Wireless Product Design Expert for Medical Devices, Automotive and Wireless Systems and EMI/CCD Device Immunity

Expertise

• Electromagnetic technology, field wave propagation and device immunity and electromagnetic wave shielding.
• Product design in automotive, terrestrial broadcasting and consumer electronics.
• Wireless RF/microwave transmitter and receiver design for digital TV broadcasting.
• Hybrid data encoders and decoders.
• Software radio system architecture and modular design.
• EMC and EMI, (electromagnetic capability and electromagnetic interference) analysis, immunity and RF radiation testing with field propagation analysis.
• RF/Microwave 0 to 12GHz circuitry design.
• Broadcast and automotive antenna design: rod, slot, patch, and micro strip.
• Wireless transceivers and data communication links.
• Embedded firmware and software for integrated microcontrollers.
• Automotive EMC and environmental product qualification, IMDS, PPAP.
• Automated smart metering and energy compliant products and networks design.
• Medical product design for ISO13485, FCC, FDA, UL, CMDR, CE marking.
• Electrical CAD and circuit simulation design.
• FPGA synthesis tools, DSP code studios and embedded C compilers.
• High speed circuit board, RF, microwave and low noise layout design.
• USPTO Patent filing and patent prosecution.

Experience

Independent Product and Design Consultant, 2004 - Present

Automotive turnkey product design of multimedia, RF and antenna products.

• Rod and dipole antennas and amplifiers for VHF and UHF.
• Microstrip antennas and amplifiers for L, S and C bands.
• AM/FM rod and glass antennas and amplifier products.
• Design and validation of automotive CAN/MOST compliant products.
• Media players and authentication devices.
• Surveillance video imaging encoding and decoding.
• EMC/EMI studies and compliance, test plans and corrective actions.

Design of advanced industrial and smart metering devices with remote reading.

• Low power, low cost meter and microcontroller design.
• Advanced wireless interface design.
• HF antenna design and simulation with field wave propagation analyses.
• Analog low noise and low power circuitry design.
• Advanced power supply design for backup and portability.
• Certification testing for ANSI, FCC, PTCRB.

Medical imaging, audio, video and wireless multimedia products.

• CCD and CMOS imaging sensor design lead.
• Direct X-ray detection and scintillation transducer.
• Analog low noise optical front end and low power circuitry design.
• Medical product certification according FDA, CMDR and CE.

Cygnus Technologies, LLC, Vice President Engineering, Scottsdale, AZ, 2002 - 2004

• Hands-on engineering for the design of dental video cameras and x-ray sensor medical device products.
• Dental x-ray sensor compliant to 802.11b (WiFi) data network.
• Video cameras; design of wired and wireless video camera for medical imaging.
• Medical product certification and full safety compliance according FDA and CE.
• DICOM standard compliance.

DOTCAST Inc., Director of RF development, Scottsdale, AZ, 2000 - 2002

• Led a design engineering team for the development of VHF/UHF video/data transmitter and receiver system known as "MovieBeam."
• Prototype to product development activities for high volume of manufacturing.
• Developing of data encoders and modulators for TV broadcasting transmitters.
• Obtaining FCC certification for modified channel spectrum performance.

EnCamera Sciences Corp., Director of Engineering, Scottsdale, AZ, 1999 - 2000

• Led a team of engineers for development of hybrid digital data TV transmitter and receiver systems, including system level simulations and architecture design.
• Design of communication subsystems, oscillators, amplifiers and PLL.
• System level RF simulations, analog and digital PCB Layout design.
• Wrote RF test and measurement procedures for component and system test.

Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1998 - 1999

University Assistant Professor

• Lecturing in communication equipment design and manufacturing.
• Research and design of ISM and UHF band RF/Microwave antennas and devices.
• Analytical component and system level design, testing, EOL component training.
• Product reliability studies in various aspects of RF/Microwave implementation.
• Consulting in industrial automated measurement and data acquisition.

RF/Microwave Research Engineer, 1995 - 1998

• RF / EMC engineer developed algorithms for field analyses.
• Designed RF modules.
• Lecturing RF propagation and antennas.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Received REALITY Five-Star Quality Award for Video Cameras
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE
• Antenna and Propagation Society, APS
• EMC Society, EMCS
• Signal Processing Society, SPS
• Circuits and Systems Society, CSS
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
• Standard Association, SA

Education

Ph.D. EE, Technical University of Sofia

MBA Technical University of Sofia

M.S. EE, Technical University of Sofia