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Company Executives
Michael
Wilkinson Michael Willey Sandy
Wilkinson
Michael
Willey
Vice President of Engineering
Michael Willey offers more than 20 years of experience in embedded systems design. His areas of expertise include telecommunications, industrial process controls, robotics, precision positioning systems, switching systems and medical electronics.
Willey joined Paragon in 1993, and leads product development and design operations – checking every solution against Paragon’s high technical standards. Willey also played a key role in creating and developing Paragon’s coding and design standards, proposals and other company processes.
Prior to his career at Paragon, Willey was manager of software development for Communication Technology Corporation (CTC). Willey’s contributions helped CTC increase its market share by more than 50 percent. He also met Paragon’s founder and chief executive officer, Mike Wilkinson, while working for CTC.
Before that, Willey served as project manager for Electrospace Systems – now part of Raytheon – where he helped invent a patented switching technology for telephone companies. Willey also worked as an engineering manager for United Solder Wrap, and as an engineer for the automation and computers group of Continental Pipeline Company, a division of Conoco.
Willey received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station. He is an active member of the American Electronics Association (AEA) and has served over five years on the Embedded Systems Conference faculty.
Willey and his family reside in Garland, Texas. He enjoys dancing, relaxing at the lake and other family activities.
About Paragon Innovations Inc.
Paragon Innovations Inc., based in Plano, Texas, is a national services provider specializing in the design, development and documentation of embedded systems in commercial and consumer technology products. Using a proven, 22-step quality methodology, Paragon’s technology experts leverage more than a decade of experience in rapid product development to deliver superior products such as miniaturized insulin pumps, semiconductor reference platforms and Internet appliances for companies in the Internet, medical, semiconductor, telephony, robotics and wireless industries, among others. Customers include 3M, AMD, Hitachi, Motorola and Ubicom-Scenix. Paragon is a privately held company that was founded in 1990 by founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Wilkinson. The company is located in the heart of the Telecom Corridor®. For more information, visit www.paragoninnovations.com, or contact Kay Pinkerton at (214) 521-8596, or via e-mail at kpinkerton@mbapr.com.
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