About Us — Tenuvah Designs

Our Story

Built on Engineering.
Driven by People.

Tenuvah Designs is a small private development company dedicated to providing tailored engineered hardware and software solutions. The vast majority of all commercial products today require a systems engineering approach to the specification, design, and testing phases of the product under development.

Project teams often find that, even though the team is composed of talented engineers, there is either a specialized set of skills missing or a lack of personnel that keeps the team from meeting their project schedules. That's exactly the gap we were founded to fill.

Our Philosophy

More Than Just a Contractor

Tenuvah Designs is committed to filling in team roles for your project in the design, testing, and product production phases — dedicated to either immediately providing or quickly learning the skills that fill the gaps in your design team.

Technical Competence

A solid technical foundation is non-negotiable. We bring proven engineering skills in hardware design, firmware development, and systems engineering — ready to contribute from day one.

Cultural Integration

The key differentiating factor is how well a contractor integrates into your company's social environment. Our staff are friendly, enthusiastic, and committed to building a truly reciprocal working relationship.

Word of Mouth

Our business thrives through word-of-mouth relationships. Every engagement is an opportunity to leave both parties with a positive experience — that's the standard we hold ourselves to on every project.

The Team

People Behind the Work

Principal Engineer

Michael Margolese, Founder, Tenuvah Designs

Michael Margolese is a Principal Electrical Engineer with 28 years of experience spanning analog, digital, RF, FPGA, power electronics, and embedded firmware — from bare silicon to production-ready systems. He founded Tenuvah Designs in 2008 after a career that included IC design at Xilinx (Virtex-4/5), serving as CTO of an FDA-cleared digital health platform, and delivering electronics for NASA's Artemis program and the Moonlight Project. His client list spans aerospace, defense, medical, industrial, and consumer sectors — including Walt Disney Imagineering, L-3, Inertial Wave, AEI Systems, and DCX-CHOL. Michael holds five U.S. patents and has published in the VLSI Test Symposium and Xilinx application notes. He completed graduate coursework in Electromagnetics and Signal Processing at Stanford University and Santa Clara University.

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