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Glenn Birket

Managing Director

Andrea Angel

Director of Marketing & Operations

John Soucy

Manager of Product & Embedded Development

Cory Russell

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Suvrat Jain

Embedded Systems Engineer

Maggie Hays

Production Coordinator

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Glenn Birket

Managing Director, Firelinx + President/Owner Birket Engineering
Having acquired Firelinx in 2011, Glenn had been serving the theme park entertainment industry since 1984. With an emphasis on safety by providing control systems for rides & shows, specialty lighting products, and pyrotechnic controls such as Firelinx. Before founding Birket Engineering, Glenn was a project engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering responsible for design and commissioning of the stage control systems at Epcot’s American Pavilion, as well as redesigned components of Disney’s animation control system.

Andrea Angel

Director of Operations & Marketing
Andrea comes from a marketing agency where she held the position of digital positioning and social media manager. Andrea assisted in delivering quality websites, online advertising, email marketing, reputation management, and social media marketing solutions. With a background in the legal profession, Andrea transitioned to a role at a marketing and tourism bureau, where she developed the digital marketing skills and experience that have made her a vital part of the Firelinx team.

John Soucy

Manager of Product & Embedded Development

John guides the product development at Firelinx and has over two decades of hardware and software design across a wide array of disciplines and industries. As a designer, he has worked on automation and control systems, embedded systems hardware and software, and human interface design. As a manager, he has led teams for hardware and software design, manufacturing, on-site equipment commissioning, and testing.

Cory Russell

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer
Before joining the Firelinx team at Birket Engineering, Cory spent the majority of his professional career working in the software programming industry with a focus on cryptography design, embedded software/firmware design, and PCB design. Cory helped design an entire pyrotechnic control system that set the industry standard for safety, later to become known as Firelinx. He now leads the development team building Firelinx and other Research and Development projects at Birket.

Suvrat Jain

Embedded Systems Engineer

Suvrat joined Birket Engineering and the Firelinx team as a University of Central Florida intern, with previous internship experience at Universal Creative and Praxsoft Inc. Suvrat’s skill sets are software development and PCB design and is now a full-time embedded systems engineer at Birket and is an essential team member to Firelinx.

Maggie Hays

Production Coordinator
Maggie has previous experience as a 3D designer drafter in the aquaponics and gas turbine generator fields. Her earlier background encompasses engineering documentation and defense contract electro-mechanical assembly. Maggie has contributed to the mechanical design, and prototype assembly of Firelinx products, and design and assembly of other projects, she maintains much of the documentation and drawings as well as sourcing parts and manages inventory.