Christina Cyr

Our second phone, The Cyrcle Phone LTE with Android 10 was released on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. You might still be able to obtain one here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dtoor/the-cyrcle-phone-4g Here is The Cyrcle Phone coverage from CES2020:  See a sneak peak of The Cyrcle Phone 4G LTE Android 9 at https://www.cyrclephone.com/.  Awarded Kickstarter’s “Best in Kickstarter” at #CES2020.  Featured on BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-51043488/ces-2020-cyrcle-phone-is-round-and-has-two-headphone-jacks  Detailed on CNET: https://www.cnet.com/videos/cyrcle-smartphone-flaunts-a-striking-round-design/  Discussed on #TheAmpHour podcast: https://theamphour.com/475-an-interview-with-christina-cyr/  And soon to be featured on Kuba Klawiter’s YouTube Channel! You can see an early look at the footage here: https://youtu.be/AEaipFXXCTU. Skills earned: Android Open Source Project (AOSP) device drivers and framework design. Experience modifying framework services such as WindowManager, ActivityManager, PackageManager SurfaceFlinger, etc. Experience with customizing SystemUI - statusbar, lockscreen, navigation bar and notifications. Experience with creating custom views and layouts. Experience with system design on Android. Experience with adb, Android SDK, and Android 9 & 10 builds.

dTOOR makes "Non-Rectangular Phones for Non-Rectangular People" starting with an innovative smartphone featuring a round display, called The Cyrcle Phone. We sold our first product 7 months after incorporation, a simple 2G MVP of the "The Cyrcle Phone." The new 4G LTE Android version of The Cyrcle Phone will be released soon. As CEO&Founder I am in charge of obtaining funding, keeping us on schedule, creating the electronics design, and supporting my team. I have several co-founders: Chief Operating Officer (COO) Wendy Wilson, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Debbie Liu, and my 2016 co-founder Linda Inagawa. We have hired over 50 local contractors to help us with bits and pieces of developing and releasing our products. Further, we manufacture our phones in the Seattle area (a phone assembled in the United States - Wow, right?) and are committed to fostering the economy in the Northwest. In addition to running the company, I do PCB design and electrical engineering for the 4G LTE Android OS mobile phone board in Autodesk Eagle, and initial mechanical engineering for the enclosure in Fusion 360 (although I did our 2016 original 2G prototype phone enclosure in SketchUp). I have worked with radio modules such as UBlox, Telit, SIMCom, and Quectel, plus processors from MediaTek and Qualcomm. I'm trained in UX/UI design and Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE). I can solder, and I have taught over 200 people how to build their own phones. I work closely with contract manufacturers (CMs) to improve our design for engineering (DFM) to increase throughput. I source better parts at a lower price to improve build quality and keep our bill of materials (BOM) costs down to keep the price low for customers, yet increase profits for our investors. Consider joining us at dTOOR today to experience the joy of being Non-Rectangular. Let's connect at CES, MWC, or Makerfaire.

Hackster.io, a division of Avnet, is the world’s fastest growing developer community for learning, programming, and building hardware. By bringing together a global network of 600,000+ innovators and hundreds of technology partners, Hackster.io hopes to facilitate the creation of solutions that make today's world a smarter, healthier place and support the livelihood of tomorrow's generation.

Organized the Hardware Startup track for Techstars Startup Week Seattle (AKA Seattle Startup Week), consisting of the following events. Thinking of starting a hardware startup? Monday is the day to attend. 10/2/17 @ 10 am Hardware Startup Fundamentals: Industry Advisor Andy Silber of Fiat Veritas 10/2/17 @ 11 am Accelerators & Incubators for Hardware Startups: 9MileLabs and Techstars 10/2/17 @ 6-9 pm Hackster.io meetup @ ADA Academy Looking for resources in the Northwest to build your device? Tuesday is your day. 10/3/17 @ 10 am Design for Delight: Nytec, PCS, Synapse, MistyWest, Aeri Designs 10/3/17 @ 12 pm Bring Your Own Lunch: Q&A with Women in Hardware 10/3/17 @ 1 pm Electronics Manufacturing: Metrix, Out of the Box Manufacturing, DA International Group 10/3/17 @ 2 pm How You Can Leverage Laser Cutting and CNC Machining: Fremont Laser + Design <2:15 pm - 5:15 pm Christina on the Co-Founder panel at Galvanize.> 10/3/17 @ 6 pm Robots & Drones: Parminder Devsi of Robodub and Ben Waters of WiBiotic What hardware startups are thriving in the Seattle area? Come find out. 10/4/17 @ 10 am Recent Successful Kickstarter Campaigns: Moment, Package Guard, JikoPower, Felik 10/4/17 @ 11 am Evolution of How to Get Things Made: Burt Hamner of HydroBee 10/4/17 @ 12 pm Bring Your Own Lunch: Q&A with Hardware Startup Luminary Dan Shapiro of Glowforge 10/4/17 @ 1 pm IOT Devices: Robert Baffi of Avnet and Franck Rougier of Kirio

I have given presentations about making smartphones at the following events. • Open Hardware Summit (OHS) hosted by the Open Source HardWare Association (OSHWA) 2020 • Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 • World's Maker Faire New York 2018 • Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2016 • Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2017 • Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2018 • Code Writers Workshop 2016 • GeekGirlCon 2017 • GeekGirlCon 2018 • GeekGirlCon 2019 • Techstars Startup Week Seattle 2017 • Techstars Startup Week Seattle 2018 • Techstars Startup Week Seattle 2019 • Women Who Code 2018 • and various makerspaces throughout the country.

Tested Microsoft's Japanese Software on NEC hardware. Led testing teams of up to 8 people.

Developed two patents for Fuji Electric concerning methods for testing phosphate levels in streams. Fuji Electric ("Fuji Denki") is the Research Division and parent company of Fujitsu.

Tested Microsoft's Japanese Software. Led testing teams of about 8 people.

As Assistant Operations Manager I helped grow this startup laboratory from 12 employees to over 50 employees. Due to the startup nature of the job I wore many hats. In addition to being Asst. Ops Mgr, I was also a Research Associate, PCR technician, phlebotomist, and so on. My most proudest accomplishment of this job was that I worked on the clinical trials for the triple drug combination which AIDS patients now use today. Up to that time the life expectancy of a patient with AIDS was less than one year. The triple drug combination has allowed AIDS patients to live 40+ years, which is close to a more "normal" life-span. CLS was the medical laboratory which served the three main medical offices for patients with AIDS in Los Angeles at that time.

I wrote testing procedures to verify piping aboard nuclear submarines after overhaul.