Ron Vick

About Ron Vick

I am an experienced Electrical Engineering Leader, Inventor, and Entrepreneur with 13+ years of electronic hardware design, development, and engineering experience. My goal is to deliver high-quality, innovative products that customers find exciting and expertly designed. Significant experience designing mobile devices, smart phones, handhelds, tablets, IoT devices, POS systems, and electro-mechanical machine systems.History of successful collaboration with cross-functional teams to achieve aggressive development schedules while integrating complex ID, Electrical, Mechanical, RF, Acoustic, Antenna, User Experience, and Software requirements into prototypes and production devices.Highlighted Work Experience:PRODUCT DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS:• Toast Flex – 14” Android all-in-one tablet POS w/ stand • Toast Flex for Guest – 8” Secondary guest-facing display for Flex • Toast HUB – Integrated power, network, and USB 3.0 HUB • Toast Printer – Smart thermal printer with integrated Toast HUB • Toast Go 2 – 6.4” Android handheld with credit card reader • Toast Go 1 – 7” Android handheld with credit card reader • Gaming Smartphone – Modular Android gaming smart phone • Project Ara – Google’s Modular Android smart phone • Wistron Smart Speaker– Alexa integrated speaker ref. design • Honeywell Dolphin CT-50 – Ruggedized handheld w/ scanner • BlackBerry Smartphones – Various handheld models • Factory Test Fixtures – Customized electro-mechanical fixtures • Many more customized electrical PCBAs & designsHardware Design Experience:• Over 25 products designed• Experienced with Baseband hardware architecture and digital hardware design• Experienced with Power Engineering and system-level power design• Advanced Technology Research: Wireless Charging, Solar, Tactus, Advanced Sensors• Experienced with applications of antenna hardware, 3G/4G/LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and NFC circuitry• Experience working with communication interfaces including: I2C, SPI, MIPI, and USB (USB-OTG)• Familiar with sensor applications and MEMs technology: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Pressure, and IR/Proximity Sensors• Experienced with microprocessors: Qualcomm Snapdragon, PSoC, Arduino, ARM-Based, etc.• Performed full battery life analysis and software application tests in labratory settings• Experience with CAD software to create hardware schematic and board layout designs• Manufacturing experience, with over 25 hardware builds supported in Asia

Experience

1. Staff Hardware Solutions Engineer

   Toast

   Dec 2025 — Present

   This is a unique role that was created within the Hardware Engineering Team. The role was proposed in Q1 2025 and piloted throughout the year! The goal is to keep growing the Toast Hardware Team into an ambidextrous innovation powerhouse.The role is a combination of using my skills in Toast System Architecture, Hardware Engineering R&D, Product Management, and Customer-Obsession. Projects will be focused around expanding our hardware portfolio, scaling our hardware platform, and building innovative custom hardware to meet our customer and market needs.

Education

• Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Business Administration - Degree in Progress

• Marquette University

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Consumer Electronics
• Mobile Devices
• Patents
• Circuit Design
• Mobile Applications
• Wireless Charging
• Microcontrollers
• Debugging
• Antennas
• Electronics Hardware Design
• Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Hardware Architecture
• Power Systems
• Testing
• Wireless
• Electrical Engineering
• Baseband
• Microprocessors
• Intellectual Property
• Sensors