https://joe.zott.com/

Business and technical management, product development for many industries – medical, industrial, mobile, wireless, consumer, semiconductor, software, information security and defense intelligence.

Former VP of Engineering and head of all product operations – Starting as solo engineer working in his basement took a medical device and company to hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue by shipping to over 100 countries worldwide. Led the development of all 3 product generations, products won multiple awards, set up and managed a supply chain with internal and multiple contract manufacturers, established and managed companies 13485 quality system, performed all worldwide regulatory filings for 7 years, managed customer support process for profitability and for enhancing product improvements.

Patent experience:

• Named inventor in 9 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

2021/2022 customer consulting projects have included:

• Product tuning of imaging medical device – product wasn’t meeting its design performance – identified product system and electrical changes that resulted in product meeting customer needs
• Project Mentor for inexperienced embedded software engineering team developing a CubeSat – management, software design, prototyping, testing – Linux/Python/Rust
• Analyzed and reversed engineered Verilog FPGA code – now documented, understood, and each module is independently simulatable
• Algorithm development – Reviewed device performance, characterized sensor, proposed improved sensor processing algorithm – Python
• Startup needing to meet FDA medical device regulations – developed and put in place quality management system

Expert Specialties:

• Medical devices – diagnostic
• System engineering
• Medical device regulatory – process development, design, risk management
• Hand-held and portable computing products
• Electro-optics
• Manufacturing – transitioning designs to manufacturing, developing test equipment, establishing and monitoring quality operations
• Consumer electronics
• Wireless – consumer, industrial, defense intelligence
• Mobile computers
• Product design and management
• FPGA
• Algorithms and implementations (video, audio, and radio)
• Software (big & small) (architecture through code and test)
• Network and computer security
• Mixed signal semiconductor design
• Network protocols
• Simulation and modeling