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.

Andrew Sloss

Sloss is a Consultant Engineer at ARM Inc, where he has worked for over eleven 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 20 years in the Computer/Embedded field working for a mixture of startups and larger companies—namely Acorn Computers, EO Inc (an AT&T startup), Firepower Systems (a Canon startup) and Motorola. Sloss is also the ARM Binding’s Team Lead for UEFI. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is also a Chartered Engineer.

Instructors are subject to change.