About RightHand Technologies

RightHand Technologies provides expert engineering design services and specialized manufacturing with sophisticated, full-validation functional testing for embedded electronic systems. Its engineers have experience developing everything from simple motherboards to complex, high-speed designs with challenging technical constraints.

The company excels in managing projects from their initial inception through research, design, development, tooling, verification, system-level testing and transfer to production. RightHand Technologies employs world-class program management optimized for small-volume manufacturing.

RightHand Technolgies software team has contributed to various products in the biotech, automotive, appliances, consumer electronics, cellular, retail, printing, manufacturing, security, sensor, wireless and telecommunications industries. RightHand engineers are happy to assist with projects involving embedded systems including hardware design and manufacturing, product prototype, device driver development and embedded interfaces.

2009 - RightHand Technologies and SSI Embedded Systems merge into one company. Michele Mordacq joins RightHand as Vice President of Software Development.

2008 - RightHand Technologies became an associate member of PICMG (COM/Express) and RTCA-FAA Certification. Steve Valentor joins RightHand as President.

2007 - SSI 15th Anniversary celebration and open house was well received by the 60+ clients, engineers and networking friends that attended. Established formal partnerships with TI, Freescale and Digi International.

2006 - The Wireless Sensing product developed in collaboration with Tekscan wins Best of Sensors award at Sensors Expo 2006. In addition, the product gets listed in Sensors Magazine Top 50 Products for 2006. Launched sister company, SSI Wireless. Purchased and moved to a larger building next door to make room for additional staff. Moved December 2006.

2005 - RightHand Technologies ships first in-flight entertainment system. RightHand Technologies expanded into offices from Wood Dale to Edison Park office. The move provided the company a significant increase in office and laboratory space.

2003 - SSI moves to expanded facilities in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Solutions in 2003 include development for Invensys Appliance Control and Schott (oven controls) - two respected companies in their industry. Solutions also include an in-store trial for an inventory control system, and a solution for the retail stocking industry using machine to machine(M2M) and sensors technology.

2002 - RightHand Technologies was found by Mark Loffredo, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, and Jeff Slawecki, its Vice President of Engineering.

1999 - Began doing business as SSI Embedded Systems Programming to better reflect the growing expertise in a large variety of embedded platforms. RightHand continues to expand their customer base of hi-tech Chicago, Illinois area clients.

1992 - SSI Embedded Systems began in 1992 under the name of Systems & Synchronous, Inc (SSI) with a team of 12 engineers from AT&T Bell Labs. During the years at Bell Labs, the group had worked for a data communications division, which was sold in 1990 to Memorex Telex. In 1992, Memorex decided to relocate the group from Naperville IL to its headquarters in Raleigh, NC. The resulting upheaval opened up an opportunity for a group of experienced engineers to form a consulting company and stay in the Chicago area. They successfully secured a multi-year contract with Memorex Telex to write embedded software for communications controllers.