I have a diversified set of clients in the commercial semiconductor, military contractor, wireless, intellectual property, and start-up market spaces.
Experience in high performance analog mixed signal, custom digital, and RF integrated circuit design, layout, and test, from concept to production for commercial, military, and space IC products. Have knowledge of IC process development, characterization, and modeling. Have significant amount of experience in obtaining new military, space, and commercial IC business, as well as obtaining funding for start-up activities. Technical oversight for large IC design teams (20-40 people). Have ability to contribute creatively to the solution of difficult IC technical problems. Have 63 U.S. patents issued, 200-300 international issued patents, with 29 U.S. patents pending. Author or co-author of 15 published conference and journal papers. Also have experience at the discrete analog / RF / mixed signal level for system analysis, link budget analysis, board level circuit design and layout. Experience in system design, architecture, and analysis.
Specialties: System Design/Architecture/Analysis/Block Specifications
New business development/capture
Winning proposals for small (SBIR Phase I and II) and large businesses
Product road maps
VC funding pursuits
Technical due diligence for VCs, angel investors, and M&A
IP creation and protection
Client deposition
Technical lead for IC design groups and product development
AMS/RFIC Design
Chip/Circuit/System Architect
High speed, high performance ADC, Sample/Hold, ADC driver amplifier, and DAC architectures
RF/AMS/SOC BIST/DFT architectures and methodologies
PLL and DDS
DIgitally programmable RF transceivers/SDR/GPS/cellular/wireless transceiver architectures
RF TxRx, optical TxRx, modulator driver, LDD, TIA
Flash Ladar, active/passive imaging ROIC
regulators, high voltage/high current switches, ATE electronics
SiGe BiCMOS, CMOS, SOI, bipolar, Complementary bipolar, GaAs, InP
Digital beamforming
Cadence tools - schematic capture, SPECTRE, layout review
solutions to production problems
secret clearance
Founded: 2006
Work Terms
I work on a time and materials basis.