Expert Details
Power and Analog Electronics
ID: 733537
Maine, USA
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 fordistributed 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 gridof 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. |