Donald A Collins Associates

My teams have made your life easier for the last 20 years in leading grocery stores on self-checkout terminals, with bar code scanners and scales including security, printers, displays, point of sale and payment terminals, with Blockbuster DVD Kiosks, and ATMs. I started as a machine language firmware programmer, next designed complex printed circuit boards and integrated circuits and years ago moved to managing all types of R&D engineers including mechanical, electrical, optical, industrial, firmware, software, and even PhD scientists from Bell Labs. I’ve pitched to angels, NCR Corporation SVPs, and their Board of Directors. My customers have said that I deliver miracles. By identifying and championing new ideas I’ve earned 61 Patents (5 pending) and my global cross-functional engineering teams have earned NCR Corporation over $1B. Our kids will never pay $0.25 / gallon for gas, but they should have the same chances that we had growing up and live by our core values of practicing the Golden Rule, taking Ownership, and driving Innovation so I speak at schools about STEM careers and I serve on a few non-profit boards.