BRIL0098 

Summary:     Manager experienced in developing, directing, and motivating a business unit.  Strong management and broad technical capabilities in the wireless telecommunications industry.  Developed new product proposals, definitions, requirements and strategies utilizing emerging technologies.  Set vision/direction through competitive analysis, business case review, and establishment of strong relationships with internal and external partners.  Achieved multiple successful product launches.

Experience:

Engineering Manager, Sept. 1997 -  Nov. 2001—Motorola, Base Station Center of Excellence, GSM & CDMA Systems Group

Manager, PA Advanced Development Team

·          Review and contribute to 3G Technology Roadmaps for PA’s, Develop IP

·          Partnership evaluation, selection and management, business case development for make vs. buy decisions

·          Generation of patent portfolio assets and competitive analysis, business development opportunities between internal and external partners

·          Proposed and managed the development of a direct die attach module for the CDMA linear power amplifier targeting >10% cost reduction and greater manufacturability

Manager, Horizon II GSM/EDGE PA Development Team

·          Areas of responsibility include but not Limited to:  project feasibility study, project schedules, planning and tracking, technical requirements, design and development, new product introduction

Individual Contributions

·          Patent disclosures, Competitive patent analysis

·          Software Defined Radio transmitter architecture

·          Transmitter technical definition

·          Market analysis for IC vendor selection

Section Manager, Sept. 1994 -  Sept. 1997—Motorola, European Cellular Infrastructure Group

Manager, PCS1900 Customer Trials Program 

·          Managed four PCS1900 trials; Washington/Baltimore, Boulder, San Diego (using fiber/cable system as the RF backhaul), and the CTIA PCS Convention in Seattle.  Trial activities included system performance verification via drive tests, in partnership with Motorola subscriber division.  Presentations to the potential customers.

·          Managed team coordinating the T1 link to the switch, cell site equipment installation and optimization, drive testing and preparation of customer documentation, as well as performing detailed analysis of the fiber/cable system specifically for use as an RF backhaul.

·          Coordinated trial activities with our EMX switch partner.

·          Built a strong relationship with marketing and sales teams to support  fast paced business development to insure team’s success.

Manager, DCS1800 Receiver & Transmitter Design Team 

·          Proposed and managed the DCS1800 radio performance enhancement program.  Supplied marketing team with business development information for the customers in the emerging international 1800 MHz markets.

·          Built a strong relationship with marketing and sales teams and determined best competitive technical direction.  Proposal provided Motorola with a competitive advantage, by eliminating the need of third-party mast-mounted preamplifiers and power amplifiers, required by the competition.

·          Developed product proposal and managed project schedule.  Met budget and time constraints with a simplified, integrated, and more reliable solution outperforming the competition.

Manager, M•Cell Micro Receiver and Synthesizer

Manager, M•Cell Horizon Macro transceiver and RF systems

·          Created Architecture Definition involving the addition of several new key features based upon customer inputs

·          Recruited, trained, and managed development team of 20 engineers

·          New product introduction

Lead Engineer, July 1992 -  Sept. 1994—Motorola, European Cellular Infrastructure Group

Individual Contributor & First Level Manager

·          Developed the new architecture for the DCS-1800 and PCS-1900 Receiver and managed the product design team.  New architecture achieved a 68 % cost reduction compared to previous GSM 900 design as well as reducing the board count by 75% and the component count by 68%.  The resultant design was considerably more reliable and manufacturable.  The architecture was ultimately integrated into IC’s for future product programs (1996).

·          Responsible for the design and implementation of the Trial PCS1900 base station.  The Trial base station consisted of re-designing the RF circuitry in a GSM 900 base station to operate at 1900 MHz.  This was the most expedient means to “go to market” since it leveraged the existing digital hardware and software of the GSM900 product.

·          Managed a team to build, test and deploy the PCS1900 trial base stations.  The team leveraged several of Motorola’s global resources from the USA and the UK, which was critical to the overall success of the Trial.

Senior RF Design Engineer,  July 1987 -  July 1992—Motorola, Cellular Infrastructure Group

·          Responsible for the overall receiver design, integration, and testing for the GSM Trial System delivered in 1988.

·          Managed the department’s capital equipment strategy and budget (~$6M).  As there was no GSM specific test equipment for this emerging cellular standard, the task included the assessment of equipment needs and preparation of proposals for management approval and coordinating with the subcontract management of a test equipment manufacturer to oversee the development of new GSM specific test equipment for Motorola’s needs.

·          Responsible for the receiver backend design in the commercial GSM product, including IF amp, AGC, I/Q demodulator, base band amplifiers and filters.  Designed a novel filter to meet the competing stringent specifications for co-channel and adjacent channel bit-error-rates.  This filter design is in every Motorola GSM infrastructure product to-date and has been adopted by Motorola GSM Subscriber Group in recent years to improve the co-channel and adjacent channel performance.

RF Design Engineer I,  October 1984 - July 1987—Motorola, Cellular Infrastructure Group

·          Collaborated with vendors to develop Tx/Rx duplexers to meet the requirements of new high-capacity cell sites.

·          Designed VCO’s for new base station products.

·          Author and key technical contributor of CTIA’s proposal for FCC Rule making for new cellular services (boosters and repeaters).  Authored an article, published in Mobile Radio Technology stating Motorola’s technical position on cellular boosters/repeaters.

·          Developed working prototype cellular base and mobile system to demonstrate the performance of Motorola’s “split channel” proposal to improve the spectral efficiency of the existing analog cellular systems prior to the advent of more spectrally efficient digital cellular systems.  Prototype was pivotal in decision to begin the development of a sub-audible signaling protocol rather than a scaled version of the existing signaling protocol.

Education:   Masters in Electrical Engineering (Walter P. Murphy Fellowship)

                     Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 

                     Bachelors in Electrical Engineering 

                     University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Patents:   US Patent # 5,422,909   Granted June 6, 1995—Method and Apparatus for Multi-Phase Component Down-conversion