Nancy Knettell, Founder and Principal at Software510K, LLC, has over 30 years in combined Mechanical Design, Software Development, and Regulatory experience primarily in the Medical Device industry working with such major medical device companies such as Smith and Nephew, Philips Medical, CR Bard, Kollsman Medical, Deka Research, Becton Dickenson, and Johnson and Johnson. For Nancy, involvement in medical device development is a personal issue as well. Having lost her father at an early age to heart disease, she now wants to work to help other people facing such life threatening events. It is her mission to advance the potential for life-saving medical devices through the use of quality based engineering systems.