The People
Kevin Montgomery
CEO
Dr. Kevin Montgomery is the Chief Executive Officer of Intelesense Technologies. He is also the Technical Director of the National Biocomputation Center at Stanford University, where his team develops advanced technologies in medicine for NASA, DoD, NIH, and other clients. Dr Montgomery is a veteran of multiple startups, earned a Smithsonian Award in telemedicine, serves as a technical advisor to the DoD, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California. He has over 20 years of technical experience and 18 years of management experience leading high-performance teams in academia, government, and industry.
Carsten Mundt
CTO
Dr. Carsten Mundt is the Chief Technology Officer of Intelesense Technologies and has over 15 years of experience in the development of data acquisition devices and sensors with an emphasis on environmental and medical monitoring. He has extensive experience in the areas of wireless embedded systems design and firmware development. Dr. Mundt also supports several NASA and DoD related projects, including the development of wearable, wireless, physiologic monitors, and free-flyer satellites for biological research in space and medicine. Dr. Mundt received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. At Intelesense, Carsten manages product development, supports field deployments, and is involved in hardware and firmware design.
Valerie Barker
Valerie Barker received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State in 2000 and an MS in Electromechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2002. Her experience includes mechanical design, embedded systems design, sensor development and thermal engineering. Ms. Barker has applied her multidisciplinary skills on a variety of projects including wearable physiologic monitors and biosensors for the detection of chemical and biological warfare agents. She has been with NASA Ames Research Center since 2002 working on free flyer satellites for biological research in space. She joined the Intelesense team in 2006 and currently does embedded system design and firmware development for the Intelecell Base Station.
Chris Maxwell
Chris Maxwell received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from San Jose State in 2003, and proceeded to spend the next three years as the lead software developer of the NASA World Wind project at NASA Ames Research Center. With experience in many of the disciplines software development, including graphics, databases, and networking, he helped bring this highly visible open-source project from concept through multiple release cycles. He also designed and managed the server backend to withstand millions of downloads and hundreds of simultaneous users. He has now joined Intelesense full time to take worldwide visualization to the next level with Inteleview.
Matt Rutishauser
Matthew Rutishauser has undergraduate degrees in Earth Science and Marine Biology. He received his MA in Biology from U.C. Santa Cruz in 2001. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Rutishauser worked professionally as an advocate for environmental issues and as a wildlife biologist at Long Marine Laboratory, where he studied a broad array of marine mammals using biotelemetry devices. Currently, Mr. Rutishauser is working towards an MS in Computer Engineering from U.C. Santa Cruz. His research is focused on wireless, sensor networks to study terrestrial predators such as coyotes and mountain lions. At Intelesense, he is developing firmware and device drivers to link environmental and biomedical sensor platforms to Intelecells.
Khoa Nguyen
Khoa Nguyen received his B.S degree in Physics in 2007 from California State University, East Bay (formerly Hayward). He will be pursuing his M.S degree at San Jose State University in Fall 2008, specializing in quantum optics and electronics. At Intelesense, he applies his additional training in order to provide system administration support, and testing electrical devices and visualization software.
Matt Rosener
Kauai Field Office- Hawaii
Matt Rosener is an Environmental Monitoring Network Specialist based in Hanalei, on the north shore of Kauai. Since earning an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering - Hydrology from Oregon State University in 1999, Matt has worked in various fields of water resources management in both the public and private sectors, as well as for the Hanalei Watershed Hui, a Kauai non-profit conservation organization. Matt provides logistical support for Intelesense deployments on Kauai. He is also involved in practical applications of the data collected from the Intelesense network on Kauai in his position as a hydrologist with the Hanalei Watershed Hui and through a research appointment with the University of Hawaii. In his free time, Matt can usually be found hiking, diving, or playing in the surf.
Tom Burke
African Field Office- Senegal
Tom Burke is the Senior Website and Graphic Designer at Intelesense Technologies. He also works on data visualization tools for the web. His background is in website management and visual design.
The Server Team
Bao Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, Thieu Nguyen, Thinh Nguyen, Tung Tran are Software Engineers at Intelesense Technologies. They specialize in database and software application designs. All team members earned their Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University, California, with concentration on database design, networking, and computer graphics.
