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Instructors

Mitch Ishihara

Ishihara has spent more than 14 years working in the embedded systems industry in areas of battery management, video surveillance, retail scale, and power monitoring. He worked on many exciting projects at Ample Technology such as a custom high performance charging system for the Top Eliminator amusement ride dragsters and licensing technology to Charles Industries Marine. Ishihara graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering where he was an expert adviser for the Embedded Microcomputer Systems class during his senior year. He has also tutored students in embedded systems at other colleges.

Paul Lever

Lever serves as the company president and is a co-founder of Codetelligence. He has extensive experience in the embedded programming industry. Lever was the founder and president of BlueWater Systems, Inc., growing the company from a one-man shop to worldwide recognition as the leading Windows device driver tools and consulting company. BlueWater Systems was successfully sold to BSQUARE Corp. (NASDAQ:BSQR) at the height of the dot-com era. Lever held a number of senior positions at BSQUARE, including chief technologist for products and director of platform technology. He holds a number of patents in the embedded systems area.

Tushar Sarnaik

After experience as a systems engineer at The Boeing Company, Tushar joined Intermetrics, where he worked on software used in the NASA space shuttle. He has worked as a senior software engineer at DMC Stratex Networks, where he developed embedded software targeted toward a microprocessor and the Windows operating system using C and C++. Tushar worked at Vectrad Networks as a senior software engineer in the area of DOCSIS and BWIF, which are protocols for the cable modem and its wireless counterpart. He is now with Cingular, working in real-time alarming, performance and TCP/IP networking. He uses C, C++, UNIX scripting and Java. Tushar also deploys servers in the data center and works in the area of data optimization, creating WAP scripts to test third party content providers, and providing wireless services to businesses to access their intranets. Tushar has also taught C/C++ courses at the University of Washington Extension.

Jelena Vucetic

Vucetic has more than 15 years industry experience in telecommunications and computer systems. Her educational background includes an MBA degree, a Ph.D in electrical engineering, and a master's in computer science. She has taught students via online learning, as well as traditional students at the master's and undergraduate levels.

Instructors are subject to change.