Eric Prast, VP of Product Engineering at XCMR, has over ten years of product development experience within biomedical, analytical Instruments, and global industrial equipment manufacturing with an emphasis on electrical engineering and hardware development. Prior to his appointment at XCMR, Eric was the Chief Technology Officer for EMP Design, specializing in product development for biomedical and wearable technologies in collaborative partnerships with the U.S. Department of Defense, Veterans Health Administration, University of Miami, University of South Florida, Boston University, the New England Patriots, the Washington Nationals, and U.S. Army Special Forces.
Previously, as principal electrical engineer, Eric led the development of groundbreaking medical devices aimed at rapid and non-invasive detection of skin cancer, including hardware development, testing and validation, resulting in FDA clinical approval in 2019.
Eric began his career as an electrical engineer in the prosthetics and robotics field for 7 years, directing the hardware development team for biomedical products for ALPS. In 2015, he invented a wearable technology for amputees to electronically measure and monitor limb pressure that earned a DoD grant for a randomized clinically controlled study on prosthetic smart socket technology. In 2012, he played a key role in developing a prosthetic neural interface for multifunctional upper-limb myoelectric control using pattern recognition algorithms with Northwestern University, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
He holds a BA in electrical engineering from Florida State University and is the inventor/co-contributor on 7 patents.
