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Timothy Engel - Business Developement Manager

Timothy is a former medical device engineer with several years of experience providing business development counsel for healthcare companies. His most prominent role was as the leader of the corporate development team at a New York City-based investor relations agency. Here, Mr. Engel helped his clients set up the initial infrastructures of their companies, and generated investor interest among angel investors, private equity groups, M&A targets, and venture capitalists across the United States and Western Europe.

Mr. Engel also currently provides financial and marketing mentoring to companies at all stages - from lab to global bridges - as a part of CONNECT's flagship "Springboard" business creation and development program in San Diego.

Prior to this, Mr. Engel worked on the design, development and manufacture of several different medical devices in contract
engineering roles with MEPS Real-Time, California MedTech, and Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX). He holds a bachelors of mechanical engineering degree, with a concentration in biomedical engineering, from the University of Dayton, OH.

Lyn Vicary - Sales and Marketing Manager

Lyn has 20 years experience in the sales and marketing arena specialising in the IT industry. She has worked for companies such as Toshiba, IBM, Telstra,  and has been the National Account Manager for companies such as CISCO, Compaq, Microsoft and Campbell Arnotts. During this time she has been involved in running successful sales teams and has been involved in putting together campaigns that have been instrumental in achieving the companies goals .

Christian Decosterd - BDM/Project Manager

Christian is a recent appointment to BSC Innovations as Business Development and Project Manager. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Geneva in Switzerland and has had 18 years working in the medical device field with the last 10 years managing team a of engineers. His professional experience is broad and international with a strong ability to work within different environments. Most recently he worked at CathRx Ltd as Research and Development Manager.
Prior to this, he held the position of Program Manager for Medical/Aerospace and Defence projects looking after clients such as Ventracor and Thales Australia. His design experience started in 1991 in Switzerland where for three years he designed orthopaedic devices. Christian has also worked for Electro Medical System where he was responsible for the design of their new range of ultrasonic scalers (dentistry) as well as for Tesa Measuring Systems to re-designed a range of non contacting measuring device

Adrian Bruce - Project Manager (Technical)

Adrian has experience across design, development and management , (the hardware, electronics, firmware and software) that have been all of, industrial and consumer, high end exclusive, low cost mass production and limited quantity custom. Such as Navy training systems for radar, sonar, voice communications, chaff launcher and helmsman training. Also railway safety electronics, ticketing systems, pro audio production, musical instrument and nonlinear video production markets.

He received his Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering from UNSW, developed the 16 bit audio electronics, video and disk interfaces for the Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd CMI III music production system before moving to Japan to spend 15 year at Roland where he was involved with product development and core technologies in music, audio and video system. On return to Australia he has been involved with Defense, Railway and Software development management and contracting

Sean Cohen - Project Manager (Operations)

Sean began his academic career with an honors degree in electronic engineering, where he developed a software simulation of ultraviolet gallium nitride photodiodes in operation. He then moved on to develop skills in project management, gaining a Master of Engineering Management from the University of Technology in Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management, and is currently working toward an MBA.

Before joining BCS, Sean worked in various capacities in the power industry, ranging from high voltage distribution planning, to network failure investigations, to managing the construction of electrical distribution infrastructure.

Sean has also spent a great deal of time in volunteer work with the community, organizing weekly events for both primary and secondary school students, as well as summer and winter camps to teach leadership and teamwork skills in an informal environment.

Stephen (Mac) Rowe - Software Team Leader

Mac has particular skills in DSP development for telecommunications and medical systems. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical - Information Systems) with 1st class honors from the University of Sydney. His thesis project with Telectronics Pacing Systems was awarded the Prospect Electricity Control Prize. He is an inventor is several patents including medical devices for cancer diagnostics and skin lesion analysis.

The many products he has developed range from dual-DSP based audio systems to FDA approved controllers of high powered lasers. This includes coding within frameworks such as MISRA and IEC62304.

Mac has been writing software since the cassette-based days of the TRS-80 & ZX-81. If you ever played Goldsoft's arcade game ‘Airfox' on the now-forgotten Tandy Coco, you were using the first piece of software he was ever paid for - a game he wrote when he was 13 years old.

Dr Mike Batty - Senior Electronics Engineer

Mike originally trained as a physicist, completing his BSc at Sydney University in 1966, followed by a doctorate in the area of radio astronomy. After completing his PhD he worked for several years at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics at Marsfield, mainly developing instrumentation and software for radio astronomy, in particular for a radio interferometer using antennas at NASA's Tidbinbilla Deep Space Network tracking station near Canberra.

Mike was also part of the team that used this instrument in a highly successful radio-optical program searching for distant quasars. In 1978 Mike took up a postdoctoral position as a US National Science Foundation research associate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, where he worked mainly on the analysis of radio interferometer data. In 1980 he returned to CSIRO to work on further radio astronomy projects. Mike has authored or co-authored several dozen publications in the astronomy area.

In 1986 a career change saw him leave CSIRO to take up a position teaching electronics at Macquarie University, where he remained until early 2007. During this time he was involved in the development of a variety of hardware and software projects, including systems and software for reception of data from remote sensing satellites, and MS Windows-based software applications for teaching .

In late 2007, weary of assignment marking, he joined BCS as a Senior Engineer specializing in analog circuit design. Affectionately known as "Dr Mike" around BCS, he enjoys providing advice to younger engineers, being a test subject for medical devices for the youthfully challenged, and acting as the brunt of senior jokes (particularly from the HR staff).

Mike has had a long interest in electronics, beginning as a hobbyist in his teens, when he fiddled with regenerative valve radios and adroitly managed to avoid electrocution. His other interests over the years have included cars and motor sport (rallying a Datsun 1600 and a Hillman Imp(!)), audio systems, photography, woodwork, psychology, listening to music of many genres , being a (very) amateur guitarist and occasionally telling Dad Jokes. Mike has three perfect children, Julian, Kathleen and Dylan; the older two are studying at university in order to support their father in later life.

Ian Bruinsma - Senior Electronics Engineer

Ian's competence is in practical electronics hardware design. He is skilled in designing complex analog and digital circuits ready for reliable low cost manufacture. This includes high speed analogue signal measurement and processing, including impressive experience in the upper MHz range of analogue pre-processing, and signal capture.

Combine this with years of experience in programmable logic design (FPGA & CPLD), allows the full scope of today's highly integrated solutions. As a result, his designs end up as innovative highly polished, low cost, and flexible solutions to previously "impossible" problems.

He comes with more than 19 years of experience in electronics design working for such companies as Cochlear for 5 year and CEA Technologies for 8 years, specialising in Radar development. Prior to this he worked for an optical fibre research company for 3 years. This has helped him develop a good intuitive knowledge of the complex issues often hidden in modern designs. Ian has been able to build good attention to detail early in the design process, especially manufacturing testingand production documentation.

Particular career experience includes design right through to manufacture of consumer audio, optical electronics, military/commercial radar, complex precision analog interfaces, high speed digital processing, implanted electronics, and body-worn medical electronic systems, precision high speed measurement systems, complex programmable logic systems, and high impedance high frequency analogue measurements.

Stephen Sommer - Senior Electronics Engineer

Stephen has extensive skills in firmware development for embedded systems. He is adept at development in a number of software environments, including C, Pascal and assembler, for a range of target systems including PIC, TI MSP430 and PC-based embedded systems. He also has experience in Windows applications development.

BCS has key strategic alliances with the following expert Business Consultants:

David Barach - Business Consultant

David Barach has 25 years of entrepreneurial and senior management experience–both startup and later stages, in assessment, strategy, execution, and repositioning. He has held various managerial and executive roles in wireless communications, software IT, hardware and medical and health sciences. Currently, he advises small and medium-sized businesses in new venture startup, strategy, finance, repositioning, distress turn-around, and exit planning and has served on their boards.

David’ s career started in engineering, initially in hardware and software, and then IC design and design automation. He held engineering and managerial roles at Hughes, SAIC, and CommQuest, and later executive management roles, including CEO, at BrightCom, Extricom, Global Microwave and ComSolutions, the latter of which he founded, led and sold to LSI Logic. He was CEO of Instromedix, a leading brand cardiac medical device company, and was instrumental in its turn-around from negative earnings and falling revenues to close to 400% growth and subsequent sale.

He is affiliated as a business plan judge and coach at the Social Enterprise Institute, the UCSD Rady School, Venture Roundtable, the Connect Springboard program, and past member of Woman in Technology International board. He is associated with a number of angel groups, including the New Mexico Angels and Life Science Angels, and is an active member of the Tech Coast Angels where he serves on its board and heads its Tech Pre-screen activity. He also serves on the Dean’ s Advisory board, college of Engineering, at SDSU. David earned a B.Sc. degree in EE from the University of California San Diego, and is a graduate of San Diego State University’ s MBA for Executives program.

Neil Covey - Consultant Business Development Manager

Neil has over 30 years experience in Business Management in a number of industries and has held senior positions in major international companies based in Australia. Neil commenced his career in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) where he developing his skills in personnel, purchasing and finance management.

Andy Wyatt - Consultant Project Manager

Andy's main expertise is in real-time control systems, with a focus on automotive engine control. He has extensive experience in C and assembly-level coding of microcontrollers.

Andy was awarded a Bachelor of Science (Computing) from the University of Sydney. His second degree was in Mechatronic Engineering, with a thesis on an adaptive engine control unit.

Chris Buck - Consultant Business Development Manager

Chris Buck is a CPA, Economist, has an MBA who is undertaking a Doctorate (DBA) in International Trade and Economics.(He is a committee member of the Export Consultants group of the Institute of Export, one of two  members of the joint Austrade/ Institute of Export Technical Committee). He has a 12year track record of successfully supporting and advising exporters & corporations undertake R & D, Export, Export Finance, Agricultural Grants and Commercialization grants such as Climate Ready.

Dr Stewart Montano - Consultant Senior Biomedical Engineer

Stewart graduated in medicine from the UNSW in 1987, and after working at St Vincents hospital he studied a MbiomedE at the UNSW in 1989. He spent 1990 to 1994 in anaesthesia training and graduated a specialist anesthetist in 1995.  He spent a research year in cardiopulmonary bypass in 1994 and developed an electro-hydraulic simulator for doctor training. Since then he has practiced in anaesthesia, developed other medical simulators,  produced devices for clinical trials and undertaken medical teaching.

Dr Peter Spencer - Consultant Business Development Manager

Dr Peter Spencer has over 25 years experience in developing new technology related businesses from capital raising to commercialization across a broad range of technologies including medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and consumer products. He has worked in the USA, Australia and Germany in a range of senior positions.

Management and Senior Engineers are supported by a highly qualified team of Design Engineers and Technical Staff:

Hayden Scott Mechatronics Engineer	Trevor Sunderland Intern Engineer	Jasmine Pouladi Biomedical Engineer	ValerieKuo Biomedical Engineer
Mark D'Amico Technical Officer	Phill Mudge Industrial Designer	Ali Emam Electronic Design Engineer	Eric Huang Hardware Engineer
Mohammad Shahbeikian Electronics Engineer

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Careers at BCS

At BCS we’re always on the lookout for highly motivated individuals who want to work in a challenging, dynamic environment which will give you the opportunity to utilize your creative abilities.

We look for engineers in: embedded firmware development, PC software development, electronic hardware design, regulatory affairs, specification and documentation, verification and validation, project management, assembly and testing.

If you have an interest and ability in a few of these disciplines and want to work in a dynamic environment, please send an application and CV to:
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