Anthony Pietrzykoski

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Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877 Email: abhnre@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Management within Engineering or Research and Development

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

HANDS ON ENGINEERING NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM BUILDING

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT EMBEDDED HW/SW DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

MULTI-DISCIPLINED ANALOG AND DIGITAL CIRCUIT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

ENGINEERING DESIGN

SUMMARY

SUCCESSFULLY LED GLOBAL TEAMS OF OVER 60 AND CONTROLLED $6+ MILLION BUDGETS

TO DRIVE COST SAVINGS, BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS AND REVENUE GROWTH.

BUILT COHESIVE UNITS ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH LARGE AND SMALL SCALE, CUSTOM

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. HIGHLY EXPERIENCED IN RESEARCH AND THE FULL CYCLE

DESIGN OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, ANALOG AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS FROM AUDIO TO

RF, FOR USE IN INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND

NETWORKING.

Professional Experience

MOOG KNOX VIDEO, GAITHERSBURG, MD 2006 TO 2010

(Manufacturer of audio and video routing and distribution products. )

Director of Engineering

. Delivered five new product in three and a half years.

. Reorganized the engineering department for greater effectiveness.

. Took core competence and focused on standard platforms.

. Strategic member of corporate engineering leadership team.

. Responsible for performance reviews, resource allocation and career

development of engineers..

American Engineered Products, Plains, PA 2002 to 2006

(Privately owned design and development company specializing in embedded

real-time hardware and software products. Cross-functional

responsibilities include strategic business planning and development,

oversight of the vendor selection and project management process, contract

negotiations and change management strategies.)

Vice President/Owner

. Initiate new products by planning, organizing, prioritizing, and

supervising research and development.

. Dispenses advice, guidance, direction and authorization to carry out

major strategic plans, procedures, best practices and benchmarking

consistent with established policies.

. Hire, train, mentor and provide leadership for all technical

recruiting, performance, and compensation reviews.

. Participate in design review meetings to assist product conception and

development.

. Provide technical support through the extensive use of computer aided

design software and development tools.

Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA 2000 to 2002

(An independent non-profit research and development think tank. Brought on

board to temper rivalry and personality conflicts integrating three

disparate groups into one cohesive working group.)

Principal Staff, Program Manager, R&D

Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, I, was

involved with Villanova University, upgrading their capabilities from a

straightforward institution of higher education to an investigative

research organization.

. Achieved the creation of a single, reliable team, by bringing together

professors from two independent departments to work in tandem with CTC

personnel.

. Built team morale by leading in the identification and evaluation of

current and emerging technologies, determining appropriate

applications, facilitated meetings and building the correct team to

pursue the endeavor.

. Conceptualized the design of the system architecture.

. Strong technical experience working with wireless networks, GPS,

sensor nodes and communications

. Communicated requirements to team members and outside consultants,

ensuring team continuity.

. Collaborated with other programs, contributing expertise, and directed

the activities in biometrics and data fusion.

. Investigated alternate applications for the use of current

technologies. Worked with Carnegie Melon University in adapting the

project's MEMS devices for use within the human body.

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Monitel Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ 1997 to 2000

(A privately owned national provider of remote machine-to-machine data

acquisition devices, with over $1 million in annual revenues. The company

pioneered the monitoring of remote high end imaging machines.)

Engineer

. Delivered component cost savings of 45% by initiating a program to

convert discrete designs utilizing an Intellectual Property (IP)

scenario.

. Formulated the system architecture for a wireless data acquisition

network deployed in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Successfully implemented a remote monitoring system that wirelessly

contacted a central database, transferring performance and cost

accounting information.

. Pursued strategic alliances with vendors and customers. Made

arrangements with a national wireless provider to share costs in

geographic areas, new to each company.

. Worked with external laboratories, meeting Underwriters and FCC

certifications.

. Planned and delegated work assignments and special projects to

subordinates, ensuring the maximum utilization of available resources.

. Appropriated funds for capital expenditures.

Time Warner Inc., Olyphant, PA 1988 to 1996

(Time Warner Inc. is the world's leading media and entertainment company,

whose businesses includes filmed entertainment, music, interactive

services, television networks, cable systems, and publishing. Progressed

through a series of positions and transitioned to management. Functioned

as a project engineer, principal designer, and department manager.

Maintained direct oversight for the development team and new product

development.)

R&D Manager (Warner Advanced Media Operations Inc. 1992 to 1996)

. Coordinated the activities of an international team of 17 companies in

developing the specification for the DVD. This activity required

travel to Japan, Europe, and across the United States every two weeks

for two years.

. Participated in the planning of "SD World", a two day conference and

workshop promoting the advantages of the Toshiba/Time Warner concept

of a video disc. Oversaw production of a 24 page full color brochure,

presenting a speech at the opening ceremonies, coordinating events,

and entertaining dignitaries.

. Explained the advantages of the Toshiba/Time Warner concept of a video

disc, by making presentations to movie and computer manufacturing

executives at their locations.

. Drove in the continuous improvement of the product development cycle

time and costs.

. Supported the work of manufacturing and outside suppliers in

identifying and rectifying manufacturing, component, and assembly

problems. Ensured that manufacturing considerations were taken into

account when new products were designed.

R&D Engineer (WEA Manufacturing Inc. 1989 to 1992)

. Created a test system to measure product quality. The system

consisted of a rack of devices with six identical chassis. Each

chassis contained seven microprocessors that communicated with each

other and a host PC. Each microprocessor monitored signals from

sensors, and perform signal processing analyses, determining product

adherence to specifications.

. Developed an injection molding monitoring system, ensuring press

temperatures, hydraulic fluid flows, pressures, and timings met

desired profiles.

. Worked with Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing, and Quality

Assurance departments in optimizing designs for costs,

manufacturability, and customer satisfaction.

CD Mastering Engineer (Specialty Records Corp. 1988 to 1989)

. Authored a 64 page pamphlet "Recommended Measurement Techniques",

becoming the company wide procedure standard for quality control.

. Implemented and taught a six week course to technicians, educating

them in the use of microprocessors for instrumentation and measurement

techniques.

. Designed and installed a microprocessor system for monitoring laser

beam tracking during the master recording process. The system ensured

the recording beam maintained tracking to within 0.01%.

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Weston Controls, Archibald, PA (a Schlumberger company) 1982 to 1988

(Weston Controls developed instrumentation and control systems for nuclear

reactors, steam generators, and oil field exploration. Recruited to

establish the first microprocessor based instrumentation package for the

U.S. Nuclear Navy.)

Senior Development Engineer

. Designed a steam generator control system to monitor level, pressure,

temperature, flow and density of the secondary cooling loop. This

steam was used for electrical power generation and propulsion on

submarines and aircraft carriers.

. Designed critical microprocessor instruments for measuring the source,

intermediate, and power range of a pressurized water reactor for the

U.S. Navy. This endeavor marked the first use of microprocessors in

critical protective circuits.

. Devised a universal standard digital meter (SDM) for the U.S. Nuclear

Navy. The SDM was a microprocessor based device, utilized to display

reactor plant parameters in both bar graph and numeric formats.

. Held DOD secret and DOE "Q" level clearances.

GTE Sylvania, Seneca Falls, NY 1978 to 1982

(Manufactured direct view and projection cathode ray tubes (CRT) for the

television and monitor industry.)

Senior System and Instrumentation Engineer

. Instrumental in developing microprocessor based control equipment,

cutting the cost of picture tube manufacturing.

. Created a system to magnetize a ring inside a CRT to align the three

color beams. The system was later adopted by the company's European

factory in Belgium.

. Trained technicians and operators, in Belgium, in the use and repair

of a magnetizing system.

. Developed a system to measure beam positions on a cathode ray tube,

eliminating human error.

. Designed equipment that located a cathode within an accurate distance

from the control grid.

. Created a microprocessor system for measuring the decay rate (flicker)

of phosphors.

. Created a technique for measuring temperature inside a CRT operating

at 30KV.

. Supervised activities of college co-ops working at the company, and

trained and aided them in relating practical experience.

. Advised the production for Superior Design, a Junior Achievement

Company.

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING - WILKES UNIVERSITY,

WILKES-BARRE, PA

Masters Candidate in Engineering Management - Drexel University,

Philadelphia, PA

Project Management Training - Project Management Institute, Washington

DC

U.S. Government Patents

PATENT #6,160,787 DECEMBER 2000

Multiple layer optical recording medium for use with two different

wavelength laser beams. This invention combines two half thickness

substrates, one containing DVD data and the other CD data, with a semi-

transparent layer allowing the same data to be utilized in a CD or DVD

player.

PATENT #5,812,506 September 1998

System and method for measuring and correcting for overshoot in a high

frequency (HF) signal generated by a compact disc player during testing of

a compact disc. An algorithm has been devised to correct errors occurring

in an analog data stream.

PATENT #5,315,107 May 1994

Compact disc counter arranged to minimize counting errors having a pair of

beams and a pulse counting means. A novel system of splitting a laser beam

and then recombining the beams after passing through a flat object to count

the objects was built.

Core Competency

AD HOC NETWORK, ARM, ASIC, BIOMETRICS, C, C++, CAD, CAE, CMM, CMMI,

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT, COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN, CPU, DATA FUSION,

DEBUGGING, DOCUMENTATION, DSP, EMBEDDED, FIRMWARE, FPGA, JAVA, MANET, MEMS,

MESH NETWORKS, MICROCONTROLLER, MODELING, PC, PCB, PRESSURE GAUGES, PWB,

R&D, REAL TIME, REMOTE SENSING, SCHEMATIC, SIGNAL PROCESSING, SIMULATION,

SPECIFICATION WRITING, SOFTWARE, TRANSDUCERS, UML, VISUAL BASIC, WIRELESS

NETWORK.

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