Services

The full electrical stack — plus the judgment to use it.

Three core service areas, focused on the work medical device teams actually need: building it, making it compliant, and getting it to manufacturing.

What it adds up to

The kinds of devices I build.

Every project is different, but most take a familiar shape. Some are regulated medical devices; some are consumer health and wellness products that want medical-grade rigor without the regulatory overhead. The engineering is the same.

Precision measurement instruments

Handheld and benchtop devices built around a demanding sensor — infrared temperature, thermistors, thermocouples. Precision analog front-ends, A-to-D conversion, calibration, and the firmware that turns a raw signal into a trustworthy reading.

Wearable & connected sensors

Battery-operated devices that measure something on the body — motion, temperature — and report it wirelessly. Low-power design, pre-certified Bluetooth modules, Qi wireless charging, and firmware that makes the battery last.

Manufacturing test & automation equipment

The equipment behind the product — automated test stations, calibration fixtures, and electrical automation for the production floor. Custom hardware where it's needed, driven by LabVIEW, Python, and C#.

01 — Core

Electrical Engineering

End-to-end electrical development, from the first schematic to working, tested hardware and the firmware that drives it.

Circuit design for medical devices

  • Analog and mixed-signal — precision signal chains, sensor front-ends, and A-to-D conversion
  • Patient isolation — isolation barriers, isolated signal paths, and leakage-current management per IEC 60601-1
  • Low-power and battery-operated design
  • PCB layout, component selection, and qualification
  • Charging circuits and wireless power — Qi / inductive charging
  • Sensor integration — IR temperature, thermistors, thermocouples, accelerometers
  • Wireless connectivity — Bluetooth (module-level)

Firmware & software

  • Embedded firmware in C
  • Microchip PIC and AVR microcontrollers
  • Supporting software in Python, LabVIEW, and C#
  • Electrical automation design and implementation
02 — Specialization

Medical Device Specialization

Designing and documenting to the standards medical devices live by — informed by years of doing it inside a regulated environment.

Standards-driven design

  • IEC 60601-1 — general safety and essential performance
  • IEC 60601-1-2, 4th Edition + Amendment 2 — electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
  • Risk management support per ISO 14971:2019
  • Manufacturing process development within ISO 13485 quality systems
  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

Documentation support

  • Audit readiness — DHF review and technical documentation preparation
  • Technical file authorship
  • Design History File (DHF) authorship and review
  • Risk Management File authorship
  • Manufacturing process development documentation

Scope note: This is engineering documentation preparation support — not regulatory strategy or quality-system consulting.

03 — Delivery

Project & Program Support

Keeping development moving — across the lifecycle, and especially across the hand-off from design to production.

Program leadership

  • Project management across the full product development lifecycle
  • Design-to-manufacturing transition
  • Cross-functional coordination between engineering, quality, and operations

Automation coordination

  • Automation project management — scoping and vendor coordination

Scope note: Designing fully autonomous manufacturing lines is specialist territory. Project-managing those engagements — scoping, vendor selection, and coordination — is squarely in scope.

Also available

Fractional Director of Engineering

For teams that need senior engineering leadership on a part-time basis — without committing to a full-time hire.

Drawing on real director-level experience: technical direction, hiring and performance management, and the cross-functional leadership that keeps a program on track. Available when it's the right fit, alongside the core engineering work.

Engagement at a glance

  • Part-time, senior leadership presence
  • Technical direction and mentorship
  • Hiring and performance management
  • Cross-functional program leadership
Technical inventory

Tools and domains I work in.

Hardware & sensors

Analog & mixed-signal design A-to-D conversion Patient isolation (IEC 60601-1) Bluetooth (module-level) Low-power design PCB layout Component qualification DFM Charging circuits Wireless power (Qi) IR temperature measurement Thermistors Thermocouples Accelerometers

Firmware & software

Embedded C Microchip PIC AVR Python LabVIEW C#

Standards & regulatory

IEC 60601-1 IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC) ISO 14971:2019 ISO 13485 Technical file authorship DHF authorship & review Risk Management File

Manufacturing & leadership

Manufacturing process development Design-to-manufacturing Operations management Engineering team leadership Project management

Not sure which of these fits your need?

Most engagements blend a few of these. Describe the problem and I'll tell you how I'd approach it.