East Michigan News

Michigan Business Network hosted a podcast featuring one of Michigan’s "50 Companies to Watch."

The host, Jeffrey Mosher, spoke with Stacy Paul, CEO of Array of Engineers, one of the 50 companies in the field of software and hardware testing and automation. 

“My background is aerospace engineering, and I have been in the aerospace industry for 20-some years,” Paul told Michigan Business Network. “My husband and I, Howard Paul, decided we wanted to have a family and wanted to raise them in Michigan. We really like Michigan a lot and kind of knew we wanted to come back to Michigan once we started having children.”

Paul worked in the commercial industry while in Grand Rapids, and within several years, the couple began to think about starting their own business. 

“We decided a few years back to start Array of Engineers and created it on the purpose, or the core value, of wanting to create a place in Michigan,” Paul told Mosher.

Paul explained that she wanted to be able to offer high-tech jobs to a community in their home state, which could collaborate with other states and their companies. 

“We do software development, design and then testing, specifically testing automation for software and hardware embedded systems,” Paul said on the podcast. “We have applied what we learned in aerospace. As you know, aerospace is very rigorous and you have to make sure that the software that is developed, and the hardware on any type of aircraft, is tested completely, because it can be catastrophic if anything goes wrong. So we've applied what we've learned in aerospace to other industries and are working on some innovative products also to make that testing be more efficient and to take the manual part of it out of it.”

Array of Engineers is excited to be a part of the "50 Companies to Watch" list and feel honored to be part of this class of businesses. 

“We are going to attend virtually, and we've put it out for our team so everyone on Array of Engineers’ team will also be joining virtually,” Paul said, when asked about the 2020 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Gala.