Curt Bashford

PERSONAL HISTORY

Born: 23 July, 1964

Place: Summit, NJ, USA

Citizenship: USA

Status: Married

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

November 2011 – Present
Ridgefield, New Jersey

General Devices

  • Executive Partner, responsible for all aspects of business management, marketing and planning.
    • Business Development
    • P&L Financials
    • Marketing

December 1996 – Nov 2011
Ridgefield, New Jersey

General Devices

  • Senior Partner, involved in all aspects of running a successful company specializing in the design, development and manufacture of specialized, voice, data and telemetry communications products for Hospitals, Emergency Medical Services and public safety.
  • Project Manager for the first commercial, city-wide wireless EMS Telemedicine system in the USA, for the City of Tucson, AZ – Fire Dept / Dept of Transportation
    • Voice, Video & Data between ambulances, hospital & DOT over MESH broadband
    • System was activated August 2007
  • Project Manager for installations including communications and telemetry equipment for
    • City of New York - FD/EMS
    • City of Detroit MI - Fire Department
    • County of Milwaukee

May 1990 – November 1996
Ridgefield, New Jersey

General Devices

  • Involved in all aspects of company product line of Emergency Medical Service communications equipment, including design, manufacture, sales and customer support.
  • Principle designer of the GEMS 2000 EMS Communications Console and the GEMSCOM Series of Paramedic Field Radios.

May 1986 – May 1990
Ridgefield, New Jersey

General Devices

  • Responsible for setting up and overseeing manufacturing operations including assembly, test and troubleshooting for a wide variety of sophisticated medical devices.

 June 1984 – October 1991
Union, New Jersey

Union Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

  • Provided 911 EMT-Ambulance Basic Life Support to the community.
  • Achieved Rank of Lieutenant, Maintenance Officer.

EDUCATION

1997: Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

1987: Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

1984: Associate of Arts, Engineering, Union County College

1982: Graduate, Union High School

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

NAEMSP National Association of EMS Physicians

NPSTC National Public Safety Telecommunications Council - EMS Working Group

ATA  American Telemedicine Association

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE / AFFILIATIONS

2003-2013

Union, New Jersey

Union Soccer – Spitfires  

2006-2010

Union, New Jersey

Boy Scouts of America - Troop 65  

1998-2006

Union, New Jersey

Boy Scouts of America - Pack 65 

 1996-1999

Union, New Jersey

Orchard Park Civic Association