Expert Details
Piezoelectrics, Sensors, and Embedded Systems
ID: 735705
Florida, USA
As CTO and VP Engineering at BiODE, Expert drove the commercialization of viscosity sensors based on langasite crystal oscillators. His team sold the start-up company to Dover Corporation’s Vectron Technologies BU in 2007, giving all investors a profitable exit.
At Vectron, Expert led the sensor R&D team until 2011. After transfer of the viscosity IP, this U.S.-based team leveraged two Vectron factories in Germany and several Asian strategic partners to introduce a temperature monitoring solution using passive, wireless SAW resonator sensor technology for Smart Grid asset monitoring. In 2011 most of the team left Vectron to form IntelliSAW, where Expert served as VP of Research & Development. Expert's team has optimized a complete system for electric power asset monitoring, resulting in the acquisition of IntelliSAW by Emerson’s Rosemount Division in October, 2015.
Other than the period November 2016 to May 2017, during which he took a position with Mnemonics, Inc., addressing time-encoded wireless SAW sensors, Expert served as Director of R&D at Rosemount IntelliSAW. In addition, Expert has performed consulting work for various clients, including utility marker detection, novel solar power meta-structures, implantable wireless sensors, and various embedded projects.
Expert presently serves as Director of Research and Development in the Rosemount Measurement Division.
Expert's skills include wireless, wireless sensors, RF design, mixed signal design, embedded systems design, firmware and software development, and antenna design. These responsibilities have included all aspects, such as materials science, device modeling and design, circuit design and layout, troubleshooting and improvement, product conceptualization and design, and certification for sensor systems, embedded instrumentation, and RF hardware. Expert's such work has included direct responsibility for IEC61000-6-5, UL61010, RTT&E EN300-220, and FCC part 15.231 approvals.
Expert actively and simultaneously performs as a manager and a contributor on multiple projects.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1993 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: U. Maine |
| Year: 1989 | Degree: MS | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: U. Maine |
| Year: 1984 | Degree: BS | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: U. Maine |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2011 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director of Research & Development | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:• Conceptualized, realized, and certified a continuous asset monitoring systems for Smart Grid using passive, wireless SAW sensors and passive UHF signal classification schemes.• Managed a global team of developers and mentored a global team of field service personnel. • Developed an embedded smart meter that interrogates SAW sensors and interfaces to smart grid systems. Led development of cloud-based data acquisition system. • Performed regulatory certification of interrogator for passive, wireless SAW sensors under FCC, R&TTE, UL, CCC, and IEC standards. • Patented quartz orientation, antenna design, and partial discharge algorithms with many other patents pending in the area of trending and analysis of asset monitoring data. • Managed IntelliSAW patent process |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2007 to 2011 | Employer: Vectron | Title: Research & Development Engineering Director | Department: SenGenuity |
Responsibilities:• Completed the transfer of langasite BAW sensor technology from the BiODE acquisition, which became widely used in printing press viscosity controls.• Developed and tested an all-langasite package for viscometer to 680 bars in hydraulic fluid. • Developed advanced langasite-metal heterostructures for BAW viscometers. • Led a multi-national team for the development of innovative SAW sensor devices, packaging methods, instrumentation methods, and software. • Supported development of an all quartz package industrial pressure sensor using glass frit. • Evangelized the technology to international partners and customers. • Obtained numerous patents across several product and technology lines. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1988 to 2007 | Employer: BiODE, Inc | Title: CTO | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:• Grew the company 15-fold as a contract R&D business through SBIR and BAA funding in 3 years.• Led all R&D activities on chemical and biochemical acoustic wave sensors and later developed prototypes and IP for acoustic viscometers. • Developed preliminary langasite-metal heterostructures for BAW viscometers. Expert assembled the executive team that assembled secured over $2 million in Angel investment, launched products (including UL Hazardous Locations certification), and made initial sales into key markets. Expert's group sold the company to Dover’s Vectron operating company, resulting in a profitable exit to all investors. His company was the first to repay the Maine Technology Institute’s seed money loans and grants. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to 1988 | Employer: RF Monolithics | Title: Member of the Technical Staff | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:• Contributed to novel SAW component technology under Peter Wright and in collaboration with Clint Hartmann.• Contributed to, and eventually managed NSF and DOD SBIR contracts. • Designed the initial parts that launched the microtransmitter, the cable TV notch filter, and the SAW superregen receiver product lines. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Consultant | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:2018-pres Cardian plc LTD – Implantable SAW sensor and commercialization of University IP.2018-pres Duro PVT LTD (Chennai) – Instrumentation to detect and locate buried utility markers. Project involves embedded and HF design of 60KHz ~ 200KHz magnetically coupled transceiver. 2017-pres Fractal Hardware (Nashville, TN) mentored and contributed to various embedded instrumentation circuits 2017/8 Liquid Metal (Boca Raton, FL) mentored and contributed to various instrumentation and cloud data projects. 2017 Aloha (Netherlands) – Embedded system as USB to DMX-512 bridge for audio-visual events 2012 SolarSort (US) – Refined and extended solar energy concepts leading to numerous patents. 2002 ForeverFound LLC (Chicago, IL) – printed RF tags for locators 2001 BAE (Nashua, NH) – rolled, flexible, dispersive delay lines 1988 Hartmann Research (Dallas, TX) – Assisted in developing models of SAW waveguides 1984 RF Monolithics, Inc. (Dallas, TX) – Simulations to predict NSPUDT orientations of SAW. 1983 Anderson Labs (Bloomfield, CN) – Simulations for a minimal diffraction cut of LiTaO3 for SAW |
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