Carl Ott
Chief Technology Officer Co-Founder at teleCalm
The Colony, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Ott is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with over 20 years designing and commercializing mobile, connected products and services, currently serving as CTO of teleCalm, a company focused on keeping seniors with dementia safely connected. He combines hands-on engineering roots from Texas Instruments and Nokia with program and product management chops honed at TerreStar and multiple startups, consistently delivering complex hardware-software systems and accelerating time-to-market. A pragmatic systems thinker with an MS in Electrical Engineering and PMP certification, he has led cross-functional teams through regulatory certification, carrier integrations, and production ramps. Carl’s consulting work and COTRO practice show a knack for rapid prototyping and due diligence across emerging fields like drones, RTLS and telematics. He is motivated by mission-driven products that address real-world caregiver and eldercare challenges, blending telecom, cloud-connected services, and consumer electronics expertise.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (28)
displays7
viewer6
robot5
json5
javascript4
robotics4
simulator4
controller4
nodejs4
code-library4
react4
notepad4
python3
robot-simulator3
readline3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cottjr/piMegaSPI
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Sandbox to exercise various SPI interface options between a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Eventually may host an extensible interface layer library.
Contributions:16 PRs, 66 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
raspberry-pihostinterface-layerraspberrysandbox
cottjr/DMS-Laser-Cutter-Usage-Timer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 months
timercutterlasermakerspace
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