Steve Jester Email Address

Director of Engineering

Digi International is a leading global provider of mission-critical machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services. We help our customers create next-generation connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments with high levels of security, relentless reliability and bulletproof performance.

Experience: 22 years of experience in electromechanical product design & development including class 3 medical, commercial and military products Leadership: Successful leader with creative vision and strategy that facilitates corporate goals while building positive, productive culture. Outstanding self-character that naturally establishes trust in employees, creates environment for exceptional team motivation, and assess/aligns talents to ensure company objectives are met Management: Competent, well organized, succinct communicator. Highly motivated manager of multidiscipline engineers with strong skills in process improvement; years of working with internal departments, cross-site project collaborations, and external contractors/services Business Development: Technical solution expert. Worked directly with many new & existing clients providing technical solutions to their product development needs, proposal writing, face to face client interaction and often serve as a mediator to keep projects on track internally while managing clients expectations Program/Project Management: Successful product development leader. Managed schedule, resources, budget, requirements, risk management planning and provided technical contributions for new product development programs. Scope ranged from initial system concept, detailed project plan creation, resource loading and labor estimates through all phases of development including transfer to manufacturing activities Engineering: Technical expert in systems, project management and electrical engineering with comprehensive experience in the entire product development process . Detailed experience with: . Medical Product Design, embedded systems, data acquisition, . communications, signal conversion/conditioning, sensor interface, . software, motion control, and power control design methodologies