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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.

Andrew Sloss

Sloss is a Principle Software Engineer at ARM Inc, where he has worked for over seven years supporting and developing ARM processor based embedded products. Sloss co-authored the book ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software. He graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in Computer Science and has spent 16 years in the Computer/Embedded field working in a mixture of startups and larger companies—namely Acorn Computers, EO Inc (an AT&T startup), Firepower Systems (a Canon startup) and Motorola. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is also a Chartered Engineer.

Instructors are subject to change.