Joe Jacob President

Joe Jacob has 24 years of hardware product development and management experience in embedded mil/aero and telecom companies. Mr. Jacob received his Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Computer Engineering from George Mason University. Since co-founding Quasar Systems in May 2004, Mr. Jacob has assembled an excellent team of highly skilled engineers and consultants. He has worked on over 50 projects designing printed circuit boards and FPGA development. Prior to Quasar, he spent the previous seven years working for Curtiss Wright Controls (formerly Dy4 Systems) in various roles including hardware development manager, technical product manager, and a member of the Technology Innovation Group. Mr. He was responsible for representing Dy4 in a variety of industry standards organizations including VITA, PICMG, StarFabric and RapidIO trade associations. Previous work experience includes a variety of board, Xilinx FPGA and ASIC designs for telecommunications companies such as Alcatel Data Networks, IgT (PMC Sierra), Transtream and PulseCom.

Scott Walker Vice President of Engineering

Scott Walker has over 22 years of architectural definition, engineering design and management experience in aerospace / military and telecommunications environments. Mr. Walker received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Most recently, he has been responsible for Dy4 Systems flagship Single Board Computer (DMV-182) including architectural definition, project management, and detailed design. Prior to Dy4 Systems, Mr. Walker was a founding member of Advanced Switching Communications (ASC). In his role as a Principal Design Engineer and then Director of Hardware Engineering, he was responsible for the product definition, hardware architecture, detailed design, infrastructure, processes, staffing, and development. Previous work experience includes all levels of product development within the communications environment. There, he was responsible for product definition, architectural definition and product implementation.

Tim Cooper  Vice President of Software Engineering

Tim Cooper has been developing real-time embedded software for commercial and military applications for over 20 years. Mr. Cooper has authored numerous device drivers, board support packages, and signal processing applications for real-time-operating systems. Mr. Cooper has also authored high-performance signal processing libraries based on SIMD architectures. Much of Mr. Cooper's experience involves software development for systems having hard real-time requirements and deeply embedded processors, where software reliability, performance, and latency are significant cost drivers. Such systems typically require innovative embedded instrumentation that collects performance data without competing for processing resources. Mr. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences and a Master's degree in Computer and Electronics Engineering from George Mason University