Engineering Development

OFER GIVATI, PhD

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Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON L0S 1J0 ****@******.***

PROFILE

Experience being an entrepreneur, business manager (and owner), an academic

and in recent years fulfilling various management positions in the corporate, .I will

contribute and bring focus on quality, simplicity, structure, accountability and

delivery of tasks to meet cost and performance requirements. Working well with

others, I am experienced in both, product development and management in the

RF and Aerospace industries.

EXPERIENCE

COMMTEL-WIRELESS 2008 –Current

Owner/Managing

Commtel-Wireless provides Antenna Development and Antenna System analysis services. See

www.commtel-wireless.com

CMC ELECTRONICS 2006 –2008

Program Director, Antenna Systems

I was charged with overall Profit and Loss responsibility for the Antenna System business unit

within CMC Electronics. The Antenna Systems is a $20M per annum business unit comprising

Satellite Communications (SATCOM) antenna systems products. These products consist of

Software (embedded) and hardware (different electronic modules such as Power Supply, Beam

Steering control, RF circuits etc). The development and maintenance of such products requires

cross-functional interaction amongst Mechanical, Software, Electronics and RF engineers whilst

conforming to strict QA and Airworthiness requirements. Managing this business unit entailed

the staffing, supervision and mentoring of the Product and Program Managers, support to the

creation and modification of the corporation integrated Strategic Plan, approval of customer or

contract requirements, Statement Of Work and schedule (milestones and deliverables) through

the program lifecycle, driving development of products and systems as per the Strategic Plan

and generation of reports to corporate Vice Presidents.

Accomplishments:

• Recovered a failing development program for new generation Satellite Communications

(SATCOM) antenna. The development project was completed on time and qualified

antennas were delivered to Boeing for installation on customers’ aircraft, resulting in

improved relationships and appreciation by both, Boeing and the end customer.

• Coordination of corporation wide Civil Aviation Strategic Planning through interaction with

the various business units directors, setting the direction and goals for the next five years. .

• Achieved 2 successive years of delivering bookings, sales and Gross Margin exceeding the

assigned targets

• Achieved 12% improvement of Gross Margin for a new SATCOM antenna through lean

manufacturing and integrated testing processes.

ANTENNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 2004 – 2006

Principle Engineer

Responsible for the development of new antennas and antenna systems This opportunity came

about when Seavey Engineering was sold to Antenna Research Associates and John Seavey, a

world leading figure in Antenna Engineering, was acting Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Accomplishments:

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• A requirement for assets (e.g. as military installations) and topographically variable border

region surveillance, initiated the development of a 35.25 GHz Bi-Static Radar Antenna,

resulting with the ability to autonomously monitor and identify motion.

• A requirement by a Scandinavian research establishment to perform surveillance research,

called for the development of 2-4GHz, 8-18GHz & 26.5-40GHz Dual Polarized, Dual Offset

Radar Antennas, resulting with 3 separate antenna systems delivered as required.

• A requirement for X-Band ground to air signaling lead to the development of a Box Horn

Antenna Array, resulting with the deployment of such terrestrial systems.

• A Box-Horn antenna system for ground to air application required the development of an X-

Band Power Dividers, resulting with an appropriate Beam Forming wave-guide Network for

an X-Band Box-Horn antenna.

• A requirement for satellite communication initiated the development of a 1.5 GHz low Axial

Ratio High Gain antenna resulting in operational L-band ground station.

• A requirement for high-resolution radar antenna initiated the development of a 7 GHz 18

dBic Patch array and, in a separate project, an X-Band Slotted Waveguide Array, resulting

in high resolution costal surveillance radar systems.

SINCLAIR TECHNOLOGIES 1999 – 2004

Head, Product Engineering

Responsible for the Product Engineering Department at Sinclair Technologies Inc., I was

charged with the development of new product concepts and implementation for Wireless

Communication; managing the Product Engineering Department comprising of engineers,

technicians and draftsmen. The Product Engineering Department is responsible for the

maintenance, documentation, upgrade and development of the company’s product base and the

development cycle.

Accomplishments:

• Managed a team of 20 engineers’ technicians and draftsmen to achieve company

development programs as well as product maintenance tasks within or below allocated

budgets.

• Successfully transformed an entire range of Base Station antennas to comply with strict

Passive Intermodulation specifications while maintaining the cost to customers unchanged.

• Successfully introduced a new family of sector antennas designed to make use of Angular

Diversity, increasing the company’s portfolio of offerings.

• Successfully introduced a new family of low-cost comm.-line filters, thereby enhancing the

company’s filter product lines offering.

• Successfully compiled and integrated ISO9001 procedures for product design, testing and

configuration management, thus leading to improved customer satisfaction.

GIVATI FOURIE & ASSOCIATES 1991 – 1999

Managing Member

Responsible for the overall management of Givati Fourie & Associates,

• Independent specialist in the field of electromagnetics and communications engineering

• A company providing services and developing products in the field of electromagnetic

engineering.

• Givati Fourie & Associates has been extensively involved, through its association with the

firm EM-Simulations, in the simulation of antennas on aircraft at HF, VHF and UHF

frequencies. A considerable amount of computational electromagnetic (CEM) software has

also been developed to aid in aircraft antennas and communication system analysis. These

include Method of Moments (MoM), Geometric and Uniform Theories of Diffraction

(GTD/UTD) and propagation programs.

Accomplishments:

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• A naval requirement for an operational shore to sea communications lead to the

measurements of Man-made noise and Co-location studies for antenna farm layout,

resulting in the relocation of antennas operating in the HF and V/UHF frequency bands to

achieve optimum communications.

• A mining company communication requirement initiated planning of communication links

within its mine boundaries, resulting in the deployment of an operational communication

links.

• An air-force requirement lead to the evaluation of antennas mounted on aircraft in terms of

aircraft-to-ground and aircraft-to-aircraft communications which are of interest in the HF,

VHF and UHF frequency bands. This includes matching, radiation efficiency, radiation

patterns, coupling, radiation hazard, co-location and overall communication system analysis,

resulting in a study used to optimize communication systems mounted on different cargo,

trainer and fighter types of aircraft.

• A requirement of a TV broadcasting station initiated the development of and manufacture of

TV broadcast antennas, resulting with a TV broadcast station operation.

• A requirement of non-corrosive antenna for coastal regions initiated the Design and

manufacture of plastic UHF TV reception antenna, resulting in the distribution of such

antennas to the public.

• A military requirement for man-pack communications leads to the design of VHF/UHF man-

pack and mobile antennas, resulting with a viable man-pack communication system.

• An air-force maintenance laboratory initiated the design and manufacture of antenna

simulator dummy load for the aviation bands, resulting with an appropriate load used to tune

transceivers.

• A gold mine requirement to locate buried miners lead to the design and prototype

manufacture of DF antenna, resulting in a hand-held direction finding system.

• Military requirement for man-pack HF communications lead to the design and manufacture

of broad-band HF antennas, resulting in tactical man-pack communication system.

• Air-force requirement for base station HF communications lead to the design and

manufacture of broad-band HF antennas, resulting in ground to air communication systems

deployed.

• A requirement from an antenna manufacturer initiated the design of master station sector

antennas, resulting in the manufacturing of such antennas for the cellular phone market.

• Military aircraft requirement for adequate matching initiated the design, manufacture and

commission of matching networks, resulting in successful installation on fighter aircraft.

• Successfully design and prototype manufacture of Radio Energy Dispenser (pre-payment

and metering) Systems and thereafter sold the ‘know how’ to Grinaker Electronic Limited

who make this product available in the market.

• Successfully developed the Electromagnetic software product SuperNEC, now selling

worldwide to antenna developers.

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1991 – 1999

Honorary Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering

• Taught final year electrical engineering class “The Process of Engineering Design” as one of

their qualifying courses.

• Taught final year electrical engineering class “HF Techniques” course.

• Taught post graduate students “Antennas in Practice” course.

• Supervised post-graduate students in their research work.

Accomplishments:

A university requirement to maintain centers of excellence is to publish its research work. Being

involved in various research projects, I have

• Published over 20 papers reporting results in various publications.

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• Presented 8 papers in international and national conferences

• Registered 5 patents

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA, 1994

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

* Thesis entitled “Characteristics of Skeletal wire Conical Antennas”

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA, 1990

MSc(Eng) – Master of Science in Engineering

* Dissertation entitled “Simple Meteor Scatter Out-Station Antennas”

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA, 1987

BSc(Eng)elec. – Bachelor of Science in Engineering

In the branch of Electrical Engineering

* Awarded the Alcom Systems Award for the best design/project work in the field of

Telecommunications (joint submission).

* Awarded the Adolf Goldsmith Award for the Student who made the best progress during

undergraduate studies

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