Company president and founder, Michael Mathews is an entrepreneur and engineer focusing on GPS / wireless technologies and applications. He has worked over 15 years in both the aerospace and software industries developing a broad base of technical expertise and the ‘know-how’ to deliver products and services. As a successful technology innovator, his leadership combines extensive experience in systems engineering and technology management with the business acumen to commercialize new technologies. Michael founded Engenex to provide systems engineering and software development services to a variety of customers. His customer focus is the hallmark of Engenex today. A Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences (University of Colorado-Boulder, 1995), Michael has written numerous articles and papers, and he has spoken at national conferences including CTIA and GPS/Wireless.
Prior to founding Engenex, Michael was the CTO for InfoMove, Inc., a telematics company providing infrastructure and application components to telematics service providers. At its height, he led the team of more than 60 engineers in a successful two-year effort to complete an advanced telematics services platform and application software. Before joining InfoMove, Michael served as the Technical Director and Lead Engineer for Excell Data Corporation's Application Development and Consulting Services Group.
In 1994, Michael co-founded the Colorado-based CyberLocator, Inc. (formerly International Series Research, Inc.) — a GPS technology development company with patented technology for security and wireless applications. He has also served as a GPS technology consultant specializing in digital signal processing and sensor design.
Michael is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Navigation, and an inventor with several patents covering a variety of technologies such as location-based security, highly-scalable data storage systems, navigation, metadata systems, and dynamic transaction processing.
A seasoned industry professional, Chris Carver has been involved with GPS and Wireless communications since serving in the US Navy as the Navigator and Operations Officer of the first Trident submarine to go to sea with GPS. At Engenex, Chris is responsible for working with our customers in the development of their product requirements, advising them on their product roadmap and setting the right expectations for technology.
While at Magellan Systems in the '90s he lead the development of one the industries first Telematics systems (1993) which delivered GPS position reports for USAirways Express regional aircraft at takeoff, landing and enroute. He has been responsible for product development at a number of well known GPS and Wireless companies including Magellan Systems, Northstar, Infomove, Pentar Avionics and Orbital Sciences. Most recently he was the VP of Product Marketing for CSI Wireless and initiated several innovative AGPS products now reaching the market at that company. He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh with a concentration in Telecommunications, in addition to his undergraduate and graduate work in Systems and Nuclear Engineering from Cornell and NY Maritime College. An avid GPS user and instructor, he is a licensed pilot, a licensed captain and ship’s engineer, a sailor, a kayaker, a licensed amateur radio operator and holds several GPS related patents. With this experience, he spends time with each of our clients educating them on the real world limitations of GPS and Wireless technology for their applications.
Kenn Gold leads the company’s efforts into new GPS product integration and development. He has over 15 years’ experience with GPS systems including receiver design, signal characteristic simulation, RF factors, and integration of GPS with communication technologies. Previously, Kenn was the Chief Technical Officer at NAVSYS Corporation where he led the development of a new GPS/inertial hardware simulator, and oversaw the technical development and managed the engineering teams for multiple DOD and NASA contracts.
Before joining NAVSYS, Kenn was the Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of CyberLocator, Inc. (formerly International Series Research, Inc.) — a GPS technology development company with patented technology for security and wireless applications. He graduated from University of Colorado-Boulder in 1994 with a Ph.D. in Astrodynamics under a NASA fellowship from Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During his graduate studies, and later as a Professional Research Assistant at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, Kenn led or managed multiple efforts involving the integration of GPS navigation technologies to orbital platforms. These included the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, GeoSat Follow-On, EarlyBird and QuickBird and others.
Peter MacDoran leads Engenex's applied science and core technology research. With over 30 years of technology development and integration experience, Pete has a passion for advanced technology. His ability to envision technical solutions to real world challenges leverages his broad experience, expertise and leadership skills. Prior to Engenex, he was a consultant to the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and a part-time faculty member of The George Washington University at the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute and the Homeland Security Policy Institute. For IDA, his assignments involved supporting the Pentagon DDR&E, Space and Sensors. At George Washington University, he focused on research and instruction involving GPS-enabled location-based authentication computer security for information assurance, and he was an investigator in the George Washington University Space Safety 2005 Report.
From 1989 until 2002, he held several positions at the University of Colorado, Boulder. These included Senior Research Associate, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research and Professor, Attendant Rank. Pete pioneered and developed the teaching laboratory for Global Positioning Technology at CU and was directly responsible for numerous leading-edge GPS research and development activities. He has also served as an advisor to the Chief Scientist at the U.S. Space Command, the FBI and other government agencies dealing with technical considerations in formulating technology security policy. He also testified before the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
In 1994, Pete co-founded Boulder, Colorado based CyberLocator, Inc. (formerly Internaltional Series Research, Inc.) to commercialize patented GPS-enabled location-based authentication for computer network security and wireless networks. During the period 1982 to 1989 he was the founder and president of ISTAC, Inc., a GPS development corporation established to commercialize the invention of codeless GPS methods made principally by MacDoran while at the Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory between 1969 and 1982.
Pete has been awarded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and later also awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Engineering Achievement and became the first person in NASA history to have been the recipient of medals for both science and engineering. He received a B.S. degree in Physics from California State University, Northridge and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has many technical publications in IEEE and other technical journals in various aspects of communications security, space applications, GPS and space navigation systems.
Andrew Jans leads the enterprise systems development team at Engenex. He has 14 years of experience delivering enterprise-class software solutions to companies large and small. While specializing in software design and engineering, he has a passion for developing computer systems and has expanded his expertise into networking and system administration and operations. This broad knowledge of computer systems engineering allows Andrew to deliver high quality systems that exceed performance and scalability expectations while lowering management costs.
Prior to joining Engenex, Andrew was involved in architecting internal-use software for Microsoft Research & Development and Microsoft Marketing. Before working with Microsoft, he designed and developed Web-enabled applications for clients at SBI.Razorfish, Lante (purchased by SBI.Razorfish) and Luminant Worldwide (purchased by Lante). While working at Vanteon, Andrew managed client engagements and development teams creating custom software ranging from stand-alone applications to fully integrated back-end systems with web-based front-ends. Prior to Vanteon, he worked for Endura Software as a Professional Services Consultant where he installed, customized and supported the Accounting, Order Management, and Warehouse Management software package for customers. Andrew is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Ron Johnson leads the Engineering Services Programs at Engenex. With over 20 years of experience in all facets of project management, software systems design and delivery, he coordinates the delivery of customer programs within Engenex. Ron’s expertise lies in translating between business realities and engineering needs, with a thorough understanding of the technology tradeoffs being made. He has both an MBA from the University of Washington and a degree in computer engineering, With this background he has lead businesses in delivering shrink wrapped products, business process reengineering projects, large internal system projects and ongoing system maintenance operations.
Previously, Ron worked in roles that married his business and technical expertise. Before joining Engenex, he worked as the Sales and Marketing Information Manager for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the largest wine company in Washington State. In this role, he provided both the Sales Teams and Marketing Teams with nationwide distribution information on a daily basis.
As Director of Research at InfoMove, Inc., Ron worked with local, state and federal agencies to incorporate government related information into the InfoMove products and ensure that it complied with existing and future government regulations for in vehicle devices. He also coordinated various InfoMove sponsored research projects with universities across the country.
Ron has also been a Technical Manager and Senior Architect at three different consulting firms. He performed both business process and technical projects in these positions for both local and national companies. Prior to that Ron was a Quality Assurance Manager at Microsoft, overseeing a team responsibility for improving the quality of its shrink wrapped software. Ron belongs to the PMI, IEEE and ACM.