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Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

• Systems development of drone communications and radar solutions• Making the fusion of real-time sensing + communications a reality

Naperville, Il

• Senior architect for mmWave base station radios and systems• Created industry leading integrated mmWave phased array radio solutions• Constructed requirements and solutions for a mmWave Over-the-Air (OTA) laboratory• Developed 5G Small-Cell indoor base station receivers for <6GHz radios

Arlington Heights, Il

• Conceptualized requirements of 5G cellular access systems at 70GHz & 90GHz utilizing phased arrays • Delivered mmWave proto systems for Mobile World Congress, Brooklyn 5G Summit and customer trials • Coordinated mmWave research projects with universities and external research laboratories

Arlington Heights, Il

Nokia Technology and Innovation (Research Group)• Drove new technology into Small Cell radio solutions• Identified requirements for RFICs, PA linearization, integrated antennas, wireless backhaul• Lead technical discussions for customer proposals, technology trials and municipality relations

Arlilngton Heights, Il

Lead RF Hardware Architect for 4G Access Point Radio Remote Heads (2009- Apr 2011)• Architect for a multi-mode radio platform enabling the smallest smart antenna remote radio head • Architect for Picocell and All-in-One base station hardware development• Technical lead for customer responses and proposalsLead RF Hardware Architect for WiMAX Access Point Remote Radio Heads (2005 – 2008)• Technical lead of Motorola’s WiMAX Access Point remote radio heads• Lead development of link budgets, co-existence analyses and customer RFP/RFQ technical that directly contributing to successful customer contracts• Supported standards body representatives to influence changes favorable to MotorolaLead RF Hardware Architect for the GSM Horizon II macro BTS (2002 – 2004)• RF technical lead of GSM Horizon II BTS development • Defined department advanced development activities and coordinated competitive analyses activities • Chairman of the Senior Staff Engineer Review BoardPrinciple Staff Engineer (1999 – 2002)• Developed GSM Horizon II platform architecture, doubling the carrier density of the prior platform• Defined requirements for high dynamic range data converters used in SDR architectures• Defined department technology roadmaps and managed an engineering mentor programAdvanced Development Section Manager (1997 – 1999)• Manager of a RF ASIC program that developed a suite of 8 BiCMOS and GaAs ICs for GSM base stations, enabling a 40% part count reduction of the base station radio• Principle architect of a fractional-N synthesizer IC; contributed to requirements of other RFICs• Managed a team of engineers developing advanced channel simulators and receiver solutionsEngineer I & II, Sr Engineer, Lead Engineer (1988-1997)• Various assignments growing in technical expertise and responsibility related to GSM transceiver design including analog, digital, RF and synthesizer design.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Education record

Activities and Societies: Graduate studies in electrical engineering