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Syracuse, New York, US

CA, US

Blue Danube Systems is a technology startup developing advanced 3D beamforming antenna solutions for the mobile wireless industry. Director of RF Engineering responsible for product development of active antenna systems and radio transceivers.

Markham, Ontario, CA

BLiNQ Networks is a technology startup focused on development of Non Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Wireless Backhaul Products used for small cell backhaul and fixed wireless access. Business Development responsible for early customer engagement, company and product positioning, and development of new business opportunities. Product Management responsible for life.

Hickory, North Carolina, US

Responsibilities include architecture design, customer proposals, initial product marketing, product design and development, factory transfer, customer documentation development, generation of customer and sales training material and regulatory compliance. Day-to-day management of multi-site technical team ranging in engineering disciplines such as.

Overall technical lead and engineering director responsible for product concepts, architecture and development of RF electronics utilized in wireless base station systems. Led a new product development consisting of a design timeline from white-board concepts to revenue-generating product in less than 16 months, eventually resulting in $60m yearly revenue.

Founding member of Celiant, a RF systems technology spin-out from Lucent Technologies which became the world's largest merchant market designer and manufacturer of base station power amplifiers with annual revenue of $350M. Manager responsible for RF product design and development of power amplifiers used in Lucent’s portfolio of wireless base station.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

Lead RF design engineer for wireless base station products including software-defined wideband radios, digitally corrected feed-forward amplifiers, digital pre-distortion amplifiers, and intelligent antenna systems. Performed high-level architecture, systems and circuit design to ensure support of multiple wireless communications air interfaces for 2G, 3G.

US

Design engineer responsible for the development of a wide dynamic range, broadband, multi-carrier, GSM-based transmitter used in WJ's software-defined cellular base station product. The wideband BTS was an industry-first accomplishment, reducing the amount of floor/rack space for high capacity systems by up to 75% compared to existing RF design approaches.

Organize, direct and manage a group of RF and digital design engineers, consultants and highly skilled technicians in the design, manufacture and fabrication of state-of-the-art radar system hardware assemblies and equipment, reporting directly to the company President.Analysis and design of radar system transmitters, receivers and signal processing units.

Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of RF circuitry utilized in commercial and military radar solid-state transmitters. Pulsed RF radar transmitters up to 2kW peak power used by several government agencies including shipborne and ground-based air route surveillance radar systems. Designs were used in AN/SPS-40, a United States Navy.

M.S.E.E., Microwaves & Rf

B.S.E.E.

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