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ROGER ATKINSON
RFA Design Inc.
Satellite Communications, VoIP, Network infrastructure, TDM circuit switching, packet & circuit convergence, analog & digital network interfaces, telephone signaling & transmission, CPE, system design, standards compliance, and product design.

NEWTON BALL
Orbic Energy Conversion
Very experienced in diverse forms of energy conversion, and in interfaces between energy transducers and control or measuring electronics. Technical evaluations of energy and/or electromechanical proposals.

H. CLARK BELL
HF Plus
Product design, prototyping, trouble-shooting & product assessment, new business development, technical marketing, patent consulting, and forensic engineering.

PHIL BIGGS
Mountain Pass Communications
Consulting and subcontracting for satellite/wireless/CATV applications. System specification & analysis, RF circuit simulation & design, RF problem consultation, EMI/RFI, digital design, digital signal processing, FPGA coding, embedded software, product design.

MICHAEL BIRCH
Consultant
Software Engineer and Sr. Manager with over 30 years of experience including 7 years as Director of videogame design and development. Available for consulting and strategic planning re games and online learning or as an expert witness.

EDWARD BOSS
Sigma Solutions
Embedded systems, computer performance, mathematica training and development.

JAY C. BOWDEN
Ensemble Engineering, Inc.
Electronic design and programming for Embedded Systems, Xilinx FPGAs in VHDL, AVR processors in C, IP integration and testing.

MICHAEL BRYANT
Software Synergistics
Computer Network Configuration and Diagnostics, OS configurations, Software Integration, Windows to Linux Interoperability.

JESSE CABLE
Cable Consulting
Experience negotiating the system and Integrated Circuit component specifications Customer Interface System Design Integrated Circuit CAD Layout PCB Layout CMOS Integrated Circuit digital and mixed signal designs FPGA Design Microcontroller Design Integrated Circuit debugging Project Management Digital and Analog Design

LARS S. CARLSON
LSC Consulting
Semiconductor devices & processes: design, development, characterization. Idea to Product. Device physics, modeling. High-speed devices, photodetectors: solar, UV to IR, ultra-low noise. Si, Ge, III-V,II-VI. Program Management. Technical & persuasive writing/editing, patent document drafts. Teaching & training. FA. Surface Analysis

ROBERT P. COGAN
Continuum Law
Legal work for the business of high tech. Contracts, government contracts, patent-trademark-copyright, consulting agreements, software development and licensing, manufacturing agreements, technology deals, and intellectual property valuation. We understand that you have a budget, and we keep our eye on your business objectives and bottom line.

WAYNE D. CORNELIUS
Scientific Solutions
New product development, radio & microwaves, magnets and magnetic systems, ion & electron beam systems, vacuum systems, cryogenics, and plasmas.

JAMES CRAWFORD
AM1 LLC
Wired and wireless communications expert, with 12+ years consulting in the greater San Diego area. RF system engineering, modems, digital signal processing, algorithms.

KENT DEINES
Doppler, Ltd.
System Concept Design, Design Review and Troubleshooting of any kind of electronic device; mentoring of your technology team.

UPKAR DHALIWAL
Future Wireless Technologies
Wireless RF System Architecture Engineering Business Consultant Wireless Chair IEEE MTT-20 Wireless Communication Chair IEEE 802 Working Group Voting Member Cellular 3GPP 3GPP2 UMTS HSPA GSM EDGE 802 WiFi RFIC WLAN Radio WiMax LTE MIMO OFDM CDMA LEO BAN UWB M2M Femtocell Medical Devices SUN Smart utitly Networks

RICHARD L. DOYLE
Doyle & Associates
Reliability studies, thermal analysis, performance and verification testing, mechanical stress & dynamics analysis, mechanical reliability, expert witness.

MERLE EBBERT
Merle Ebbert Consulting
Diagnostics, troubleshooting, debugging, design & redesign of Electronics & software systems. * Embedded systems with / without processors. * C, C++, Python, assembly, shell scripts, bash, ksh, sh, csh, awk, etc. * Programming Unix, Linux, QNX, DOS, proprietary OS' & no OS. * Serial comm. * Move signals backwards in time.

JOHN ELDON
Consultant
VLSI design (ASIC and FPGA) of digital signal processing systems-on-a-chip, using MatLab, SystemVerilog, VHDL, etc. Extensive teaching, technical, and management experience in the semiconductor industry, building video and communications systems. 3 patents, numerous technical publications.

BILL EWING
Consultant
Design and development of electronic products and software. Extensive experience with analog and digital circuit design, embedded systems, PC software, databases, GUI design, serial and USB communication, PC board layout, graphics, product literature, Agile/XP methods, and manufacturing support.

ANDREAS FALKENBERG
DR FALKENBERG
Reduction of Time to Market for new software, FPGA and ASIC products through the application of modern software and hardware design methodologies. Considerable reduction in R&D cost due to an integrated software and hardware architecture design approach in the early phases of a project.

D. LEE FUGAL
Space & Signals Technologies,
Technical Consulting and contracting.

LARRY GACH
Redpoint Engineering, LLC
Mechanical design and development of electronic products. CAD design, industrial design, structural and thermal analysis, prototyping, and transition to production. Expertise in plastic, sheet metal, and cast part design, keypads, displays and EMI shielding.

JOHN R. GELM
BluePebbles
A provider of management and technology solutions with a quality minded approach to systems, processes, and practices. Consulting and execution; working with you until it is solved!

JERRY G. GONICK
Strategic Litigation Solutions
Product consultant for complex litigation.

GERMÁN GUTIERREZ
Integrated Circuit Design Consultants
Analog and Radio Frequency. Phase-locked loop (PLL) and Oscillator (VCO) expert. Legal research and witness.

ALAN JACK HERR
MicroIndustrie Inc.
Product definition and design, CAD/CAE/CAM, electronic design, embedded system design (HW/SW), RF design, antennas, telecommunications and telephony signaling & transmission, VoIP, TCP/IP, UDP, embedded internet servers and clients, digital signal processing, technical support, and due diligence for corporate investors.

RALPH HILEMAN
Hileman & Associates
Management consulting, project management, business development, system engineering for real time issues in networks for command and control including communications, technical support, test, training and performance monitoring systems.

MURAT F. KARSI
TosiaComm
Communications systems engineering design, baseband and MAC algorithms and blocks design, end-to-end or block based Matlab, C, C++ simulations, transceiver SW/HW partitioning and architecture design, technical due diligence, patent development, radio and digital hardware implementations, FPGA, DSP, ASIC, RF systems and circuit board design.

KOJI KIMURA
Consultant
Expert in implementation of digital signal processing

RAYMOND KOOSHA
Consultant
Analog and Mixed-signal Design and Development

GRAZYNA KRAJEWSKA
AmberDot LLC
Web design & development, database: PHP/mySQL, JavaScript, HTML, Flash, graphic design. Engineering approach to functional design, project management and problem solving.

GERALD B. LESTER
Session Control LLC
Specialist in System Design, Digital Design, FPGA and Embedded Software design and implementation. 20+ years experience with hardware (PCB design to high level HDL coding) and software (driver level to large OO projects; C,C++). Consulting since 2002. Strong history of on-time, on-budget project completion.

PHIL MARSH
Mechanical Product Design Consultant
Design of the mechanical parts and products which include Plastic, Sheet Metal, Extrusions, Metal Castings, EE and PCB Designer interface, GUI's, visual concepts, analysis, and prototyping. I have a long history of Commercial, Industrial, Medical, and Military product design experience.

SCOTT MCDERMAID
Talon Communications, Inc.
We are focused on full service WIRELESS electronic product development from concept to manufacturing. Products built for Medical, Consumer, Industrial and Defense clients.

RAYMOND MOBERLY
Consultant
Design, development, and test of embedded systems for radio communication and networks. Experienced with Matlab and bit-level simulations. Implementation experience in C, C++, VHDL, and Ada. Commercial and Defense industry experience with various microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs and test equipment.

JOHN MORING
Consultant
Systems engineer (MSEE) with 20+ years' experience developing advanced communications systems from integrated circuits to international networks. Specializing in all aspects of wireless.

AYDIN NARGES
RONSAC
Communication and RF system design, real-time embedded software development for DSP and ARM. PMR, HF Communications, and cellular standards CDMA2000/EVDO, WCDMA/HSPA, LTE, IEEE802.11, Bluetooth, GSM/EDGE. Discrete and hybrid event systems Control Modeling. Digital/mixed signal simulations with C, C++, SystemC, Matlab, Simulink, Java.

RANDY NORRIS
NORgate Engineering & Assoc.
VHDL, Verilog, Altera and Xilinx FPGA, MATHCAD, MATLAB, Keil 8051 C and assem ler, DSP, digital video, embedded hardware and software, Intel X86 and 8051 processors, ARM processors, ORCAD for circuit board design, digital and mixed signal design, SPICE, PCB Artist for schematic capture and printed circuit board layout.

PIERS O'HANLON
Software Consultant
Software Team Lead and Manager, with over 15 years experience in real-time embedded software development gained within the mobile and satellite communications industries. Expertise in wireless protocol stack and wireless network stack development, specifically GSM infrastructure, geo-mobile satellite radio handsets, and WiMAX subscriber terminals.

KNUT ODMAN
Consultant
Embedded Software and Systems consultant. Over 20 years experience in wired and wireless communication protocols and standards.

DALE OSBORN
ThinkGroup, Inc.
ThinkGroup is an engineering services company that complements or serves as its clients engineering department for equipment design and Product Development to allow its clients to stay lean, agile, focus on core competency, and reduce costs.

ALAN PAKETT
Consultant
Automatic test, labVIEW programming, data acquisition, analog & RF system design, circuit design, and antenna range testing.

RAVIN PERINPANAYAGAM
Blue Mountain Consulting
Systems architecture as well as design and development of hardware and software. Areas of specialization include communication systems and digital signal processing.

ALEXANDER PERRY
PAMurray
Development of Linux based solutions.

PAUL F. ROBUSTO
Robusto Reliable Product Design Consulting
Expert in the development of World Class Electro-Optic/Mechanical Products and Devices with have High Reliability. Highly knowledgeable in Accelerated Life Testing for Materials and Products and in generating Qualification and Reliability plans. Key contributor for HALT/Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions. Product Development Design Review.

VINCENT RUGGIERO
Technology Business Solutions
Business & strategic planning, product development & marketing, manufacturing operations and corporate transactions.

VLADIMIR L. SAFONOV
Mag and Bio Dynamics Inc.
Multi-Disciplined Expert and Inventor. Modeling and Simulation. Projects, devices and technologies evaluation. R&D Strategy. Literature search. Training.

JORGE SANCHEZ
JPS Engineering
Embedded systems (Atmel, Microchip, Freescale and more), Software/Firmware (C, C++, VB, PC Apps, ATE), Power Electronics, EMC/ESD, Control Systems, Analog design, Mixed Signal, Fiber Optics.

RICH SCHERMERHORN
Mission Design and Development, Inc.
MDDI provides electronic HW development from specification, through design and into production and testing. Specializing in: FPGA design and verification, Embedded systems HW(incl. SW drivers), CCD and CMOS video camera front-ends, Biomedical device design environment, Compliance testing and troubleshooting.

EMANUEL SCHNALL
ES Engineering
Power electronics and control systems engineering for product design, design review & development. New and upgraded product design.

R. LOWELL SMITH
Physics/Engineering Consultant
Computer simulation & modeling, reliability studies, materials, failure analysis, acoustics, mechanical reliability, data acquisition, test equipment/systems, technical writing, and new product development.

TOM STOCKFISCH
Stockfisch Consulting
Statistical prediction modeling (artificial neural networks, decision trees), software development cost reduction and source-based quality improvement, and custom algorithm design.

W. ROSS STONE
Stoneware Ltd.
Expert witness, cell phones, telecommunication systems & networks (wired and wireless), antennas, propagation, satellites, computational electromagnetics, microwave & RF, real-time measurement & process control, invention completion and development, patent support, prior art discovery, due diligence, business start-up & management consulting.

NORM SWANBERG
Dome Resonators
Dome Resonators provides RF/Microwave consulting and contracting services for the Microwave Industry.Design experience has covered low frequency Analog and RF up to mm Wave frequencies as high as 200 GHz.I have covered topics from basic hardware component through system level analysis. I use a full suite of RF Software including Genesys

MOE TANK
Sagacious Research LLC
Our business-focuses on Intellectual Property Research and Analysis. Help businesses to understand their competition and identify avenues for investment, research and market-expansion. We offer Patentability Search, Freedom2Operate search, Technology Landscape, Competitive Intelligence In Aerospace to genes, med devices to Micro Electronics/RF

PATRICK TWOHIG
Namazu Studios LLC

JERRY TWOMEY
Effective Electrons Inc.
Analog, Mixed Signal, RF circuit design, semiconductor modeling, foundry models, technical training seminars, interference noise solutions, technical oversight & troubleshooting, due diligence investigations, technical specifications and documentation.

TAPIO VAHAMAKI
1BIT Wireless LLC
25+ years real-time embedded systems development, HW/SW, wireless, C, proof-of-concept, prototype development, processors: (Atmel, Microchip, TI, Energy Micro, Intel, Zilog, +).

JIM WALKER
Walker Power Design, Inc.
Power electronics design, power supplies, electrical power transformers, reliability studies, telecommunications equipment, analog design, EMI, and expert witness.

JOHN WATSON
Columbus Research, Inc.
For several decades, I've written custom software for industry and produced many commercial apps. Develop software using lean, AGILE/SCRUM techniques. Skills in MySQL, MS-SQL, PHP, ASP, .NET, C/C++/C#, HTML/CSS/JS. I have the ability to develop technology and perform R&D work for start-ups, incl. development of intellectual property.

TOM WATSON
Consultant
Tom Watson Consulting (info@tomwatsonconsulting.com) offers over 25 years professional experience focusing on Lasers and associated optical system development. Specific services include Technical Consulting on R&D projects including device development and characterization.

VIC WINTRISS
Wintriss Technical Schools, Inc.
Java, Object Oriented Programming services using Extreme Programming design and development techniques. MAINTAINABLE SOFTWARE DELIVERED ON TIME AND WITHIN BUDGET. We love embedded machine tool controls. We design and build prototypes.

ROBERT WITKOP
Consultant
Over 20 years experience design using SA/SD, and OOA/OOD, programming in Java, C, C++, Cache, MUMPS, Assembler on multiple platforms including VAX/VMS, IBM/MVS, HP/HP-UX, SUN/Solaris, PC/Windows, PC/Linux, Z-80/ZPM.

ARAZ YACOUBIAN
Ler Technologies, Inc.
Optics, electro-optics, fiber and integrated optics, optical devices and system.


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EMANUEL SCHNALL, P.E.


ES Engineering
1668 Forestdale Dr.
Encinitas, CA 92024
760-436-6185
eschnall@ieee.org

SPECIALIZATION

Power Electronics and Controls Engineering. Product design, design review, and development services for new or upgraded product designs. Let's make it work right.

  • Power electronics, motor drives, batteries, rechargers
  • Remote control systems, scanners, motion controls
  • Sensors, programmable amplifiers, data acquisition
  • Signal conditioning, low-level digitizing, transducers
  • Shielding/grounding, magnetics, EMI, safety

EXPERIENCE

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Power Electronics

  • Upgraded the design and performance of a high-efficiency motor controller for multiple load applications. Performed project and facilities planning, scheduling and budgeting. Performed circuit analysis and component selection. Ran extensive bench tests to evaluate and improve performance.
  • Evaluated patent claims vs. an electrical part manufacturer’s products, to check for potential infringement. Provided a report on the results.
  • Designed compact, efficient, low-cost power magnetic components for high-intensity gas-discharge industrial lighting. Temperature rise and production cost were minimized. Prepared procurement specifications for transformer design, assembly and test.
  • Designed a high-reliability 28VDC 2.5KW power distribution system for a tethered communications balloon for U.S. Army Mideast tactical use. Multiple engine-driven generators were used with battery backup. Performance, size and weight were optimized.
  • Redesigned and upgraded a portable shaft-speed measuring instrument to provide a lithium battery, built-in recharger, multiple backup power options, and panel-selectable RPM signal pulse count-down ratios.
  • Developed a compact brushless propulsion motor control for a small underwater vehicle, resulting in $16 million of sales. Solved thermal transient problem from subcontractor mounting of power MOSFets, bought design rights, and engineered for production.
  • Developed a modular 240VDC bus power conversion system. DC-DC conversion system used a single converter family in a converter+filter building block. SwitchMode converters were set up in series/parallel combinations; worked with supplier to achieve proper operation. The system met power density, efficiency, EMI, regulation, packaging space, and maintainability goals.
  • Analyzed, designed and redesigned dc-dc converters: PWM types for halogen lamp driver power, towed vehicle depth-control power, and space experiment power. Flyback type for brushless motor FET drive isolation.
  • Developed the first 2500 VAC Vehicle Power Test Station for the U.S.Navy remote-controlled underwater Mine Neutralization System. Test Station contained cable simulation resistors, ground-fault detector, digital metering of output voltage and current (3 ph), turn-on contactors, and overload cutout. Used for vehicle acceptance and component life tests, it performed for over 30 vehicle-years with no safety mishaps.

Motion Control

  • Developed a precision multi-speed optical scanning drive for a remote scanning/imaging system. Drive system used an incremental optical shaft-position encoder and filtered phase-lock PWM motor drive. Developed an intensity-regulated, current-controlled laser power supply with dual feedback loops and low ripple, and a modular servomotor controller for positioning optical scanning elements.
  • Developed a linear PID controller for a non-linear variable-depth buoyancy control system. Developed power conversion/control, motor drives, motion sensors and controls, factory acceptance testers, and laser and TV scanners.

Signal Conditioning

  • Upgraded the design of a low-level bio-medical signal processor for in-vivo evaluation of heart-valve implant integrity. Analyzed performance of microvolt-level detector and tracker, and improved signal-to-noise ratio performance significantly.
  • Provided electrical design support for space-launch on-board sensor data multiplexer unit, guidance computer, and computer power supply. Tasks included tolerance analysis, dynamic mux linearity, part substitution, cost reduction, and fault testing.
  • Evaluated alternative methods for compact angular rate sensing in small underwater vehicles, and recommended a temperature-stabilized gas rate sensor design strategy. Designed a switchmode control loop for temperature stabilization, and a low-level DC signal amplifier with low thermal drift.
  • Designed, analyzed, modeled and simulated, improved yield and cost, performed fault analysis and test, and upgraded design for analog and hybrid industrial instrumentation.

Positions Held

  • ES Engineering, San Diego, CA - Tech. Director 10 yrs
  • Applied Remote Technology/ Raytheon, San Diego, CA - Principal Engr 4 yrs
  • Honeywell Advanced Marine Systems, San Diego, CA - Principal Engr 9 yrs
  • Teledyne Systems Co., Northridge, CA - Research Scientist 3 yrs
  • Design Automation Inc., Lexington, MA - Project Engr 4 yrs

EDUCATION

M.S.E.E. at M.I.T., Research Asst. at Draper Lab. B.S.E.E. at N.Y.U., Editor of NYU Quadrangle engg magazine.

Licensed Professional Engineer in California

PUBLICATIONS

  • Development of an electronically-tuned vhf power amplifier, Report ECOM-0074-3, co-author.
  • Modeling zener diodes for computer-aided circuit analysis, IEEE NEREM Conference (Boston) and Electronics magazine.
  • Guest lecturer at Northeastern University in course on CAD.
  • Patchboard programs checkout of missile guidance, Space/ Aeronautics magazine.
  • Optimum Design of a Space Integrator for Airborne Fire Control, Report T-77, MIT Draper Lab.