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| Education: Bachelor of Science Electronic Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, 1971; Patents: Communication and security technologies; Awards: Products Of The Year; Registrations: Dictionary of International Biography, Executive Who's Who In The West; Military: Captain US Army, secret clearance, commercial instrument pilot; Born: Lansing, Michigan April 12, 1948 |
| Profile |
| Corporate CEO and Chief Scientist, technical resource administrator, electronic product developer, project engineer, program manager, product designer, expert at establishing, staffing, organizing and motivating product developments, with proven expertise in developing exceptional working relationships. |
| Product Development Activities |
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• Administrator, program manager, project engineer and conceptual designer • System engineering - concept, definition, specification, tasking, contracting • Microprocessor system development • Hardware design - software integration, test, debug, installation • Circuit design - analog, digital, analysis and testing • Software development, programming and documentation • Custom integrated circuits designs, mask coded microcomputers • Regulatory agency certification submissions • Operator manuals, proposals, specifications and engineering reports • Technical presentations to corporate management and customers • Production quality control - procedures and test instrumentation • Legal consultant, expert witness, patents, letters |
| Product Applications |
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• Optical control systems - fiber communications, color grading, position detection • Electromechanical systems - motors, encoders, positioners • Power converters - switching and linear regulators • Data communication systems - networks and switching systems • Telecommunication products - modems, multiplexers, facsimile • Machine control systems - encoding, weighing, color sorting • Process control instrumentation - monitors, controllers • Security systems - terminals, monitors, controllers |
| Credentials |
| Bachelor of Science Electronic Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Army Captain, Commercial Instrument Rated Airplane/Rotorcraft Pilot, Secret Security Clearance. |
| Experience |
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President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Engineer 1994-Present Florite International Incorporated - Woodland Hills, CA Principle corporate manager, hardware and software system designer of process control totalizers, rate meters, batch control instruments, and application specific controllers. Specified and programmed central site host systems to service networked process monitors. Chief Engineer-Scientist/Director Electronic System Products Development 1993-1996 Mosler Corporation Electronic Systems Division - Chatsworth, CA Directed the software and hardware engineering product design teams involved with numerous access control and communication interface developments. I designed electronic hardware including status displays, remote terminals, numerous LAN and WAN communication adapters and concentrators, encryption systems, security card encoders, and programmed the manufacturing test software. Chief Engineer - Director of Communication Product Development 1991-1993 PerfectData Corporation - Simi Valley, CA Directed and managed the activities of the communication product department development staff, and designed high speed telecommunication modems and facsimile products, programmed error correction, compression and control firmware incorporating access security operation. Chief Engineer - Vice President Product Development 1980-1991 Anchor Automation Inc - Chatsworth, CA Vice president and project manager responsible for electronic product conception, specification, design, documentation and customer technical service support. I designed programmed and fabricated all manufacturing test equipment and established quality assurance procedures. Designed standard and custom telecommunication products including modems, secure controllers, facsimile equipment and digital multiplexers requiring specialized digital signal processing algorithms. I designed food product control systems using auto-predictive estimations to optimize delivery weight. Project Engineer 1978-80 FMC Corporation Inc - Marina Del Rey, CA Performed system and hardware designs, specifications and managed the development of a multiple intercommunicating microcomputer system to weigh and color sort food products. Project Engineer - Manager Design Engineering Department 1975-78 Rusco Electronic Systems Inc - Glendale, CA Managed design engineering department in development of numerous security system products. I designed and received patents for security system peripherals, monitors, controllers, communication multiplexers, and switching power supplies. I developed the security industry serial communications and remote data base standards, and designed the first remote data base terminal and system architecture. |
| Hardware Product Designs |
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• Optical color measuring systems • Motor speed and positioning controllers • Servo driver for flight test control systems • Four channel DC to 250 MHz computer controlled amplifier • Facsimile - data modem - router and discrimination products • Multi-channel rack mount communication concentrators • Precision process monitoring and batch control products • Fluid filtration monitors communicators controllers • Weighing delivery control systems for food products • Numerous terminals, monitors, serial adapters, controllers • Programmable magnetic badge encode machines and controllers • Antilogarithmic flight test sensor diagnostic generator |
| Resource Configurations |
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• Optimal real time combined hardware/firmware solutions • Self diagnostic and built in test capabilities • Numerous multiple sensor system performance, interfacing, error evaluations |
| Data Service Firmware |
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• Multiple channel data acquisition monitor and controller firmware • Data-facsimile modem main control software • Callback security controller for telecommunication systems • Error correction, facsimile and packetized protocols • Compressors - bubble sort and tree structures • Serial data multiplexer control software • Pseudo random polynomial scramblers and encryptors • Synchronous converters, convolvers and deconvolvers • Fast cyclic redundancy algorithms and calculations |
| Signal Processing Firmware |
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• Synchronous and aliased sampling designs • Adaptive Kalman and finite impulse response filters • Discrete Hilbert transforms • Digital phase lock, carrier synchronizers and demodulators • Differential and path metric decoders • Fractional automatic adaptive equalizers • Adaptive dynamic range companders • Quadrature invariant state map and quantizer designs |
| Control Firmware - Simulation Software |
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• Statistical auto-predicting weighing control firmware • Signal detect firmware for magnetically encoded badges • Sensor array normalizing and adaptation firmware • Process rate measurement and control firmware • Manufacturing quality control test firmware • Telecommunication channel simulations • Adaptive carrier acquisition and demodulation simulations • Ultrasonic propagation in fluids and Doppler simulations |
| Communication and Networks |
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• Standards for remote security data base systems • Redundant computer intercommunication systems • Multiple microcomputer interface and task sharing systems • Collision detection and recover network architectures • Custom telecommunication switching system • Custom local and wide area network systems |
| Regulatory Agency Experience |
| Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Part 15 and Part 68, European CE Mark, Department Of Communications (DOC) CS03 and CS108 (Canada), Underwriters Laboratory approvals. |
| Patents, Awards, and Recognition |
| U.S. patents in communication and security technologies (4,218,690, et.al.), numerous Product Of The Year Awards |