bell Labs engineering staff..

• Founding member of divisional start-up which included a scratch factory build and move from Texas to California. I was number six in a division that eventually grew to a size of over 150-175 people.
• Optimized and finalized the design and management of a high volume semi-automatic production line.Lab motto was "No Incrementalism". Primary job function was prototyping and development activities, test, all EMI.

• Built, staffed, and managed an electronic test fixture manufacturing business for an adjacent machine shop that achieved $1.75 Million in gross sales in two years.Responsible for complete product interval - quotations.

• Served as Process Engineer responsible for final design optimization, programming, output quality, and mechanical reliability of high volume semi-automatic assembly line.As a technician – served as leader of two.

Developed switching power supply for RF transmitters. System integration and production start-ups included in job requirements.

Developed documentation configuration for company-wide engineering database of standard purchase parts.

• Solved the EMI problems in the night vision systems of the late 70's-early 80's that caused helicopter pilots to lose sight during Army's “We own the night” nap-of-the-earth combat flight maneuvers. This is the.