Russ Mock

As one of the five co-founders of Gale Force Software, Russ Mock adds significant knowledge and experience in following FDA process control guidelines to the company's overall capabilities.  As an example, Russ served on the Connectivity Industry Consortium, a group that was responsible for publishing the now-accepted and widely used POCT-1A medical device interface standard.

Russ has more than 17 years of software development experience in the fields of medical device/instrumentation, military electronics, and facilities security.  He served as one of the key engineers on a distributed team involved with new product design, requirements development, and system analysis for an electronic door-mounted access system for the secure facility access market.  He also assumed responsibility for the troubleshooting, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of the embedded controller module of a large FDA Class II medical device.

Before becoming part of the engineering and management team at Gale Force Software, Russ was a lead engineer with the RND Group, Inc.  He also served as chief engineer for UMM Electronics, Inc., on multiple projects, including a cardiac biomarker diagnostic device and a hand-held drugs-of-abuse screening instrument.  In addition, he had the responsibility for the oversight, design, and development of all of the automation on a manufacturing line that produced more than 40,000 blood glucose meters per month.  The tasks involved with this effort included test fixture design, FDA design controls, automated repair stations, final quality inspection stations, and process improvement activities.  He also served as the software lead for a team of engineers that developed a point-of-care blood analyzer, where he was responsible for high-level system design, detailed design, requirements management, resource management, code structuring, algorithm design, V & V activities, and software development.  While working for Bayer Diagnostics, Russ worked on the development of Bayer's Clinitek© Urine Chemistry Analyzer while also developing an assay-independent, parameter-driven algorithm for results processing.

He also has experience in software design and development for military defense applications, such as in-flight simulators used for classroom training and for products intended to digitize battlefield communications.  Russ was involved in these projects while working for Veda Incorporated (on assignment to the Naval Air Warfare Center) and ITT Aerospace.

Russ holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tri-State University.