Neil Tardella is the Chief Executive Officer at Energid. He provides leadership and strategic direction for the company.
James English was President and Chief Technical Officer of Energid Technologies. He led project teams in the development of complex robotic, machine vision, and simulation systems, and now serves as a Technical Advisor.
Chu-Yin Chang is the Vice President of Energid Technologies. He is mostly focused on machine vision related projects.
Marks heads up sales for our OEM group, focusing on companies that embed Actin in their custom robotics. Mark brings years of experience in the embedded software industry to Energid.
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.
Jeff Sprenger is an electrical engineer with over 30 years experience in software development. He divides his time at Energid between sales and product management, helping to find solutions for customers and shape the direction of the Actin product.
Yichao Pan is the Product Manager at Energid. He is focused on defining, field testing, and launching new products based on Actin software.
Marcus Grandinetti is an Application Engineer that works on the ActiNav Bin Picking product. His work includes completing pre-sale application assessments and post sales deployment/support. Marcus gathers use cases and feedback to help further product development.
CEO
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.
President & CTO
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.
Vice President
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.
VP Sales
CFO
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.
Senior Robotics Engineer
Software Engineering Manager
Senior Software Engineer
Craig has over 35 years of software engineering experience, in a variety of disciplines; the last 15-plus years of which there have been an emphasis on embedded systems programming. Craig joined Energid from Teradyne and is working on the infrastructure team, contributing towards introducing tools and techniques to ensure program code reliability.
Applications Engineer
Sr. Robotic Research Engineer
Ryan is a Sr. Research Engineer, with over 15 years of experience in simulation and controls based. Since joining Energid over 6 years ago, he has focused on developing new algorithms and approaches to overcome challenges in robotics and autonomous systems. He has helped customers in fields including aerospace, defense and medicine apply these tools in Actin. He also provides pre-sales support, helping Energid to better understand our customer's needs.
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