Our team

Blue Line Engineering, A certified Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), is a nimble and responsive company of 17 highly-expert, dedicated, seasoned technical and management professionals. Operating at the base of Pike’s Peak in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado since June, 1994 Blue Line’s work has been built upon not only its founder’s expertise in research and development, but each member of the team’s exhaustive technical background.

Every employee of Blue Line Engineering is a U.S. citizen

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Greg Ames, President/CEO

Before founding Blue Line Engineering in 1994, Greg served as the Program Manager for the SDIO/DARPA funded PAMELA activities in Colorado Springs. In other professional roles, he was lead engineer for the design, development, production, and integration of sensors, actuators, analog and digital control and processing electronics, software development, control system design and analysis on various initiatives. Greg gained a great deal of experience in all aspects of product development and manufacturing including production, assembly, test, quality control, and product verification.

His accomplishments have resulted in the following patents:

  • Constant Length Strut No. 4,742,261;

  • Phased Array Mirror Extendable to Large Apertures (PAMELA) No. 4,825,062;

  • An Inductive Sensor for Detecting Displacement Of Adjacent Surfaces No. 4,816,759;

  • Differentially Wound Electromagnetic Actuator No. 4,831,291;

  • Distance Measuring Device No. 4,905,009;

  • Wavefront Control System Using Optical Coarse/Fine Gradient Sensor No. 4,950,878.

  • Method and Apparatus for Digitally Controlled Linearization of an Analog Signal No. 5,396,241;

  • Inductive Sensor with Demodulator No. 9,816,840 B2;

  • Inductive Sensor with Demodulator No. 9,459,369 B2

  • Signal Path Processing Bias Error Detector, No. 9,698,844 B2;

  • Signal Path Processing Bias Error Detector, No. 9,281,854 B2;

  • Thermally Balanced Differential Accelerometer, No. 9,267,958 B2.

With a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, and post-graduate coursework in digital signal processing, electronic properties of materials, and micro sensors, Greg has also co-authored papers on topics relating to the PAMELA technology, edge sensors, and control architectures, most of which have appeared in the Proceedings of the SPIE. He often enjoys Colorado’s splendid nature on his bike, or with his wife and dogs.

 

Blue Line Engineering is a certified Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB)