Management Development
Resume:
Jeff Williams
Executive Technologist
Reno, NV 89511
*.****.********@*****.***
Summary
~7 years of StartUp Executive Management of Hardware Engineering and Software Development Teams
StartUp Team Building and associate company launch and development
StartUp Business Development and Technological Product Development
~14 years of Director Level Middle Management of Hardware Engineering Teams
Have led small tight high performance startup teams and larger teams of up to 40 engineers
Skilled at Data-Analytics R&D (targeted toward Solar PV Applications)
Experienced Practical Solar PV knowledgebase
Solar PV Module-Level Power and Communications electronics Hardware Development & Circuit Design
Experienced Systems Level Design and Manufacturing Process Development
Hardware System Control algorithms and systems modeling development.
RF-rate digital switching technology investigation
Precision GmC BP filter Circuits and Associated RF Mixers for Sigma-Delta based RF linearization
High Speed Datacommunications I/O Circuits
High Speed PLL Circuits and Systems
Advanced Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design.
Advanced Analog/Mixed-Signal, Embedded Control,and Switching Power Systems Design and Development
34 US Patents Granted, Several Pending
Unique Skills
Start-Up Team Building and Executive Management, Engineering and Design Management, Data Analytics, Solar PV, Analog, Mixed-Signal, & RF IC Circuit Design in both CMOS, BiCMOS, and Bipolar Technologies, Switching Power systems, Very High Speed custom logic, Data Communications Circuits and Systems Design and Development
Professional Experience
Aware Systems May 2015-present
Aware Systems is a pre-funded start-up developing a sensor based notification system which is designed to detect when items are moved or disturbed and push a notification to a phone app to inform the user of the event.
CTO
Product Strategies Development, Team planning and budgeting, and Hardware, Firmware, and Software management.
KLD Energy Nano-Grid Systems Dec 2014-present
KLD NGS is a partially owned subsidiary start-up of KLD Energy Technologies.
Services – Focused on cost-effective solutions, KLD Nano-Grid Systems provides solid engineering, design and management services. Product – Specialized for industrial and commercial field grid stabilization and mobile unit energy storage, KLD Nano-Grid Systems delivers complete product systems. Solutions – KLD Nano-Grid Systems develops innovative strategies and programs to resolve demand charge challenges in the industrial and commercial building markets.
Director Technology/Engineering
Development of advanced energy management and storage systems for industrial applications, including oil field and building infrastructure environments. Targeted toward reduction of demand charges and energy costs through improved efficiency, power factor reduction, and improved production of industrial hardware.
Development of energy control algorithms and hardware systems for oil-field pump systems.
oKLD NGS has developed and prototyped an advanced GreenLift Power Conditioning and Control Equipment (PCCE) system for application to Oil Field sucker-rod pumpjacks which reduces energy costs by about half and improves fluid delivery.
Development of Energy Storage Systems for distributed power management.
Draker, Inc 2012-Dec 2014
Draker Inc is a privately held, VC funded, Solar PV Asset Management (Monitoing) company formed from the merger of Draker Laboratories, a traditional PV monitoring company, and Solar Power Technologies Inc. in 2012. Draker is the largest of the US PV Monitoring companies in the large Commercial and Utility PV market.
CTO
Development of Algorithm foundation for panel-to-grid array analysis utilizing MATLAB processed actual data from Draker Clarity monitoring sites
Loss Analytics Algorithm Development (cloud detection and model comparative analysis, air-mass variance tracking and weather adjusted model assessment and analysis, module match losses, module impairment detection and loss aggregation, soiling losses, shade loss inference, shading object identification, low-row shading verification and loss aggregation, DC wiring losses, String Bus Voltage inference, Inverter losses, AC losses)
Develop and Document Clarity product installation and commissioning guidelines.
Advise on unique installation cases for Clarity sites.
Clarity Site Data and Functional/Operational Validation
Develop Hardware roadmap for integrating Clarity systems with SCADA infrastructures
Develop Data Stack evolution roadmap for Clarity as a stand-alone product with an On-the-Ground Data API
CTO/VP Engineering
Post Merger team integration
Hardware Team Management
Software Development Team Management
Clarity Product Integration into AC+DC complete monitoring platform
Develop and implement roadmap for SW platform integration (Draker Labs + Solar Power Technologies)
Develop and implement roadmap for HW platform integration
Solar Power Technologies, Inc 2009-2012
Solar Power Technologies Inc was a privately held, VC funded, Solar PV Panel-Level DC Optimization and Monitoring company which developed a unique ultra-efficient DC Optimizer, a proprietary wireless mesh network, a unique PV module sensor node, and a revolutionary high-capacity PV Data analytics platform for Enhanced Intelligent Directed PV O&M.
Founder and CTO/VP Engineering
DC Module-Level Optimizer Development (Concept Origination, Architecture Development, Circuit Design and associated management, Manufacturing Planning, and Production Engineering Management)
DC Module-Level Monitor (Sensor) Development (Concept extraction from Optimizer Design, Circuit Design and associated management, Manufacturing planning, and Production Engineering Management)
Intelligent Array Software Platform Development Management
Hardware Team + Software Team Origination, Management, and Growth
Initial Company Concept and Funding Support
Optimizer and Monitor Hardware Development
oCircuit Design and simulation, 4-switch single-inductor Buck-Boost Power-Core development, RF antenna architecture development, PV voltage to internal rail regulator circuit design (with POWER sequencing exception management, Under-Power-Lock-Out)
Embedded Firmware Development for Optimizer Control System (for MC56F8002 in C)
oAutonomous Ultra-efficient PRBS-based MPPT algorithm, String Bus Voltage management algorithm, Solar PV dynamic exception cases, Solar PV power sequencing cases
Hands-On Lab Engineering work for Monitor and Optimizer Development
Filed 10 patents (Hardware, Firmware/Algorithms, Software) 1 granted, others pending)
PulseWave RF, Inc, Austin, TX (PropheSi Technologies) 2003-2008
PulseWave RF Inc was a privately held, VC funded, High-Bandwidth digital celluar Basestation Power Amplifier Technology company. The company developed an IC ChipSet and system for implementing a high-efficiency power amplifier for wideband CDMA/WCDMA Cellular Basestations. The technologiy was developed around an at-RF-rate multi-cycle loop delay bandpass delta-sigma linearization and coding scheme and the development of a full custom IC, an associated system, and 2GHz digitally switched RF PA.
Member Technical Staff
Analog and Mixed Signal circuit design and team leadership for the IC development
GmC Quadrature Bandpass Filter (BiCMOS) Circuit Design
Ultra-Linear RF Mixer Circuit Design
RF-rate Sigma-Delta Core Circuit Design
Systems level prototype evaluation and design validation, including full RF performance characterization
Cypress Semiconductor, Inc, Austin, TX 1995-2002
Cypress Semiconductor is a world-class Integrated Circuit Manufacturer. The Austin Design Center was founded in 1995 when I came to Austin to build the team and center. The Austin Design Center was developed to specialize in Data Communications Products, including high-speed logic circuits, precision high-rate I/O, and PLL based designs.
Founder/Director – Cypress Austin Design Center
Design Center P&L Management, Team Management and Leadership, Phase-Locked Loop Team Development, Analog/Mixed-Signal Team Construction, Leadership, and Training
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Design leadership and training
OC-48 SONET products, RoboClock extended family, First USB2.0 peripherals
Cypress Semiconductor, Inc, San Jose, CA 1991-1995
Cypress Semiconductor is a world-class Integrated Circuit Manufacturer.
Founder/Design Manager/Director – Datacommunications Division
One of the (4) founders of the new Datacommunications Division within Cypress Semiconductor
Team Management and Leadership, Phase-Locked Loop Team Development, Analog/Mixed-Signal Team Construction, Leadership, and Training
Hands-On Circuit Design, Design Methodologies Enhancement for Analo/Mixed-Signal ICs
Cypress HOTLink & RoboClock Family innovation and development
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Sunnyvale, Ca 1983-1990
AMD is a world-class Integrated Circuit Manufacturer.
Design Supervisor, Design Engineer – Network Products Division
High-Speed CML Digital Circuit Design Methodologies
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
Advanced traditional PLL Circuits for high-speed Datacommunications (TAXI products, FDDI products)
Education
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX BSEE 1981
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MSEE 1983
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