CTO VP of Engineering

Paul D. Stoner

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Lewis Center, OH 43035

Home 614-***-****

US Cell 614-***-****

Email: ****.*.******@*****.***

CTO, Director, VP

BSEE, Pilot with FPGA, Avionics, FAA DO-254

Expert Airborne Optics, Digital, Analog, RF and Power

Contract or Direct Hire, USA or South America

Patents, weight reduction power-over-fiber, rockets and aircraft

. 5-year BSEE degree University of Akron, OH with EIT, PE available on

request

. 35-year experience with high reliability electronics, power, and optics

. Marketing Experience Excellent Speaker and Presenter

. FAA Candidate DER L3 Smart Deck Avionics DAL level-A with large FPGAs

. Expert level Avionics F15-E, Boeing-787, Comanche Helicopter, Piper,

Citation I, II

. Expert level RF Radar Design, Pulsed, RCS, SAR, CW-Doppler 1GHz-95GHz,

10KW

. Expert author of 20+ US patents and management of patent attorneys & law

firms

. Expert level Fiber Optics, Lasers and Photovoltaics

. Expert level manager of small teams of engineers or work alone travel

ok.

. Experience with design requirements traceability tools like DOORS and

INTEGRITY

. Expert level Circuit designs MENTOR GRAPHICS DxDESIGNER

. Expert level circuit simulations and design analysis SPICE circuit

simulation tools.

. Good with mechanical packaging

. Expert with Software: C, VHDL, Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP, HTML5,

JAVASCRIPT

. Expert level DO-178B Level A and DO-254 Level A/B and DO-160

. Expert FAA certification for Qual Plans, Procedures, Reports & Testing

. Expert level troubleshooting and root cause corrective action

. Expert level analog circuit design and analysis, op-amps, ADC, MOSFETS,

Sensors

. Experience with low voltage and high voltage analog digital PCB routing

constraints.

. Digital circuit design for Microprocessor, DSP, FPGA

. Complete development life-cycle experience

. Experience with RoHS regulations

. Experience with ITAR regulations

. Expert level FAA Documents, Certification Test Plans, Common-Mode

. Self-directed high level of independence to full project completion

. Experience with 3-phase motor drives and bridges

. Experience with gate drive circuits and MOSFETs ranging 200W - 27KW

. Good understanding of power circuit parasitics

. DC-DC power supply design 98% efficiency low heat

Details of Previous Work Assignments

STAR Dynamics / General Dynamics 2009-Current Direct

Senior Staff

Lead Engineer for US Army RRPP XRC Phased Array Radar receiver. Lead

engineer for Digital Control and power for 4KW XSTAR phased array solid

state 8-12 GHz transmitter. DC-DC power supply design 250 watts, 97%

efficient. Mil temperature 10-50v input, 11 output voltages, 5-40vdc output

10Amps with noise less then 10uV. Circuits can be commanded to DC-AC

inverter, or AC-DC power supply with very high efficiency. Switching

frequency: 1MHz spread spectrum. DC-DC converter has very low switching

noise level of -140 dB below output. Power supplies used for ultra low

noise radar RF amplifiers. Expert level Mentor Graphics CAD DxDesigner.

Expert level Digital and RF design for radars 8,000 watts pulsed TWT and

4000 watts CW solid state phased array radars at 8-12 GHz. Design of

digital control circuits using Xilinx and Altera FPGAs for world class RCS

Radars. Expert level VHDL programmer. Complex RF I/Q modulation and

demodulation using Altera Stratix II thru V. Expert level fiber optics

design for 40Gbps digital and 20GHz analog optical signaling to 20km

distance. Expert level design of ultra-low phase-noise frequency

synthesizers covering frequency range of 0.1 to 20 GHz with 1 mHz accuracy

and 5.7ns frequency hopping speed with phase noise less then -130 Db/Hz at

10 KHz.

Warrior Earth, LLC 2008-2009 Direct Principal

Director of engineering covering US, Peru and Brazil. Managed 39

contractors. Work included design and deployment complex HTML5 websites

with large MySql databases. Expert level programmer in HTML5, LAMP, PHP

AJAX, JAVASCRIPT, dedicated servers, international servers. Set up company

offices in Iquitos, Peru. Directed all engineering operations in the Amazon

jungle including design and fabrication of high resolution gyro stabilized

aerial camera systems for use on Aircraft. Coordinated all flight

operations with pilots and aircraft, including management of HW and SW

engineers. Filed 5 new international patents. Managed all aspects of

company legal work, including managing 4 US lawyers, 3 Peruvian and

Brazilian lawyers and 2 US patent attorneys.

Embedded Control Systems 2007 Founder / Contract

ECS, inc Lisle, Il. Company Founder. FPGA design and and FAA

Certification Services. Filed 10 patents covering Optical Flight

Displays (OFDs) Optical radios, and the transmission of electrical

power and data over Plastic Optical Fiber. Directed flight-test

operations in a Citation I jet. Hired and directed DERs and DARs for

FAA Certification Documentation. Negotiated $400k contract from

Rockwell Collins to build airborne optical LRU which combined airdata

sensors, antennas, and FPGA controlled RF circuitry for all aircraft

radios into a single remote antenna patch measuring 1" thick. Directed

marketing and proposal efforts for live equipment demos to Rockwell

Collins, Ford Motor Company, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier., Boeing,

Gulfstream and Eclipse Aviation. Created DO-178 and FPGA DO-254

documents and FAA Part 23/25 system level documentation for Optical

Avionics. Designed TMR optical data busses having dissimilar FPGA

controllers. Left the company after selling the intellectual property

for US $6M to the board of directors.

Rockwell Collins 2006 Contract

Provided Avionics System Design and Technology Maturity Assessment for

Plastic Optical Fiber aviation applications for sending both power and

TCP/IP data over plastic, and the use of Zero Software FPGA digital

design to create flight displays without the use of traditional run-

time software.

Hamilton Sundstrand 2006 Contract

Authored FAA System Documentation for the Boeing 787 Electric Power

Systems. Design and documentation work for Optical AFDX, ARINC-429,

Copper AFDX, TTP/C bus, CAN Bus. DOORS Database. Generated DO-178/D0-

254 documentation including Requirements, and Test Procedures at

Design Assurance Level A. Worked with the latest in avionics

communications and test equipment

International Optical Interface 2005 Contract

Authored the system design for advanced optical avionics for

transmitting both data and power on board Part 23/25 aircraft. I

generated the initial FPGA DO-254 documentation and system

architecture for the world's first Zero-Software Avionics resulting in

no DO-178 documentation. Design of Optical antennas for NAV/COM/GPS

aircraft subsystems, including sending power-via-light for radios

which reduced weight, cost, and dramatically improved EMI/HIRF/EMP

performance. Generated marketing proposals and joint venture proposals

for senior management at Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids.

L-3 Communications 2005 Direct Senior Staff

Senior Staff Engineer: Candidate DER to FAA. System Designer for Advanced

Flat Screen Cockpit Avionics. Performed Requirements writing, and authored

HW FPGA DO-254, and DO-178B documentation maintained in DOORS. Design and

testing of OSI layers TCP/IP and dual-redundant MAC/PHY hardware for DAL-A

aircraft flight controls and instruments. Flight testing and integration of

all LRUs Authored documents required by the FAA to gain approval for the

800Mbs, dual-redundant IEEE-1394b (FireWire) Data Bus which linked all the

critical avionics subsystems. Assisted with system level FMEA and part

23/25 safety documentation and fault tree analysis.

Williams Innovations 2003-2004 Contract

Contract Engineer: Designed and prototyped miniature cell-phone based

wireless child tracking devices. Filed 1 patent disclosure. Designed

and fabricated rapid prototypes of GSM cell phone and GPS tracking

circuitry.

Telantis Research 2002-2003 Contract

Contract Engineer: Designed and managed prototype fabrication of the

company's first working VOIP (Voice over IP) telephone products with

PHY/MAC layer wireless protocol (802.11). Engineered a $500-per-unit

savings plan for the main product line for a projected savings of $25M

annually on estimated sales of 50k units. Performed design work in the

following areas: VHDL, FPGA, VOIP, POE, TCP/IP, CMOS cameras, LCD

displays, 10/100 Ethernet and Power-Over-Ethernet, and 12-layer high-

speed PCB design. Also assisted with some plastics and mechanical

enclosure design work. The first PCB spin with 28 VLSI chips and

10,000+ traces worked with only 4 white wires.

Goodrich 1999-2002 Contract

Design and Test: Provided HW and SW design and testing for the Potable

Water System Controller box on board the Canadair CF70 series Regional

Jets. Software was designed and tested to FAA DO-178b regulations for

level B/C use on Part 25 aircraft. Wrote and debugged software in C

and ASM to FAA standards.

Research and Development: Designed the division's first FPGA based

Aircraft Deicing Controller. (Xilinx, FAA Level B) Designed and

managed fabrication of the first working prototype. Worked closely

with the world's leading ice-scientist, Dr. Victor Petrenko at

Dartmouth College to co-invent a new low-power deicing system. Filed 3

patent disclosures. Assisted Boeing and Cessna with planning and

testing of the new system for their new jets. Performed FPGA design to

Level A/B, and authored the company's first DO-254 documentation.

Designed flight certified hardware. Worked closely with the NASA Glen

research facility (Cleveland, OH) and directed icing-wind tunnel

testing.

Telxon Corporation 1997-1998 Contract

Contract Engineer. Invented new technology for the barcode scanner

market using miniature digital camera chips instead of scanning red

lasers. Filed patent disclosures. Rapid prototyping of optics and

micro-flex PCB's. Performed engineering design work for

microprocessors and other digital and analog circuitry. Designed

wireless enhancements to existing Telxon products. Work was part of a

package which was successfully sold to Symbol Corporation.

Microvision 1996-1997 Contract

Systems Engineer on the team that delivered the first working VRD

Color-Laser-based Heads Up Display to the US Army Comanche Helicopter

Program. Contract was for $10M, and the successful delivery led to

several other helmet development programs worth over $50M in business

to the corporation. Invented and patented a 3D raster-scan maser radar

operating at 750GHz capable of seeing through concrete walls with

quarter VGA resolution at 10 frames per second.

Metanetics Corporation 1996 Contract

Worked under contract as Director of Engineering. Improved the

manufacturability of the company's barcode scanner product and set up

a working production line. Power PC and Hardwired FPGA. This small

startup company was then sold in less than 24 months for $7M cash. I

flew between Ohio and Seattle, WA on a weekly basis to coordinate

operations with the VP of engineering, headquartered in Akron, OH.

Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Sys 1994-1996 Direct

Senior Engineer Lockheed Martin Tactical DS, Akron, OH: Engineer for

Virtual Reality Research. Leader of the engineering team that prototyped

the first Virtual Reality based simulation and training systems for the

company. For that project I received the Lockheed Martin Award for

Technical Excellence. Invented and prototyped the airborne VEDS system, a

proof-of-concept virtual reality aircraft simulator for the MH-60

Helicopter comprised of portable computer and a pilot-worn VR helmet. With

the VEDS system, a real aircraft can be transformed into a mission-

rehearsal trainer within minutes. The system supports both OTW (Out the

Window) visuals and AR (Augmented Reality) avionics overlays, in real-time.

Helmets used where from the Kaiser full-color, 1024-line, Sim-Eye-60

family. Work involved modification of helmets for CCD camera mounting,

design of special HDTV chroma-keying circuitry, integration of special head-

tracking devices, proposal writing, and work with helicopter pilots at PAX

River and Ft. Rucker, AL.

Goodyear Aerospace / Loral Defense Systems 1985-1994 Direct

Senior Engineer for Aircraft Simulation Systems. This engineering work

involved all aspects of aircrew training and simulation. Specialty was in

the area of Radar Signal Simulation, and Digital Radar Landmass Simulation.

Designed custom AMD bit slide processors and custom microcode. Engineered

digital logic for the F-15 Aircraft RSS (Radar Simulation System). Invented

new concepts that won division-level technical awards. Systems engineer and

inventor of the LNOSS Parallel supercomputer, a 48-processor Intel-960

based image processing system (full Mil Spec). The work involved design of

Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground Radar simulation, including high-resolution

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).

Excellent personal and professional references available on request. Rates

available on request.

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