Dung Dang has served as an applications engineer for Texas Instruments since 2007. He has served in various positions with the MSP430 and MSP432 microcontroller product lines and now serves as the MSP432 Platform Marketing Manager. He is an advocate of open-source platforms to allow ready adoption of microcontroller innovations in education and industry. He is the technical founder of the TI LaunchPad ecosystem. His service has taken him worldwide for customer field training and support. On a daily basis he collaborates with teams in Germany, India, China, and the U.S. Dung Dang holds an MSEE degree from Saint Mary's University at San Antonio, concentrating on embedded systems and image processing. He served as a Research Assistant at Saint Mary's for two years.