Daniel Becker, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Broomfield, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Colorado

Providing electronics design support for IoT hardware for medical applications. Duties include PCB characterization, simulation, breadboarding, schematic and layout design reviews.

Aix-En-Provence Area, France, Louisville, Colorado

Responsible for all aspects of hardware circuit design for a machine-learning IoT product.

Broomfield, Co

Responsibilities include: design of circuitry requiring very high EMC performance, deployment of critical power distribution and grounding methods, creation of low-noise, high dynamic range (140 dB) analog processing signal chains, very low noise (1 uV√Hz) high temperature amplifier design, and component engineering of high temperature (200 °C) electronics.

Boulder, Colorado

Responsible for hardware design, test and production of a 6 kW lithium cell basedUPS system. This effort requires a strong mix of analog signal processing tasks in a very high-noiseenvironment. Careful ground and power distribution design have been essential in themanagement of noise where a 100 uV noise floor is present.Additional responsibilities include addressing of EMI/EMC issues early in the design cycle, heavysimulation of oscillators, amplifiers and filters, and careful breadboarding for the assessment ofdevice/system performance in order to drive down technical risk.

Self Employed Consultant

Both Project Lead and Systems Engineer for an X-Band (radar) sniper bullet detection system.This system required handling of 140 dB dynamic range with negative SNR far-range signals.Responsibilities include: baseband circuit design, timing, synchronous demodulation, filteringdesign trades and optimal implementation of analyses.Engineer/Scientist and Systems Architect for a high bandwidth, very low noise Optical CoherenceTomography (OCT) tunable medical laser. Development of very high bandwidth 200 mA nonlinearlaser drivers. Detection circuitry processes received light with a 1 GHz , 80 dB SNR. Additionally,responsible for repackaging from a desktop product to a ½ shoebox-sized volume.My consulting work centers largely around design and deployment of high to very-high performance signal processing solutions. i.e. High bandwidth, low to very-low noise circuit solutions in either the time or frequency domains (or both). I work best with interdisciplinary challenging projects where trades must be performed to determine which domain (hardware, firmware, software) is best suited for a processing task.

Boulder, Co

Responsible for all aspects of design, test and productization of power subsystems for deploymentin hazardous locations. Very familiar with design for safety certification (U.L., C1D1 environment.)Present design incorporates LiFePO4 cells for operation in a -40°C to +70 °C environment. Designvalidation included comprehensive cell characterization and formulation of a buck/boost MaximumPeak Power Tracking (MPPT) circuitry for maintaining a matched power transfer with the chargingcircuitry.Additional responsibilities include addressing of EMI/EMC issues early in the design cycle,assessment of device/system performance the implementation of power algorithms to ensure bothproduct certification, survivability, and performance. Tools: PADs Schematic Capture, LT-Spice, Labview, Matlab, Oscilloscopes, Battery Simulators, Electronic Loads, R.F Network Analyzers and R.F. Spectrum Analyzers

Boulder, Colorado

Supervised a team of Box Responsible Engineers for the design, debug, construction and testing of analog spacecraft hardware. Responsible for all comm. subsystems, box designs for WorldView I, WorldView II, and JPSS (formerly NPOESS Preparatory Project, or NPP) Spacecrafts. Prime projects included a mission-critical ultra low-noise 2-axis Gimbal System for Uplink/Downlink R.F. communications. Also worked at a systems and circuit level with X band phase-modulated transceiver systems for spacecraft comm. Served as a consultant both within and outside of Ball for seemingly intractable technical and logistical problems.Responsible for the introduction, evolution, implementation and testing of 2.4 GHz position location systems using time-frequency based differential time-of-arrival algorithms. Developed embedded real-time multi-DSP code and ported between Matlab, Code Composer (TI54xx, JTAG Target), and Borland 5.02. Implemented sophisticated embedded real-time algorithms.

Responsible for the introduction, evolution, implementation and testing of 2.4 GHz position location systems using differential time-of-arrival techniques. Developed embedded real-time multi-DSP code and ported between Matlab, Code Composer (TI54xx, JTAG Target), and Borland C. Implemented sophisticated real-time algorithms in an embedded environment.

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology