Management

Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, TSE was established in 2001 by a group of highly experienced senior electrical engineers and industry professionals. TSE's core expertise has rapidly grown since that running start, and now covers the full spectrum of electronic and computer engineering design and development.

Fred Nittmann, Chief Executive Officer

As one of the company founders, Fred comes to his TSE leadership role after many years with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. He is a high energy, forward thinking International Program Manager, with broad industry experience and strong engineering, technical, and marketing skills. While with HP and Agilent, Fred was an international Program Manager for over ten years, was responsible for managing software licensing negotiations and contracts, and was a Product Marketing Manager for a new business ventures group. He is also the holder of three patents, all awarded while with HP and Agilent. Fred's specialties include business development, supplier negotiations, component manufacturing, product sales, engineering management, new product introduction, venturing, and team leadership.

Fred holds a BS in Chemistry from Western State College, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado.

James MacMillan – President

Jim MacMillan has over 26 years of experience in high technology engineering, management and innovation. Jim’s background is particularly broad, ranging from hardware, software and system engineering and development, to product management and technical sales support. This experience was gained by working in the defense and telecommunications industries.

As an innovator, Jim’s study of artificial intelligence during his graduate studies resulted in unique applications of neural networks as applied to optimization problems (for planning and scheduling), and the invention of perceptual grammar for sensor scheduling and data fusion. Jim served as CTO of Astracon -a venture-fund telecom start-up and as a Senior Solutions Architect at Evolving Systems.

Prior to Hughes Aircraft - where Jim was an Engineering Director, he served as an officer in the United States Army Signal Corps. He holds a BSEE from University of Nebraska and an MSEE from the University of Colorado at Denver and has completed his PhD course requirements in Math and Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines.