SUMMARY:

• Forward thinking visionary and hands - on lead system electrical/ computer engineer specializing in the development of complex systems electrical and electronics and embedded computer based multidiscipline systems from concept through manufacturing.
• As the principal electrical engineer, he has been influential in creating strategic plans and product roadmaps for his companies while maintaining subsystem design commonality and modularity of strategic technologies.
• Has been influential in building multidiscipline teams and is a mentor and teacher, helping advance the careers of all who work with him.
• He has broad expertise in analog and digital sensor and actuator interfacing electronics, embedded MCU, DSP, and FPGA systems design. Projects involved development and integration of visible, IR, and SWIR imaging for military, handheld, and security markets, wearable and mobile systems, head mounted displays, power supply, and distribution, just to name a few, development of sensors and control systems, include GPS, laser measurements, medical, physical, and environmental., and has performed in commercial, medical, industrial, military, and government laboratory environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

• Supported Guidance Hardware in the Loop flight simulator, reconfigured FPGA based GHWIL system hardware, designed GHWIL calibration panel, designed system architecture for future GHWIL future upgrades and cost reduction methods.
• Part of team to support development and flight testing of a GPS denied optical guidance and navigation system.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Senior Engineer

• Designed interconnect architecture of complex UAV system of systems. Designed schematics to integrate computer, with communications, power supply, sonar, and other acoustic sensors, inertial navigation, GPS, and mass storage devices.
• Coordinate with other project systems engineering mechanical engineers, electrical and software engineers.
• Participated internal design review and critical design review. Used design tools including but not limited to Altium, MatLAB, and version control sw. All documentation as per Mil Spec, ASME, and ISO 9001.

Confidential, Belcamp, MD

Principal Electrical Engineer

• Electrical design, integration, debug, and test based on an STM32L1 ARM microcontroller and designed power-efficient electronics. The circuitry for powered air respirators and hybrid body-worn respirator systems for survival in CBRN environments for armed forces and security personnel including adaptive CBRN respirator systems included motor control, LiOn battery charger, head-up display, airflow sensors, and lithium battery charging systems, Utilized USB, I2C, and RS232, serial bus. Designed the system architecture and hardware design for an automated electromechanical system involving sensors, actuators, and motion control for characterization and test of intelligent powered respirator apparatus. Directed activities of outside manufacturers, subcontractors, mentored junior engineers and participated in development activities with other geographically separated cross-functional design teams. Utilized MATLAB, and Excel for system performance analysis.

Confidential, Needham Heights, MA

Sr. Electrical Engineer in small R & D company setting

• Recruited for architecture and development of DARPA R&D and Army government development contracts. Projects included standoff explosives detection system and subcutaneous CO2 hand-held medical device.
• Developed system design and electronics subsystems including Microchip PIC, ST Micro STM32F3 ARM Cortex-M microcontroller, embedded controls, PIN diode measurement and temperature controls for and fiber optic solid-state lasers, SWIR camera imaging electro-optical sensor system.
• Designs including analog and digital electronics ADC, DAC, Op-amps, data acquisition instrumentation, switching, power supplies as part of a systems design and included a COTS Intel i7 motherboard.
• Performed system integration, and test, managed subcontractors, PCB layout, component suppliers, fabrication, and assembly. Used Excel, MATLAB, and Spice for overall systems calculations, Visio, ORCAD, and managed the design of PCB, and SMT assembly.

Confidential, Newington, NH

Sr. Electrical Systems Engineer

• Designed architecture and spearheaded the development of several military low power mobile systems. These included ruggedized mobile digital video recorder utilizing a TI SOC (OMAP L-138) and Aptina HiSpi MIPI color sensor, an automatic grenade launcher gun sight, a daytime and night vision displays, head mounted night vision, and upgrade design for specialized SCBA for military and gov’t first responders.
• Electronics consisting of embedded sensor systems, power efficient microprocessors, OLED display technologies, ADC, DAC, switching power supplies, piezoelectric motor controls, electro-optical position sensors, RF circuitry for Bluetooth and Zigbee wireless communications, temperature sensors, laser range finder, visible and IR laser target designation, and battery charging and management. Used PIC Spice, MS Project, Visio, and, Altium CAD tools.

Confidential, Waitsfield, Vermont

Principal Engineering Consultant

• Spearheaded the development of a specialized handheld SWIR based night vision system. System architecture design of a SWIR beacon tracking and optical communication scheme and performed detail design of embedded system electronics.
• Developed requirements document, statement of work, specifications, detailed design, software specification, and outside contract support documentation. Performed detail analog and high-speed digital circuit design, analysis, prototyping, system integration, and test. Participated in the government customer acceptance testing.
• Technologies included were a SWIR camera front end module from SUI Goodrich, TI TMS320DM6437 DSP, Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA, DDR2 SDRAM, Micro-SD, Camera Link imager interface, switching regulators, laser control circuitry, and digital OLED display. Design tools utilized were MATLAB/Simulink, Simulink, TI Code Composer, Xilinx ISE development suite, Visio, and OrCAD capture.

Confidential, Providence, RI

Principal Engineer/Owner

• Developed and designed embedded computer based analog and digital products for client companies. From customer ideas from concept through manufacturing. Managed all outside services, suppliers, and prototype manufacturing.
• Projects included IP smart camera based on TI Davinci DM6446 DSP/ARM SOC.
• Developed an IP gateway server motherboard for e-Sitewatch.com based on an AMD SOC and including IP interface, SDRAM, FLASH memory, and several environmental measurement module plug-in slots. Test equipment display and user interface for Doble Engineering consisting of an Epson graphics controller, ruggedized Sharp AMLCD display, and micro SD storage that interfaced with an existing Power PC CPU via a PCI bus. Included FPGA used for transformer signal characterization.
• Tools utilized were Xilinx ISE, TI Code Composer, Visio, and ORCAD schematic capture. Performed all systems analysis, detailed analog and digital electronics design, systems integration and test. Tools utilized were Lattice logic design, MATLAB, Visio, View Logic, and Mentor Graphics for capture and simulation.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Director of Research and Development

• Lead the development of wearable computer systems Head-Mounted Displays that were IBM PC and Linux software compatible. Developed roadmaps, architecture, and system block diagrams, and designed detailed electronics circuitry for new products. Performed technology evaluations against system requirements for new and existing systems for software and mission compatibility.
• Evaluated all micro and flat displays technologies, CPUs, DSPs, and other ICs to be included in new products. I Created the intellectual property and generated supporting documentation.
• Projects’ technologies included Intel CPU and chipsets, SDRAM, flash memories, 802.11x wireless circuitry, Ethernet, USB 2.0 power supplies, I2C, battery charge management, and Micro SD and eMMC data storage. Partners included Digital Logic AG in Switzerland and SBS, Daimler-Benz, and Frog Design in Germany and IBM, Sony, Olympus, Hitachi, and Matashushista in Japan.
• Traveled extensively, domestic and internationally, supported trade shows, subcontractors, partners, manufacturers, and managed 35 reports in divisions in USA, Japan, and Germany. Hands-on management of manufacturing, problem troubleshooting, meeting customers and partners, evaluating new technology, and performing regulatory testing to assure of FCC Class B, UL, CE, and FM compliance. Designed were voice recognition, Intel Pentium Processors, FPGA, CPLD, TI DSP graphics displays, AMLCD HMD Displays, ruggedized FPD displays and storage systems, micro cooling systems, battery technologies.
• Tools utilized were Microsoft Project, OrCAD, and TI Code Composer Studio in C+, Xilinx ISE, Altera CPLD design suite, used Red Hat Linux, MATLAB, MS C++, and Virtual Basic.