Jacob Case
Seeking product manager role. Experience with full-stack mobile and web, cloud connectivity, data engineering, and embedded hardware.
Program manager at Tria technologies, where we help businesses integrate embedded system-on-modules, customized software and BSPs, and system solutions for performant and edge IOT compute. I bridge product development with customer needs to ensure reliable and scalable growth.
About Me
Seeking a technical product manager role. With over a decade experience in embedded electronics, software, and leadership I want to help businesses expand and manage their product offerings and feature sets. I started in electrical engineering at Seagate in Colorado, then moved into medical device design and development within a start-up in San Diego, CA. Today I’m a program manager supporting business development at Tria Technologies (Avnet Company), focused on helping customers find embedded compute solutions for the next generation products. This includes: scoping out product requirememts, mapping out product roadmaps and timelines, managing key factory and partner relationships, and managing hardware and software deployment domestically and overseas. I’ve led complex, cross-disciplinary work from R&D through delivery, working with marketing, clinical, supplier partners, drug manufacturers, and overseas manufacturing to deliver products from 0 -> 1 across multiple domains.
Quick Facts
Current Role
Program Manager at Tria Technologies
Education
Colorado School of Mines, Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
Languages
Interests
Skills
Product manager bridging engineering, leadership, and customer needs—scoping requirements, prioritizing roadmaps, and driving cross-functional teams from discovery to shipped product.
Product Engineering & Management
Identifying real problems, researching existing solutions, and leading cross functional teams to develop products to address challenges.
Full-Stack & Embedded Linux
Python, FastAPI, and Next.js for full-stack web delivery; embedded Linux for device-level software; PostgreSQL for data persistence; and AWS/GCP for modern, reliable and scalable services.
Data & Systems Integration
Designing data flows and integration points across embedded devices, cloud services, and applications—connecting hardware telemetry to usable, structured data downstream.
iOS Mobile Application Development
Swift development for iOS, including UI/UX implementation, CoreData persistence, and end-to-end app lifecycle from prototyping to App Store deployment. Experienced with Firebase, authentication, delegation, UI charting, and MapKit.
Electrical Engineering & Design
Deep background in electrical engineering, power electronics, multi-layer PCB/PCBA design, overseas mass production with facbricators and CMs, and system design and test.
Collaboration & Leadership
Agile delivery with global distributed teams; leading R&D and cross-functional work from discovery through release.
Languages & International Experience
Native English speaker; conversational Spanish (B1), studied through an immersion program in Mexico City—supporting a long-term goal of building products for customers across Central America.
Experience
From pure, hands on electrical engineering work, to medical devices, to program management helping customers solidify solutions for next generation products.
Tria Technologies
Program Manager, Business Development
Tria Technologies (Avnet Compnay). Embedded compute design and manufacturing company (formerly Avnet Embedded/MSC Technologies), delivering compute modules and custom systems for OEMs across medical, industrial, and consumer applications.
Key Achievements
- Built out US customer engagement for Tria Technologies SOM products as the second dedicated resource in the region, establishing a customer-first support model across the West US, Canada, and Mexico, growing backlog from 1-3 existing customers to 15 new accounts, 4 pushed to design win.
- Secured design wins across 4 opportunities totaling ~$300k in design-win value and ~$4M in annual revenue, scoping SOM solutions, customizations, and software support packages to customer technical requirements.
- Retained a customer considering a competitor switch by rebuilding software development timelines, proposing alternative design options, and negotiating cost concessions to de-risk sample to production transition, securing continued business. Opportunity lifetime estimated 15 years with $850k in AR.
- Defined project roadmaps spanning system-on-module selection, hardware/software customization (OS and BSP), and factory integration requirements, translating customer needs into actionable specs for internal engineering and factory teams.
- Delivered Tria SOM roadmap training across ~10 US/Canada Avnet branches and authored technical presentations mapping customer requirements to SOM integration, serving as primary liaison between customers and factory HW, SW, product, and manufacturing program leads.
Tria Technologies
Senior Solutions Engineer
Tria Technologies (Avnet Compnay). Embedded compute design and manufacturing company (formerly Avnet Embedded/MSC Technologies), delivering compute modules and custom systems for OEMs across medical, industrial, and consumer applications.
Key Achievements
- Defined product architecture for MaaXBoard OSM93, a low cost dev platform enabling customer evaluation of Tria Technologies’ OSM93 system-on-module; drove hardware development over 8 months from prototype to production, selling 200+ units in 2 years. Used by customers in evaluation and drove 100k EAU order of OSM93 module.
- Built Python based demo suite in embedded Linux (multi-threaded car ECU, driver monitoring system) used at 15 trade shows over 2.5 years to showcase MaaXBoard OSM93 capabilities to prospective customers.
- Adapted Google open-source facial and posture detection models for a driver monitoring demo, benchmarking i.MX93 NPU vs. non-NPU inference. Reduced inference time by ~80% via NPU deployment.
- Authored product briefs, technical articles, and blog content supporting customer adoption of the MaaXBoard OSM93 platform.
- Coordinated with German and Chinese manufacturing teams on hardware development, Software board-support-package, driving prototypes through to production for sale via Avnet.
Independent Developer
iOS, Full Stack Development, Student
Self-taught full-stack iOS development and FastAPI backend framework. Student in Coursera.
Key Achievements
- Completed self-directed coursework in iOS development (Udemy), backend/cloud architecture (AWS, GCP), and algorithms & data structures (Stanford, via Coursera).
- Built and shipped Cappriccio, a piano practice tracking app, from concept through App Store release. implemented local data storage (CoreData) and activity visualization (ChartsUI), validating design with a 10-user beta before public launch.
- Designed and built TrashMapper, a crowdsourced waste-tracking app concept — implemented user management, live cloud data sync, and photo-based reporting from wireframe through functional prototype (unpublished).
- See ‘Engineering’ section in the header for links to these and other projects as well as my github repo.
Biora Therapeutics
Associate Director Device Development
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company (formerly Progenity) developing novel oral and ingestible drug delivery platforms, including smart capsule technology for needle-free biologic delivery.
Key Achievements
- Promoted to Associate Director, Device Development, leading a 6-person team across 2 Class III capsule programs targeting GI health, owning requirements, feature definition, manufacturing, and test strategy.
- Led a 6 week live imaging study validating capsule localization technology to target specific intestinal regions for drug deployment, achieving an 86% success rate.
- Created a 4 month software feature and test roadmap for a diagnostic capsule ahead of a preclinical animal study, running bi-weekly sprints with a contracted SW team; roadmap completion approved proof-of-function studies and improved build reliability 15% by adding manufacturing checks for LEDs, board communication, motor control, and wireless function.
- Designed a new test fixture for semi-rigid flex boards, cutting test time 80% and improving end-product reliability 90%; scoped SOW and partnered with external CM to execute mechanical design.
- Brought all electrical design, testing, and supplier management in-house from third-party CMs, saving $10K/month plus overhead, while owning all design files and supplier PCB and PCBA relationships.
- Led cross-functional dry run of capsule production (clinical, firmware, clean-room, third-party manufacturing), successfully building 25/30 units despite high manufacturing complexity; results informed a critical go/no-go decision on proof-of-function for the end product.
Seagate Technologies
Senior Electrical Engineer
Global leader in data storage technology, designing and manufacturing enterprise and consumer hard disk drives (HDDs) and storage solutions.
Key Achievements
- Owned electrical design integration for six high-speed HDD controller boards, from prototype through mass production shipping 1-3M units/quarter.
- Led 6-layer miniaturized HDI design enabling HDD platter expansion for Seagate’s critical 12TB helium drive program; miniaturization approach was later leveraged into 2-3 downstream products.
- Flagged a 13% prototype defect rate as a production-scale risk, leading root-cause investigation with FPGA, SoC, firmware, and supplier FAE teams to implement screening and prevention in mass production.
- Promoted from Electrical Engineer I to Senior Electrical Engineer over 6 years at Seagate, taking on increasing ownership of controller board integration for high-volume HDD programs.
Tech Stack
Programming languages, frameworks, data, AI, and electronics design tools I've used to build and ship products.
Programming Languages
Web Fundamentals
Query Languages
Backend Frameworks
Frontend Frameworks
Data Science
AI/ML Frameworks
Development Tools
Cloud & Deployment
Databases
Electronics Design (EDA)
Let's Connect
Contact Information
Let's connect! I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.