ROBERT SCACCIA

8175 Joyce Road

Broadview Heights, OH 44147

contact@usafirmware.com

440-507-1809 (cell)                                                                                              440-210-4200 (home)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Innovative, productive and respected Entrepreneur, Firmware Architect and Manager with notable success managing and designing new products.  Over 2 decades experience developing products on project teams, as well as holding project management and senior product management positions.

AREAS OF EFFECTIVENESS

·    Senior Product Management

·    Firmware Architecture (C, C++)

·    Change Evangelist, Innovator

·    Instrumentation / Medical Industry

·    Software Technology Leader

·    Requirements Management

·    Project Management

·    Systems Engineering

·    Partnership Management

·    Technology Community Leader

CAREER PROGRESSION

USA Firmware, LLC.                                    Broadview Hts, OH                          7/2011 to Present

Provider of Comprehensive Firmware Services.

            President

·    Building business model based on consulting, training and networking services.

Codonics Inc.                                                 Middleburg Hts, OH                         2/2011 to 7/2011

Global leader in image documentation solutions for the medical industry. Privately owned.

            Senior Engineering Product Manager

Product Manager of the Integrity® and Virtua® product lines.          $10-15 million annual revenue

·    Managing all aspects of the Integrity® and Virtua®  product lifecycle.

·    Managing software development project using staged gate process.

ThermoFisher Scientific                                Oakwood Village, OH                                  2/2010 to 1/2011

$9 billion world leader in ‘serving science’.

            Systems Engineer

Leader, evangelist and mentor on using systems thinking and modern team collaboration tools.

·    Led effort to improve system requirement management process.

·    Provided lead software support and installation of Spectroscopic Portal Monitor (SPM) systems.

·    Provided frequent consultation to Project Manager on large product development effort.

Keithley Instruments                                      Solon, OH                                        1996 to 2010

$110 million global electronic instruments design and manufacturing company.

            Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

Lead Designer and Architect of 3 Firmware Design efforts. Highly regarded for creative solutions to challenging problems.

·    Led all firmware and FPGA developments for Model 4225-PMU Ultra-Fast I-V Module

Third Party Products Department Manager

Department manager overseeing all third party instruments and product development activities.

·    Led projects working with several domestic and international suppliers.

·    Worked successfully with cross functional groups due to the inorganic nature of products.

·    Led an internal software product development for a tier-1 semiconductor manufacturer.

·    Managed Model 3390 Arbitrary Wave Form Generator. Exceeded plan more than twofold and was featured on the cover of “Electronic Products” magazine:  www.electronicproducts.com/images/ep-jul09.jpg.

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Software and Firmware Technology Forum Leader

Led innovative team of software engineers towards consensus and implementation of several new process and competency improvements.

·    Hand selected out of all software and firmware engineers to lead the founding team.

·    Successfully led several process improvement initiatives, including efforts to replace multiple revision control and problem resolution systems into corporate wide solutions.

Staff Software / Firmware Engineer

Led a total of sixteen firmware, software, and digital design efforts.

·    Successfully led the embedded design efforts on eight products now in production.

·    Participated in several software GUI/Client/Kernel design activities using MVS in C/C++.

·    Co-architect of embedded software code base used on all but one of the 4200-SCS product family.

·    Led the design efforts of nine software engineers, three co-ops, and one digital design engineer (over the years, not all at once).

·    Catalyst behind moving several product lines from Super Loop to embedded RTOS.

Picker International                                       Solon, OH                                             1987 to 1996

$1 billion global medical imaging system design and manufacturing company.  Eventually sold to Philips.

            Staff Engineer, X-Ray Division

Led the design efforts of more than ten digital and analog circuits, sustained more than ten digital designs, one large system design, and two new embedded firmware architectures.

·    Sole hardware, firmware, and digital design engineer responsible for complex multiple processor automatic/robotic X-Ray system.

·    Led the firmware and digital sustaining efforts for a battlefield deployable X-Ray system.

·    Successfully completed the firmware and software design of a 100% coverage test vector based manufacturing test system for military X-Ray system.

Project Champion, X-Ray Division

Led five multiple supplier based medical imaging system product development efforts, integration, and product introductions.

·    Successfully led several imaging systems product developments, included mammography, urology, mobile X-Ray and general radiology systems.

·    Worked heavily with both domestic and international third party partners.

·    Led several RSNA trade show and customer beta site installations.

·    Saved an important Mammography account after a personal visit.

Gould Electronics                                           Euclid, OH                                            1986 to 1987

$1 billion global conglomerate and manufacturer of electronic controls, battery equipment, medical instrumentation, electronic test and measurement equipment, and military contractor of ocean systems.

            Digital Design Engineer, Ocean Systems Division

·    EPLU based inertial references unit design for the Gryo controller of the ASUW torpedo.

Raytheon                                                        Sudbury, MA                                         1984 to 1986

$4 billion (now $28 billion) leader in defense, aeronautics, and consumer products.

            Electrical Engineer, Equipment Division

·    CCD characterization for the positioning system of the Midgetman nuclear missile program.

EDUCATION

MBA; Baldwin Wallace College; Berea, OH; 2006 to Present (top of class 4.0 GPA)

BSEE; University of Vermont; Burlington, VT

AFFILIATIONS

Founder and Leader of 150 Member ‘Firmware Engineers of Northeast Ohio’

Chair of the IEEE Computer Society for the Cleveland IEEE Section