UAV Electronics Expert Specializing in RF Links and Power Supplies

Expertise

• Electronic hardware design
• Electromagnetic interference issues
• Power supplies
• Embedded systems
• Analog design
• Conventional gyro systems
• Data communications links (RF)
• Dedicated audio links (RF)
• Digital design
• Embedded control systems
• GPS systems
• Industrial control systems
• Inertial measurement units
• Joystick design (aircraft and games)
• Magnetometer / compass systems
• MEMS technology - gyros, accelerometers, pressure
• Receiver Design (RF Data)
• Testifying and ITC experience
• Transducer interface
• Transmitter design
• Video links (RF)

Expert Witness

• Intellectual property disputes
• Litigation support - International Trade Commission (ITC)

Cases

• Expert engagement: International Trade Commission Action.
• Acted as a Consulting Expert Witness in a patent validity case involving power supplies.
• Acted as a Testifying Expert Witness in a patent validity case involving marine autopilots.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, President, 1996 - Present

• Designer of electronic controls for the Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) market, including inertial measurement, autopilots, electrical power controls, RF systems and video technology.
• Specific focus on technologies applicable to the civilian market, with some UAVs in military applications.
• Expert testimony supported by an extensive and wide scientific background supplying the legal and intellectual property industries and in other various technologies.

Additional Technologies

• Altium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Camera platforms
• Controlled impedance circuit board design
• Embedded control systems
• Flight termination systems (encrypted digital RF)
• Garage door openers
• Heliostats
• Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
• Integrated gyro systems
• Interference removal and debugging
• Magnetometers (earth field sensing)
• MEMS transducers
• Radio control systems
• Receiver design (HF thru UHF)
• RF layout design
• Shock and vibration testing
• Spectrum analyzers (testing)
• SPICE based circuit simulation
• Stabilized microwave antennas
• Temperature control systems
• Video transmitter design

Power Supplies

• Battery supervisors
• Boost mode power supplies
• Buck mode power supplies
• Buck/boost mode power supplies
• High current power supplies
• High power oscillators
• High precision power supplies
• High voltage power supplies (greater than 10kV)
• Light weight power supplies
• Linear power supplies
• Motor drive system
• Offline power supplies
• Switched mode power supplies
• Ultra low voltage input power supplies (0.1 Volt)

Aircraft

• Altitude / attitude control
• Autopilots
• Blimps (70 feet, semi - autonomous)
• Directional stabilization systems
• Extreme altitude (100,000 feet)
• GPS navigation systems
• Microwave links (control and telemetry)
• Solar powered aircraft
• UAV control systems
• Unmanned air vehicles - 6 Inch to 270 feet wingspan

Cambridge Electronic Design, Inc., San Pedro, CA, Chief Executive Officer, 1984 - 1996

• Electronic hardware consulting for the following areas;
• Automatic braking and throttle systems
• Autonomous vehicle control systems
• Ceramic capacitors - extreme stress testing and ceramic disc pumps (hydraulics)
• Control algorithms for levitation systems (and magnetic)
• E beam systems - field Emission, LaB6, tungsten
• Electron beam microfabrication systems
• Field emission systems
• Force and gyro operated joysticks,(for use In the air)
• Heater control systems
• High voltage DC systems
• Human factors engineering
• Magnetic deflection systems - coils and amplifiers
• Metal detectors
• Near space control systems
• Non-contact inductive distance sensors
• Overhead magnetic levitation
• Pneumatic control systems
• Power electronics - harmonic reduction system
• Pulsed field emission systems
• Rocket payloads
• Sub orbital control systems
• Sudden acceleration investigations
• Vacuum systems - diffusion, ion, and sorption pumped
• Very low frequency (VLF) RF techniques

Unified Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Senior Systems Design Engineer, 1982 - 1984

• Designer of video game software and CRT display systems. Other focus areas;
• Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) displays and power supplies
• Combined raster / vector scan systems
• High resolution CRTs
• High voltage, high frequency power supplies
• Laser interferometer controls
• Magnetic deflection amplifiers for CRTs
• Precision XY stage control system
• Raster scan systems
• Vector scan systems
• Video gaming software - assembly language

Hughes Aircraft Co., Los Angeles, CA, Member of Technical Staff, 1979 - 1982

• Commissioned for the electron beam microfabrication system.
• Active filter design
• E-beam Imaging systems
• Electron beam deflection system
• Electron lenses
• High frequency FETs
• High resolution deflection systems
• Microfabrication techniques
• Passive filter design
• Scintillation detectors
• Semiconductor fabrication
• Vacuum system controls

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Cambridge, UK, 1979 - 1979

• Postgraduate Research Student: Revolutionary New E-beam Imaging System.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications and Patents

• Author and Co-Author of 5 publications in collegiate newsletters, journals, and technical magazines.
• 1 Patent

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K.
• M.A. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K.
• B.A. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K