Expertise

• Primary and secondary batteries.
• Lithium ion batteries.
• Infra red, colorimetric and electrochemical sensors.
• Medical applications for sensors.
• New product sensor device development.
• Mathematical modeling and statistical methods for testing and qualification of new instruments.
• Quality control procedures; development and refinement of new test processes and procedures.
• Technical management and proposal preparation.

Experience

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Developed lithium battery power supplies and started a manufacturing line for lithium battery power supplies.
• Developed electrochemical infra red and colorimetric sensors, techniques, and low cost instruments for the analysis of toxic vapors in the air for use in environmental testing.
• Developed blood analysis sensors, using ion selective electrodes and enzyme electrodes.
• Improved existing products in terms of life span, reliability and reduced manufacturing costs.

Undisclosed, Scientist, 1990 - Present

• Developed new instruments for air analysis.
• Developed electrochemical sensors for the detection of certain toxic organic vapors.
• Developed analog instruments and alarms for toxic gases.
• Developed micro - controller based instruments, data - logger and detector.
• Founded a new company for manufacturing and marketing above devices.

Loral Systems Group, Akron, OH, Engineer Specialist

• Developed lithium battery power supplies for the U.S. Navy.
• Wrote successful proposals ($3M) and RFPs.
• Administered contracts.

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN, Principal Research Scientist

• Developed lithium batteries.
• Developed mechanical design details for the battery cells, selecting and testing materials, and characterized their performance on a long - term basis with the aid of mathematical modeling.
• Started manufacturing lines for the lithium battery cells.
• Developed electrochemical sensors to be used for acute or chronic in-vivo applications, as controls for cardiac pacemakers, drug pumps, dialysis units and blood analysis instruments.
• Started and managed a department including facilities and personnel for research and engineering of new power sources and the redesign of existing ones.

Gould Inc., St.Paul, MN, Group Leader

• Developed product and processes on nickel cadmium, nickel zinc and nickel iron systems.

Honors & Publications

Author of numerous technical publications and technical presentations.

Education

• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, "Thermodynamics of Non-aqueous Electrolyte Solutions of Alkali Metal Halides"
• B. S., Chemistry, Queens College, Queens, NY