Manager, Electronics Development and Consulting Engineer

Summary

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS DESIGN FROM HIGH-LEVEL CONCEPT TO

IMPLEMENTATION IN HARDWARE, FIRMWARE AND SOFTWARE. FULL PRODUCT LIFE-

CYCLE SUPPORT BEGINNING WITH VENDOR SET-UP AND CONTINUING VIA SALES

AND PRODUCTION SUPPORT, QUALITY CONTROL AND CUSTOMER SERVICE TO FIELD

SUPPORT.

Specialties: embedded systems, electromagnetic compatibility,

reliability, user-friendliness, algorithms, hands-on approach,

synchronous switching, lab work, home-made RTOS, customer service,

communications protocols, circuit breaker condition monitoring, power

system transient phenomena

Google Search Terms

"ABB CBS", "ABB SCS", "ANTON POELTL INVENTOR", "ANTON POELTL

PUBLICATIONS"

Work Status

GREENCARD HOLDER, DOES NOT REQUIRE SPONSORSHIP

Education

DOCTORATE IN ENGINEERING SCIENCES - VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Graduate in electrical/electronics engineering - Vienna University of

Technology

Professional Experience

ABB INC. 1/11 - PRESENT

Manager, Electronics Development and Consulting Engineer - Same as

previous position plus: Lead team of circuit breaker consulting

engineers to provide customer application support, conduct failure

investigations, type test planning and reporting, marketing support

and standard committee participation . Accomplishments:

> Developed retrofitable circuit breaker monitor ("CBS Lite")

> Created monitoring algorithms for circuit breakers filled with

SF6/N2 mix

> Transferred firmware responsibility to newly hired programmer

> Trained electronics technician to maintain and improve existing

designs

> Organized influx of circuit breaker failure notifications

> Balanced workload of consulting engineers

ABB Inc. 6/08 - 12/10

Electronics Development Manager -Leverage experience in the areas of

circuit breaker condition monitoring and synchronous switching to

enhance & expand company product offerings in this area and increase

company's participation in related global R&D efforts.

Accomplishments:

> Developed SF6 gas monitor ("CBS-F6")

> Design of fast binary input/output module for ABB common platform

(through others).

> Implementation of additional communications protocol (DNP3)

> Implementation and successful field testing of advanced

mathematical algorithm for synchronous fast re-closing on

compensated transmission lines

6/00 - 5/08

Sr. Development Engineer - Consult management on high-profile

engineering solutions. Conduct development projects through others and

own involvement. Train entry-level engineers. Design improved products

for condition monitoring and synchronous switching. Lead consultant

activities for improvement of optical sensors and systems.

Accomplishments:

> Completed development of improved synchronous control device ("ABB

SCS")

> Drove market introduction of synchronous control device

> Contributed expertise to company-wide platform for circuit breaker

electronics.

> Lead international team for pilot installation of fiber-optic

sensor

> Completed design of condition monitoring system to meet customer

expectations ("ABB CBS")

> Designed and implemented embedded firmware

> Developed elaborate user-interface software ("ABB CB Insight")

> Lead development of optical current sensor suitable for relaying

applications

> Five patentable inventions

3/98 - 5/00

Development Engineer - improve and add support to existing electronic

products for synchronous control and monitoring of high-voltage

circuit breakers. Build infrastructure for electronics development.

Accomplishments:

> Revised existing hardware and firmware to correct known problems

> Conducted extensive field testing

> Built electronics lab and trained entry level technician

> Created database application for electronic components management

and prototyping

> Sourced vendors and set up products for turn key production

Vienna University of Technology 10/93 - 2/98

Research Assistant - Research contributing to the development of

intelligent circuit breakers. Teaching assignment for laboratory

courses. Accomplishments:

> Provided solution for "synchronous switching under fault

conditions" as described in Ph.D. thesis.

> Prepared two publications in same field

Additional Experience

INTERNSHIP FOR SIEMENS - SUMMER 1990 AND 1991: TEST PROGRAMS FOR

AUTOMATIC TESTING OF PHONE OPERATOR SYSTEMS; DEVELOPMENT OF ADD-ON-

BOARD PROTOTYPE FOR PHONE WITH CHIP-CARD READER; DEVELOPMENT OF

SOFTWARE DRIVER FOR LCD MODULE.

Software consultant - for Alphaville GmbH from 1990 to 1992:

Development of Dbase, Clipper and Turbo Pascal applications.

Development of assembler routines for low-lever printer support.

Affiliations

MEMBER, IEEE SINCE 1998

Publications

A. P LTL, K. FR HLICH, "TWO NEW METHODS FOR VERY FAST FAULT TYPE

DETECTION BY MEANS OF PARAMETER FITTING AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL

NETWORKS", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY, OCT. 1999, VOL.14, NO.

4, PP. 1269-1274

R.York, A.P ltl, "SF6 Gas Leakage: Monitoring and Trend Analysis

Techniques" in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference of

Doble Clients

A. P ltl, M. Haines, "Experiences with Condition Monitoring of HV

Circuit Breakers" presented at the 2001 IEEE Transmission and

Distribution Conference

A. P ltl, K. Fr hlich, "A New Algorithm Enabling Controlled Short

Circuit Interruption", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2003, Vol

18, No. 3, pp. 802-808

Patents

ANTON POELTL, MICHAEL MENDIK: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING

SYNCHRONOUS SWITCHING OPERATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS. ABB TECHNOLOGY DEC,

27 2011: US 8084891

Michael Mendik, Anton Poeltl: Method and apparatus for calculating the

separation time of arcing contacts of a high-volume switchgear. ABB

Technology Mar, 8 2011: US 7904266

Michael Mendik, Anton Poeltl: Method and apparatus for communicating

with an intelligent electronic device associated to a switching device

in power systems. ABB Technology Dec, 20 2011: US 8082500

Anton Poeltl, Michael Mendik: Method and apparatus for showing data

representative of the accuracy of operations of a high-voltage

switchgear. ABB Technology Aug, 16 2011: US 8000933

Pending:

Anton Poeltl: Circuit Breaker Interrupter Travel Curve Estimation, ABB

Technology Aug, 31 2010: US 2012/0053886

Languages

ENGLISH - FULL KNOWLEDGE

German - Full Knowledge

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