Mobile: 650.328.6828
CNSV Member
IEEE Senior Member
Executive management, Project management, Business development, PCB, FPGA, Software, Optical, Mechanical, manufacturing, distribution, technical sales, medical device quality/regulatory, intellectual
San Clemente, CA 92672
USA
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
