System Design and Analysis Expert of Wireless and Wireline Communication Products

Technical Consultant #1807

Undisclosed Company, Principal Engineer, 2008 - Present

As a Technical Analyst, evaluated new technologies and capabilities, then led efforts to insert them into a product to increase customer satisfaction.
Supported government agencies as a Technical Advisor with detailed system, wireless technology, and hardware design expertise to acquire new software radio capability.
Technical lead specified and lead efforts to acquire a 100 watt power amplifier operating between 225-450 and 1200-2000 MHz and the corresponding military antennas.
Technical Writer: Developed and reviewed a number of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Broad Area Announcement (BAA) with successful transfer into a product.
Led hardware design, reviews, simulations, and troubleshooting of various hardware systems to reduce costly field problems.
Program Risk Assessor identified and recommended mitigation strategies that were used to guide product development.
System Analyst combining tradeoff and risk analysis to reduce program cost while improving reliability.
Led software porting of waveform to an existing hardware platform.
Technical management and daily operation of software radio program.

MITRE, Eatontown, NJ, Lead Communication System and Hardware Engineer, 2000 - 2008

Led technical analysis of wireless technology, evaluated Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) a networking wireless waveform based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to identify and correct key performance limitations.
Proposal Evaluator for a number of Government proposals providing technical depth in systems, waveform, and hardware assessments to identify a programs feasibility, shortcomings, and risks.
Led multifunctional team of software, hardware, and government engineers to determine the efforts of increasing capability of an existing product for a cost proposal.
Technical Evaluator of existing military programs to determine feasibility to achieving program objectives, the reports was used by Government to consider termination.
Software tools came up with a methodology to achieve portability of waveform code targeted for FPGAs and DSPs.

Motorola, Schaumburg, IL, Staff Engineer, 1990 - 2000

Chief System Architect that lead development of a 4G radio system capable of supporting 25 mbps using COTS hardware configured as a software radio consisting of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FGPA), Digital Signal Processors (DSP), and microprocessors.
Lead Engineer: Created an OFDM waveform architecture, wrote the Very High Level Design Language (VHDL), and lead software, RF, and hardware engineers.
Wireless Channel Analyst: Performed channel sounding of the MMDS frequency band, 2.455 to 2.495 GHz, that was published as an IEEE paper referenced in the IEEE 802.16 standards.
Wireless Protocol Analyst: Worked with a team to specify a software radio microprocessor instruction set and software radio architecture.
Rapid Prototype Designer of a wireless mobile video conference system using Mentor to design boards and VHDL to program FPGAs.
Hardware Designer of wireless base stations for GSM and CDMA.
Hardware design of computer, fiber-optics, and control systems.

AG (AT&T/GTE), Phoenix, AZ, Member of the Technical Staff, 1987 - 1990

Hardware Designer of wireless base stations for GSM and CDMA at Motorola and wireline products for GTE.
VHDL Pioneer, one of the first, to use VHDL to synthesize to an FPGA.
ASIC Designer: Developed two ASICS and methodology using FPGAs to verify ASIC functionality prior to fabrication with 100% success.
Hardware Engineer: Generated functional and timing requirements; performed detailed technical reviews; simulation and verification; and debugged hardware consisting of microprocessors, fiber optics, and digital control circuitry.
Lead Engineer in the redesign of GTE's central office computer significantly increasing performance.
Troubleshooter with excellent debugging skills and a love for solving problems.

Credentials

Focused Education: Signal Processing and Communication, Control Systems, Computer, and Communication.

Publications

MMDS Frequency Band.
Output Vectors Generated During Functional Simulation Can Reduce Design's Verification Cycle.

M.S. Electrical Engineering, National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI