Dominic Germana

About Dominic Germana

Founder and Chief Engineer of Impact Embedded, LLC, providing embedded systems consulting including circuit board design, firmware, software development, and mechanical integration. Extensive multidisciplinary background leading teams to successfully develop prototypes and products in a range of industries including robotics, defense, medical devices, and networking. Strong communication skills, passion for quickly learning new technologies, and a system level viewpoint.• Board level analog, digital, power electronics development• C/C++/C#, Python programming• Schematic capture and PCB layout with Altium Designer• Circuit design and layout for EMC• 8/16/32 bit microcontrollers• Design for tightly coupled electrical, mechanical, software systems• System architecture• Multidisciplinary technical, schedule, and financial project management• Hardware/software integration, testing and troubleshootingSample of integrated technologies: Atmel AVR and ARM, Microchip dsPIC, TI OMAP, Gumstix and Arduino computer modules, Motorola pressure sensors, inertial measurement units (IMU), GPS, acoustic altimeters and modems, sonar, brushless sensorless and brushed DC motors and motor controllers, ceramic transducers, DSP, Hall effect sensors, wireless communications, UART, USB, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, PWM, DC/DC regulators, Li-Ion/LiPo/LiFePo4/NiMH batteries and chargers

Experience

1. Founder, Chief Engineer

   Impact Embedded, Llc

   Dec 2012 — Present · Durham, NC, US

   Impact Embedded is a product development consultancy with expertise in creating embedded systems and a passion for executing multidisciplinary technology development projects.We provide services to a variety of organizations, from startup companies working to bring their concepts to market, to large companies expanding their engineering teams to meet temporary spikes in demand, to solo inventors seeking to embody their ideas in real proof of concept prototype devices. Located in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, we enjoy serving local clients as well as collaborating remotely with organizations throughout the United States. While specializing in embedded systems hardware, firmware, and software development, we love working on electromechanical systems with integrated electronics, sensors, actuators, and mechanical packaging, whether our designs are being integrated into a system owned by our customer, or we take on responsibility for the complete device design. Impact Embedded staff members have broad industry experience creating integrated devices in fields including robotics, medical devices, automotive, defense, and telecommunications.Partial client list:• Laird Technologies • Physcient, Inc. • Panaceutics • Nuvotronics • GuidePro 3D • Double E Company • Trio Labs • Hangar6 • ECSI FIBRotools • Aurora Insight • Physical Devices • Organic Transit Please feel free to contact us to discuss how we can help transform your great ideas into reality.

Education

• Dartmouth College

  Bachelor of Arts, Engineering Sciences

  1997 — 2001

• Dartmouth College

  Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical concentration

  1997 — 2001

• Dartmouth College - Thayer School of Engineering

  Master of Engineering Management, Electrical concentration

  2001 — 2002

Skills

• Manufacturing
• Robotics
• Microcontrollers
• Pcb Design
• Finite Element Analysis
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• System Design
• R&D
• Matlab
• Arm
• Rf
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• Debugging
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Embedded Software
• Engineering Management
• Systems Engineering
• Systems Design
• Orcad
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Digital Signal Processors
• Analog Circuit Design
• Schematic Capture
• Software Development
• Python
• Altium Designer
• Design for Manufacturing
• Analog
• Mobile Robotics
• Integration
• Automation
• Labview
• Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Circuit Design
• Firmware
• Hardware