Joe Zott's CV

Professional Experience

Still mostly stealth startup

2020 - Present

Developing cognitive computing including applications such as engineering research and development and the integration of cognitive computing with modeling techniques such as Digital Twins.

Mostly a discussion of the implications of what is being developed are available at 3x3 Institute

ZedTech

2020 - Present

Developing laser scanning based medical devices and providing contract laser scanning engineering services.

Authored Handbook for Laser Beam Scanning Products and wrote simulation, modeling, and support tools to explore design options, improve performnace, and obtain a safe and approved product.

For a recent client, evaluated their product design and recommended product improvements and development strategies to quickly and inexpensively obtain better performance and improve product design. Documented and made improvements to the FPGA design and verification imfrastructure. Organized and authored the products medical device software documentation.

Providing software leadership and technical guidance for a Cubesat development.

AccuVein

2007 - 2020

VP Engineering and Operations

Starting with a prototype, took company as originally the sole engineer working in basement to a worldwide market footprint of over 120 countries. Developed the AV500, AV400 and AV300 vein illumination devices and their various accessories. These award winning vein illumination products are being used in over 3,500 hospitals in US, 5,000 institutions around the world. Responsible for Research, Engineering, Regulatory, Service, and Manufacturing. As business developed transitioned these activities from my performing these functions to managing the activity, to managing the management team.<

Accomplishments:

• Over $300M lifetime revenue; over 50K visualization units shipped.
• Manage development of all major company products using a combination of contract design firms, contract engineers, and in-house engineering teams.
• Selected, setup and transitioned management of companies 4 manufacturing sites: two US, one Taiwanese contract manufacturer and one in-house manufacturing site.
• Principle product architect for all company visualization products.
• Successfully transitioned customer/product service from cost to profit center.
• Manage successful CAPA based continual product improvement program.
• Implemented and manage ISO 13485 based engineering and operations – consistently achieve superior performance in ISO audits.
• Principle designer of signal processing, control systems and risk/safety designs incorporating Xilinx FPGA, multiple processors, and laser scanning.
• Sole employee engineer for first 4 years of company.
• Primary author of all worldwide regulatory filings for first 9 years of company; regulatory approval in 120 countries including US, EU, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil.

Symbol Techologies

2001 - 2005

Engineering Director - Custom and customized wireless and handheld computing products

• Custom handheld computers
• Custom Wi-Fi radio hardware, device drivers for new OSes and platforms, custom feature sets
• Custom Wi-Fi access points, custom network protocols and solutions for standard access points
• Sales support for 3rd parties integrating standard wireless products
• Sustaining product engineering for legacy wireless and networking products
• Active RFID tags
• Location reporting services

The iTv Corporation

1995 - 2001

Founder, Vice President Engineering, CFO, Board director

Investors included:

• Draper, Fisher Jurvetson
• Sanyo Semiconductor
• LG Electronics

Company developed Internet and television consumer electronic products based on proprietary asynchronous and synchronous chip technologies and consumer focused operating system and applications. Managed accounting, engineering and marketing team of 35.

Engineering & product accomplishments included:

• Internet set-top with sub-$30 manufactured cost
• Multiple product reference designs - Set-top box, Internet TV, Internet tablet (LCD) computer
• Multiple system on a chip designs - processor cores, high quality video encoders, DOCSIS cable modem
• 0.8um asynchronous processor capable of executing 500 million instructions per second
• Operating system and application software for all product designs including operating system (multitasking /memory management/ GUI/flash file system), TCP/IP stack, web browser, and email application

Skywatch Information Systems

1993 - 2001

Cofounder and bootstrapped company

Company provided software development and engineering services including satellite and mission design to NASA. Developed, MediaStorm, an off-the-shelf disaster information software system running on Microsoft Windows. Program merged overhead imagery, maps, routing, and a database of resources and events. Won multiple contracts for proprietary hyper-spectral remote sensing instrument and processing system.

Geodynamics Corporation (now Northrop Grumman)

1990 - 1993

Program Manager

Booz Allen & Hamilton

1986 - 1989

Associate

National Security Agency

1980 - 1986

Engineer

Academic Experience

• MSEE University of Maryland
• BEE University of Detroit Mercy

Professional awards

Senior Member IEEE

Patents

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