Resume of Chief Engineer

Title
Chief Engineer

Primary Skills
20+ yrs of academic and industrial R&D experience in telecom, semiconductors, adaptive signal processing, sensor systems

Location
US-FL-Orlando

Posted
May-16-07

OBJECTIVE

A proactive technical position with possible management responsibilities that uses my academic and industrial experience in business methods, mathematics, networking, data organization, technical management, systems management, and electrical/electronics engineering as well as my eagerness to maintain currency in this expertise through application of technological advances to improve the quality, growth and profitability of my employer's operations.


QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications center on more than 25 years of progressive industrial experience in the design and development of radar, communications systems, and semiconductor products. Specific accomplishments include sponsored research and private-sector design and development of telecommunication and semiconductor products; adaptive signal processing for imaging and signal recognition; and satellite communications systems. This experience is complemented by more than two decades of academic and industrial R&D experience in telecommunications, semiconductors, adaptive signal processing, and sensor systems and over 12 years of college, university and corporate training in the subject areas of applied mathematics, digital signal processing, digital communications theory, engineering management, control systems, antenna design, operations research methods, information networks, and database design concepts.


PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

DeVry University, Central Florida Metro
Orlando, Florida Apr 2003 - May 2007
Dean of Electronics Programs
Academic administration of electronics-based A.S. and B.S. degree programs in Electronics and Computer Technology (ECT), Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Computer Engineering Technology (CET), and Biomedical Engineering Technology (BMET). Primary responsibilities and accomplishments:
* Leader for the achievement of TAC of ABET (national) accreditation of EET and CET baccalaureate of science degree programs offered at the Orlando campus;
* Implementation and reviewer of new curricula and computer-based delivery methods for ECT, EET and CET programs;
* Organization and conduct of Industry Advisory Committee meetings for ABET-accredited programs;
* Primary liaison with industry representatives and DeVry alumni in electronics for surveys, company visits by DeVry faculty and students, and recommendations for curricula improvements;
* Recruitment of new full-time and adjunct faculty for the electronics programs - primary decision-maker in this activity and point-of-contact for new hires;
* Performance reviews and mentoring of the electronics faculty to improve teaching effectiveness, professional development, and University service;
* Primary academic advisor to all students enrolled in ECT, EET, CET, and BMET degree programs - graduation audits, transcript analyses of incoming students, academic appeals;
* Proposals for new engineering programs, courses, course sequences to meet industry and student training requests for new subject areas and certifications.

Associates in Communications Engineering, Research and Technology (ACERT), Orlando, Florida Dec 2001 - Present
Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Technical evaluations and market analyses of emerging sensor and communication technologies and the applications to proposed system enhancements and products for wireless, satellite and broadband communications and security markets. Targeted customers include venture capitalists and investors as well as executives of companies engaged in new product developments and system enhancements. Services encompass evaluation and recommendation of business plans for product introduction and of new product designs; key vendor selection and identification; technical concept development and performance analyses for product proposals.

SOMA Networks, Inc., Richardson, Texas May 2001 - Nov 2001
Senior Systems Engineer - Consulting
Configuration design and performance analyses of systems for fixed broadband wireless access, based on WCDMA and UMTS (3GPP) specifications, to high-speed, convergent IP-based services. System engineering of alternate configurations of last-mile wireless edge devices and software, integrated with third-party routers (Juniper, Cisco), switches (Cisco, Extreme), gateways (Sonus), and servers (Sun) in the backhaul network, to optimize metrics of life-cycle cost, availability, reliability, load balancing, failure recovery, and security for telecom carrier-class applications. Provide technological content and recommendations to product line management in the evolution of SOMA's roadmap for future product releases. Activities include:
* Modeling and computational models for availability and load balancing of multimedia IP networks;
* Quality-of-service network architectures for voice, video and high-speed data over IP;
* Investigation of new technologies for device implementation with redundancy, traffic shaping, and load balancing to effect carrier-class availability;
* Firewall and routing mechanisms for layered security protection in converged IP networks.

Conexant Systems, Inc. (now Skyworks Solutions, Inc.), Dallas Design Center,
Irving, Texas Nov 1999 - Apr 2001
Senior Staff Engineer
Product design and development based upon company's GSM chipset solutions as well as individual RF and baseband ICs for wireless devices including new product planning, system requirements and analyses for targeted Asian customers. Specific activities include:
* System applications of chipset designs based on SiGe, GaAs, Bi-CMOS processes in geometries to 0.18*m;
* Protocol modifications and implementation of Layers 1, 2, and 3 for cdma2000, GSM, GPRS, and WCDMA and UMTS;
* Design compliance to 3rd generation wireless communications standards - 3GPP (WCDMA and UMTS), 3GPP2 (cdma2000);
* Measurements analysis of new designs and design applications against predicted results;
* Recommendations to IC team and applications engineers as required based on analyses to maintain performance baselines;
* Provide expert interpretation on all applicable standards;
* Represent group as required in standards bodies and designated testing and certification organizations for applicable telecom standards;
* Generate or modify specifications for next-generation IC products implementing baseband and transceiver functions;
* Formal GSM/GPRS product type-approval testing and GCF/RTTE certification.

NEC America, Wireless Engineering Division, Irving, Texas Sept 1998 - Nov 1999
Senior Staff Engineer - Consulting
Analysis, simulation, design, and development of second-generation CDMA and TDMA (EDGE) mobile phones based on company-specified, vendor-supplied ICs in GaAs and CMOS. Application of background in digital communications including knowledge of CDMA, forward error correction, and channel equalization methods. System-engineering expertise on cellular/PCS standards, architecture evaluation and algorithm development for transceiver modeling and simulation for 3G (cdma2000 and UMTS) handsets, experience with modeling and simulation of turbo coders/decoders. Technical liaison to business development team and to the product director, assessing competitor's plans and market trends and developing product roadmaps for increasing future market share.

Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando Graduate Center, Orlando, Florida Jan 1994 - Sept 1999
Adjunct Instructor
Instruction and syllabus development, including text selection, lecture preparation, examinations and other student assessment, for graduate-level courses leading to master of science and doctoral degrees in engineering, computer science, engineering management, and business administration. Subject areas delivered include:
* Applied mathematics for engineers
* Digital signal processing
* Deterministic operations research methods
* Stochastic operations research methods
* Probability and statistics
* Antenna theory and design
* Digital communications theory
* Digital control methods
* Reliability, availability and maintainability of electrical, mechanical and software systems
* Quality assurance methods including statistical process control
* Database design methods including SQL and other design languages

Harris Corporation, Palm Bay, Florida Dec 1993 - Aug 1998
Senior Principal Engineer, Systems and Semiconductor Applications
Semiconductor Sector: Analysis, simulation, and performance measurement of product prototypes of wireless applications of integrated circuits. Applications and activities include:
* Set-top boxes and embedded transceivers for multimedia services based on ISDN, ATM, IEEE 802.3 LAN, and IP interfaces and protocols;
* Handheld and embedded radio adapters for cellular (IS-95, GSM, AMPS, IS-54), PCS, WLL, and high-speed WLAN operating in designated bands from 800 MHz to 5.85 GHz;
* Software reconfigurable cellular/PCS base stations to support multiple cellular standards;
* Measurement and statistical analysis of the effect of residential, retail and industrial radio propagation environments on capacity and throughput of wireless products;
* Proposals for adaptive signal processing concepts and protocol designs, based on the OSI model, to mitigate propagation distortion and co-channel interference;
* Instruction of customers and field application engineers on comparative product evaluation and WLAN applications.

Electronic Systems Sector: Project systems engineer responsible for the definition, analysis, definition, specification, and estimation of the life-cycle cost of commercial SATCOM terminals and rapidly deployable antenna systems for U.S. Air Force and Army Contracts. Contributing author of proposals for signal-processing enhancements to a multi-mode, digital microwave radio system.

University of Central Florida, Department of Mathematics, Orlando, Florida Aug. 1993 - Dec. 1993
Adjunct Instructor
Instruction of intermediate-level calculus and analytic geometry courses to undergraduate students majoring in engineering and business. Instruction was based on a common syllabus, yet autonomous creation of classroom lectures or all examinations and student evaluation criteria.

Lockheed Sanders, Inc., Communication Products Center, Orlando, Florida Mar 1990 - Jul 1993
Senior Principal Electronic Engineer
Systems design and implementation of satellite, terrestrial microwave radio, and adaptive signal processing systems for contracted projects. Specific tasks and deliverables included:
* Global coverage satellite-relay network, based on transportable C-, X- and Ku-band ground terminals. Analyzed system links' performance, estimated ground radiation hazards, evaluated ground antenna designs, authored or reviewed all system device specifications derived from system analysis, filed test reports for FCC and INTELSAT equipment and license approvals;
* Library of computer-simulated models of digital microwave radio baseband signals created with SPW and MATLAB. Generated test database for automatic modem recognition and classification processor, based on statistical pattern recognition techniques;
* Electronic reliability prediction method based on both commercial and military techniques. Generated database for RMA analyses of communication devices and systems;
* Proposals: airborne SATCOM terminals; wideband signal digitizers; high-speed recorder interfaces to wideband digital multiplexers and modems; wireless network architecture and protocols.



Valencia Community College, Department of Mathematics, Orlando, Florida Aug 1990 - Dec 1990
Adjunct Instructor
Instruction of second-term course in college algebra, based on a common syllabus, autonomous creation of classroom lectures, examinations and other student assessment criteria.

Lockheed Electronics Company, Systems Analysis Group, Orlando, Florida May 1982 - Feb 1990
Principal Electronic Engineer
Systems design, implementation and testing of wideband microwave SATCOM and terrestrial radio systems, developed under US Government contract. Specific tasks and accomplishments included:
* Project engineering with profit/loss, personnel and scheduling responsibilities for rapid procurement of portable UHF SATCOM terminals for narrowband voice/data relay;
* Principal investigator for internal research and development (IRAD) projects: automatic modulation signal recognition processor; computer-based simulation package for performance evaluation of digital radio communication links;
* System architect for a multi-mode, digital microwave radio receiver system for the voice-grade channel processing of high-speed (>140 Mbps) digital telephony signals;
* Chief project engineer/program manager leading a team of system and circuit design engineers in the successful development of a wideband, EHF terrestrial communications relay. Analyzed key system performance requirements; primary technical liaison to customer and subcontractors.


EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering - Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1990.
Master of Science, Computer, Information, and Control Engineering, The University of Michigan.
Master of Science, Mathematics, The University of Michigan.
Bachelor of Science, Honors Mathematics (with High Distinction), The University of Michigan.


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
Member, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Published articles and papers, delivered at conferences and symposia, sponsored by the IEEE, SPIE, ACM, universities, and industry trade publications on topics including: models of routing control in packet radio networks, evolutionary programming, neural networks to estimate wireless network dynamics, location features in PCS systems, dynamic channel assignment in TDMA and CDMA cellular systems, WLAN performance evaluation, adaptive radio resource allocation to optimize capacity in CDMA networks, mobile agents in wireless multimedia delivery systems, RF integrated circuits, embedded adaptive microprocessors, ad hoc wireless sensor networks, cross-layer protocol design.


SKILLS AND TRAINING
Mastery Learning methods.
Programming languages: C and C++, Java, Basic, hardware assembly languages.
CAD and EDA packages: Matlab, Signal Processing WorkSystem (SPW) and BONeS, Agilent's Omnisys and Advanced Design System (ADS), Elanix SystemView, Cadence and Synopsis integrated design packages.
RF/Antenna System Design: Reflector and feed assembly design tools as well as antenna test equipment (ranges, anechoic chambers, network and spectrum analyzers).
Statistical analysis software suites and signal processor firmware development packages.
CORBA, UML and other object-oriented methods for network protocol design and implementation.

Certifications
See above


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