Hardware Engineering/Management/Systems

Sole Author of the textbook Wideband Amplifier Design; SciTech Publishing, 2007

Proficient in tools such as Mathematica, SPICE, and Genesys. Have in-house capability for prototyping high frequency circuits.

Expert in Analog Design: High Frequency, Wideband, Instrumentation, RF, RFID

• 18 years experience in analog instrumentation design
• Served on the 802.11 committee

Expert in Engineering Management

• 17 years as Director or VP of Engineering
• Specializing in improving the efficacy of engineering departments by identifying and correcting problems due to improper use of process, people issues, or organizational barriers within the engineering organization
• Consistently able to reduce time to market by 30 to 60%

Experienced Systems Architect

• Filed 3 patents in communications systems, 4 patents in RFID, and 2 patents in location and tracking of people and objects using RF during the last six years for a total of 16 patents granted or filed.
• Ten years as Principal Engineer doing instrument architecture design
• Original member and first chairman of VXIbus consortium - Did the backplane design for this standard and wrote the app note describing how to design high speed backplanes for the standard.

Teacher-Besser Associate

• Teach a three day seminar on the design of Wideband Amplifiers (DC to multiGHz with MFED step response)
• Teach a two day seminar on UHF RFID that includes the hardware design of both readers and tags as well as the communication protocols (EPC) used. Also included are system design issues such as path loss analysis (range).

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MSEE University of Nebraska