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Carrollton, Texas, US

Design, develop, test, and re-design resonant cavity and other forms of microwave (MW) ovens for commercial cooking applications. TurboChef rapid cook (RC) ovens employ both electron tube and solid-state semiconductor based transmission using rectangular, circular, and elliptical waveguides, antennas, and beam-forming from low radio frequency (RF) to.

Developed Active Directional Tap (ADT) Reference Designs for DOCSIS 3.1 Full Duplex (D3.1 FDX) and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS ("ESD") hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) networks operating to 1794-MHz and higher frequencies. The LDC BPD000x Family of AT Reference Designs are fully tested designs permitting any cable infrastructure or customer premises equipment (CPE).

Consultant to EW centric clients creating high-SFDR receivers enabling spoof-resistant GNSS and WiGiG devices. Invented conformal and embedded antenna technologies enabling wearable and ingestible high data rate telecom. Patents pending for modulation methods making reconfigurable, adaptive, and cognitive EW platforms possible. On contract basis visualize.

Watford, Hertfordshire, GB

Thought leader for technical training and SCTE certification of Piedmont and Crystal Coast Chapter members in latest wireline and wireless network technology, operation, and maintenance. Lead training of Chapter members and industry specialists in effective use, test, troubleshooting, and employment of DOCSIS 3.1 enabled networks.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

United States Air Force Active Duty and Reserve Design and Development EngineerLed fighter aircraft phased array radar design teams (F-15, F-16, F-22, F-35, UAV). Developed S-band (2 to 4 GHz) silicon carbide (SiC) based transmitters operating at 500C ambient temperatures. Commander, 43d Engineers, USAF Reserve Pope AFB/Ft. Bragg, NCLed a multi-year $400M.

Raritan, New Jersey, US

Create and maintain strategy for EM spectrum control, millimeter-wave (mmW) to sub-mmW, 5G telecom, high speed optical, wired and wireless networking product lines. Create and maintain detailed integrated circuit (IC), module, and system on die (SoD) design specifications and predicted return on investment (RoI) based on advanced silicon, III-V, 3D IC.

Irvine, California, US

Develop III-V compound semiconductor based new product design requirements and specifications ahead of customer need and demand. Create new markets for GaAs MESFET, GaAs pHEMT, GaN on Silicon, GaN on SiC, GaN on Diamond, and silicon based ultra linear broadband circuits, devices, modules, and subsystems.

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Led Advanced Technology (AT) customer and internally funded programs and projects aimed at improving vehicle electronics, communications, radar, electronic warfare (EW), electro-optic (EO), and infrared (IR) system, sub-system, module, component, and process capability and cost of ownership. Transfer defense and government AT to profitable commercial.

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Specify, create, market, sell and support high speed optical components for OC-768 VSR, serial 40Gbps, serial 100Gbps, and IEEE802.3bg-2011 compliant serial 40GbE optical subassemblies and modules. From zero (0) annual revenue in April 2008 derived from >10Gbps capable optical components to >$20M US projected annual revenue by mid-2013 at net gross margins.

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Director, Broadband Technical Strategy, May 2010-PresentThe Business Unit's Chief Technical Officer (CTO) exploiting new technologies to establish product design criteria, roadmaps, business plans that predict what customers will buy at highest ASP over longest time. Maintain multiple industry Tier 1 customer contacts to feed the new product introduction.

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Directed strategy and new product development for broadband transmission, CPE, wireless, and fiber optic products. Product Line Director for RFMD wired broadband products, including broadband ultra linear MMICs & modules, optical core (>10GHz bandwidth) components, modules, & sub-assemblies, and optical access (10GHz and below bandwidth) FTTx components.

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Provided technical & project leadership for design, development, & release-to-production of quad band (800 through 1900 MHz) handheld cellular transceiver modules. Transceiver modules included laminate based circuitry & end product electromagnetic shielding to accomplish all handheld cellular radio functionality from antenna to baseband circuitry.Managed.

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Directed worldwide team of specialists to develop RFMD's first WLAN chipset reference design now installed in more than 50M products. Project leader charged with delivering small form factor, low power dissipation (Pdiss) WLAN modules for mobile consumer products (Nintendo DS, BlackBerry, Nokia handsets).

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Specified, designed, developed, & brought to production DOCSIS 1.1 compliant 256-QAM cable modem (CM) tuner module employing out-of-band (OOB) super heterodyne architecture. With technology partner, established manufacturing team in S. Korea to manufacture DOCSIS CM tuner modules.

Hauppauge, NY, US

Led multi-function team, including contractor & customer technical personnel to design C-Band through Ku-Band Traveling Wave Tube (TWT), klystron & transistor based High Power Amplifiers (HPAs) for SATCOM base stations, broadcast TV & radio. Project leader in charge of replacing the US military's communications network of X-band HPAs installed in base.

Matthews, NC, US

Brought science and engineering into design, manufacture, and profitable employment of microwave-based heating instruments used for bioanalytics applications worldwide. Designed microwave moisture analysis instrumentation cavities, energy delivery systems, and directed EM energy delivery methods. Over 100k MW bioanalytical instruments operating worldwide.

Commercial and consumer MW oven designs at 915, 2450, and 5800 MHz including SMPS, solid-state transistor, all-plastic cavity and door, battery-powered mobile MW, JetWave®, MicroPopper®, directed energy designs. Designed Litton’s JetWave® commercial hybrid oven for ultra-fast, consistent cooking of fried chicken and buttered biscuits simultaneously in mass.

Diploma, Military And Strategic Leadership

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Mathematics