Nathan Biggs Email & Phone Number

Experienced Senior Electrical Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the contract manufacturing space. Skilled in LabVIEW, Embedded Systems, Magnetics, Photometry, Plasma physics.

Listed skills include Fluxgate Magnetometers, Metallurgy, Materials Science, Photometry, and 19 others.

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  Senior Electrical Engineer

  Pwi, Inc.

  Mar 1987 - Present - Wichita, Kansas Area

  Working as an EE for 30 years designing high voltage high frequency switching power supplies for the interior aircraft lighting systems (cold cathode fluorescent lamps). Filed two patents: UNIVERSAL INPUT VOLTAGE DEVICE US 7,994,731 B2 https://www.google.com/patents/US7994731 and a patent was also filed for a power supply running two out of phase inverters attached to the ends of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp. Thus eliminating the high voltage wiring running in behind the aircraft… Show more Working as an EE for 30 years designing high voltage high frequency switching power supplies for the interior aircraft lighting systems (cold cathode fluorescent lamps). Filed two patents: UNIVERSAL INPUT VOLTAGE DEVICE US 7,994,731 B2 https://www.google.com/patents/US7994731 and a patent was also filed for a power supply running two out of phase inverters attached to the ends of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp. Thus eliminating the high voltage wiring running in behind the aircraft bulkheads. The patent process was stopped and we went into production. This was patented several years later by another party and is in all cold cathode fluorescent backlights for LCD TV. Fluxgate magnetometer development: Developed automated hydrogen annealed system, Labview based controller, for the oven and the Inconel retort and a proportional controller for hydrogen flow rate. Developed the process to manufacture custom tape wound fluxgate magnetometer cores. Automated testers for measuring the gamma response due to field rotation in a Helmholtz coil. Automated IEEE Standard 164 (62 IRE 8S1) pulse excitation to measure F0, F1. Developed a professional high-frequency B/H curve tracer in hardware and software. Developed several vector fluxgate magnetometers of different topologies Independently. In-depth understanding of metallurgy and annealing processes and the properties that affect the performance of a finished fluxgate magnetic core.Contract Engineering Services:29 years of contract manufacturing designs, medical devices. custom research equipment, and bring ideas of entrepreneurs to a level of production readiness. The design of embedded systems using microcontrollers and the c language. Custom automation using Labview programming language (more than 20 years experience with Labview ). Thirty years plus of analog and digital design experience. Good understanding of patent verbiage. I wrote the US 7,994,731 B2 patent. Show less

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  Wichita High School Southeast

  High School Diploma