About X O D U S

Xodus LLC was created to allow Designers and Engineers the freedom to develop truly high performance audio equipment while maintaining a sense of value.  At a time when many manufactures are increasing prices and decreasing results, we decided to return to solid business principles of value. Rather than chasing 'hyper' luxury or 'uber' marketing, Xodus strives to create products that are worth the investment based on performance and not mystique.

The Team

   Brett Lee - Managing Partner

Brett Lee is responsible for the development of Xodus’s business and marketing programs, which includes the implementation and oversight of all global marketing operations surrounding Xodus’s advanced technologies. Brett is also Xodus’s International Distributor and Domestic Dealer Liaison. He travels extensively to meet with Xodus’s worldwide distributors and dealers in order to ensure product and installation training meets the company’s high operating standards.

Brett has played a vital role in the ongoing development of the Xodus Media Room offering, a cutting-edge technological realization of the ultimate music, movie, and electronic games room. As part of continuous product and service enhancement, Brett is responsible for ongoing audio and video product development, process creation, and marketing.

With eleven years of experience in the audio/video electronics industry, Brett has worked with an impressive range of leading technology firms including Goldmund, Goldmund USA, Stellavox Japan, Seattle Home Theater, Wired Electrical Technologies Inc, and KA Franklin Corporation. Holding key strategic and managerial posts at each firm, Brett is leveraging his industry experience to guide Xodus to the forefront of the world audio/video electronic market. 

Brett received dual degrees from the University of Washington and holds a BA in Business Administration and a BA in Zoology. He also has a Master’s Certificate for Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics and Master’s of Science in Construction Management from the University of Washington

   Ty Wiedrich - Technical Project Manager

Ty Wiedrich serves as Xodus’s technical expert. His responsibilities as the Technical Project Manager for Xodus are to oversee Technical Support development, Complex System Design, Product Development, and Prototyping.

Ty is an accomplished engineer and specializes in the electrical and technical applications as well as development of building and installation of The Xodus Media Room, a cutting-edge technological realization of the ultimate music, movie, and electronic games room.  Ty is also very knowledgeable in regards to power amplification and power distribution development.

Working with the Xodus engineering team, Ty oversees development of new products, prototyping and testing of all components Xodus, as well as the development of Xodus’s proprietary room modeling software. He leads future products and systems development planning efforts and reviews core technologies developed in the lab for future applications in stereo and multi-channel sound situations. Ty is additionally responsible for continued audio and video product development, code compliance, and process creation.

Ty initially began his career as a certified nuclear reactor operator for the Department of Defense and Department of Energy. Post-government service, he has an additional 13 years of experience working with leading electrical engineering firms including Goldmund, Goldmund USA, Stellavox Japan, Wired Electrical Technologies, and Seattle Home Theater. While working with some of those companies, he served as the Primary Licensed General Electrical Administrator insuring compliance with all national and local electrical codes for projects including industrial, commercial, and residential construction including the oversight of all electrical contracting operations including project engineering, design and installation. Ty attended Oregon State University and holds a BS in Information Technologies. 

   Tyler Gleghorn - R&D Electrical Engineer - Analog & Digital

Tyler Gleghorn's responsibilities are to develop new products and to optimized the cost of manufacturing.  He is Xodus's analog and digital engineering expert and is key in developing new products in all facets of the product line.  Tyler is an accomplished engineer with a career that includes working with top companies such as Honeywell and Microsoft.  He has been responsible for the development of several anechoic chambers for precise product testing and understands a multitude of the complex aspects of audio engineering. 

While working with these companies, Tyler has had the opportunity to develop excellent optimization skills and is very integral in evaluating areas of products that Xodus can streamline to provide more value to our clients.  Tyler has his BS in Electrical Engineering from Seattle Pacific University.  He has had extensive work experience abroad and has leveraged this to add value to the engineering team in perspective and understanding. 

   Jan Hofland - R&D Electrical Engineer - Analog & Digital

Jan Hofland's responsibilities are to develop new products in both the analog and digital domains.  Jan is an expert in FPGA development and implementation with proficiencies in Verilog HDL, Synplicity synthesis tools, ModelSim simulation, and Mentor EE CAD tools.  He has a depth of knowledge and insight that he brings to the Xodus design team having worked for HP for over 30 years in many demanding projects.  Jan has several patents under his name and is a driving force behind Xodus's commitment to design integrity and performance. 

Jan has had an extensive career that spans large industry leaders such as Microsoft and HP as well as significant service with the US Navy in the nuclear power program.  He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  Jan brings a fresh perspective to the Xodus design team as well as a wealth of knowledge and experience to help Xodus deliver industry leading products and innovations. 

 

 

Brian Scally - R&D Electrical Engineer - Analog Design Professional

Brian Scally's responsibilities lie with the design of the highest possible quality core analog systems for Xodus products. He is Xodus's analog specialist, and has extensive experience in amplifier design. Brian is a talented engineer with career experience in high audio quality telephone systems, video on demand, and a wide variety of consumer products. He has worked for companies like Siemens Research, Philips Semiconductors (now NXP), RCA (Thomson) and Microsoft.

Brian has patents in his name for many concepts, including multi channel audio decoder designs, early Blue Ray development, and systems design of audio and video decoding systems. Whilst Brian was working for the DirecTv group, his jointly developed HR10-250 hi-def TiVo box won best in show at CES. Brian has his BEng from the University of Southampton, England. He has extensive engineering experience both in the UK and the US and has partnered with engineers all over the world to produce high-quality reliable AV products, shipping over 20 million items to consumers.

   Scott Webber - R&D Mechanical Engineer

Scott Webber's responsibilities are to develop new processes to streamline the mechanical aspects of the product.  To ensure that the materials and methods used in the products construction are of the highest standards.  Scott is instrumental in the development of streamlined processed of material manufacturing and mechanical construction of Xodus products.  He is also involved in the development of new construction methods used in the Xodus Media Room.

Scott has worked for industrial industry leader Ingersoll Rand as a mechanical engineer.  While working with Ingersoll Rand he has had the opportunity to experience how to narrow in and focus on the most important aspects of a product and bring that value to Xodus's clients.  Scott is a very practical applications part of the Xodus team and has been involved in the development of high end and high performance audio products for over 5 years working with companies such as Goldmund USA and Seattle Home Theater.  Scott has his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.

   Jamie Wojcik - R&D Electrical Engineer - Digital & Programming

Jamie Wojcik's responsibilities are to develop new products and to optimized the cost of manufacturing.  Jamie is responsible for the research and development of digital products for Xodus LLC.  He has extensive knowledge in FPGA development and implementation which he has leveraged in the continued development of Xodus's first digital preamplifier/controller.  Jamie contributes to the analog development primarily in creating protection and monitoring schematics that do not interfere with the analog signal. 

Jamie is an accomplished engineer that has worked for National Semiconductor for 10 years.  He has been responsible for engineering and sales for National Semiconductor in 14 states and six Canadian provinces.  He has his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota with specialty in Computer Engineering and VLSI design.  Jamie also holds patents for personal inventions he has designed.  Jamie has over ten years of microcontroller design with Microchip PICs, MSP430s and Motorola.  He brings a professional attitude to the optimization of Xodus products and designs.

   Orlando Valdez - Operations Electrical Engineer - QC & Production

Orlando Valdez's responsibilities are to ensure the highest quality product testing and manufacturing for all of Xodus LLC's products.  He is essential in the development and implementation of testing standards and oversees that production assembly line testing meets Xodus's stringent standards.  Orlando has extensive experience in product stress testing from many different applications and has brought this knowledge to the development of Xodus's product line. 

Orlando has been working in the production/test engineering arena for over 12 years and has experience at Honeywell and Zebra Technologies.  He is a C# and C++ programming expert and has leveraged this expertise to develop key programs for Xodus LLC in our control systems for the Xodus Media Room.  Orlando has his BS in Electrical Engineering from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with a specialty in Mathematics.  He is key in the process of streamlining Xodus's product production and assembly to gain more value for the client. 

   Claude Tate - International Business Advisor

Claude Tate serves as International Business Advisor to Xodus LLC.  With over 45 years of experience and having worked with Boeing for many decades as one of the top international contract lawyers Claude brings extensive knowledge and foresight to Xodus LLC in navigating the issues of domestic and international business relationships.  Claude's depth of knowledge helps direct the Xodus team in a very professional way and helps insure that all business relationships are managed correctly.

   Clyde Lee - Expert Machinist

Clyde Lee serves as Expert Machinist to Xodus LLC.  Clyde has over 60 years of experience with precise metal working.  He was in the United States Air Force for over 20 years and then operated several of his own companies around the United States.  Clyde is not only an expert in metal machining he also helps guide Xodus LLC in the old fashioned tradition of standing behind our work.  Integrity and hard work are two of the most valuable traits that Clyde contributes to the development of Xodus LLC.

 

Partnership Mindset

Xodus LLC is committed to the development of true partnerships between our principle participants and our clients.  This means practically that we as a company continue to provide exceptional value in every product and service we offer to our clients.  Unlike some companies that claim they do not listen to their products (or clients) we do listen and Quality Test our products before they are shipped.  Even more importantly, we listen to our clients and respect their concerns over our bottom-line.