Objective: To apply and improve engineering, research and problem solving skill s. Education: B.E.E.

, Electrical Engineering, Cooperative Plan, Georgia Institute of Technolog y, 1983. Certificate in Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1983. M.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. Capability Summary: o Designing and developing non-invasive medical devices, diagnostic equipment an d medical research support equipment; including electrical, software, mechanica l, test and process design and development. Negotiating with tier 1 and tier 2 m anufacturers for production of devices. o Design and development of testing, evaluation, qualification, and validation a ctivities related to the design and development of non-invasive medical devices, diagnostic equipment and medical research support equipment as required to meet agency guidelines and standards. o Designing and developing hardware, software and test for micro-controller base d systems. o Development of transdermal delivery and assay techniques. o Developing and executing clinical protocols to support medical research. Coll ecting and processing clinical research data. o Designing, fabricating and field testing measurement devices for operation in harsh environmental conditions. o Designing and developing of software for data reduction, signal processing and simulation. Specialized algorithm development and optimization. Software lang uages include; C, C++, FORTRAN, Ada and assembly. o Software porting and optimization. Porting includes cross platform and cross GUI. Optimization includes coding to advanced pipelined and parallel architectu res. o Designing and developing specialized hardware for data acquisition, interfacin g and software acceleration, including circuit design, layout, fabrication and t esting. o Designing and integrating systems using commercial and or custom products. The se products include high performance coprocessors, data acquisition, data archiv al and interfaces. o Photographic capture and analysis of imagery for presentation and documentatio n. o Program management and planning for medium to small programs (Up to 20 Enginee rs/Scientists). o Patent research and patent application support. o Customer interaction and follow-on development. Most Recent Position: 1999 - 12/2010 Altea Therapeutics, Vice President, Engineering o Leader of team in medical device research, design and development. Responsible for team management, departmental coordination, life cycle planning, developmen t of research prototypes and design and development for manufacture in GMP envir onment. o Development of validation and verification processes and documentation to supp ort regulatory filings. o Design and development of medical device requirements, hardware and software. o Detailed design and development of software and hardware for medical devices. o Development and implementation of a quality system conforming with 21 CFR Part 820 Quality System Regulations. o Develop business relationships with manufacturing resources for manufacturing non-disposable components in quantities form 10,000 per year to 10,000,000 per y ear and disposable components up to 100,000,000 per year. o Involved in company strategic planning.

Immediate Supervisor: Frank Tagliaferri Preceding Position: 1995 - 1999 SpectRx, Director of Transdermal Systems o Director of team developing the micropore technology and its application to co ntinuous glucose monitoring. o Principal researcher supporting the development of medical diagnostic equipmen t. Developed and patented techniques for accessing interstitial fluid from the epidermis. Developed and executed clinical protocols to support research. Des igned and implemented imaging systems to resolve sub-micron tissue features. De signed and developed ultrasonic systems to enhance diagnostic procedures. Desig ned and fabricated laboratory equipment to support research. Supervision and su pport of development team. o Project Engineer supporting the development of feature extraction algorithms f or diabetic screening instrument. Immediate Supervisor: Jonathan Eppstein Preceding Position: 1990 - 1995, Nichols Research Corporation, Member of the Technical Staff. o Lead Project Engineer supporting the development of data analysis and data vis ualization tools for the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Early Midcourse Projec t. Developed tools for data quality assessment, algorithm performance analysis, algorithm demonstration and data handling. 3 Engineer/Scientist supervised. o Lead Project Engineer supporting the development of Spaced Based Visible, UVIS I and LWIR sensor fusion techniques for analysis of data from the MSX Satellite. Fusion techniques addressing other corollary sensors developed for verifying d ata. o Lead Project Engineer supporting the development of specialized algorithms sup porting target recognition using optical correlation techniques for MICOM Weapon System Lab. The algorithms develop filters to be used for optical processing b ased on target image libraries. Algorithm prototyping performed using IDL visua lization tool. o Lead Project Engineer supporting hardware integration and algorithm developmen t and optimization for parallel processing of the MSX Data Reduction and Analysi s Workstation (DRAW) software for use by MSX Early Midcourse Project in processi ng sensor data from the MSX satellite. Provided lecture and hands-on training s essions for users of DRAW. 3 Engineer/Scientists supervised. o Project Engineer supporting design of advanced signal processor for use on pol arizing infrared tracking system. System design supports real-time and non-real -time processing and interactive user training. o Project Engineer supporting development implementation and maintenance of divi sion local area network. Provide support to network users. o Task Director and Lead Project Engineer supporting algorithm development, hard ware integration and software design and development for the Data Reduction and Analysis Workstation (DRAW). DRAW implements signal processing algorithms assoc iated with advanced space based sensors for use by Late Midcourse Project in pro cessing sensor data from the MSX satellite. Supported Late Midcourse Data Analy sis Team in the planning and execution of data processing Dry Run exercises. Co nducted trade-off analysis for hardware and software to be selected. Provided l ecture and hands-on training sessions for users of DRAW. System administrator f or Workstations used on program. Code development in ANSI C using Sun Openwindo ws development environment and tools. Data processing and analysis tools develo ped using the IDL visualization command language. Configuration management impl emented for code development and testing. Authored Acceptance Test Plan for sys tem. 5 Engineer/Scientists supervised. Immediate Supervisor: Robert Styles Preceding Position: 1989 - 1990, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, General Engineer. o Project Engineer and Tech Specialist in directing development of flight vehicl

e software for the Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem (ERIS). Monitored program technical requirements and schedules for ERIS FTV flight soft ware and avionics equipment integration and test. Provides direction, coordinat ion, and information in areas required to meet technical requirements, cost obje ctives and schedules. Monitored contractor schedule and cost for assigned areas of responsibility. Coordinated/prepared acceptable work around plans to minimi ze impacts of cost and schedule deviations from planned program. Prepared techn ical scopes of work, task assignments and specifications as required for assigne d areas. Reviewed contractors' technical documentation and provided comments to assure compliance with program objectives. Analyzed ERIS FTV flight vehicle so ftware to assure functional performance. Performed software life cycle cost ana lysis for ERIS FTV flight software. Enforced compliance with MIL-STD-2167 and 2 167a during the design and development of ERIS FTV flight software. o Project Engineer supporting U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command software reuse committee. Immediate Supervisor: Bill Roberson Preceding Position: 1983 - 1989, Research Engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, System Engineering Laboratory, Research Engineer II. o Associate Project Director and Technical Lead in design and development of the AN/ALE-45 countermeasures dispenser integration support station. Designed and supervised design and development hardware and software to exercise the AN/ALE-4 5 countermeasures dispenser, record responses and analyze results. Supervised f ive engineers and two cooperative students. o Project Engineer in development of performance requirements for Advanced Radar Warning Receiver Integration Support Station. o Project Director for the Modular Electronic Warfare Research Facility. Design and development of system interfaces and system control hardware and software f or hardware in the loop testing. Supervised graduate student in the development of hybrid IEEE-488 interface to narrow band RF tuner. o Project Engineer analyzing effects of electromagnetic interference generated b y electronic countermeasures systems on radar warning receivers. Designed and d eveloped PC and microprocessor based laboratory simulator to support testing of methods to reduce this interference. The Compatibility Test Equipment (CTE) con tained multiple PCs and microprocessors controlling the RF environment and RF in teraction between systems. o Project Engineer analyzing the generation of techniques on the AN-ALQ-131 ECM Pod for the System Update Mission Study (SUMS) to determine requirements for imp roving system performance and reliability. o Lead Software Engineer of project staff designing the Advanced Jammer Measurem ent and Display System (AJMDS), an instrumentation system for the AN/ALQ-131 ECM POD. Supervised four engineers and two cooperative students in the development of the FORTRAN based system code in accordance with MIL-STD 2167a. Design and implementation of hardware interfaces based on IEEE-488 and custom parallel inte rfaces. Designed, developed and implemented Graphical User Interfaces for confi guration of the system. Designed and developed software for system stimulation, data acquisition and analysis of POD activity in frequency, time and logic doma ins. o Project Engineer supporting technology insertion for the AN/ALR-69 radar warni ng receiver. Responsible for reverse engineering, analysis and documentation of existing system. Designed portions of replacement modules using state of the a rt components to reduce cost and parts count, and increase functionality and mai ntainability. Involved in the specification of EW bus requirements. Immediate Supervisor: W. Dean Spencer Preceding Position: 1979 - 1983, Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station, Systems Engineering La boratory, Cooperative Student. Immediate Supervisor: W. Dean Spencer

Issued US Patents: US Patent 5,885,211 "Microporation of human skin for monitoring the concentratio n of an analyte" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Yang, Difei. US Patent 6,022,316 "Apparatus and method for electroporation of microporated ti ssue for enhancing flux rates for monitoring and delivery applications" Eppstein , Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R. US Patent 6,142,939 "Microporation of human skin for drug delivery and monitorin g applications" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Yang, Difei. US Patent 6,352,506 "Controlled removal of biological membrane by pyrotechnic ch arge for transmembrane transport" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Papp , Joseph; Faupel, Mark L.; Kumar, Krishna. US Patent 6,530,915 "Photothermal structure for biomedical applications, and met hod therefore" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Yang, Difei. US Patent 6,692,456 "Apparatus for microporation of biological membranes using t hin film tissue interface devices, and method therefore" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Papp, Joseph. US Patent 6,730,028 "Controlled removal of biological membrane by pyrotechnic ch arge for transmembrane transport" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Papp , Joseph; Faupel, Mark L.; Kumar, Krishna. US Patent 6,918,874 "Attribute compensation for analyte detection and/or continu ous monitoring" Hatch, Michael R.; Eppstein, Jonathan A.; McRae, Stuart. US Patent 6,922,578 "Integrated poration, harvesting and analysis device, and me thod therefor" Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Samuels, Mark A.; Hatch, Michael R. US Patent 6,925,317 "Integrated alignment devices, system, and methods for effic ient fluid extraction, substance delivery and other applications " Samuels, Mark A.; Kumar, Krishna S.; Robinson, Garrett T.; Farquhar, J. David; Minton, Alliso n; Williams, Diedre; Hatch, Michael R.; Smith, Alan M.; Woods, Teresa; Vreeke, M ark. US Patent 6,951,411 "Light beam generation, and focusing and redirecting device" Kumar, Krishna; Lincoln, Danny F.; Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R. US Patent 7,037,277 "System and method for fluid management in a continuous flui d collection and sensor device" Smith, Alan; Delcher, Harry K.; Eppstein, Jonath an A.; Farquar, David; Hatch, Michael R.; Kumar, Krishna. US Patent 7,384,396 "System and method for continuous analyte monitoring" Samual s, Mark A.; Eppstein, Jonathan A.; Hatch, Michael R.; Smith, Alan; Faupel, Mark L. Additional patents pending.