Sensor Design Founders
Bob Lewis founded and has self-funded Sensor Designs since March 2006. Mr. Lewis has over 25 years experience in laser and led based sensor design and is an expert an optical distance measurement. While at RoboToolz Inc. in Mountain View Ca. Mr. Lewis led the successful development of the RoboTape laser distance ranging engine and supported its transition to pilot production in China. In addition to being a key technical contributor, Mr. Lewis has extensive management experience including the role of business unit manager of a $40 million dollar per year custom electro-optics products business unit while at Siemens in San Jose, California. Mr. Lewis has 10 patents granted or pending.
Chad Thompson is a key technical contributor and is a digital design specialist making extensive contributions to firmware development and the design of programmable logic used in the ranging module. Mr. Thompson has over 15 years experience developing high-speed integrated circuits and programmable logic for the disk drive industry.