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Joshua Klyman

I build technology businesses and hardware products from concept through global production.

Technology and operations executive leading strategy across engineering, product, business development, and global manufacturing.

300+ custom-design programs150M annual units at peak scale
300+custom-design programs led
150Munits annually at peak scale
15% → 45%value-added custom product mix
5global manufacturing partners
01 / About

Connecting technical capability to commercial momentum.

Joshua is an engineering, product, commercial, and operations leader with a record of turning market needs into scalable products and global manufacturing operations.

His work spans technical strategy, custom product development, industrialization, global supplier coordination, and OEM account strategy - with an emphasis on decisions that improve performance, quality, cost, manufacturability, and scale.

EducationMSc Electrical EngineeringNew Jersey Institute of Technology, magna cum laude
FoundationBSc Mechanical EngineeringRutgers University Engineering, cum laude
02 / Quantified impact

Proof points from strategy through execution.

01

Leads technology and business-development strategy for a $36M business, driving 16% year-over-year growth and OEM customers across five countries.

02

Owns $500K in annual technology and manufacturing budgets, aligning R&D, tooling, supplier, and production investments with growth and margin objectives.

03

Provides technical and operational leadership across five global manufacturing partners, coordinating functions encompassing up to 600 partner-factory personnel.

03 / Experience

A career at the intersection of engineering, business, and operations.

Executive and founder roles, with earlier engineering experience shown below.

2025 — PresentDeer Park, NY, USA

Challenge Electronics

CTO / Director, Global Business Development & Strategy

Leads global technology and business-development strategy for a $36M business, linking technical discovery, commercial negotiation, design-in, and high-volume production.

2023 — 2025Deer Park, NY, USA

Challenge Electronics

CTO

Defined technology and engineering strategy while building the capabilities to shift from component resale to custom product design and manufacturing.

2018 — 2023Deer Park, NY, USA

Challenge Electronics

Engineering Director

Built multidisciplinary engineering capabilities across electronics, embedded software, mechanical design, compliance, and product industrialization.

2021 — 2024Tel Aviv, Israel

Vertical Sound

Co-Founder & CEO/CTO

Founded and led a deep-tech agricultural yield-enhancement startup, owning strategy, product development, operations, and commercialization.

Earlier engineering foundation

2015 — 2018

Lead R&D Engineer

Challenge Electronics · Deer Park, NY, USA

Integrated microprocessor technology into analog systems and developed prototype acoustic platforms while overseeing a small engineering team.

2013 — 2015

Software & Systems Engineer

G3 Technologies · New Providence, NJ, USA

Delivered integration and life-cycle support for telecommunications systems, including control software and ruggedized hardware enclosures.

2011 — 2013

Hardware Engineer

G&E Renovations · Teaneck, NJ, USA

Early-career hardware engineering role.

04 / Featured projects

Projects that make the technical story specific.

Named innovations and confidential programs spanning sound localization, agricultural technology, and global product delivery.

Selected confidential programs in production

3Mannual consumer-electronics units20Kannual agricultural-equipment units50K → 200Kannual public-safety production growth
01Alarm & sensing

PinPoint Alert: patented sound-localization technology

ContextA patented, proprietary alarm tone that helps listeners identify an alarm’s direction and distance through human-auditory localization cues.

Role
Inventor
Outcome
U.S. Patent No. 10,522,008 B1
  • U.S. Patent No. 10,522,008 B1, issued December 31, 2019
  • Inventor: Joshua Klyman
  • Timing, intensity, frequency filtering, and pattern-matching cues
  • Platform-independent software deployment
  • Panel-mount and board-mount formats
View product overview
02Deep-tech venture

Vertical Sound: acoustic yield enhancement

ContextCo-founded and led an acoustic treatment venture for vertical farms, spanning strategy, product development, trials, operations, and commercialization.

Role
Co-Founder & CEO/CTO
Outcome
30% indoor weight increase reported
  • 10 controlled indoor growth cycles
  • 30% weight increase reported in indoor cycles
  • 25% weight increase reported across four commercial cycles and 500 m²
03Product & operations

Custom product industrialization at global scale

ContextLaunched and led more than 300 custom-design programs through validation, tooling, qualification, and high-volume production of up to 150M units annually.

Role
Program & industrialization leader
Outcome
300+ programs / up to 150M units annually
  • Performance, quality, cost, and manufacturability
  • Global partner coordination
  • Product industrialization
04Business transformation

From component trading to a technology-led model

ContextDrove the shift toward design and manufacturing capabilities, growing value-added custom products from 15% to 45% of the business.

Role
Technology & engineering strategy leader
Outcome
15% → 45% value-added custom product mix
  • Technology and engineering strategy
  • OEM opportunity development
  • Design-in through production
05 / Confidential client programs

The work behind the customer name stays confidential. The engineering story does not.

Customer identities are intentionally withheld; scope, role, and public-safe outcomes are shown.

C01Consumer electronics

Automated electromagnetic transducer for console hardware

Led the technical implementation of customer requirements into a fully automated production line for an electromagnetic transducer now in production.

  • Approximately 3M units annually
  • Mechanical, electrical, and acoustic quality controls
  • Low-cost design engineered for high-volume manufacture
C02Agricultural equipment

Frequency-controlled hardware and software system

Created a system that detects input frequencies as control signals and produces defined outputs, from software and PCB design through prototyping and mass production.

  • Software development and PCB design
  • Prototype-to-production leadership
  • Approximately 20K units purchased annually
C03Public safety technology

Public-safety camera platform program expansion

Led customer communication, engineering pre-sales, and post-sales support to grow a technical account from a single program into a multi-project platform relationship.

  • 1 → 5 total programs
  • Approximately 50K → 200K units annually in current production
  • Approximately 500K units annually projected across the full program portfolio
06 / Technical expertise

Fluent across the systems that turn ideas into shipped products.

A multidisciplinary background that combines engineering depth with product, industrialization, and commercial judgment.

Joshua leads others through deep technical understanding. His working knowledge of software development, electrical and mechanical design, and AI interfacing makes complex trade-offs clearer, requirements sharper, and multidisciplinary teams more effective.

Product & technology

  • Product strategy
  • Embedded systems
  • IP & patents
  • Microprocessor integration
  • Acoustic platform prototyping

Engineering delivery

  • Electrical design
  • Mechanical design
  • Software development
  • AI interfacing
  • Compliance
  • Validation & qualification

Operations & manufacturing

  • Global manufacturing
  • Supply-chain strategy
  • NPI & industrialization
  • Tooling
  • Manufacturability & scalability

Commercial leadership

  • Global business development
  • Strategic partnerships
  • OEM account strategy
  • Technical discovery
  • Commercial negotiation
07 / Leadership & scale

Strategy is only valuable when it reaches the production floor.

Joshua leads across the full chain: market opportunity, customer discovery, technical development, investment decisions, supplier coordination, and scalable production.

01Enterprise leadership

Organizational scaling, business transformation, investor relations, and capital strategy.

02Global operations

Manufacturing, supply-chain strategy, new-product introduction, and industrialization.

03Commercial direction

Global business development, strategic partnerships, and OEM account strategy.

Resume

The full career narrative, in one document.

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