About the Author

Tammy Noergaard is uniquely qualified to write about all aspects of embedded systems. Since beginning her career, she has wide experience in product development, system design and integration, operations, sales, marketing, and training. She has design experience using many hardware platforms, operating systems, middleware, and languages. She worked for Sony as a lead software engineer developing and testing embedded software for analog TVs, and also managed and trained new embedded engineers and programmers. The televisions she helped to develop in Japan and California were critically acclaimed and rated #1 in Consumer Reports magazines. She has consulted internationally for many years, for companies including Esmertec and WindRiver, and has been a guest lecturer in engineering classes at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, as well as giving technical talks at the invitation of Aarhus University for professionals and students in Denmark. She has also given professional talks at the Embedded Internet Conference and the Java User’s Group in San Jose over the years. Most recently, her experience has been utilized in Denmark to help insure the success of fellow team members and organizations in building best-in-class embedded systems.