Kevin SchultzVice President of R&D, Data Acquisition and Distributed I/O
Schultz joined NI in 1991 as a design engineer working on the VXI product line. Upon being promoted to senior group manager for MXI and imaging, he led the company's initial foray into imaging hardware as the founder of the imaging business and team. He also managed the development of the first PXI controllers and chassis. 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, the development and architecture of the NI CompactRIO system, the rollout of NI CompactDAQ, and, recently, the release of wireless DAQ devices and the NI FlexRIO product family. He has also helped drive the development of academic hardware such as the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) and NI ELVIS II. Additionally, Schultz has overseen the acquisition and integration of two subsidiaries and regularly works with a broad range of suppliers to help provide technology direction. Schultz has a deep technical knowledge and is the inventor or co-inventor of 25 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 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board at Texas A&M University. Request a National Instruments employee to speak at your event. |
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.