Robert Miller
President and Founder
Born and raised on an Ohio farm, Bob Miller had an early curiosity for figuring out how the world worked and liked playing with electronic things. It was no surprise when he went off to Ohio State to major in Electrical Engineering. Four years later Bob had discovered a love of Bridge, and a talent for circuit design. Bob started his career in the car phone division of Motorola in Chicago working on RF Analog designs, but it wasn’t long before the new digital micro controllers caught his attention. When an opportunity arose to design digital circuits and move his growing family back to Ohio he took it. When he and a friend saw the need for buffering between the wide variety of computers and printers that were hitting the market they created a clever circuit to smooth the communication between these devices. While working full time during the day Bob launched embeddedTS in the evenings building buffers by hand with the “help” of his young daughters, and the support of his wife on the phones for technical support and taking orders during the day. As the business and product line grew, multi port smart buffers allowed Bob to make the business a full time venture, and move it out of the home. As the buffer market was peaking Bob saw an opportunity to return back to his love of the microprocessor, and designed embeddedTS’s first Single board computer, with the Intel 386EX processor and a DOS operating system. After several successful product families on a few different x86 processors Bob again saw an opportunity to move the business forward with the rise of Arm®-based processors and the Linux operating system. Bob continues to design our embedded Arm-based systems today, his love of circuits and enterprising spirit inspiring us all.
Laura O'Neil
Purchasing Manager and Resident Extrovert
A.S. in Electronics Technician, 39+ years experience in purchasing and ERP/MRP systems.
Her education may show she is an Electronics Technician but her passion has always been purchasing. She started working in production at an electronics company in 1980 (finding out many years later they are now a embeddedTS customer) but soon was keeping the inventory on a cardex system and helping with her first ERP integration. Years later, a few companies and many ERP/MRP systems later, she moved from Rising Sun, Maryland to Fountain Hills, Arizona. She has worn many hats since she started at embeddedTS in 2007, from shipping, receiving, RMA coordinator, sales quotes/order entry but purchasing is her main function and her passion. When not in the office she enjoys spending fun time with her dogs and her husband (of 35 years), finding treasures at garage sales (using her negotiating skills for the best deals) and enjoying the beautiful Arizona scenery and weather.
