Electrical Systems Engineers

Vytas Pazemenas, Electrical Systems Engineer, Chief Engineer, President & CEO
Vytas is the founder and president of Aubrey Group and brings over 30 years experience in development of medical devices, computer systems, and sensors. He has led teams that developed and introduced into the marketplace more than 50 new medical products and has gained extensive experience in working with the FDA, TÜV, BSI, and other international regulatory agencies. His design experience includes blood pumps, ventricular assist device controllers, infusion pumps, pulse oximeters, ultrasound ablation systems, patient monitors, medical sensors, signal processing algorithms, analog and digital circuits, patient isolation systems, military sensor systems, RF communications systems, and various other medical systems. His previous management experience includes serving as Manager, Infusion Systems, for Abbott Laboratories, as Director, Design Engineering, for Nellcor, as Vice President, Engineering, for CareLink, and as Vice President, R&D, for Tokos Medical. He is also a guest lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Vytas holds five patents, three in sensors and two in medical devices. He received a BSEE from Penn State and an MSEE from the University of Santa Clara.

Milan Trcka, RF Engineer, Electrical Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Electrical Engineering
Milan brings over 25 years of electronic and electromechanical system design and project engineering experience specializing in RF systems, wide-band instrumentation systems, analog and RF circuits, power electronics, analog, digital and RF PC board design and packaging. He has designed high-power, Class-D ultrasound ablation amplifiers and matching networks; variable-output switching power supplies; brushless, sensorless DC motor drivers and controls; portable high-capacity battery power management systems, low-level electro-chemistry and dynamic motion-sensing channels; systems using microprocessors and FPGAs; 2.4GHz digital radio applications, wireless modems, 25MHz wideband instrumentation systems, high-performance space-borne magnetic tape recorder systems, 250Mb/s low-error rate data channels, and RF filters and amplifiers. Milan is fluent in English and Czech. His papers have been published in Japan and by IEEE. He has two patents in magnetic recording and others pending. Milan holds a BSEE from University of Maryland and an MSEE from California State University, Los Angeles.

Don Ludolph, Electrical Systems Engineer, Senior Project Manager
Don brings over 25 years of electronic systems design and project management experience, specializing in complex, multi-disciplinary systems. He has extensive experience in design of digital and analog circuits and software. Don began his career in aerospace and became a principal engineer working on image tracking systems, remote aerial refueling, space station robotics, and ground support equipment for launch vehicles. Don has done system design for the automatic test equipment of an implantable defibrillator and both system and detailed circuit design for production testing. In 2000, Don and his team were recipients of the Orange County Chapter of AEA “High Tech Product of the Year Award” for a breakthrough sub-miniature Rubidium Atomic Oscillator. Don holds a BSEE from Oregon State University.

Chuck Brower, Principal Systems Engineer, Vice President Project Management
Chuck brings over 25 years of multi-disciplinary experience in technology development, product development, and manufacturing. His development experience includes magnetism and magnetic materials, tribology, electromechanical systems, analog and digital design, communications, and embedded networking. Chuck and his team won multiple awards, both domestically and internationally, for an innovative miniature embedded device server. He has managed both product development and manufacturing in the U.S. and abroad. Chuck’s previous management experience includes serving as Vice President of Engineering at CMS Peripherals, Vice President of Engineering at Iupgrade, Director of Advanced Technology at Iomega, Director of Engineering and Director of Manufacturing & Test Engineering at Lantronix, and Director of Engineering at Intelio. He has five patents with additional applications pending. His papers have been published by the IEEE, the Journal of Applied Physics, and Reviews of Scientific Instruments. Chuck holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Minnesota.

Mechanical Systems Engineers

Clark Foster, Mechanical Systems Engineer, Director of Mechanical Engineering
Clark brings over 25 years of mechanical engineering and system design experience in development of medical devices, production technology, and aeronautics. He is listed with the USPTO as a Prolific Inventor with over 125 US patents. He has experience designing knee braces, medication inhalers, implanted artificial occluding muscle, safety syringes, blood draw and IV systems, surgical instruments, drug vials, and insulin injecting pens. He has designed production assembly tools for disposable pump cartridges and an intraocular lens centering arm trim machine. Clark has also worked on projects for space reentry vehicle surface cooling, jet engine location optimization, and the B2 Bomber wind tunnel. He has a private pilot’s license and is a certified assistant aerobatic judge. Clark holds a BSME from University of Washington.

Jerry Johansen, Director of Disposables Engineering
Jerry has over 25 years experience in the development of medical devices. His project management experience includes companies such as Medtronic (heart valves and interventional cardiology catheters and guide wires) and Guidant (catheters, guide wires and accessories). In addition to taking products from concept to market release, Jerry has also worked for a number of start-up organizations and has established complete R&D and manufacturing infrastructures from the ground up. As one of the first employees of IntraLuminal Therapeutics, Inc., Jerry, as VP of R&D, established in-house resource requirements and lead a team of engineers to develop a device for gaining access to and treating chronic total occlusions in the human vasculature. The device, called the Safe Cross, used a combination of Optical Coherence Reflectometry (OCR) and Radio Frequency (RF) ablation capability delivered on a standard .014” diameter guide wire platform to open blocked vessels. Jerry has two patents and one pending: one depicts a novel way of establishing a deflectable-tipped catheter using hydraulic pressure. He has a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Masters degree in Manufacturing Management (MMMS) from General Motors Institute, Flint, Michigan.

Physicians & Biomedical Systems Engineers

David Mishelevich, MD, PhD, Physician, Biomedical Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Affairs
David has 35 years experience in the development of information systems and medical devices, including respiratory devices, remote manipulation of catheters, and Stereotactic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. At IntelliCorp (knowledge systems), he was Vice President and General Manager of the Applications and Research Division; at Circadian (disease management and medical devices), he was Vice President and General Manager of the AirWays Asthma Centers Division. He has also been CTO of several start-up companies. While a faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Dallas), he chaired the Department of Medical Computer Science, the first such department in the U.S. He is a Consulting Professor of Neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. David has four patents issued (two in respiratory devices, one in physician documentation using speech recognition, and one in behavior feedback) and 24 pending. He has over 100 publications. David received his BS in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and his MD and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Ron Diamond, PhD Physicist, Systems Engineer, Senior Project Manager
Ron has more than 22 years of experience in engineering, product development, and program management in medical devices and in-vitro diagnostic instrumentation. He is experienced in the development of optical, fluidic, ultrasonic, and thermodynamic systems for complex laboratory instruments, as well as in the development of injection-molded consumables. As Director of Technical Systems at Nichols Institute Diagnostics, he led the engineering group in bringing to market a chemiluminescence-based immunodiagnostic instrument. At Baxter Paramax Chemistry Systems, as Manager of the Systems Engineering Group and Sr. Staff Scientist, he led the development of novel spectrophotometer, ultrasonic dissolution, and sample delivery systems. Ron has four patents in fluidics and sample handling. After receiving a BS in physics from Stanford and a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Ron taught physics at Florida State University and the University of Notre Dame before leaving academia for medical device development.

Software Systems Engineers

Robert Lucero, Software Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Software Engineering
Having served as a software engineering manager and project leader during his 20 plus years in software and firmware development, Robert has gained extensive experience in project management, medical product architecture development, software requirements development, software design, and software testing for medical devices. He has worked on medical products including core body temperature controllers, ventricular assist devices, medical laser imagers, nutritional gas analyzers, ultrasound tissue characterization systems, home patient monitors, and blood pumps. Robert holds a BSEE from MIT and an MS in Computer Engineering from USC.

Principal Systems Engineer

Michael Burk, Principal Systems Engineer and Project Manager
Mike brings 20 years of medical product design, medical electronic systems design, and project management experience in the drug delivery and physiological monitoring fields. Has managed or performed lead roles in the development of hospital infusion pumps, subcutaneous drug delivery systems, pulse oximeters, end-tidal CO2 monitors, and glucometers. His product development experience includes Avant Medical (needleless drug delivery), Alaris Medical Systems, IVAC and MiniMed (infusion pumps, syringe pumps, pulse oximeters and end-tidal CO2 monitors), and LXN Corp. (glucometers). As one of the founders of Avant Medical, he is experienced in all aspects of establishing R&D, product development, manufacturing and quality systems for medical device companies. Mike has 7 issued US patents, several foreign filings, and pending patents for novel sensor systems and drug injection technologies. He received his MS Biomedical Engineering and BS EE from CSU, Sacramento. He also has a BS in Animal Physiology from UC Davis.

Electrical Engineers

Gary Gottlieb, PhD, Senior Principal Engineer
Gary has more than 30 years experience designing high-speed analog, digital and mixed signal products from boards to systems. He has extensive knowledge in design for signal integrity and EMC compliance. He has successfully designed video cameras from video sensor input to processed digital output, datacom and telecom products, wireless data storage and communication systems, analog and digital data acquisition systems, high-throughput LANs, and an automated defibrillator featuring ECG analysis, heart pacing, and delivery of defibrillating energy. Gary has 6 US and 19 international patents for key analog and digital solutions, including several patents on new methods of A/D conversion and frequency measurement. He has presented his scientific and technical achievements in more than 40 papers (5 published in the US) and at nine international conferences. His honors include awards for a state-of-the-art system design from the Latvian Academy of Sciences and a Medal in Recognition of Outstanding Achievements in System Design from the Exhibition of National Achievements, Russia. Gary holds a MSEE degree from State University of Latvia and a PhD in EE from Technical University of Penza, Russia.

Randy Ponitzman, Senior Electrical Engineer
Randy has more than 30 years of circuit design experience with expertise in the areas of digital design and programmable logic. He has designed digital circuitry ranging from designs with only SSI/LSI logic devices to designs using memory such as SRAM and SDRAM to large FPGA designs that he implemented using VHDL and Verilog. He has done designs using ADCs and DACs. He has developed systems using many different microprocessors, including Intel i960 and StrongARM, Motorola ColdFire, Atmel ARM, and various processors from Cypress and AMD. In his seven plus years at Aubrey Group, Randy’s contributions have included the development of digital control of an RF power delivery system for a heart ablation and the addition of an Ethernet interface to another product. Along with expertise in VHDL and Verilog hardware design languages, Randy has developed software using C, C++ and assembly languages. He holds a BSEE degree (with honors) from the University of Florida.

Roman Slizynski, Senior Electrical Engineer
Roman brings more then 20 years experience in electronic instrumentation, test, and measurement. His expertise is in precision voltage and current measurement and generation, high-speed signal acquisition, signal integrity and calibration. He has worked at Tektronix and Credence Systems, and holds 3 patents in measurement techniques. Roman has a BSEE from the Akademia Gorniczo Hutnicza in Krakow, Poland, and has been on the adjunct faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology.

Jeff Crockett, Senior Electrical Engineer
As an analog design engineer, Jeff has designed RF and analog circuits, atomic clocks, power supplies, EMC-compliant circuits, and low-power, low-noise DC-DC converters. Jeff began his 25 year engineering career in aerospace designing custom hybrid microcircuits. More recently, he has designed low-noise RF power oscillators, phase-locked loops, frequency synthesizers, precision temperature controllers, analog filters, and amplifiers. He has also developed precision closed-loop control algorithms and systems for atomic clocks. Jeff holds three patents in atomic frequency standards and has authored a poster paper on power supply noise at a 2002 IEEE symposium. He has a diploma from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Lawton C. Bates, Electrical Engineer
Lawton has over 20 years of professional experience in designing, prototyping, testing, and documenting electronic circuits. His innovations at Aubrey Group include a multiple channel temperature measurement system meeting extreme requirements for range, accuracy, and update time. In printed circuit board design, Lawton has consistently produced zero-error PCB prototypes, thus shortening the design-cycle time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine.

Blaine Murakami, Electrical Engineer
Blaine was the winner of the 2005 Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Award, presented by Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering society, to the most outstanding electrical engineering student in the nation. Acting as the Principal Investigator, Blaine led a multidisciplinary team of 30 electrical and mechanical engineering undergraduates to design, build, and test two nanosatellites for launch into low earth orbit. While a student, Blaine co-founded a local high-technology company that developed self-steering antenna technology. He is also the co-author of 13 conference papers. Blaine holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and two provisional patents. He has continued his outstanding engineering career at Aubrey Group.

Soeung Yuen, Technician, Associate Electrical Engineer
Soeung holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University in Pomona. His work includes circuit design, breadboard and PCB assembly, EMC troubleshooting and testing, PCB repair, component selection and purchasing, and computer support. He is currently enrolled in the MSEE program at California State University, Long Beach.

Steve Gutierrez, Associate Electrical Engineer
Steve brings over 10 years of experience supporting engineering activities and providing technical support for medical device manufactures. He has experience building prototype phacoemulsification systems for Johnson & Johnsons IOLAB and Bausch & Lomb Microsurgical companies. He is also a certified biomedical engineer, providing diagnostics on Johnson & Johnsons Advanced Sterilization Products (Gas Plasma Sterilization) systems and Advanced Medical Optics phacoemulsification systems. There he provided Level 2 technical support to field service engineers. He also has experience designing robots using PWM technology for driving DC motors, as well as in circuit design including transistor power amplifiers and power supply design. He has designed RF data communication system using serial decoder and encoders for controlling robots. Steve also has experience in programming ATMEL microcontrollers in C++ environment using AVR Studio and WinAVR. Steve graduated with Honors and Valedictorian with a Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Communication Engineering Technology Degree from ITT Technical Institute.

Frank Torino, Associate Electrical Engineer
Frank has 30 years of electronics and software experience including but not limited to: analog and digital design, embedded software, test software for medical and military devices, design and fabrication of prototype electronic assemblies, and PC side software development. Frank has also been involved in PCB layout on and off throughout his career.

Mechanical Engineers and Designers

Herbert Kraus, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Systems Engineer
In his 20 plus years of mechanical engineering, Herb designed disposable medical devices and laboratory and production equipment, including gas, fluid, and dry-form diagnostic test kits, pharmaceutical processing, and check-weighing. Products developed include ventilation therapy devices, dental instruments, plotters and printers, telescopes, and manufacturing automation systems. Herb has acted as project engineer, project manager, and head of engineering at several companies. Herb received a BS in engineering and an MSME from UCLA. He holds several design and utility patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer.

Thomas Robinson, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Disposables Design
Tom has been successfully developing devices and manufacturing systems for the medical industry for over 35 years, focusing on high volume disposables and implantables. His projects have included optical catheters used for detecting rejection in heart transplant patients; an automated whole blood collection and separation device; a fiber optic probe for early breast cancer detection; a fluid block cassette for automated urinalysis system; a bio-artificial liver device; cell separation device; single incision port-access cannula for high-precision heart surgery; tubing circuit for pancreatic islet isolation and encapsulation; needlestick protection devices and opthalmics. At Bridge Medical, he was the Director of Engineering and developed a medication management system. At Quest Medical, he was Director of Product Development responsible for implantable spinal cord stimulators. At McGaw (now B. Braun), KippMedd (now Medegen) and Travenol Laboratories (now Baxter International), he served as Director of Product Development, VP of Operations, and Senior Project Manager. Tom has been published in industry magazines, and has seven U.S. patents. His educational training is in mechanical engineering.

Charles Clemens, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Disposables Design
Chuck has over 25 years of hands-on biomedical disposable and device experience including IV fluid-delivery systems, DNA/SDA system development, blood-pressure monitoring systems, liquid drug inhalers, medical heat exchangers, disposable diagnostic devices, liquid biocompatible adhesive delivery, thermometry, and custom orthotics. He has developed manufacturing processes. Chuck has significant experience in the application of FDA, CGMP, GQR, and ISO regulations. He has worked both as a consultant and full-time staff member at start-up companies and large corporations. He was Technical Director for Development Engineering for Alaris Medical Systems (formerly IVAC). At Carbomedics, Inc. he was Project Manager for Process Development Engineering. He has also worked for Alliance Pharmaceuticals Corp., Mission Medical Inc., Becton Dickinson/Nanogen, Inc., JV, Prism Medical, AreoGen, Inc., and InJet Digital Aerosols. Chuck is an inventor on two U.S. and one Canadian patents and has patents pending. He has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from San Diego State University.

Hank Westra, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Hank has almost 20 years experience in designing medical equipment, from fiber optic light sources and insufflators used in minimally invasive surgery to a large number of high precision robotically-manipulated laparoscopic instruments. Originally from the Netherlands, where he earned his BS in Industrial Engineering, Hank has been awarded patents for his work at Intuitive Surgical and USGI Medical. He likes to travel and recently returned from a motorcycle tour from the US to Argentina and Brazil and back.

Aaron Gifford, Senior Mechanical Engineer
Aaron has over 13 years of professional engineering experience in industries ranging from dry toner production, robotic assembly workcells, and high-speed semiconductor manufacturing equipment, to implantable medical devices. He has extensive experience with both R&D and manufacturing, designing equipment and assemblies, as well as supporting tooling and fixtures. His achievements with semiconductor test equipment, capable of a controlled temperature range of -76°F to 320°F while testing and sorting IC’s, include: cost-reduction and feature-enhancement activities; design upgrades; pneumatics; electro-mechanical systems; servo systems; temperature measurement and control; and even field support in the Philippines. He developed custom robotic tooling for circuit board assembly for firms such as Chrysler and Delphi, and developed a LIM molded implantable spinal cord stimulating lead for controlling pain. At Cal Poly, he earned a BS in mechanical engineering and worked on its Tournament of Roses Parade floats.

Russ Wade, Senior Mechanical Engineer
Russ has 23 years of product design experience and is expert in SolidWorks and ProEngineer. His design experience includes disposable sets, extracorporeal devices for treatment of sepsis, an instrument for collection of plasma by membrane filtration, and a self-contained, continuous-flow, centrifugal device that separates whole blood into various components. He has also developed key parts of a system that collects and disposes surgical waste fluid and evacuates smoke within a totally closed system. He has received several product design awards, and holds two design patents, with others pending. Russ has a Machinist’s certificate and an AA in machine technology from Orange Coast College.

Thanh Nguyen, Senior Mechanical Designer
Thanh has over 20 years of experience in technical drafting. During the last 10 years, he has done many valve designs for high pressure coolant systems. He has also created prototypes and fixtures for the semi-conductor and medical device industries and has also done reverse-engineering. He has over 15 years of experience as an AutoCAD designer, and is also a Certified SolidWorks Professional.

Lev Fedoseyev, PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Senior Mechanical Engineer
Lev has more than 25 years of R&D experience in fluid and thermal dynamics, acoustics and vibrations, and is expert in SolidWorks, CFD, and thermal modeling/analysis. He is experienced in the development of different design elements of marine pipeline systems, as well as in the development of pneumatic shock-absorbers for marine power plants. He brings more than 16 years of R&D experience in electronics cooling and heat exchange, fluid and thermal modeling, and turbo-machinery design and optimization. Developed with his participation, the Blade Server cooling device and the mini-cooler for Graphic Processors were recognized with a gold award for the Best Technology at the 2005 Semi-Therm Symposium in San Jose, California. Lev has 39 U.S. and international patents in electronics cooling and heat exchange, fluid dynamics, hydraulics and turbo-machinery, acoustics and vibrations. He holds MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University (Russia).

Software Engineers

Jahnavi Lokre, Principal Software Engineer, Director of Marketing
Jahnavi has over 18 years of experience designing and developing complex control systems. Her experience includes medical devices, automatic train control and communications, and electric propulsion software. She is experienced in all phases of product development, from concept and requirement definition to design, implementation, and verification. She is well versed with IEC 60601 and FDA medical device regulations, as well as CMM models. She has gained expertise in multiple embedded operating systems and programming languages, several microprocessors and digital signal processors. Her medical device experience includes patient temperature monitoring system, a cardiac ablation system, a spine inter-vertebral disc nucleus injection system, a safety processor for an automated blood collection system, a remote patient monitoring system, a DNA genotyping system, a portable device for the treatment of Tinnitus, and a hospital ventilator for pediatric and adult patients. She holds a BSEE from the College of Engineering in Pune, India, an MSEE from Texas A&M University, and recently, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her specializations include Strategy, Technology Management and Marketing. She has also taken on a marketing role here at the Aubrey Group.

Sean Nash, Principal Software Engineer
During his 15-year career as a software engineer, Sean has developed software for surgical lasers, in-vitro diagnostics, pacemakers, ophthalmic devices, ablation systems, blood processors, intravenous body temperature controllers, patient monitors, home monitors, and infusion pumps. In addition, he has experience developing single and multi-user Windows software including design and development of an FDA-compliant medical device service and complaint-handling application, a manufacturing distribution supply chain management application, and a clinical trial data collection application. He is experienced in all phases of product development. He has experience with compliance to IEC 60601-1-8. He has worked with several real-time operating systems, including ThreadX and MicroC/OS-II and holds a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Vincent Su, Principal Software Engineer, Project Manager
Vincent has served as software engineering manager and project manager during his 20-plus years in software and firmware development. He has a diverse background in multiple industries including medical, wireless communication, semiconductor, data storage, and imaging. His experience with medical devices includes design and development of the first solid-state ambulatory 12-lead ECG monitor, an intra-cranial pressure monitor, ventilator, and others. He is well versed in software engineering methodologies (Structured, Object Oriented), software life cycle (CMMI, ISO 9000) and process models (Waterfall, Iterative). During his career he has developed multi-tasking real-time embedded systems, Linux/Unix and Windows device drivers, and applications using C/C++, Java, and assembly language. Vincent graduated summa cum laude with a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University.

Matthew Meyer, Senior Software Engineer
During his professional career, Matthew has developed software for the Boeing 747, database applications for the Space Shuttle, business and consumer credit database applications, and IEC 61508-compliant, triple-redundant IO systems for safety critical control of industrial processes. He has expertise in C, C++, and Ada, and with ARM-based processors. Matthew holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of San Diego and a MS in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Himanshu Patel, Senior Software Engineer
Himanshu has over 10 years of product design experience with the last seven dedicated to medical devices. Prior to his joining Aubrey Group, he held various positions, including Project Engineer at Indian Space Research Organization, Software Engineer at Cisco Systems and Principal Software Engineer at Medtronic Inc, during which he has applied for 9 US patents in the field of glucose monitoring, wireless medical device communications and medical device innovations. He is experienced in all phases of product development, from concept to design, implementation, and verification. He has product design experience with various microcontrollers from Intel, Atmel, Hitachi, Motorola, Texas Instrument, Microchip as well as Custom ASIC, FPGA and CPLDs. He has extensive experience with several real-time operating systems, including ThreadX, Redhat eCos, Cisco IOS and various other custom OS. He has designed various custom wireless solutions for medical devices using Bluetooth, Zigbee and low power wireless protocols in ISM band. Himanshu holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University, India and MSEE candidate from California State University, Northridge.

Bill Welsh, Software V&V Engineer
Bill has more than 25 years of design and management experience in product, software, and hardware development for military, commercial, and medical systems. He has over 7 years of specialized experience in the development of risk analyses, documentation, and software verification and validation protocols that meet FDA standards. He holds a BSEE from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is also a Novell CNE.

Brian Lau, Software Engineer
Brian began his career in Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device development where he designed and tested software modules on file system management while interfacing with Fibre Channel networks. In the aerospace industry, he developed and maintained safety-critical control software for a fly-by-wire rudder control system under FAA regulation (DO-178 Level A and B), and organized the software and requirements verification effort. In addition, he has experience in developing a military RF communication system from Datalink level to Application level. Well versed in C, C++, C#, Java, and Web development language such as Flash, Flex, ColdFusion and Javascript. He is also experienced in various software development models including CMMI. Brian holds a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Jeffrey Beaupré, Software Engineer
Jeffrey is a software engineering generalist, with experience in artificial intelligence, distributed applications, embedded devices, internet applications, operating systems, and database management software development in a variety of programming languages and platforms. He has applied best practices in software architecture, detailed design, and implementation to various command, control, and automated planning systems as they apply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Development projects include the RQ-8B Firescout, the RQ-4 Global Hawk, and the A-160 Hummingbird. A runner-up for the Viterbi School of Engineering Archimedes Award, Jeffrey graduated with honors, and at the top of his class, earning a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Ray Anderson, Software Engineer
While attending Oregon State University Ray worked with a multidisciplinary engineering team to design and build a rapid prototyping 3D printer that took first place in the electrical and mechanical engineering categories. During school he held internships at Mentor Graphics and Radisys. He has experience with many programming languages including C, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, VHDL, as well as with embedded devices such as microcontrollers and FPGAs. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University and continues his goal of learning and achieving at Aubrey Group.

Industrial Designers

Myk Lum, Industrial Designer, Founder and Principal of Lum Design Associates
For over 20 years, Myk has been an industrial designer leading creative teams and working with a variety of international clients. With his extensive experience, Myk has been able to assist companies in creating successful, innovative products by using design as a powerful strategic business tool. His background includes design work for DNA sequencers, pregnancy testers, and disposal cartridge systems. His award winning work has been recognized by I.D. magazine, the Industrial Designer’s Society of America, Graphis magazine, Business Week, Wired, Metropolis, and the International Housewares Association. He graduated with honors from CSU Long Beach with a BS in Industrial Design.

Technicians and Technical Associates

Tien Nguyen, Test Engineer
Tien has three years of experience medical device testing including high voltage and RF transceiver tests for medical implantable devices. He also has several years experience as a LabView and TestStand developer. He is experienced in medical device development processes and manufacturing environments. He has over 10 years experience as a test engineer in the frequency and timing industry. He has designed and integrated automated testing equipment for a rubidium aging system, phase noise measurement, and temperature compensation for crystal oscillators. He earned his BSEE at California State Poly.

Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Support

Keith Sather, Director, Manufacturing
Keith is a senior manufacturing manager experienced in medical device and other high tech industries. He has implemented Manufacturing Resource Planning systems in three companies, directed implementation of Just-in-Time manufacturing systems, developed statistical quality control systems, managed multiple manufacturing transfer projects and directed implementation of offshore production facilities in Europe and Mexico. Immediately before joining Aubrey Group, Keith was a senior manufacturing manager at Edwards Lifesciences. Most recently, he managed operations for a medical device company as part of an Aubrey Group client project.

Bruce Betts, Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Bruce has over 25 years of experience in product design and support, product manufacturing, configuration control, and project management. His experience involves a variety of systems including rubidium atomic oscillators, timing and frequency systems, GPS navigation, and wireless communication products. Additionally, he has served on two ERP implementation teams. Bruce has an Associates degree in Applied Science from Delaware Technical and Community College.

Jim Benard, Director, Quality Assurance
Jim has over 25 years experience in developing and managing quality systems at medical device companies including Sorin Biomedical, Baxter, Sutura, and Jostra Bentley. He has implemented and monitored all policies and procedures mandated by the FDA Quality System Regulation for startup and established medical device companies and has organized efforts required in obtaining UL Certification, ISO Registration, compliance with IEC Standards and EC Certification. He has developed systems to assure compliance to Medical Device Directives and ISO 13485. He has successfully facilitated large and smaller medical device companies through a variety of FDA/QSR and ISO audits. Jim is very experienced in FDA reporting requirements and establishment and product classification registration. He has extensive experience in developing and managing outsourcing programs and supply chain management that meet all regulatory requirements. Jim has a technical degree from Wentworth Institute in Boston and several certifications in QSIT and ISO auditing.

Mariana Coleman, Document Control Manager
Mariana has over 25 years of work experience in engineering. She specializes in design control, documentation control, and project coordination. Her development experience includes project management, electro-mechanical design and drafting, and final product release. Mariana has substantial experience in the application of FDA and ISO regulations. She has an Associate in Science degree from Irvine Valley College.

Brent Goldberg, Bioengineer, Associate Project Manager
Brent holds a BS in Bioengineering (Biotechnology), with a minor in Management Science, from UC San Diego. His laboratory experience includes Cartilage Tissue Engineering Laboratory at UCSD, where he performed tissue harvesting and culturing, biochemical analysis of tissue, and the design of electromagnetic research tools. He is well-versed in biosystems and control, physiology, modern biochemical techniques, organic chemistry techniques, bioreactors, fermentation, bioseparations, metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, and bioinformatics.

Sharee Fox, Buyer and Planner, Component Specialist
Sharee has over 30 years experience in manufacturing, planning, and component engineering. Her past experiences range from procurement and component engineering at a very small NPI facility, to manufacturing and component engineering responsibilities at large printer/plotter, computer, and in-flight entertainment manufacturers in Orange County.

Jim Kruthers, Quality Assurance Inspector, Material Control Specialist
Jim has 12 years experience as a quality inspector in the manufacturing field and 5 years experience in material control. He also has extensive ISO 9000 compliance experience.

Vanna Chhon, Electronics Assembly and Technical Support
Vanna has over ten years experience in the manufacture of surface mount printed circuit boards and cable and wire harness designs. She is experienced in surface mount and thru-hole techniques, and in-process quality inspection during PCB assembly. Vanna has trained in GMP and ISO 9002 compliance in PCB assembly. She is extremely capable in the detailed rework of fine pitch devices like FPGA’s.

Paula Lam, Quality Control Technician
Paula has over 14 years experience working in the Manufacturing and Quality Control of Photonic and Laser Optical Devices used for Research & Development, Medical, and Military Industries. She built laser and optical miniature devices then later worked as an inspector in the field. She is also a certified Pharmacy Technician. She has experience with ISO 9000 and 5 S principles, helpful in the efficient handling of quality and manufacturing processes.

Finance, Business Development, and Support

Nicholas Mione, Vice President, Finance
Nick has more than 30 years of financial management, accounting and business consulting experience. Prior to joining Aubrey Group, he was a self-employed consultant, primarily of counsel to entrepreneurs in financial, accounting and general business matters. From 1984 through 1996, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Tokos Medical Corporation, a publicly traded medical device manufacturer and provider of perinatal nursing services for women. He subsequently was Chief Financial Officer for EDiX Corporation, a medical informatics company. Nick is a Certified Public Accountant, currently licensed to practice in California. He began his career at Ernst & Young’s Los Angeles Office and holds a BS degree in Business Administration with emphasis in finance from California State University at Los Angeles, as well as a Master of Arts Degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Gil Peterson, Vice President, Business Development.
Gil has more than 40 years experience in both Fortune 500 and early-stage technology-driven organizations. During his career, he held management positions in R&D, sales and marketing, business development, and general management. Prior to Aubrey Group, he was a consultant to early-stage healthcare companies, providing guidance and serving as interim executive for innovative businesses in non-invasive cerebral blood oxygen saturation monitoring for surgery and critical care, intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning and delivery, web-based diagnostic image storage and management, and mobile information services for medical specialists. Earlier in his career, Gil was CEO of Virtual Imaging, a venture-backed developer of specialized hardware and software for diagnostic imaging workstations, Vice President and General Manager of Kodak’s Imagelink Business Unit, General Manager of Varian’s NMR Division, and Director of Perkin-Elmer’s Computer Aided Chemistry Department. These businesses won two IR 100 Awards for introducing one of the 100 most significant new technical products of the year. Gil began his career at Hewlett-Packard where he held a number of product and marketing management positions. He holds a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Sean O’Campo, Director Business Development, Southern Region
Sean brings more than 17 years experience in technical sales and service. He possesses a very strong understanding of regulatory compliance which was gained during his employment at Intertek Testing and Underwriters Laboratories. Throughout his career he has held various Senior Account Executive and Management positions. Most recently, he was Director of Business Development at HDA Technology, a Medical Device Development firm located in Southern California. He holds a degree from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Cindy Harman, Accountant
Cindy has over 10 years experience in the accounting field. Prior to joining the Aubrey Group she ran her own bookkeeping services company. She holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Phoenix.

Sarah Ferry, Senior Executive Administrator, Facilities and Office Manager
Sarah has over 12 years of experience assisting high level executives as well as Facilities and Office Management. Prior to joining Aubrey Group, she served as the Senior Executive Assistant and Director of Human Resources for a homebuilder in Orange County, CA.

Justin Sebe, Database Analyst
Justin is an MRP systems administrator who also provides IT support. He has over four years of experience working for medical device companies, and is currently focusing on computer based technologies. Justin graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Kinesiology. Born in Eastern Europe, he moved to Orange County in 1989.