Experience

Haigh-Farr, Inc.
• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Vice President of Engineering

  • Aug 2015 - Present


AMI Research & Development

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

• RF/Antenna Engineer

  • Jan 2012 - Aug 2015

  AMI Research & Development is a start-up company which provides many valuable experiences. All aspects of product development are achieved by a small team. • Technical/Program lead for Ka and Ku Band Phased Arrays programs, including Army CERDEC contract and extensive IRAD • Low profile and low cost phased array development • VHF/UHF/L Band vehicular and manpack communications/jamming antenna development • VHF/UHF/L Band mobile SATCOM antenna development including balun design • MF/HF NQR based explosives detection system development • Antenna test and measurement using anechoic chamber and outdoor test range • Extensive Electromagnetic modeling using HFSS • System modeling and optimization using MATLAB • Wideband antenna design and impedance matching Show less



Antenna Research Associates

• United States

• Antenna Engineer

  • Jun 2006 - Jan 2012

  • Project leader of development team including Mechanical Engineers and technicians • Design of wideband antennas for military communications and jamming • Antenna applications include vehicular, manpack, tactical, and fixed site installations • Patent received for wideband jamming antenna, including impedance matching transformer • Development of impedance matching software which employs a Genetic Algorithm • Extensive use of Electromagnetic modeling software • Broad knowledge of antenna measurements using anechoic chamber and outdoor test range • Duties include all aspects of product development: research, proposals, cost analysis, customer relationships, software modeling, mechanical design, prototype construction, measurements, documentation, and travel to customer facilities Show less



MFJ Enterprises, Inc.

• RF Engineer Apprentice

  • 2000 - 2004

  • Designed communication equipment for the Amateur Radio industry • Gained experience with RF equipment and antenna design • Duties included: research, cost analysis, circuit design, PCB layout, micro controller software development, testing, enclosure design, production implementation, documentation, test and repair procedures • Extensive prototyping experience • Designed communication equipment for the Amateur Radio industry • Gained experience with RF equipment and antenna design • Duties included: research, cost analysis, circuit design, PCB layout, micro controller software development, testing, enclosure design, production implementation, documentation, test and repair procedures • Extensive prototyping experience



Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Scientific Visualization Thrust

• Student Research Assistant

  • 1996 - 1997

  • Application of visualization tools and interactive techniques to examine and interpret scientific data sets • Software design and web based documentation for 3-D visualization systems • Learned MATLAB, C++, and Fortran • Application of visualization tools and interactive techniques to examine and interpret scientific data sets • Software design and web based documentation for 3-D visualization systems • Learned MATLAB, C++, and Fortran



Institute of Signal and Information Processing, Mississippi State University

• Student Research Assistant

  • Jan 1996 - Dec 1996

  • Language model creation for speech recognition and decoding • Digital signal processing used to validate Japanese speech data • Language model creation for speech recognition and decoding • Digital signal processing used to validate Japanese speech data