• Engineering and technical services – Provider of key engineering product life cycle support from idea generation to proof of concept, from prototype to pre-production. Services include IP creation/patent assistance, product idea development, R&D, systems evaluation, electronic circuit design, prototype hardware design, circuit assembly fabrication and system testing.• Research and Development - Successful client products including ViA Inc.’s Wearable Personal Computer and Forever… Show more • Engineering and technical services – Provider of key engineering product life cycle support from idea generation to proof of concept, from prototype to pre-production. Services include IP creation/patent assistance, product idea development, R&D, systems evaluation, electronic circuit design, prototype hardware design, circuit assembly fabrication and system testing.• Research and Development - Successful client products including ViA Inc.’s Wearable Personal Computer and Forever Bulb/Best Buy's Insignia™ LED Light Bulbs.• Small Business Owner - Managed sole proprietor business operations as business owner with primary target market focused on entrepreneurs, inventors, new technologies, virtual companies, and start-up businesses. Able to work with limited resources, aggressive schedules and technical overreach typically encountered with client IP creation companies in early stage start-up phases. Show less

-- Serving the client company in engineering roles as consultant, contractor, coach, part-owner and shareholder.• Product Ideas – Generated out-of-the-box ideas and developed them using due diligent R&D, engineering analyses, prototype fabrication, design qualification testing, product documentation and pre-production assistance.• IP Creation – Assisted numerous patent applications, awarded several domestic and international patents.• Systems Engineering -- Designed, analyzed, and… Show more -- Serving the client company in engineering roles as consultant, contractor, coach, part-owner and shareholder.• Product Ideas – Generated out-of-the-box ideas and developed them using due diligent R&D, engineering analyses, prototype fabrication, design qualification testing, product documentation and pre-production assistance.• IP Creation – Assisted numerous patent applications, awarded several domestic and international patents.• Systems Engineering -- Designed, analyzed, and tested lamp systems for luminosity, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and aesthetic parameters to meet regulatory, safety and consumer requirements. Selected power supply circuit topology and LED light emitter devices.• Circuit Design of Power Supplies and LED Arrays – Designed and built preproduction prototypes, selected components, purchased components, performed cost tradeoffs; selected and directed outsource PCB design and circuit assembly services; fabricated, integrated and tested lamps.• Product Success – Qualified designs manufactured and sold in retail stores. Lamp testing met and exceeded rigorous requirements for LED lamps under Energy Star® Program for Lamps. Energy Star qualified lamps were licensed to and sold retail by Best Buy Company as the Insignia™ LED Bulb. Show less

• Engineering department lead during company early startup phase.• R&D –Developed product from inventive and innovative conceptual ideas phase through detailed design, including R&D prototyping, system specification, marketing and sales support, and pre-production support of three generations of mobile wearable personal computers and related peripherals.• Inventor - Co-inventor on US Patent 6,271,477 for Long Lasting Flexible Circuitry.• Project Development Success – ViA™ Wearable… Show more • Engineering department lead during company early startup phase.• R&D –Developed product from inventive and innovative conceptual ideas phase through detailed design, including R&D prototyping, system specification, marketing and sales support, and pre-production support of three generations of mobile wearable personal computers and related peripherals.• Inventor - Co-inventor on US Patent 6,271,477 for Long Lasting Flexible Circuitry.• Project Development Success – ViA™ Wearable Personal Computer first and second generation product. On-time delivery of qualified third generation design and documentation package for contract manufacturing. Show less

• Technical lead and designer - For 3D image processing and reconstruction subsystem of GE's first generation Positron Emission Tomography (PET) medical scanner.• Performed systems design and subsystem partitioning. Created image processing subsystem technical specification. • Designed VME circuit board DRAM memory and memory controller incorporating multiple field programmable gate arrays designs.• Introduced new surface mount circuit board packaging technologies to the Division… Show more • Technical lead and designer - For 3D image processing and reconstruction subsystem of GE's first generation Positron Emission Tomography (PET) medical scanner.• Performed systems design and subsystem partitioning. Created image processing subsystem technical specification. • Designed VME circuit board DRAM memory and memory controller incorporating multiple field programmable gate arrays designs.• Introduced new surface mount circuit board packaging technologies to the Division, defining the design methodologies and processes to utilize SMT technology in the current design and for future designs.• Product success – PET Scanner product design signed-off for production ahead of schedule and “in record time for the Division.” Show less

Engineering R&D on smart artillery weapons and infrared cameras.

At the Aerospace Division in Bloomington, MN I spent most of my time on advanced research projects researching new technologies and hardware design tools related to implementing various RISC and CISC computer architectures and computer circuit designs primarily aimed for use in defense weapons systems such as the Navy F-18 aircraft. Projects included designing complex instruction set computer architecture processors, developing and applying multilevel simulation model for register level and… Show more At the Aerospace Division in Bloomington, MN I spent most of my time on advanced research projects researching new technologies and hardware design tools related to implementing various RISC and CISC computer architectures and computer circuit designs primarily aimed for use in defense weapons systems such as the Navy F-18 aircraft. Projects included designing complex instruction set computer architecture processors, developing and applying multilevel simulation model for register level and circuit level verification, and detailed circuit design for implementation in optimized, custom "very high speed"​ integrated circuits (ASICs and gate arrays). Awards include the 1983 Control Data Technical Excellence Award and a trip to the 1983 Control Data Great Performer's Symposium in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Show less