Jason Seawall

Jason (Jay) Seawall, born September 15, 1973, is an American engineer, roboticist, inventor and entrepreneur with a professional focus on smart sensor and robotic inspection technologies. He founded and is currently Chief Executive Officer of Numurus LLC, an Edge-to-Cloud technology platform company based in Seattle, Washington. Prior to this, he co-founded and acted as COO to BlueView Technologies, an underwater robotic smart sensor company. After Teledyne acquired BlueView in 2012 Seawall served as VP of Technology in Teledyne’s Marine division, leading 25 different smart sensor and robotic groups until he left in 2017 to start Numurus LLC. Seawall holds numerous patents and earned a BSEE from Virginia Polytechnic and State University as well as a MSEE from the University of Texas at Austin. 
== Early Life and Education ==
Born in Buffalo, New York, Seawall’s family moved to Newport News, Virginia (1979) where he spent his childhood. After graduating from Menchville High School in 1991, he attended Virginia Polytechnic and State University. As an undergraduate student, Seawall spent several semesters working with Bechtel as a Nuclear Facilities Engineering intern, and then later with Newport News Shipbuilding as an Aircraft Carrier Propulsion Test Engineer. His undergraduate research on vibration control resulted in a grant from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. “Jason Seawall Linkedin Page Seawall, Jason. (ca. 2020). Retrieved 29 March 2020.” 
After graduating in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Seawall moved to Austin, Texas to attend graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin to study mechatronics. Here he worked as a graduate research assistant on several projects related to semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, and underwater sensors. “UW Website - Profile - Jason Seawall APL-UW, Retrieved 29 March 2020.”
 He graduated in 2000 with a Masters of Science degree in Engineering.
== Career == 
===Early Career===
After receiving his Masters of Science degree in Engineering, Seawall stayed in Texas to work as a research assistant on underwater sensors and robotics at the Applied Research Lab in Austin. In 2002, he moved with his family to Seattle, Washington where he began working at the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab. This early work focused on developing prototype systems in underwater acoustic imaging sensors, ranging from software, hardware, and mechanical design.
===BlueView Technologies===
In 2004, Seawall along with Lee Thompson and Scott Bachelor, founded BlueView Technologies, an electrical equipment company focusing on compact underwater sonar systems for the market of underwater robotics in the offshore energy sector. Seawall acted as COO (Chief Operating Officer), as well as the Chief Product Architect, working on the development of 30 commercial and custom sonar products.
BlueView Technologies designed, developed, and licensed a sonar system to be deployed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV’s), remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV’s), surface vessels, fixed positions, and portable platforms.“ Sonar System Facilitates Dual Frequency Switching Grant, George. Thomas Net, Blueview Technologies, 25 June 2008.” The system, which allows underwater viewing in zero visibility situations, is used by law-enforcing marine organizations such as the US Navy, Coast Guard, and Port Authorities. In 2012, after 8 years of business, BlueView Technologies was acquired by Teledyne Technologies, a large industrial conglomerate. “Teledyne Will Acquire BlueView Technologies Yahoo! Finance, Associated Press, 31 May 2012.”
===Teledyne Technologies===
When Teledyne Technologies acquired BlueView Technologies in 2012, Jason Seawall took on the role of Vice President of Technology at Teledyne BlueView. Teledyne BlueView continued work with underwater sonar systems “Blueview - 2D Imaging Marine Technology Products and Solutions - Teledyne Marine. Retrieved 29 March 2020”, expanding it to include a multi-million dollar research and development budget for the development and execution of related products. In 2016, Seawall became the Vice President of Technologies within Teledyne’s Marine division, a division that focused on collaboration between internal sensor and robotics organizations, third party technologies, and customers in both the US Navy and the energy sector.
===Numurus LLC===
In 2017, Seawall left Teledyne and started Numurus, a B2B Edge-to-Cloud technology platform company.Jason Seawall is currently the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Numurus. This Seattle based company creates smart sensor and robotic solutions that use a Edge-to-Cloud ecosystem of smart sensor platforms, open-source software, and smart IoT solutions. “Numurus Smart System Solutions Numurus LLC. Retrieved 29 March 2020” Numurus customers are developers, manufactures, and operators of robotic inspection and maintenance solutions in the energy, industrial, and defense industries. Numurus offers Edge hardware and software platforms, as well as NEPI, an IoT solution for managing data, software, and AI between Edge-devices and Cloud-services.
In 2018, Numurus was awarded a $2.4 million contract from DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency) related to cloud managed smart ocean floats that leverage NEPI as the IoT backbone communications platform. 
==Patents== 
“Systems and methods implementing frequency-steered acoustic arrays for 2D and 3D imaging” February 24, 2015“United States Patent: 8,964,507 - Systems and methods implementing frequency-steered acoustic arrays for 2D and 3D imaging Bachelor, Scott Thomas. Thompson, R Lee. Seawall, Jason L. 24 February 2015. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database”
“Acoustic video camera and systems incorporating acoustic video cameras” January 28, 2014“States Patent: 8,638,362 - Acoustic video camera and systems incorporating acoustic video cameras Bachelor, Scott Thomas. Thompson, R Lee. Seawall, Jason L. 28 January 2014. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database” 
“Systems and methods implementing frequency-steered acoustic arrays for 2D and 3D imaging” October 20, 2009“United States Patent: 7,606,114 - Systems and methods implementing frequency-steered acoustic arrays for 2D and 3D imaging Bachelor, Scott Thomas. Thompson, R Lee. Seawall, Jason L. 20 October 2009. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database” 
“Vessel-mountable sonar systems” June 2, 2009“United States Patent: 7,542,376 - Vessel-mountable sonar systems Bachelor, Scott Thomas. Thompson, Roger L. Seawall, Jason L. 2 June 2009. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database”
== References ==
== External Links ==
*Numurus LLC official website
*Jason Seawall on Linkedin
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