Randy Armstrong

Randy Armstrong is Velentium’s Chief Technology Officer and the author of the QMS, which they believe is one of the leanest and most effective in the industry. Randy has worked for over three decades in medical device development and has been issued 54 patents during his career. He is passionate about the elegant solution – simpler, consumes less energy, has fewer components, is smaller, requires less maintenance, and costs less – producing designs throughout his career which become flagship and platform technologies that return value far beyond original goals.

Randy graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and started out designing wearable diagnostics for NASA astronauts. Within five years, he transitioned to developing active implantables, focusing specifically on pacemakers. Over time, he began developing cardiac rhythm management devices and was immediately struck by the impact and responsibility that the job contained. He’s written embedded firmware that is currently residing in over half a million people today. Randy has also worked on the ISO Standards committees, where he helped create standards for neurostimulators, and has co-chaired the AAMI Neurosurgery and TENS committees.