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Summary
of Professional Experience
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Over 25
years experience in Hardware &
Software Design and Product
Development
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Over 20
years experience in building and managing
engineering teams
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Principal
in multiple startup companies
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Developing
and marketing add-on cards for Raspberry
Pi
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Three
succesfully funded Kickstarter
campaigns in 2017 and 2018
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Several
new products in the pipeline
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Raised
over $3.5M for the purpose of investing in
Real Estate in Romania
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Bought
agricultural land in urban growth areas,
rezoned and built roads and
utilities
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Currently
building a small community for 2,000
people
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Designed
and drafted architectural plans for
rebuilding the family residence
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Designed
and implemented high efficiency radiant
heat system, video and audio distribution,
security, HVAC, etc.
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Acted as
general contractor and many times handyman
for all construction stages
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Second
attempt (after Wireless Seismic) to build
a better real-time wireless seismic
system
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Worked
with a team of five engineered to build a
better prototype
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First
system field tested in April 2012 worked
flawlesly
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Failed
to find a partner willing to take the
system into production
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Sequent
Networks was shut down in 2012 due to the
depletion of funds
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Co-founded
Wireless Seismic with the mission to
design a true real-time wireless
seismograph system
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Conceived
the solution to real-time data collection
and transfer when multiple, well-funded
competitors failed
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Designed
the first generation of hardware and the
fundamentals of the system
software
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Assembled
the first working prototype in 2004
working with a team of two
engineers
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Increased
the engineering team to five and perfected
the wireless data transport mechanism and
the system timing
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Successfully
field-tested the prototype, side-by-side
with an existing industrial system from
ION Geophysical
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Design
and marketing of geo-applications for Web
Servers, Windows and Excel
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Built
the E-commerce site for marketing the
software
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Founded
WebQuote in 1997 to design and implement a
fully automated Marketplace for Printed
Circuit Board procurement.
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The
company received VC funding and in
2001 become Empact Software
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Built
and managed a team of 20 programmers for
the development of CRM software for Custom
Electronic Products
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Hardware
Design for High Speed Ethernet
Switches
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Firmware,
Software and Hardware
integration
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1992-1994
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Costas
Systems
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VP of
Engineering
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Led of a
group of engineers for the design and
production of media duplication
machines
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1982-1992
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Palyn-Gould
Group
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Member
of Technical Staff
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Hardware
and Software Design and Consulting for
customers such as IBM, Hitachi, Intel and
others
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Founded
B&C Microsystems, a manufacturer
of Universal Device Programmers
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In 1986
B&C transitioned to manufacturing
test equipment for cards and memory
devices and become Testmetrix
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MSEE
from the Polytechnic Institute of
Bucharest, Romania, 1975
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Married,
good health, two children, Vlad and
Irina
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Irina
is a Graphics Designer (BS from UC Davis)
and she has two beautiful daughters born
2013 and 2016
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Vlad
is a Software Engineer (MS from
Stanford)
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Professional
and personal references available upon
request
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