Karl Steadman

Karl is leading the software development team at Shared Spectrum for over a decade. Prior to that he was, for fifteen years, a Senior Staff Engineer at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. Karl’s extensive RF design and test experience includes the specification of system requirements; the selection of RF components; board-level and component-level testing; and system integration. He has experience in embedded software (C/C++), application software (Python and JAVA), and firmware including FPGAs, DSP, and data analysis (MATLAB). He holds an amateur radio license (active since 1978).

At SRI Karl managed a multi-year product driven networking program based on innovative signal processing techniques. The effort developed robust device drivers integrated to leading edge wired and wireless devices and multimedia formats. Under this program he delivered multiple modules.

Mr. Steadman has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.