R&D Management Services

Darrell Burch, Ph.D., has over 40 years of experience in the development of optical instrument systems. This includes consulting for CDA and working at Ford Aerospace and other companies. Approximately 29 years of this experience was at Ford Aerospace, including the position of Research Fellow in the area of optical technology. He has taught courses in optical engineering at UCI and Ohio State University. He has 5 patents, 35 published papers, and 50 scientific reports. He is a Fellow in OSA and SPIE. He has considerable electrical-optical analytical and instrumentation skills that will be helpful in overall design and development efforts.

Harald Weiss holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS degree in Physics with Distinction from Harvey Mudd College. He is President of Technical Marketing Group, an outside product research and marketing resource for high tech companies, and Harald Weiss & Associates, which specializes in technical documentation. Capabilities include technical manuals, desktop publishing, the creation of web sites, ad design, news releases, trade journal articles, training materials, and product photography.

Clint Deckert, MSEE, has over 37 years of solid electronic and computer system development experience. For the last three years he has been an independent consultant. During this time he has helped a number of different clients. For example, he has developed closed loop blood pressure control system using Lab View and MATLAB for major medical device manufacturer. Here he was involved with closed loop control of an infusion pump development, based upon real time monitoring of invasive blood pressure including control algorithm incorporating fuzzy logic techniques. This required development of 8051 processor based communications interface controllers to convert proprietary infusion pump data to be compatible with the IEEE1073 Medical Interface Bus standard. He also assisted in the development of a wireless patient monitor using Bluetooth and a TI TMS320 series DSP. Before independent consulting, he assisted Sabratek Corporation and Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Principal Engineer for the electronics and software for the 3030 Infusion Pump and 6060 Ambulatory Infusion Pump and acted as a Project manager for a home based patient monitor using a X86 based controller. Prior to this he was involved with IMED Corporation (1986-1993) as a Principal Engineer and Manager of electronics development group which developed electronics for infusion pumps including IMED models PC1, PC2, and PC4. Systems incorporated 80C96, 80C51, and 68302 processors. He also managed their research and development department with responsibility for all electronics, mechanical, and software for new product development. Before this he was involved with IVENT Corporation (1983-1986) as a Principal Electronics Engineer for medical infusion devices. Earlier while at IMED Corporation (1978-1983) he developed hardware and software for infusion pumps and controllers. During his early experience at Rockwell International (1965-1978) he was responsible engineer and department manager for inertial guidance system precision electronics and gimbal control servo systems and was Manager of sonar processing electronic development department responsible for real-time FFT electronic equipment.

Curt Deckert Associates, Inc.
Competitive R&D

18061 Darmel Place
Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA.