| Years: 2012 to Present |
Employer: Undisclosed |
Title: President and Founder |
Department: Administration |
Responsibilities:
Expert founded, and currently owns, a consulting company in the field of lighting electronics products, particularly LED drive circuits, driverless LED lights and electronic ballast circuits. |
| Years: 2011 to 2012 |
Employer: Power Supply Products |
Title: Director |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
Expert operated a three-person laboratory developing LED drive application circuits for the LBT microprocessor chip. |
| Years: 2008 to 2010 |
Employer: Lightech Electronics North America, Inc |
Title: Chief Technologist |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
He operated a three-person laboratory developing advanced LED drives for this international company. During this time he developed phase control dimming LED drives capable of dimming to 0.1% using TRIAC dimmers. Expert also developed a dramatically new technology for dimmable constant current LED drives with efficiency of 90%, capable of working at either 120V or 277V. Side responsibilities involved managing the patent portfolio of Lightech internationally. He filed two patent applications during this time. |
| Years: 2004 to 2007 |
Employer: Fulham Co., Inc. |
Title: Vice President |
Department: Advanced Technology |
Responsibilities:
Expert's responsibilities included the creation of new technologies and development of new products involving innovative technology. Achievements included the creation of the Racehorse family of high-performance products and the creation of a new charge pump technology for cost-effective instant start T8 ballasts, subject of an issued patent as well. |
| Years: 2002 to 2004 |
Employer: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc. |
Title: Director; Vice President |
Department: Engineering; Advanced Technology |
Responsibilities:
He worked on the latest analog and digital technology for electronic ballasts. Product focus was on low-cost IC-based products and on sophisticated microprocessor-based products for more complex applications such as dimming and instant start T5. Achievements in this position included a line of microprocessor-based instant start T5 ballasts. Five patents resulted. |
| Years: 2000 to 2002 |
Employer: Robertson Worldwide |
Title: Vice President |
Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:
Expert managed both electronic and magnetic ballast new product development. He invented a new low-cost electronic ballast architecture that still has all the specified features, marketed as the "World Series" ballasts. He also trained engineering staff for modern electronic ballast development and assembled state-of-the-art ballast characterization facilities. |
| Years: 1993 to 2000 |
Employer: Energy Savings, Inc. |
Title: Engineering Manager and Chief Technologist |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
He enabled the development of low-cost, low-profile electronic ballasts. He personally designed and put into manufacture 60 ballasts in his first five years. Later he managed a team of designers and technicians producing ballast designs while personally prototyping the more difficult designs. Expert authored multiple inventions involving microprocessor controlled digital ballasts. Responsibilities in this company included all fundamental technology issues and patent related activities. He developed a new low-cost dimming technology. Shipments rate increased to $40M/yr from zero in 7 years. |
| Years: 1991 to 1993 |
Employer: Motorola Lighting Inc. |
Title: Manager |
Department: Ballast Integrated Circuit Design |
Responsibilities:
Expert worked on novel ballast circuits suitable for integration in silicon. He put three conventional ballast circuits into production. |
| Years: 1987 to 1991 |
Employer: Philips Research |
Title: Department Head |
Department: Research |
Responsibilities:
He worked on the application of Power IC technology to all products in the Philips family of companies. He worked on analysis of customer needs and specification of Power IC products to meet those needs. He ran a department of 20 producing power IC designs, including chips for Fluorescent Lighting ballasts. |
| Years: 1983 to 1987 |
Employer: Telmos, Inc. |
Title: Vice President |
Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:
Expert developed the first 500V CMOS technology and put numerous high voltage IC chips into production. |
| Years: 1980 to 1983 |
Employer: Harris Semiconductor |
Title: Manager |
Department: High-voltage Integrated Circuit Products |
Responsibilities:
Expert developed high-voltage AC line powered integrated circuits. |
| Years: 1970 to 1980 |
Employer: ATT Bell Laboratories |
Title: Technical Staff Member |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
He conducted research on solid state devices in general and high-voltage integrated circuits in particular. He invented the first 500V IC, for which a prize was awarded at the 1981 International Solid State Circuits Conference. He became group supervisor in 1979. |
| Years: 1969 to 1970 |
Employer: GET Hurst Research Center |
Title: Technical Staff Member |
Department: R&D |
Responsibilities:
Expert conducted research on circuits and structures for microwave avalanche diodes. |
