Hi, we’re Glassboard
We’re a group of engineers and innovators that believe that hardware development can be more streamlined and transparent
What drives us
The Glassboard team is dedicated to making your complex products simple and your simple products beautiful
Our People
Glassboard is focused on attracting and hiring the best talent in the industry and putting their creativity and talent to work for our clients. Our culture rewards continuous learning and skillset improvement.
Our Process
No matter where you are in your product development cycle, Glassboard’s unique yet flexible design and development process allows us to deliver high quality physical products in a proven, fast, consistent, and cost effective manner.
Your Products
Regardless of project size, scope, or complexity the Glassboard team is totally invested in your success. Every member of our team is personally dedicated to helping solve whatever challenges lie in your product’s development.
Meet the team
Glassboard employs a world-class multi-disciplinary team of engineers, project managers, and developers. Find out what makes them tick
Randy Parmerlee
Chief Executive Officer
Randy Parmerlee is an expert at board level design including single to multi-layer PCB layout with emphases on power efficient and size constrained designs. Whether it’s analog or digital design knowledge or program management, he’s been a part of all aspects.
Drew Westrick
Vice President of Technology
Drew Westrick is a skilled software engineer with vast knowledge of electrical hardware design, firmware development, and power electronics. When he is not using these skills at Glassboard, he enjoys applying them to build land speed record electric motorcycles.
Grant Chapman
Vice President of Operations
Grant Chapman is a driven systems engineer and program manager. With skill sets in both the electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines his areas of focus are mechanical design, FEA simulations, electronics design and validation, battery integration, battery characterization and modeling, and systems integration.
Dan Doyle
Program Manager
Dan Doyle has over 20 years of experience with manufacturing, automation, and robotics organizations. He has spent time in manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, and systems engineering roles, as well as more recently, in project and program management roles.
Ethan Byler
Firmware Engineer
Ethan Byler is a skilled software engineer with a decade of experience in firmware design and development. He has worked a diverse range of projects from Android development to RF signal meters.
Ben Ettinger
Mechanical Engineer
Ben Ettinger is a skilled mechanical engineer with experience in mechanical design and development. He has worked on a diverse range of projects from plastic injection molding part development to sheet metal design and assembly of complex systems.
Ethan Harmon
Hardware Engineer
Ethan Harmon is a Hardware Design Engineer with a diverse background that includes complex PCB layout for size constrained applications, RFID antenna design and implementation, PCBA overmolding for harsh environment applications, and design for manufacturability in high volume PCBA production.
Stephen Murphy
Embedded Software Engineer
Stephen Murphy is an experienced Firmware Engineer with a broad knowledge of firmware architecture, development, and embedded system design. When he is not making things at Glassboard, he can be found at home learning new programming languages and contributing to open source projects.
Glassboard Graduates
Meet Glassboard’s past and present rising product development superstars
Garrett Schafer
University of Notre DameSummer Intern 2018 & 2019
Christopher Metzger
University of Notre DameSummer Intern 2017 & 2018
Skyler Parrish
Trine UniversitySummer Intern 2017