Electrical Engineer with an advanced degree and 15+ years work history.

 

Extensive experience with analog circuit design and electro-optical interfaces which includes development of video signal processing circuitry and analog to digital interfaces. Sensor and systems background encompasses multichannel wide band radar warning receivers, infrared sensors, CCD imaging systems and inertial instruments used in navigation systems. Other assignments have included electro-optical device research for pattern recognition and development of laser light sources for fiber optic acoustic sensors. Earlier experience extends to thin film deposition and patterning, hybrid integrated circuit fabrication and systems field-testing. Some familiarity with photo-voltaic power systems was obtained when designing and constructing a system to provide utility grade service for a remote location. Other experience includes mentoring of recent engineering graduates and experienced production engineers.

 

 

 

Primary responsibilities include navigation instruments evaluation and troubleshooting.

Other activities involved evaluation and compliance oversight of vendor’s navigation systems.

 

 

Responsibilities included designing laser gyro, accelerometer and test station electronics. Production, sustaining and instrument troubleshooting efforts involved the most recent generation of ring laser gyros and accelerometer instruments. Also, participated in hemispherical resonator gyro performance and yield investigations

 

Chromux Technologies Inc., Electronics Development Group, Chatsworth, CA, Senior Electronics Engineer, Group Manager 2001

 

Designed and tested high voltage MEMS driver circuitry, photo detector array preamplifiers and alignment station support electronics. Other activities include system configuration definition and integration, packaging design, MEMS servo algorithm development and management of software design for multiprocessor closed loop MEMS optical switches.

 

Litton Industries, Inc., Guidance and Control Systems Division, Instrument Engineering Directorate, Woodland Hills, CA, Engineering Specialist, 1982 to 2001

 

Design responsibilities have included photo detector amplifiers, high voltage current regulators, piezoelectric dither motor and path length control drive electronics, signal conditioning and demodulation circuitry for dithered, rate biased and multi-oscillator ring laser gyros. Other activities include interface definition, system integration and troubleshooting.

 

 

1992, Patent US005116132A: Ring laser gyroscope output optics detection system.

1996, Patent US005488622A: Simplified dispersion equalization field coil design for a multi-oscillator ring laser gyroscope.

1998, Patent US005786895A: Means and method for active dispersion equalization of a multi-oscillator ring laser gyroscope.

2000,Patent US006080994A: High output reflective optical correlator having a folded optical axis using ferro-electric liquid crystal spatial light modulators.

2001, Patent US006330361B1: Adaptive alignment mechanism for Optical Correlators.

2007; Patent US007280218B2: Apparatus and method to facilitate laser gyroscope ionization.

 

 

Master’s Thesis: “Construction and Evaluation of a Directional Plasma Wave Probe”

 

International Sensor Conference 2001: "A 0.5dB insertion loss, 0.1ms switching-time optical switch"

 

 

Member IEEE, Member AAAS

 

MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; BS, Electrical Engineering, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

UCLA Extension courses on Spacecraft Design and System Engineering; Structural Dynamics: Theory and Applications

 

 

Private Pilot License with Commercial Pilot Rating, also hold a Glider Instructor Certificate.

 

 

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