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As vice president of R&D for data acquisition and distributed I/O Kevin Schultz is responsible for the continued leadership and success of National Instruments in data acquisition and for further penetrating key growth areas such as industrial control and embedded design.
Schultz joined NI in 1991 as a design engineer working on the VXI product line. In 1995 Schultz was promoted to group manager of MXI and one year later to senior group manager for MXI and imaging where he personally led the company’s initial foray into imaging hardware as the founder of the imaging business and team.
He added PXI to his responsibilities in 1997 managing the development of the first PXI controllers and chassis. In 2001 he was promoted to director of engineering for data acquisition and distributed I/O and added management of hardware product strategy two years later.
Since assuming management of core data acquisition (DAQ) and distributed I/O products Schultz has been instrumental in the success of a wide variety of products. He has been involved with the development of low-cost DAQ products the introduction of more than 20 M Series DAQ devices at NIWeek 2004 the development and architecture of the National Instruments CompactRIO system and the extremely successful rollout of NI CompactDAQ in 2006.
Schultz has a deep technical knowledge and is the inventor or coinventor of 21 patents in areas such as imaging bus interfacing and graphical software for algorithms.
Schultz holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from St. Cloud State University and Texas A&M University respectively. In addition he is a member of the Electrical Engineering Advisory Board at Texas A&M University. | 