Richard Baldwin

Richard has a rich and extensive technical background beginning in 1963 in the field of cryptography and computer logic.  He hand-built computer systems and cellular telephones in the 1970's and 1980's before those systems became commodities.

During the 1990's and into the new century, Richard wrote software for Microsoft and McCaw Cellular Communications, a company later acquired by AT&T for $11B in 1996.

Richard's hardware experience continued during those years as he wrote the software and hand-built a corporate faxing system that tied directly into Microsoft Outlook.  This system enabled all employees to send & receive faxes without the need for a fax machine.

Richard wrote desktop control software to manage all AT&T sales PC's in stores across the U.S.  He wrote the architectural concept, and lead a team of Principle Technical Architects to design the data model that forged a unified company from the merger of AT&T, BellSouth, SBC and Cingular Wireless.

Beginning in 2000, Richard moved into the domain of real-time systems architecture and the software that manages it.  He holds the patent on a real-time architectural concept that eliminated $4M of monthly wireless data fraud incurred by AT&T.  He wrote the architectural concept to consolidate Microsoft's multiple worldwide tax computation systems into a single fail-safe worldwide tax computation system.  And he wrote the architectural concept that enabled Cingular to activate the first iPhones in America in 2007.

Richard currently spends most of his time developing embedded systems hardware and software, particularly for medical and aviation applications.  When he's not developing a product, he frees his mind flying his Cessna Turbo 210 to interesting places around the country.