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Don Gall is the founder of Omega and oversees the vision of the company. Don earned his Doctor of Science degree from MIT and later joined the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University as Associate Professor of Mechanical and Bioengineering, where he taught automatic control theory and the computer simulation of dynamic physical systems. He later served as Research Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh. In 1973, Don left academics to become Director of Bioengineering at the Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix. In 1975, Don began a consulting company, D.A. Gall and Associates, which later became Omega Legal Systems, Inc. Don is credited for outstanding achievements in such diverse fields as automotive, aerospace, medicine, networking and computer database design. Most recently, Don was recognized by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Outstanding Alumnus - Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. Don received a US patent on one aspect of a fuel injection system, and was honored by the International Conference on Research in Production (CIRP) for work on the optimal control of manufacturing processes. Don was also recognized as the first American to receive CIRP's Taylor Medal. Today, Don remains directly involved in the development of Omega's products and continues to lecture, most recently at the University of Illinois and at the University of California at Davis. | 