Background of Home Port Engineering's Founder.

Dale Mayes is a recognized industry leader, with over 21 years of engineering and management expertise focused on: systems engineering for the aerospace industry, implementing cutting-edge consumer devices, embedded systems design, and software process creation.

He holds two Bachelors of Science degrees from the University of Evansville, one in Electrical Engineering and one in Computer Engineering. During his undergraduate coursework, he spent a year studying at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England. Later Dale earned a Masters degree in Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management

Dale started his career with the Department of Defense. He was a liaison between the hardware group, where he worked, and the software support group. He was immersed in the DOD's formal Software Development methodology.

Dale left the civil service to join a start-up appliance control company, which was a spin-off of Motorola. He created the software for two of their first electronic oven controls. The company was acquired by and merged with Eaton Corporation, a major appliance component manufacturer. In his tenure with Eaton, Dale held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility. As a Manager of Engineering, he oversaw the development and support of a majority of Eaton's electronic appliance control projects, and all their software projects. Some responsibilities included new product concept development, the coordination of product quotation teams, the establishment of development schedules and project reviews. He also managed an ASIC development project.

Dale was recruited by Whirlpool Corporation soon after they made the strategic decision to bring the design of their electronic controls in-house. He implemented a global software development process, standard software architecture, also identified and implemented enabling technology for software development. After establishing the standards, Dale led the early concept work for Whirlpool's Integrated Home Solutions project. He was responsible for the new in-home devices (web tablet and residential gateway), networked appliances, the architecture, and software. He also worked with Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) and Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM's) Smart Appliance task force.

In recognition of the leadership and vision applied as chairman of the drafting committee for AHAM's Connected Home Appliances - Object Models standard, AHAM presented Dale with their highest honor, the Home Appliance Industry Leader Award.

As a systems engineer in the aerospace industry, Dale has been involved with DO-178b projects. He is also familiar with AE653, ARINC's requirements for partitioned operation systems.

Dale was invited and presented at the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference - "Establishing great software development process(es) for your organization".

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