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Expert Details

Power and Analog Electronics

ID: 733537 Maine, USA

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Expert has a Ph.D from M.I.T. and 49 years of experience in analog circuits, power electronics, power supplies, feedback control systems, and electromechanical systems. He has an intimate knowledge of the skills of practicing engineers, based in part on 30 years of experience running his own business in power electronics. He has an extensive list of technical publications, and has given lectures on feedback systems and power electronics at major universities and at power electronics conferences. He holds sixteen patents in the field of electronic power conversion, and has served as an expert witness in over a dozen cases, including trial experience and numerous depositions.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1973 Degree: Ph.D. Subject: Electrical Engineering Institution: M.I.T.
Year: 1969 Degree: M.E. Subject: Electrical Engineering Institution: University of Auckland
Year: 1968 Degree: B.E. Subject: Electrical Engineering Institution: University of Auckland

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1970 to 1970 Employer: G.E. Title: Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert has assumed a wide variety of engineering responsibilities, particularly in power electronics, from 1977 to present.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2004 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: President Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert provides consulting and expert witness services in analog and power electronics. His clients have included a wide range of firms.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1999 to 2004 Employer: Acumentrics Corporation Title: VP of Engineering Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert assumed significant responsibility for the design and manufacture of solid-oxide fuel cell systems and ruggedized uninterruptible power supplies for
distributed power applications. As a partner in the firm, Expert served for seven years as Vice President of Engineering and a Member of the Board of Directors. During this time, he oversaw the integration of two engineering teams from merging companies into a cohesive, unified, and productive group with three major development activities: Rugged UPS's, Flywheel-based UPS's, and Fuel Cell Systems. He identified and hired key personnel to ensure the success of each program. He set up and directed an overseas operation from the United States. He also supervised a successful 200 kW flywheel system development.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1986 to 1999 Employer: Altor, Inc. Title: President Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert founded this company that designed and manufactured custom power conversion products. Without funding he grew it to a successful 15-person organization serving a wide variety of customers and applications. The firm provided analysis, design, prototyping, and manufacturing services to a wide variety of customers.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1981 to 1986 Employer: Data General Corporation Title: Senior Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert served in both management and technology leadership roles with a primary focus in computer power supplies. Among a swath of accomplishments, he designed a reliable and economical power supply for the corporationʼs MV/4000 computer, a major revenue-producing product for the corporation.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1977 to 1981 Employer: Mobil Tyco Solar Energy Corporation Title: Group Leader Department: Systems Engineering
Responsibilities:
Expert managed the development and installation of photovoltaic-powered systems. Among other accomplishments, he designed, built, and tested novel solar photovoltaic concentrating collectors -- including Winston collectors, planar-concentrating collectors (employing fluorescent dyes), and modified fresnel-lens collectors.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1974 to 1977 Employer: New Zealand Government Title: Energy Consultant Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert carried out an extensive study of wind power potential for New Zealand. He identified and applied an algorithm for measuring the economic benefit to a utility grid
of an intermittent energy source. He also used hourly records of wind occurrence at selected sites, together with hourly records of electricity demand for the utility grid, as a database for a computer-based
assessment of correlation between supply and demand. He visited wind power hardware manufacturers
in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Switzerland, and Holland.

During this time, Expert also participated in the development of 50-year energy scenarios for New Zealand. He studied all factors affecting growth in energy demand, and all conceivable sources of energy production. He developed four distinct scenarios, all based on
meticulous calculations. He published two extensive reports.

Fields of Expertise

magnetics, DC to DC conversion, electric-power conversion, feedback, electrical-mechanical system, power-supply circuit, analog circuit, power electronics, DC-to-DC converter

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