Marshall Parker

Marshall Parker, co-founder and principal with Gale Software Corporation, has significant practical expertise in the area of software development and software quality management, particularly related to the development of FDA-regulated devices.  He has 17 years of experience in the electronic medical device and defense industries, also bringing project planning, requirements generation, design document generation, and verification and validation protocol generation and testing experience to the Gale Force Software team.

Before helping to co-found Gale Force Software, Marshall worked for the RND Group, Inc., where he was the lead software engineer on medical device projects for instruments used for patient testing in hospital or long-term care environments.  In this capacity, he had responsibilities covering all aspects of the product development life cycle, from initial technical feasibility investigations through final design, documentation, testing, and delivery. He also provided software engineering support to the life cycle management of products already on the market, including investigating and helping to resolve operational anomalies, implementing new features into the products, and conducting and documenting exhaustive verification testing of the products.  He has significant expertise in the development of design and test documentation associated with FDA-regulated devices.  Additionally, Marshall served as a member of the quality management team for RND, a company that is widely recognized for its quality software engineering services in the medical device and consumer electronics fields.

Marshall also previously worked for UMM Electronics and Roche Diagnostics Corporation, where he was involved in the design and development of various medical products and the manufacturing equipment used to calibrate and test the products.  Those products ranged from embedded data acquisition systems and hand-held blood glucose and blood coagulation meters to single-board computer designs and PC-based systems.  In addition to his software development role, he was responsible for project planning, requirements generation, design document generation, and verification and validation protocol generation and testing.  He started his career with the Naval Air Warfare Center, where he was responsible for both the hardware and software design and development for various automated production test systems.

Marshall has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University.