About
Jonathan P. Murray
Founder, TPADA Technologies · 20+ years in engineering leadership
Jonathan is a technology executive and founder with over 20 years leading engineering, operations, and product development. He founded TPADA Technologies in 2022 to give founders the senior technical leadership they don't yet have on staff, embedding with startups and scale-ups across medical devices, semiconductor, alternative energy, robotics, and Web3. He pairs hands-on technical depth with business leadership and a system-level approach to hard problems: balancing speed with reliable, maintainable outcomes, and working from the founder's side of the table. Today he focuses on bridging traditional engineering with frontier technology, from robotics and IoT to blockchain and AI, to bring hard products to market.
Do what's right,
not what's easy.
Before TPADA
Energetiq Technology (a Hamamatsu company)
2018–2022 · Wilmington, MADirector of Engineering (2019–2022); Engineering Program Manager (2018–2019).
- Grew the engineering team from 4 to 17 across all disciplines, including optics and photonics.
- Owned all engineering across the product lifecycle: design, development, prototyping, compliance testing, transfer to manufacturing, change management, and end-of-life.
- Created and implemented the company's NPD product-lifecycle process, standardized engineering change management, and established product-focused engineering teams to achieve ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 certification.
- Led EUV and laser-driven light-source programs for Tier 1 Semi companies, including a custom EUV photoresist test system.
- Led, and was system architect for, the team that developed the Chromatiq Spectral Engine, a novel spectrum-simulating light source for testing and calibrating optical and imaging sensors found in high-end phones, tablets, cameras, and vehicles.
Emerson Electric / IntelliSAW
2014–2018 · Andover, MADirector of Products, IntelliSAW Technologies.
- Grew revenue from ~$500K (2014) to ~$4M (2018), domestic and international.
- Guided IntelliSAW through its 2015 acquisition by Emerson.
- Owned product roadmaps, market analysis, and pricing; contributed to 3 patent filings.
- Assisted engineering in the design of new sensors, system electronics, touch-panel UX, and IIoT implementation, and ensured compliance with FCC, UL, CE, and IEC regulations.
- Built worldwide solution-sales training and a global installation program (25+ countries).
Bloomy Controls
2006–2014 · Marlborough, MAProgressed from Senior Project Engineer to Business Unit Manager, Energy Systems.
- Instrumental in growing the Massachusetts business unit from 3 people in 2006 to a team of 16 over his tenure.
- Launched a new energy-systems business unit to $2M, shipping the company's first product, a custom battery simulator.
- Delivered EV and grid-scale battery-management test and real-time simulation systems, and high-volume medical-device robotic production systems.
- Certified LabVIEW Architect; built reusable software platforms and PM standards that raised throughput and margins.
Zoll Medical
2003–2006 · Chelmsford, MATest Development Engineer.
- Contributed to the design and development of the universal automated test system for ZOLL defibrillators, sub-assemblies, and PCBAs.
- Developed automated test systems for Li-ion batteries and battery chargers.
- Part of the team that completed product regulatory testing and FDA 510(k) submission.
- 20+ years in engineering leadership
- BSEE, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Cum Laude)
- 2 US patents: Partial-Discharge Trending (US 11448682, 2022); Spectrally Shaped Light Source (pending)
- Sectors: medical, semiconductor, energy, robotics, Web3
- linkedin.com/in/jonathanpmurray