Ed joined the Simplexity team in 2011 after serving in technical and executive management roles from startups to Fortune 50 companies. He is responsible for the smooth operation of the company along with growing the digital systems portion of the business. He has almost 30 years experience in bringing products from concept to market, specializing in embedded systems.

Education

• BS Computer Engineering, UC San Diego
• MS Computer and Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Interests / Obsessions

• Teaching for UCSD Extension, John Paul Catholic University
• Program management
• Real-time operating systems
• Device drivers

Favorite Quote

Nature abhors a vacuum
– Parmenides

Expertise

• Operations and IT
• Systems engineering and architecture (digital systems)
• Embedded programming (C, assembly)
• Printing systems

Experience

• Executive management at Simplexity to scale the company’s operations through a tripling in size over a 5-year time period
• Program manager for Memjet’s first market entry
• Executive at DriveCam as VP Engineering followed by VP Field Operations, developing the hosted/cellular product line and bringing it into the field
• President of TTM Engineering, an engineering services company
• Firmware architect for HP’s entry into the flatbed All-in-One printer market
• Principal engineer for DEC, working on Alpha PC’s and operating systems
• Firmware engineer on HP’s first color inkjet printer