CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER / January, 2013 — Present

Co-founded an entrepreneurial company to provide electromagnetic engineering and business services to a niche market sector in the US and foreign markets. Technical consulting services for RD programs development programs prototyping projects reverse engineering projects failure analysis projects cost reduction projects and problems with manufacturing (yield scrap assembly issues ) are provided to clients for the following topics: Antenna Consulting Microwave Consulting Microwave Heating Consulting Microwave Plasma Engineering Consulting Millimeter-Wave Consulting RF Consulting RF Heating Consulting and RF Plasma Engineering Consulting for components circuits subassemblies and systems. Requests for services from prospective clients are reviewed and rigorously investigated to understand each aspect of the request for services thoroughly. Projects are refused if the work is outside of our core competencies and the client is typically referred to another consultant who has the required skills to perform the requested services for the client. Technical business and cost proposals are written following consultation with prospective clients to satisfy their business technical and schedule requirements. Contracts are negotiated with prospective clients. Business technical and milestone progress briefings are provided as required in the contract for clients. Provides executive business and technical leadership for all business development and consulting contracts. Examples of work for clients include: Provided RD oversight and leadership for a client to establish a commercial microwave heating system development laboratory from which a design methodology for a new commercial kitchen microwave oven was developed. Specified all microwave test equipment required for this RD laboratory to develop a new commercial kitchen microwave heating system successfully. Specified computational electromagnetic (CEM) software packages necessary for the successful development of a new commercial kitchen microwave heating system. CEM modeling is required to determine the rate and uniformity for heating food in the new commercial kitchen oven. CEM tools provide a visual tool to see understand and solve problems encountered in a laboratory setting which is invaluable for developing hardware solutions to mitigate these problems in both prototype and fielded products. Provided RD oversight and leadership of a tradeoff study of power sources for the commercial kitchen microwave oven including Solid-State LDMOS amplifiers and using multiple magnetrons to heat food products uniformly. Provided RD oversight and technical guidance for establishing a database and measurement methods for determining the temperature and frequency-dependent complex permittivity loss tangent electrical conductivity thermal conductivity specific heat and density of food products over the 5 C to 150 C temperature span to ensure they are correctly represented in CEM codes. Provided RD oversight and technical guidance for the design development laboratory testing and fielding of both a near-field circularly polarized antenna and a near-field linearly polarized QC inspection antenna for UHF RFID tags used in high volume security applications that require less than 0.1% tag defects upon delivery to a customer. Provided RD technical guidance for the cost reduction of a 24 GHz and a 35 GHz radar system by implementing a resin cast conical antenna that was coated with 10 m of aluminum to replace a cast aluminum conical antenna. Redesigned the quadrature mixer to use flip-chip Schottky diodes in place of the fragile beam-lead Schottky diodes which saved the client over 40000 per month in manufacturing costs. Developed inspection methodologies to eliminate 80% of scrap and rework for the production line. Provided RD oversight and technical guidance for the development of an impedance matching network with zero leakage radiation for a 27 MHz power amplifier to thaw bulk frozen chicken for commercial kitchens uniformly. Provided RD leadership and technical guidance for establishing a Lung Tumor Ablation Antenna Development Laboratory for a client which included: Specifying all RF and Microwave test equipment for the client laboratory. Specifying all equipment necessary to characterize the frequency and temperature-dependent complex permittivity loss tangent electrical conductivity thermal conductivity specific heat and density of biological tissues over the 5 C to 100 C temperature span. Provided RD oversight and technical guidance for the theoretical and computational design aspects of ablation antenna geometries used for specified tissue ablation applications. Provided RD oversight and technical guidance for laboratory fabrication and experimental evaluation of ablation antenna prototypes. RD oversight and technical guidance for assisting the client with patent preparation and review of ablation antenna technology developed for this program. Performed a feasibility study of a 68 GHz phased patch antenna array for a chipless RFID system. Performed a feasibility study of a 76 to 78 GHz slotted waveguide phased array antenna. Performed a feasibility study for a MIMO 76 to 81 GHz dual polarization transmitreceive patch antenna array. Performed a feasibility study for a MIMO Radar operating over the 76 GHz to 81 GHz bandwidth using microstrip patch element arrays with the Texas Instruments AWR1243P RFIC. Performed a feasibility study for a family of low-cost 93 to 95 GHz Cassegrain Antenna systems. Performed a feasibility study for an Additive Machined Lunenburg Lens operating at K- Ka- and V-bands. Designed a TM011 microwave cavity operating at 2.45 GHz for a commercial product designed to provide single servings of popcorn. Designed a TM010 re-entrant microwave cavity operating at 915 MHz for a commercial product designed to provide single servings of popcorn. Designed and developed a 24-element octagonal microstrip patch array operating over the 2.2 to 2.5 GHz bandwidth. Performed a feasibility study for a 2.45 GHz 10 KWCW Rectenna Array. Performed a design study for a 65 GHz antenna detector and SPST switch to be used in an RFID system. Designed a TEM Conical Horn Antenna for operation at 2.45 GHz 5-KWCW for heating weeds roots and buried seeds to a sufficiently high temperature to prevent regrowth. Designed 6:1 bandwidth Additively Manufactured (AM) Dual-Polarization Phased Array Antennas using 3-D printed aluminum-alloy (AlSi10Mg) powder. Performed remote diagnostics to identify failed hardware in a 34 GHz spectrometer. Designed a dual-band (24 GHz and 34 GHz) receiver for a commercial system using a combination of microstrip and co-planar waveguide transmission lines to convert the signals to baseband for signal processing. First Pass Yield improvement study for a Ka-band Helix TWT. Microwave design study for a 2.45 GHz 1 KWCW Vortex Stabilized Plasma Thruster. Microwave design study for a 2.45 GHz 10 KWCW plasma system for growing synthetic diamonds. First Pass Yield improvement study for manufacturing a family of X-band magnetrons. Training engineers to optimally assemble bakeout age and ATP a Ku-band Coax Magnetron. Design study for a 76 to 81 GHz imaging system to detect weapons hidden under clothing. Design of a 2.45 GHz 5 KWCW TE11 ECR Plasma system including WR-340 TE10 transition to the WC-450 TE11 mode with a matched Quartz vacuum window. Design of a Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW) Spiral Near-Field Antenna for a 6 GBPS data rate medical application. Design of a 10 GBPS Software Defined Radio system for point-to-point encrypted communications. Design of 13.56 MHz RFID antennas composed of an inductively loaded double spiral helix for an action gaming system. Design of an X-band K-band and Ka-band Software Defined Radio Front-End with a Beam-Former Network and Phased Array Antenna. Design and fabrication of RF High-Pass filters for a medical ultrasound apparatus. SDR design for AM Transmitters to support FEMA. Antenna interference study for commercial aircraft. Passive Radar system using SDR technology using cellular LTE systems and designed prototype hardware for the Starlink LEO system. Designed a Coplanar Waveguide Bandpass Filter with a Contiguous Diplexer for a Medical Instrument to only permit the narrow bandwidth signal of interest to be used while shunting the low frequency signals in the system a 50-ohm termination. Contract as Senior Principal RF Engineering Consultant with Cubic Defense for 6-months to provide design and optimization services for millimeter-wave octave bandwidth Stripline Bandpass filters Wilkinson Dividers 8-Port Wilkinson Dividers and shielded vias to connect Microstrip to Stripline circuits over the operational bandwidth of the octave-bandwidth Millimeter-Wave receiver.

CHIEF SCIENTIST / June, 2008 — January, 2013

Recruited to provide executive technical leadership to the engineering and business activities and to restore profitable manufacturing of vane-and-strap magnetron coaxial magnetron planar triode and spark-gap product lines. Provided a comprehensive engineering review of historical changes to the magnetron assembly procedures piece-part dimensions and material of construction machining tolerances incoming inspection passfail failure analysis and yield studies. Corrected all documentation defects and errors and scrapped all out-of-spec parts in inventory. Provided retraining of assembly personnel to eliminate assembly procedure errors which permitted first-pass yields to be increased from less than 50% to over 90% for these product lines. Provided an executive corporate engineering design and analysis resource for vacuum electron devices (magnetrons planar triodes and spark gaps) microwave and RF circuits ceramic seal assemblies spectroscopic applications microfabrication applications security applications and medical applications. Provided RD leadership and technical oversight for the development of a standardized calibration technique of a new IR pyrometry measurement technique of dispenser and oxide cathode temperatures used in both planar triodes and magnetrons. Provided RD leadership and technical oversight for rebuilding the magnetron product line from first principles since the first-pass yield was down to 10% and customers were extremely unhappy with the performance of the products. The product line was returned to 90% first-pass yield and design defects were identified and remedies were successfully implemented to resolve these defects. Provided RD leadership and technical oversight for rebuilding the spark gap test facility using standard high voltage engineering techniques thereby eliminating the corona discharge and arcing problems historically experienced with the equipment. Equipment was returned to original performance specifications after years of neglect. Provided corporate technical leadership and oversight for the investigation of new products and markets for MPD Inc. along with the development of hardware for these markets: X-ray tubes for industrial security scientific and medical applications. RF and microwave ablation equipment for medical applications. Breath analysis equipment for quantitative measurement of ethanol acetone and drugs for medical and security applications. RF and microwave oscillators and amplifiers for military commercial and medical applications. RF and microwave plasma processing equipment for military commercial and medical applications. RF and microwave dielectric heating equipment for military commercial and medical applications. Piezoelectric devices for commercial and military markets. Provided RD leadership and technical oversight of the design development and fielding of a 24 GHz circularly polarized lens antenna temperature-stabilized Gunn diode transmitter and receiver assembly for a police radar system.