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Team Members

The Gale Force Software technical staff has been successful in applying our broad range of experience in the medical device, defense, facility security, automotive, life sciences, and home automation industries to the benefit of many of our clients' unique product development efforts, often shortening development time and reducing development costs. The team continually takes on new technologies and development platforms, including, but not limited to, Windows, Mac/iPhone/iPad, Linux, Palm, or Window Mobile for application software and an ever-increasing range of firmware development environments. Our software and firmware teams are made up of senior engineers and program managers with an average of 18 years of experience. Every member of our team has contributed to the development of devices that have been introduced by our customers into the medical device marketplace. These devices have been developed in accordance with stringent FDA regulatory guidelines. Additionally, five members of the Gale Force Software team have worked in the past directly for the government or for government contractors. All of the software/firmware engineers on the team have worked in the capacity of software system architect, team lead, or team member. All members are respectful of and diligent in following the company's internal software quality process, which is compliant with FDA 21 CFR 820 Quality Systems Regulation (QSR) 13485.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Tom Bundy	Simulation, Remote Monitoring, Distributed Systems, Systems Architecture	Lead Software Engineer	Gale Force Software I-NET, Inc., Eastman Kodak, Baker Hill Corporation, Software Artistry, The RND Group
A graduate of Purdue University with a BS degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering, Tom Bundy has spent more than 20 years in the design, development, and deployment of production software for the medical device, military, information technology, financial, student loan, consumer electronics, and facility security marketplaces. He specializes in highly available, mission critical, multi-platform systems. He is also one of the founding partners of GFSC. Tom started his career developing a worldwide package tracking system for the US Air Force to support logistics operations for Operation Desert Storm. Most recently, he has served as the lead engineer on a nurse call system that provides security and monitoring for assisted living and long-term healthcare facilities. He also recently led a team working on a line of facility security products to combine multiple product lines into a single suite of products, including online, offline, and guess access control for a variety of markets. Tom has also developed applications for both the iPhone and the iPad. These products have focused on communicating with devices that are traditionally unavailable for connectivity with an iPad.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Laura Combs	Web Applications, iPhone/iPad, Database Management Systems, Simulation, Serial Communication	Senior Software Engineer	Gale Force Software Baker Hill Corp., Orchard Software, Cornerstone Pharmacy Services, LLC
Laura Combs has a BS degree in Computer Science from Indiana State University. She has 14 years of software development experience in the fields of security access management systems, pharmacy information systems, laboratory information systems, financial/banking applications, and data warehousing systems. Among her recent projects, Laura has developed major system upgrades to a web-based automated key card dispensing system, including the development of COM objects used to control client-side hardware. She also developed a web service-based Software Development Kit used to allow programmatic configuration of a wireless security system. Laura served as the Lead Test Engineer for the firmware developed for a surgical tool, creating a formal test plan, validation test scripts, and automated test harnesses used for function-level testing.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Tom Combs	Embedded Systems, Firmware Architecture Design	Lead Software Engineer	Gale Force Software Software Engineering Professionals
Tom Combs is a graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering. He has demonstrated expertise in control systems, communication systems, and digital signal processing and has proficiency in electronic troubleshooting and repair. His 14 years of experience in the design and development of embedded firmware for systems and electronic devices has been primarily for products in the automotive powertrain industry. He is currently part of a team that is designing and developing a test bench application used to automate the regression testing of the MH-60 Multi-mission Helicopter IUADP on a subcontract to SAIC. Tom helped in the design and specification of a National Instruments-based PXI system that connects the IUADP to manipulate inputs and monitor outputs in accordance with the documented regression test procedure. He also co-developed the application software that controls the PXI system. In other recent efforts, he has been serving as the lead firmware engineer on a range of projects associated with the development of a family of innovative products being developed for use in residential kitchens and lavatories. He has worked closely with the client's electrical and mechanical design engineers from the R&D phase through final development of the product firmware and its transition into manufacturing.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Russ Mock	Embedded Systems, Driver Development, Firmware Architecture Design	Lead Software Engineer	Gale Force Software Veda Inc., ITT Aerospace, UMM Electronics, The RND Group
A graduate of Tri-State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Russ Mock spent the earlier part of his career working for Veda Incorporated and for ITT Aerospace on software development for products used in military defense activities. He worked with the VQ Trainer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to simulate or emulate in-flight software to be used in classroom training, wrote Test Program Sets for the SINCGARS Ground-to-Air Combat Radio, and developed firmware for the SINCGARS radio. He currently is serving on a team tasked with developing an automated test system for a micro-controller based component of the Stores and Self-Defense segment use on various military aircraft. This effort has included architecting the test rack hardware, generating the software to interface to the Device-Under-Test via MIL-STD-1553B and to the peripheral test equipment via PXI and GPIB, and developing interfaces to various weapon systems emulators including Bomb Rack Units (BRU) and Sonobuoy Launchers. In other recent work, Russ has served as the lead engineer on a commercial product designed to incorporate intelligence into residential kitchen and lavatory faucets. These products use capacitive-sensing technology such that touch-based activity and proximity may be used to interact with the faucets. He played a role in the development of this product family as a platform, which has enabled the development of additional products with less cost and on reduced schedules because of the ability to reuse hardware and firmware. Russ is a co-founder of GFSC.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Marshall Parker	Embedded Systems, Firmware Architecture Design, Driver Development, Algorithm Development	Lead Software Engineer	Gale Force Software Naval Air Warfare Center, Roche Diagnostics, UMM Electronics, The RND Group
Marshall Parker has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University. He has an extensive background in the development of micro-processor-based blood glucose meters and blood coagulation meters and has had additional responsibility for the creation of product documentation, including requirements, design documents, verification test protocols, and reports. He has participated in the development of many FDA-regulated products that have been successfully introduced into the market and has been singled out for recognition for his contributions to those efforts. More recently, he was responsible for developing a highly-configurable research application that analyzes the mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance data from biological samples and generates a metabolic profile that can be used to determine the presence of cancer in human beings. He also served as the lead engineer on a design team responsible for developing the user interface firmware, including the internationalization scheme, the database design, and the bolus advice calculator, for a high-end blood glucose meter that is currently on the market in Europe. He also developed the firmware used to demonstrate the feasibility of a new capacitive sensor and a touch sensing algorithm used for a residential water faucet. Marshall is a founding partner of GFSC and is the Quality Manager with responsibility for maintaining the company's Quality Management System.

Name/Role	Areas of Expertise	Labor Category	Employer(s)
Scott Rulong	Simulations, Wireless Communications, Serial Communications, Software Architecture	Lead Software Engineer	Gale Force Software SAIC, Battelle, Inc., Dome Software, Software Artistry/Tivoli Systems, The RND Group
Scott Rulong has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science / Physics from the University of Dayton. During his career, he has been named as an inventor on five US Patents awarded to clients for products that he helped develop. His extensive experience in the development of software for FDA-regulated devices contributed to his successful development of a complete Design History File for a device initially developed by the client for research use only. He worked with existing design documentation to develop a comprehensive Software Requirements Document, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Document, Software Design Document, Verification Test Plan/ Protocol, Validation Test Plan/Protocol, and Traceability Matrix using the IBM Rational DOORS requirements management system as a tool. Scott was the software architect for the first fully-automated clinical Nucleic Acid Test (NAT) clinical blood analyzer that has been approved by the FDA for use in large laboratory environments. He has served as the lead software engineer for data acquisition test stands for a number of medical devices and developed the software prototype used as the proof-of-concept for a PDA-based drugs of abuse test device. He also developed a software simulator of various user interface scenarios for a new blood glucose meter under development that was used to get marketing feedback as well as for human factors studies. Scott is a co-founder of GFSC.

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