DAVID M. BLAKER
Owner / Consultant

Mr. Blaker has over 30 years of embedded systems
development and marketing experience.  He managed the
medical products business unit at Luna Innovations, bringing
the EDAC™ open-heart surgery blood monitor to the market
with FDA 510(k) clearance in just over 2 years. He has also held
engineering management positions at Nokia, AT&T
Microelectronics, Volumetrics Medical Imaging and NetOctave.  Mr.
Blaker received an award from AT&T for developing the Error-
Correction Co-Processor for AT&T Microelectronics, a product used
in digital cellular basestations around the world. He developed the
world’s first real-time 3-dimensional image processor for medical
ultrasound imaging. Academic background includes a BSEE from
MIT, an MSEE from Lehigh University and completion of industry
technical and management training programs. His experience
includes full custom, ASIC and FPGA design, as well as DSP and
system design. Mr. Blaker is an inventor of 19 U.S. patents in
the fields of digital communications, network security and
medical imaging.