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Duluth, Minnesota

Pequot Lakes, MN

Responsible for product management for Power Line Carrier communication systems and related new business initiatives. Managed Product Management team that successfully launched the next generation Power Line Carrier communication system to market. The new system was developed to meet the changing demands of the electric utility “SmartGrid” market and was.

Pequot Lakes, MN

Director of Engineering Solutions reporting directly to the CTO of North America. Responsibilities included providing technical leadership for emerging market opportunities and high level engineering support of strategic customer accounts.Strategic contributor to international technology groups from Toshiba and Landis+Gyr focused on migrating the North.

Pequot Lakes, MN

MAnaged R&D groups located in Atlanta and Minnesota. Managed multidisciplinary engineering teams exceeding 60 employees at multiple locations with an R&D budget exceeding $12M.Successfully integrated independent hardware R&D teams after acquisitions.Defined and implemented the plan to redesign a newly acquired two-way RF product line, adreesed several.

Pequot Lakes, MN

Managed engineering teams that introduced multiple power line carrier and radio frequency communications products to the market including products for electric, water, and gas measurement, advanced two-way PLC communications, and multiple product integrations with 3rd party suppliers.Managed the engineering and project teams responsible for redesigning a.

Pequot Lakes, MN

Reporting to the VP of Engineering and Customer Service. Responsible for managing the engineering teams including electrical hardware, software, firmware, CAD and documentation control.Led the cross functional team that defined the next generation power line carrier communications system resulting in the development of a new two-way communications system.

Waseca, MN

Held positions of Senior and Principal Design Engineer and Product Engineering Team LeaderPrimary responsibilities included radio frequency (RF) circuit design for data/telemetry transceivers and systems used in applications such as hand-held scanners, remote meter reading, industrial process monitoring, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).

Salem, OR

Designed radio frequency circuits and subsystems for high-reliability mobile data transceivers and base stations. Lead engineer responsible for development of narrow- band data transceivers for fleet vehicle dispatch and location for UPS. Designed circuit and subsystems including receivers, frequency synthesizers, RF couplers, antennas, and mixersLed.

Cedar Rapids, IA

Designed high frequency communication systems employing secure voice and data communications for airborne, marine, and ground applications for US Army, US Customs, DEA, and FAA aircraft.Designed analog interface circuitry and speech processor circuits for airborne and marine single sideband radio communication systems.Wrote system test specifications.