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Expert in EMC/EMI, RF/Microwave, Hardware, Firmware, Product Development
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Expert has experience in medical imaging product design and certification regarding FCC, CE, UL, and the FDA. He is familiar with the technical file and the 510K preparations regarding the medical regulation requirements and the requirements of the notified body. He has performed full EMC/EMI, compliance testing, and prepared and sign Declarations of Conformity.
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Expert has expertise in the design of biomedical imaging products, providing patient safety and comfort regarding ISO and FDA requirements. He is an Adjunct Professor teaching on biomedical instrumentation including cardiac, ultrasonic equipment, pressure and flow measurements. He has magnetic flux and sensors expertise. He is familiar with biomedical equipment for measurement and stimulation.
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Expert has successful design experiences in various medical and communication electronic products combining analog and digital circuitry, RF and microwave stages and apparatus, microprocessor equipment, and FPGA based designs. He is familiar with system and component design concepts and has DSP/FPGA firmware and software expertise. He is experienced in medical device design regarding isolation and precise analog front ends design for low noise data acquisition. He has worked on communication data encoder/decoder stages including FEC, data slicing, filtering, adaptive filtering, RF/microwave circuitry for wireless data transmitting/receiving, spectrum management, and data conditioning.
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Expert is familiar with microstrip technology and the design of microwave filters, mixers, amplifiers, PLLs, and microstrip and patch antennas in frequencies up to 10GHz. He is knowledgeable of the latest generation simulation software for circuit design with lumped and distributed parameters. He is experienced in the design of data encoder/decoder stages including FEC, data slicing, filtering, adaptive filtering, RF/microwave circuitry for wireless data transmitting/receiving, spectrum management, and data conditioning. He is proficient in EMI and EMC estimating at the device level and over the air compatibility with other microwave/RF equipment. He has done field and bench RF measurements for device characterization and testing.
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Expert is knowledgeable of printed circuit board design from schematic capture, verification, component value optimization for large quantity manufacturing, and linking the design for PCB layout design. He has used various substrate materials for thickness, composition, shape for compliance with existing design or regulations. He has up to 12 layer PCB design expertise in boards with SMD, and trough hole components optimized for testability and large manufacturing series.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Phoenix, Arizona;
Tucson, Arizona;
Mesa, Arizona;
Glendale, Arizona;
Scottsdale, Arizona;
Chandler, Arizona;
Tempe, Arizona;
Gilbert, Arizona;
and Peoria, Arizona.
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1998
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Ph.D.
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Electromagnetics
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Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria
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1994
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M.S.E.E.
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Electronic Design and Manufacturing
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Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria
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1994
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M.B.A.
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Small Business
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Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria
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1987
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E.E.T.
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Electrical and Electronic Technology
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Technical School-Kazanlak, Bulgaria
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2004 to
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Product Design Consulting
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Expert provides product design services concerning video/imaging and wireless multimedia products. He does microprocessor, DSP, FPGA, and PSoC based designs of consumer oriented interfaces and wireless links. He also provides field and product EMC/EMI pre-compliance services, teaches biomedical engineering and design, and does R&D of new product concepts in consumer and surveillance electronics. He is an adjunct professor in Biomedical Engineering at DeVry University.
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2002 to 2004
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Cygnus Technologies Inc.
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Vice President Engineering
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He was the chief engineer and lead designer for numerous video-imaging products with medical application, responsible for the entire product development. He was the engineering team lead in the design of medical imaging devices compliant to wireless LAN 802.11b data network and most common PC based interfaces. He worked in microprocessor, FPGA and interface oriented development: PCI/PCMCIA, FireWire (IEEE1394), 802.11b, USB and provided DICOM compliance. He worked in product certification and full safety compliance specification regarding medical device requirements for the FDA, UL, and CE.
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2000 to 2002
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DOTCAST Inc.
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Director of RF Development
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Expert was the chief design engineer and system architect involved in the development of an end-to-end VHF/UHF video/data transmitter/receiver system. He worked on the complete prototype stage through product development in order to achieve a high volume of manufacturing. The final product included developing single and dual channel data encoders and modulators for integration into the broadcasting TV transmitters and consumer targeted PCI based single and dual decoders and demodulators. He worked in analytical system level modeling, propagation study, RF link budget and antenna design in order to meet consumer requirements. He also worked with the FCC in performing field and lab tests for obtaining new broadcast certification for modified channel spectrum performance concerning channel to channel and data to video and audio impairment.
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1998 to 2000
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EnCamera Sciences Corp.
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Director of Engineering
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He was a senior level design engineer involved in the development of digital data transmitter/receiver systems over analog TV broadcast television signal. He conducted component level simulations and design of various oscillators, amplifiers, PLL, and mixed signal design stages. He worked on system level RF simulations, and analog and digital PCB layout design. Precise setup, test, and measurement procedures in all design and technological stages were required in order to provide project stage analyses.
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1995 to 1998
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Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria
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Assistant Professor
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He taught seminars and gave lectures in communication equipment design and manufacturing. He performed scientific research and design of various ISM and UHF band RF/microwave antennas and devices. He did analytical component and system level design, testing, final technological training, and long term reliability calculations in various aspects of RF/microwave implementation.
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1994 to 1996
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Television
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Chief Broadcast Engineer
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He ensured the quality of the broadcast television signal over the covered region. He supported the local and mobile video links to the studio and the broadcast tower. He led a team to ensure the final picture quality out of the studio and off the air broadcast TV signal.
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of: the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE); the Society of Antenna and Propagation (SAP); the Society of EMC (SEMC); the Society of Signal Processing (SSP); the Society of Circuits and Systems (SCS); the Society of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (SEMB); and the Standard Association (SA).
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has seven publications and three patents.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Japanese-Bulgarian-Macedonian Joint Seminar on Applied Electromagnetics
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- Telecomm
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- CECS
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- E+E
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- Telecomm
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1996 to 1997
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Romania
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Expert worked on data flow acquisition and automation.
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2002 to 2003
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Germany
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He worked on image data acquisition from CCD sensors.
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Russian
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Expert can speak, read, and write Russian at an "average" level.
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Bulgarian
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He is fluent in Bulgarian; this is his native language.
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German
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Expert can read German at a "basic" level.
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English
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He is fluent in English.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Training/Seminars
Expert is a professional teaching instructor with experiences with different audiences. He has taught Design and Manufacturing of Communication Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Antennas, and Radiowave Propagation.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection He has over six years of product expertise in selecting and recommending vendors.
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Other Skills and Services
He has experience in overall product design, development of hardware and firmware applications, project schedules, and marketing trials;
Experience in medical/dental product design regarding safety regulations ISO, EN and understanding the product certification documentation for medical compliance: FCC, FDA, UL and CE certifications;
Experience in wireless RF/microwave transmitter/receiver system design: data encoders, IF data processing stages, UHF/VHF channel up-converters, power amplifier, antenna corrections, portable receiver development, demodulator and data decoder stages for data imaging application;
He has worked with Xilinx FPGA, DSP, PSoC, and microprocessor embedded and hardware development;
He has working skills with most popular CAD design software packages, FPGA synthesis tools, DSP code development studios, simulation and mathematical packages;
He has done field and lab tests for EMC/EMI certification compliance to the consumer and medical emission regulations.
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