I have worked in a number of industries and in a number of roles. Along the way I started and grew a few companies. Checkout my CV for a more traditional resume.
Industries
The organizations I worked covered many industries
- Medical devices
- Industrial - handheld mobile computers
- Wireless - Wi-Fi
- Consumer electronics - products/semiconductor/software
- Semiconductor - system on chip (w/ bundled software), network chips
- Defense / Intelligence / Aerospace
- Software - embedded solutions, desktop apps, simulation/modeling, GIS
Roles
I have had many job titles, some of them are listed below. In all of them I always sought to delight my customer.
- Corporate executive - CEO, CTO, CFO, COO
- VP of Engineering, VP of Operations
- Electrical engineer
- Software engineer
- Systems engineer
- Engineering manager, director, VP
- Program management - project, portfolio, manage PM team, manage major sales opportunities
- Medical quality and regulatory
- Business development - new market entry, customer development, proposal development
- Operations manager - manufacturing, distribution, documentation, customer support
Education
I went to college and graduated from some of them. I also have taken lots of university and industrial seminars - many of them days, weeks in duration. The colleges that I attended and my degrees are:
- MSEE, University of Maryland
- BEE, University of Detroit Mercy
Products
I was the primary engineer (as well as VP of Engineering) for AccuVein where I developed:
- AccuVein AV500
- AccuVein AV400
- AccuVein AV300
Personal Awards
- Senior Member IEEE
Product Awards
- 2014 SPIE Prism Award Winner Life Sciences and Biophotonics for AV400
- 2013 Gold Winner Medical Device Excellence Award - Critical-Care and Emergency Medicine Products for AV400
- Edison Innovation Gold medal for AV400
- Red Herring 100 winner - North America
- New Product Innovation of the Year - Frost & Sullivan
- 2010 Gold Winner Medical Device Excellence Award - Critical-Care and Emergency Medicine Products for AV300
- One of the top 10 technologies for healthcare professionals - Medical Device Developments
- Best New Products for Pediatricians - Contemporary Pediatrics
Patents
- Named inventor in 8 patents – obtained patents as both an individual without use of a patent attorney and as a company employee
- As Engineering VP supervised the awarding of 50 patents to the company
- Participated as engineering executive on both sides of various patent disputes
- As engineering manager developed strategies to both design around patents as well as construct defensive patent strategies
Named inventor:
- 10,568,518 Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA
- 10,517,483 System for detecting fluorescence and projecting a representative image
- 10,376,148 System and method for laser imaging and ablation of cancer cells using fluorescence
- 10,376,147 System and method for multi-color laser imaging and ablation of cancer cells using fluorescence
- 9,782,079 Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA
- 9,072,426 Device for detecting and illuminating vasculature using an FPGA
- 8,990,856 Media playlist management and viewing remote control
- 8,122,475 Remote control for video media servers
Publications
On my augmented reality work
- Poster presentation at Augmented World Expo 2015
On my hyperspectral work
- Remote Sensing with Hyperspectral Imagery using DASI - An Imaging Interferometer P. D. Hammer et al., “Remote sensing with hyperspectral imagery using DASI-an imaging interferometer,” IGARSS ‘96. 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Lincoln, NE, USA, 1996, pp. 2276-2278 vol.4, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516960.
Press
Augmented Reality