Who We Are
Our Leadership
The agile team at Left Coast Engineering assists organizations of all sizes in executing custom technology and product designs. With extensive expertise, LCE provides the knowledge and capacity to bring concepts to fruition. Here’s a look at our Leadership.
Robert Baranowski
Founder and President
Rob leads many of the design projects with more than 25 years of electrical design experience in medical device, military, industrial and commercial projects. His extensive hardware design experience in wireless, power, audio, controllers, location-aware and sensors brings many lessons learned to new R&D projects. His software design and development experience involves user interfaces, drivers and applications. He is an inventor on about 25 issued patents, including two that relate to creating the very first app in 1999 for navigation and scheduling your theme park day.
Previously, Rob was with Sony and Motorola in their cellular design and special projects groups. He holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering from Villanova University.
Active in the community, Rob has founded a non-profit instructional baseball program and has coached high school baseball for many years.
Anita Baranowski
CEO
Anita is CEO of Left Coast Engineering, a dba of Park-Tours Inc. She has a diverse corporate management background from Wall Street to theme parks. She has led Left Coast Engineering since 2014 with continued emphasis on providing partnership and support to other companies and agencies for R&D, custom product design and groundbreaking technologies that solve problems.
Anita’s focus is on long-term business operations and business development. Her background is in public relations and marketing, having worked in high-tech for Centel Financial Systems, then in tourism for Six Flags and Hyatt Hotels Corporate, and later in consumer sports brands like Gatorade and Wilson Golf with Donnellon Public Relations. With a degree is in Communications from Texas Tech University, Anita began her career as a broadcast journalist for NBC and CBS affiliates. She is an active volunteer in the community, especially for music in schools.
Amy Archipov
Production Manager
Amy has been with Left Coast Engineering (LCE) since 2012 and has a wide range of technical experience. She manages projects, production builds and procurement, and also assists with business development.
Prior to LCE, Amy supported the Industrial Engineering Department at Rohr, Inc. with production time standards management, was a Business Systems Analyst for Valor Electronics, and supported Program Management for Innovapp, Inc.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from University of Buffalo, NY and a Master of Science from San Diego State University in Interdisciplinary Studies: Management of Manufacturing Engineering.
Company Timeline
LCE in Action
Careers
At Left Coast Engineering, our passion is turning innovations into reality. If making the impossible possible gets you excited, you’ll fit right in with our tight-knit team. We seek creative problem-solvers driven to deliver technology breakthroughs in electrical, mechanical, RF and software design. Our growing firm collaborates with talented minds across multiple disciplines to achieve the extraordinary every day.
Located just north of vibrant San Diego, just off I-15, our modern office space promotes inspiration and collaboration. Get in touch via the form on our Contact page to help us continue achieving the vision of bringing pioneering ideas to life!
LCE in the News
San Diego Press
Left Coast Engineering leverages Advancing San Diego to hire intern, strengthen talent pipeline
Founded in 1999, Escondido-based Left Coast Engineering (LCE) is an electrical engineering consulting and manufacturing company working with some of the most innovative commercial and military organizations to bring ideas of the future into the present.
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Meet the companies: Advancing San Diego, Manufacturing interns
Through our Advancing San Diego initiative, EDC provides San Diego-based businesses with paid interns in high-demand fields. This program targets companies with 100 employees or less, which comprise 98 percent of all businesses in San Diego, employ nearly two thirds of San Diegans, and account for 70 percent of job growth.
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Escondido Insight - Business Spotlight
Left Coast Engineering: Where Ideas Become Realities in Escondido. In an unassuming building on Escondido Boulevard that still displays an old Radio Shack sign, new products and technologies are being imagined, designed, and built daily - from cutting edge devices for Alzheimer’s patients to futuristic defense technologies.
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Left Coast Engineering
Founded in 1999, Left Coast Engineering offers full-service, custom electronic product design and R&D resources for both new and next-gen technologies from product concept to production in areas of hardware, software, wireless, fluidics, mechanical and Radio Frequency (RF) design. This design support includes product definition, certification testing, production test, validation/verification, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and intellectual property protection. The company supports a variety of clients in the commercial, industrial, medical and military spaces, having designed more than 175 new products.Read MoreValley Roadrunner
Left Coast Engineering takes a glimpse into the future at the Consumer Electronics Show
The product engineering and design team from Escondido-based Left Coast Engineering (whose owners live in Valley Center) hit the road for their annual trek to the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, January 7-10 in Las Vegas. This year offered a whole new look into the future of how technology in consumer products will impact daily living.
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Walking the (virtual) trade show floor with Left Coast Engineering
The year 2020 was one of firsts on so many fronts. Like so many businesses, Left Coast Engineering, a custom electronics product design company located in Escondido, has had to learn new ways of doing business. The watchword seems to be “pivot” as COVID-19 has taken away so many opportunities for the personal touch. In some ways, business has become more accessible through Zoom, Ring Central, Teams, GoTo Meeting and whatever other platforms that people are making connections on.
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Left Coast Engineering, tech savvy at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019
Nearly everyone has chatted with Amazon Alexa, said “Hey Google” or asked Siri a question by now, and that familiarity that has brought artificial intelligence (AI) into our everyday lives. This step in technology particularly resonated at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8-11.Read MoreEscondido Times Advocate
Left Coast Engineering, tech savvy at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019
Nearly everyone has chatted with Amazon Alexa, said “Hey Google” or asked Siri a question by now, and that familiarity that has brought artificial intelligence (AI) into our everyday lives. This step in technology particularly resonated at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8-11.Read MoreValley Roadrunner
Local company hits the road to review latest technology
As 2018 kicks off with the technology conventions, the team from the Escondido-based product design firm Left Coast Engineering hit the road. The LCE engineering staff, which includes Valley Center residents Anita Baranowski and Amy Archipov, is always checking to see emerging innovations and resources as they continue to create and apply advance technologies for their clients in research and development.
Read MoreEscondido Times Advocate
Left Coast Engineering takes in the 50th annual Consumer Electronics Show
Two staffers from Escondido based Left Coast Engineering attended the massive 50th annual Consumer Electronics Show this month in Las Vegas. Amy Archipov and Anita Baranowski attended the show, along with the more than 180,000 people who converged on Las Vegas for this 4-day event.
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Escondido company hits the road to review latest technology
As 2018 kicks off with the technology conventions, the team from the Escondido-based product design firm Left Coast Engineering hit the road. The LCE engineering staff is always checking to see emerging innovations and resources as they continue to create and apply advance technologies for their clients in research and development.
Read MoreValley Roadrunner
Local business people introduce new products at Consumer Electronics Show
Amy Archipov and Anita Baranowski last weekend represented locally owned Left Coast Engineering at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Left Coast was supporting its client, Wivity, at the 49th annual show.
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Local couple works on a device that could alter the quality of life of millions of seniors for the better
It’s not often that you can work on a project that could revolutionize the quality of life of millions and perhaps billions of people.
Valley Center couple of Rob & Anita Baranowski, founders and owners of Left Coast Engineering in Escondido, are in that estimable position. Working with a research company NeuroEM Therapeutics of Phoenix, Arizona, they have created a working prototype of a wearable device that appears to reverse Alzheimer’s disease memory loss. The device provides electromagnetic wave treatment to the entire forebrain.
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