About Us
Eric Wilbur
Founder & Managing Partner
Embedded Advantage
Eric earned his B.S.E.E. at Kansas State University in 1988 and worked for Texas Instruments as a technical sales representative and field applications engineer with major accounts including HP, DEC, IBM, Maxtor and AT&T. In 1995 he transitioned to full-time technical training and workshop development with TI's Technical Training Organization.
During the next 20 years, Eric designed and developed technical hands-on workshops on topics including digital signal processors (DSPs), microprocessors, microcontrollers, wireless, multi-core devices, custom DSP cores, video/audio processors and real-time operating systems (RTOS). In addition to teaching these workshops, he also wrote application notes, delivered presentations at technical conferences worldwide, and developed online training now being used by many universities in upper-level engineering courses.
In a highly interactive, dialog-driven classroom environment, Eric has taught over 300 live workshops totaling more than 1000 days to over 4000 customer engineers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Australia. A regular comment from many engineers is that Eric is “the best instructor I have ever had.”
With his engineering expertise and knowledge of technical training, instructional design, and user experience, Eric has collaborated with teams of technical instructors, design engineers, field sales/applications engineers and marketing managers across the globe.
With his proven track record, Eric founded Mindshare Advantage (www.MindshareAdvantage.com) in 2015 with a passion to teach engineers how to design and deliver truly effective technical presentations and workshops that create “mindshare” and ultimately market share. Eric continued to update and offer training and consulting on embedded systems, which resulted in the launch of Embedded Advantage in 2019.
Scott Specker
Senior Instructor & Consultant
Embedded Advantage
Scott brings 25+ years of teaching and instructional design experience in addition to a unique combination of strong communication skills, engineering expertise, and a passion for working with others. Whether applying these skills to instructional design, technical documentation, or live teaching, his dynamic and approachable work product is often described by students as fun, challenging, and interactive.
Scott’s collaboration and consulting skills have been developed over three decades of interacting with teams of design engineers, marketing specialists, and customers. After earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (1986), Scott joined Texas Instruments (TI) as a technical sales representative where he handled TI's Minnesota district distributor network and specialized in TI's digital signal processors (DSPs), supporting the entire upper midwest region.
In 1993, Scott transitioned to a full-time role in TI's Technical Training Organization (TTO). During the next 22 years, he developed and taught hands-on multi-day technical workshops focused on a variety of topics including digital signal processors (DSPs), ARM processors, microcontrollers (MCUs), real-time operating systems (RTOS), wireless, audio/video processing, as well as Linux-based embedded systems. During his last two years at TI, Scott served as a Product Marketing Engineer (PME) for TI's MSP430 microcontroller business.
With 25+ years of presentations, classes and instructional design experience, Scott has taught more than 400 live workshops totaling more than 1500 days to over 4000 customer engineers across the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Europe. Scott is also passionate about sharing his instructional design and technical skills and has mentored over 100 instructors and online training developers.
Wajdi Darmoul
Contract Developer
Owner & Founder of Elco Solutions
a partner of Embedded Advantage