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Richard Eckhardt, President

S.B. degree in Biomedical Engineering (Option of Electrical Engineering) from M.I.T. in 1974.

1974 - 1981 - Co-founder, Vice President Engineering, and President of ECD Corp. ECD was a manufacturer of electronic test instruments and one of the early microcomputer companies. Responsible for the some of the electrical and mechanical design of the world’s first digital capacitance meter, the first environmentally hardened digital thermometer, and one of the early desktop microcomputer systems. Electronic instrument designs and production sold to Emerson Electric Corporation.

1981 - 1983 - Product Line Manager for Analogic.  Supervised development of portable 68000 based automated test system for both analog and digital testing of medical monitoring devices.

1983 - 1987 - Co-founder and VP of Eng. of CyberResearch which is a systems integrator and marketer of PC based systems for scientific and technical applications including data acquisition and computer aided design (CAD) systems.

1987 to 1994 - Co-founder and VP of Eng. of CyberChrome, a spin-off company of CyberResearch.  CyberChrome was a supplier of first PC based systems for typesetting, electronic publishing, and publishing system image processing.  Developed software that was licensed to Polaroid Corporation for use in their image processing and electronic publishing systems.

1994 - 1997 - Co-founder and President of HyperKinetics; aerospace research partnership performing research and building instrumentation for hypersonic propulsion systems. Included SBIR research contract with the Air Force.

1994 - present - Founder and President of Eckon, engineering consulting and prototype and production fixture fabrication company.  Designed products and production procedures and equipment for clients such as Polaroid (image processing), MicroTouch, now part of 3M (computer touch screens & electronic whiteboards), Invent Resources (prototyping inventions), HyperKinetics (ballistics instrumentation), MDI Instruments (design & production engineering and automated test equipment for ear-infection detector), CyberResearch (rack-mounted computer peripherals), Hands-on Toys (new toy prototypes), Trainer’s Warehouse (training aid product design and prototyping), and The First Years and Summer Infant (healthcare product design, prototype fabrication, production engineering). Combustion 8 Technologies (developed techniques and instrumentation to improve efficiency of diesel engines), Valeritas (developed test system for insulin injection device), Excel (developed improvements for hand dryers and fabricated prototypes and research equipment),  Espace (developed and fabricated tools and fixtures for satellite assembly and test). Also won design prizes from Innocentive and Big Idea Group.

1998 - 2020 - Co-founder, Partner, and VP Eng. of UV Solutions, LLC a product development company with patented and proprietary technology for instant sanitizing with UV light.  A number of consumer and professional health care products have been developed and licensed to Philips Medical and consumer product companies. 

Summary - I have been founder or co-founder of 6 successful high-technology startup companies and have held the position of President, or Vice President of Engineering.  I have extensive experience in developing instrumentation and test systems for medical and a wide variety of other commercial and consumer devices. I currently hold 11 issued patents, and I have licensed intellectual property to several fortune 500 companies. I help companies develop new products using outside-the-box designs, and then fabricate proof-of-concept demonstrators and/or production prototypes.