Wanted: Product Development EE

You cannot afford me.

"The biggest thing my mentors told me was that I'll be jaded real soon as I gain experience and that the allure of engineering will eventually lose its magic. And, when my ship finally arrives and I get my one chance of a lifetime to create my legacy, an apprentice will board in my place because I'll be blinded by my own vanity. Hence, a journeyman without the heart of an apprentice will never amount to anything more than a journeyman. I wanted to keep my options open." - J. Meeks, Meter Reader Inventor

Dear Mr. redfred,

Respectfully, you would be wise to listen to my dear friend and mentor's advice. FYI, the engineer's on my last project made about $900/hr. when it was all said and done. I'm happy to know that you are in such company;)

John R. Taylor

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/john-r-taylor

There's your problem in a nutshell. It appears that you think the only currency in life is money. You bore me.

Goodbye.

Dear Mr. redfred,

Respectfully, I think you're mistaken. If you would refer back to your original post you may better understand that it was you who brought up money, I just offered a great opportunity for a deserving, qualified, engineer.

I only responded to your comment in hopes that my experience may benefit you somehow as I see so many people missing out on great opportunities because they have allowed themselves to become jaded over the years and life has so much more to offer than the here and now.

Also, I couldn't agree with you more that money is not indicative of true success if that's what you meant? The law of detachment is equally as important as the law of attraction and, in fact, they both work hand in hand. The law of detachment states that in order to manifest what you want, you must be detached from your need of same (which includes the need for money, relationships, love, etc., etc.), in order to attract what you desire and become truly successful which is love and happiness combined with the goals (love, money, etc., etc.) we set for ourselves. Hence, one must be satisfied with where they are at, before they can get where they're going. Or, one must view their cup as half full as opposed to half empty. The bottom line being...Positive energy has great returns and negative energy has diminishing returns (See "The Secret" and "What The Bleep Do We know?" re: Quantum Physics, for better understanding on this subject)

My apologies if I rubbed you the wrong way.

Boom up and move the world!

John

I can't say much about the "Gaming system and method of securely transferring a monetary value" patent, but the "Periodontal treatment compound and method of use" patent smells of snake oil.

I am mildly surprised at you, a medical professional, for suggesting that a valid patent is for "snake oil". Did you do due diligence prior to making such a claim?

At least one of the co-inventors of said "snake oil" is Dr. Marvin B. Frager. A dentist.

And another patent includes the name of a research scientist for the American Red Cross.

I clearly understand that having a patent on a process or, "thing" may not make it viable.

Take a look at what Apple, Google, ad nauseam is getting patents for these days.

One covers how to take a photograph.

Mr. Taylor does not need my help in defending his work.

Hey, the guy patented a golf putter alignment device too. At least he is diversified.

1. The conventional way of publishing an advance in medical treatment is to have a paper accepted by a reputable scientific journal indexed in Pubmed. There are Taylor JRs listed as authors, but none has written a paper with "periodontal" or "dental" in the title:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%28Taylor%20JR[Author]%29%20AND%20periodontal[Title%2FAbstract]

The co-inventors Frager MB and Gaynor RD have not authored a single paper between them.

2. As you have observed, the grant of a patent is not evidence of efficacy.

3. A concoction which combines cranberry, colostrum and probiotics is as close to snake oil as makes no difference.

Not being schooled in the art of medical product introduction, it would seem to me to be prudent to protect the product that I was about to disclose to the world, prior to making it a matter of public record.

I'll leave that discussion to those more qualified.

Speaking of snake oil, my wife tells me that generic drug manufacturers are now jacking their drug prices up to the same level as the other drugs on the market, "because they can".

One drug went from $125.00/month to $1,000.00/month, for the patient.

I, for one, believe that avarice has no bounds and this is probably true, and a new trend.

Lyn, you're an intelligent, good, guy and I appreciate your attempts to make so-called professionals act like professionals. It has become obvious to me that's an impossibility on this forum and my participation has come to an end.

Stay in touch!

John

Deja vu all over again.

--Yogi Berra

Ya. Mr. Taylor is looking in the wrong place. One wonders if he's burned through all of the local engineers, i.e. burned bridges as well. Either all of the local candidates have become independently wealthy due to Mr. Taylor's efforts so that they no longer need to do any engineering work or he's pissed them off so they don't want to do work for him.

Mr Taylor, there are plenty of engineering design firms, consulting firms, employment agencies, etc. that would gladly help in your endeavors. Why do you think you'll find the one you need in a discussion forum? Maybe you should take lyn's tried and true advice and start with a google search?

More reasons to BAN the idiots who post anonymously!

More reasons to BAN the idiots who post anonymously!

Hello,

Usually the circuit design would do the mechanical and track in one as the component models are needed to determine the pin layouts and positions.

Just be careful that what you design can then be manufactured! The component mix that you have nominated will have some specific challenges as to whether through hole or surface mounted components are suited and then whether mechanical attachments are then needed for some of the larger items.

Some PCB/PWB manufacturers offer design capability so that they fully understand the fabrication needs when manufacture commences, provided that you source the boards from them initially.

In Australia we developed a good relationship with a local agent for and overseas manufacturing site. The Aus site was able to provide rapid prototypes and the language barrier had far less impact. Once the design was finalised, then it went offshore for full scale manufacture. (local was 3 days lead time, overseas was 14 days.) We were using however around 1,000 sq ft of board per day.

Find a local board supplier and they should be able to assist with suggestions.

Thank you for your answer and professionalism. I know some good PCB and Membrane Switch suppliers and great PCB designers. I need a qualified EE that will find, design, and spec, the many electrical/electronic parts and pull it all together. Hence, the control panel is just one component of more complex project. However, I have come to realize that I will most likely not find that person here.

Is it just a pcb layout from a schematic that you require? Or design the schematics as well? You can inbox me with further details if you don't want to bore the others.

Thank you for your answer and professionalism. I know some good PCB and Membrane Switch suppliers and great PCB designers. I need a qualified EE that will find, design, and spec, the many electrical/electronic parts and pull it all together. Hence, the control panel is just one component of more complex project. However, I have come to realize that I will most likely not find that person here.

If you are interested in having the PCBs made up there are plenty of vendors to do this. Especially to curb the patent infringement. I am a long time subscriber to 'Nuts and Volts' magazine. Great forum and sources for electro-mechanical ideas.... I have not used this item but may be close to what you are looking to do with the PC boards called Eagle Soft ? it is layout software for circuiting and components. CT

http://expresspcb.com/

http://www.apcircuits.com/

Thank you for your answer and professionalism and also thank you for your supplier recs. I know some good PCB and Membrane Switch suppliers and great PCB designers. I need a qualified EE that will find, design, and spec, the many electrical/electronic parts and pull it all together. Hence, the control panel is just one component of more complex project. However, I have come to realize that I will most likely not find that person here.

I'm going to ask admin to delete my two threads, here and under mechanical engineering, and I hope they will oblige because they have become counterproductive.

Some of the responses on this thread are an embarrassment to the engineering profession and the professional code of conduct therefrom. I've never seen such immature, disrespectful, behavior out of so-called professionals and I choose not to associate myself with such conduct.

My participation on the CR4 has come to an end.

Thank all of you for your help and may your blessings in life be many.

Thumbs up and keep charging!

John R. Taylor

My you have a thin skin.

With the large number of unemployed and underemployed engineers out there you should be able to find somebody to fit your needs, assuming that they are legitimate. I'm baffled you came to this news forum looking to hiring an Electrical Engineer. You should instead be putting your request on Monster.com, Linkedin or one of the wide range of employment agency firms. They will walk you through the proper protocols for trying to attract an Electrical Engineer. The way you strode in here it looked more like you considered electrical engineering as a day laborer you could acquire outside of a lumber yard.

Are you referring to this ??

In every ugly, repulsive, despicable way that video implies, yes. That is what I am referring to.

I expect that he's baffled why he came here too, now.

Maybe it's just me, but I thought he got very poor treatment here.

I am impressed with his credentials and accomplishments and the fact that he saw fit to come here for help should have afforded him a better reception.

He could have been an asset to the forum, but, not now.