Team

Neil Tardella is the Chief Executive Officer at Energid. He provides leadership and strategic direction for the company.

Neil has spearheaded commercial initiatives in the energy, medical, and collaborative robotics sectors. Prior to joining Energid, Neil held key R&D and management roles at Northrop Grumman Norden Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, and Technology Service Corporation. Neil has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford and a M.S. in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

James English is President and Chief Technical Officer of Energid Technologies. He leads project teams in the development of complex robotic, machine vision, and simulation systems.

James’ specialty is automatic remote robotics. Prior to founding Energid, his background was in software development in the engineering and aerospace industries where he held key R&D positions with Raytheon and MAK Technologies. He has authored many journal and conference papers and multiple patents related to the control and simulation of robotic systems. James holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Chu-Yin Chang is the Vice President of Energid Technologies. He is mostly focused on machine vision related projects.

Prior to Energid, he worked in the semi-conductor industry developing automated wafer inspection systems. He has authored many journal and conference papers and multiple patents related to inspection and computer vision. Chu-Yin has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Douglas Barker is the Chief Operating Officer at Energid Technologies. He manages project teams focused on Energid commercial service contracts and product development for Actin robotic control software.

Previously, he was a Lead Project Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center and has been the Principal Investigator (PI) for multiple NASA and DARPA projects. Douglas received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the development of a real-time particle tracking system for large-scale 3D flow-field measurement.

Jim Bacon is the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for financial planning and accounting.  He contributes to each department and project through monthly resource allocations and financial data for budgeting and cost tracking.  Energid’s Actin toolkit leverages SolidWorks and XML tools that were developed by Jim. 

Prior to joining Energid in 2003, Jim was a systems engineer and integrated product team (IPT) leader for Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson where he developed simulations for AIM-9X, NetFires NLOS-LS, and the Systems Engineering department. Jim earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Illinois in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, and he has published several papers in the domains of computational fluid dynamics and software development for simulation.

Justin has 20 years of experience with simulation software development and related technologies.  He works with a team to improve the software development process at Energid.

Lacey Trebaol is the Director of Marketing at Energid, with responsibility for marketing programs, brand management and content development.

Prior to joining Energid, she worked in the engineering and marketing departments at several companies including Brown and Caldwell and Northrop Grumman. Notable is her 5 years in marketing for RTI, where she directed content strategy and creation efforts, founded a users’ group, and spearheaded multiple technical content marketing initiatives.

Christopher Aloisio is a Senior Engineer at Energid Technologies. He has worked on numerous projects in varying capacities, ranging from hardware design to integration of new sensors and robots with Actin. He is an expert in systems combining Actin control and Universal Robots.

Tom has over 30 years of sales experience in software, hardware and embedded systems. He is currently responsible for sales strategy and business development at Energid.

Prior to joining Energid he was a Strategic Account Manager at both RTI and Wind River. Tom started his career as a Manufacturer's Representative, covering OEM Accounts in NY.

Brett Limone is a Senior Engineer at Energid Technologies. He helps guide the customer's use of Actin to solve difficult problems requiring advanced robot control. In addition to this, Brett also works to ensure that Actin continues to meet the diverse and complex needs of it's users.