The CDSI Leadership Team

Norm Lamarra has a 4+ decade technical background in radar systems, signal processing, real-time software development, antenna design, digital systems, and system modeling. He started his career working for a major aerospace company in the UK, moved to the US in 1977, and has worked for a range of smaller businesses until founding his first company in 1989. He has also managed research teams, spending ten years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, working initially on integrated spacecraft design, and later on advanced space network architectures for science gathering. He left JPL in 2004 to co-found CDSI. His academic background started with Mathematics, and he spent several years doing pre- and post-doctoral work in the Schools of both Engineering and Medicine at UCLA, where he applied modeling and signal-processing principles to the analysis of dynamic physiological systems, spending a short time as Adjunct Faculty there.