Daniel H. Wagner
Grayslake, Illinois
acw8qy@r.postjobfree.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/danhwagner
Professional Experience
Motorola Mobility LLC, a Lenovo company
(Multiple locations in Northern Illinois)
Principal Staff RF/Electrical Engineer; previously Senior Electrical Engineer, Senior Staff Electrical Engineer
Technology development, hardware engineering, all aspects of product development; from product definition and
customer negotiation, through engineering development and validation, to manufacturing launch and MOL
(maintenance-of-line); Contributor and company representative to industry standards and regulatory bodies.
Roles ranging from product engineer and advanced technology engineer, to product design team lead, to company-wide
lead for multiple strategic technology areas. Overhead functions have included management of outsourced
development teams, contract negotiation and ownership, mentoring of junior staff.
Product lines have included OEM build-to-print embedded products, and Motorola-branded smartphones and consumer
products. Satisfied OEM customers have included Toyota/Lexus, VW/Audi, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, and GM/OnStar.
National carrier and retail customers have included AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Radio Shack and Best Buy.
Key developer of award-winning (CES2008) advanced user interface hardware - morphing (segmented high-voltage
electrochemical lighting and electro-optical shuttering), piezo haptics, capacitive sensing, multi-touch touchscreens.
Areas of company-funded personal research included touch sensing via sonic & ultrasonic acoustic wave sensing,
impedance spectroscopy, bending wave vibrometry, and novel electromecha nical means for producing realistic tactile
feedback and wide-bandwidth audio using the glass touchscreens of smartphones.
Key accomplishments include:
o Originated new product line of worlds first digital cell-phone signal boosters, long thought infeasible.
o Sole design EE of the worlds first Bluetooth-based cordless telephones. Developed numerous successful
technology demos for industry and the public, in the early days of Bluetooth in the early 2000s.
o Oversaw clean sheet re-design of OnStar TCU (Telematics Control Unit) board for model year 2005;
personally designed GPS, power, and processor/memory subsystems. 3 years contracts totaled ~$750M.
o Responsible for Motorolas electrical development of three advanced user interface technologies that debuted
in the Motorola ROKR E8, which won Best of Show at CES 2008. Following this, personally directed the
electro/mechanical/software implementation of dozens of capacitive touchscreen-enabled in numerous
products, with a flawless track record out in the field.
o Responsible for the bulk of Motorolas technical co-development, with Fulton Technologies, of the Wireless
Power Consortiums Qi wireless charging standard; drafted ~85% of the original air interface.
o Architected state-of-the-art Motorola InstaShare microprojector
5/95 5/98
Eaton Corporation, Corporate Research and Development
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Engineering Associate
Research in induction motor diagnostics, multiphysics system modeling of mixed -phase fluid flow and heat flows, mixed-
signal hardware design, electromagnetics design, embedded software development. Led R&D efforts, including a new type of
real-time industrial motor diagnostic product (US patent #6137418). Experimental research of advanced human-presence
sensing techniques for safety applications. Developed new technologies, including sensorless tachometry for induction
motors, and bi-directional power/data transfer across non-contacting, non-stationary interfaces.
5/94 8/94
Allen-Bradley, division of Rockwell International, via Cornwell Technical Staffing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Electronics Assembler
Assembly of prototype and pilot PCBs for motor control and industrial automation products.
External Publications
Technical Annex II for MoU Regarding the Harmonisation of a Charging Capability for Mobile
Phones European Commission 12 January 2010.
Technical standards for Mobile Phone external power supplies, i.e. chargers, for sale in Europe from mid -2011
onward. Having pioneered the problem discovery of common-mode power supply noise on capacitive touchscreens, and the
major solutions to it in both power supplies and in touch IC implementations, authored the portions of the standard covering
to common-mode noise output, which affects operability of capacitive touchscreen devices such as smartphones, tablets, and
media players. Those portions are on pages 2, 5-9 of the 11-page Part A. Taught these methods to multiple companies.
IEC 62684 ed1.0: Interoperability specifications of common external power supply (EPS) for use
with data-enabled mobile telephones International Electrotechnical Commission 27 January 2011.
A reformulation of the earlier European Commissions universal charger specs, IEC 62684:2011 specifies the
interoperability of common external power supplies for use with data enabled mobile telephones. It defines the common
charging capability and specifies interface requirements for the external power supply
Patents
o US6137418 Single Channel Apparatus for On-Line Monitoring of Three-Phase AC Motor Stator Electrical Faults
o US7667371 Electronic Device and Circuit for Providing Tactile Feedback; also issued internationally as
CN101803052B and EP2201620.
o US8717443 Method and system for testing temporal latency in device having optical sensing component and touch -
sensitive display component
o US9298303 Seminal patent: Duty Cycle Modulation of Periodic Time-Synchronous Receivers for Noise Reduction
o US20150054451A1 Method and apparatus for charging devices using a multiple port power supply; already granted
in China as CN204391770U
o US20150188325A1 DC power source and associated methods of operating same to efficiently supply a specification -
compliant output voltage
o US20150123594A1 and US20150123620A1 Charging Device with Auto-On Circuit and System (2 methods)
o Additional US and interational patents pending
Education
9/93 6/98
Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
BSEE, 3.75 GPA, magna cum laude. Focused on electrical design and electromagnetic fields. Activities included SAE Racing
Team, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.
8/92 5/93
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI
Studies in computer science and mathematics, 3.6 GPA.
Skills, Interests
RF design & test, antenna design & RF system planning: RF design / test experience with over-the-air formats from the
short-range (NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi), the medium-range (1G/2G/3G/4G cellular), and longer (GPS); usually in multi-
radio products. Electromagnetics from DC to microwaves.
Prevention and resolution of EMC, signal integrity, and receiver desensitization issues
Audio, acoustics, analog, and digital design from discrete to 32-bit, DC to GHz.
Battery management in multiple chemistries, power management from low-voltage DC to 3-phase 480VAC.
Contact- and non-contact sensing of users and physical quantities / properties
Design robustness Automotive, EMC Compliance, FMEAs, Worst-Case Analysis, DFM, Design for Test
Test Engineering: Design & deployment of test systems for engineering validation and mass production
Software Development: C, Pascal, x86 and embedded microcontroller assembly languages, VBA, etc.
Strong business bent Every engineering decision is a business decision, and every business decision is an engineering
decision. Aggressive cost reduction; broad electronics supply chain experience.
Computing: Schematics/layout/simulation (SPICE, APLAC, Mentor, Cadence, OrCAD, etc), systems modeling
(MATLAB/SIMULINK, Excel), statistical analysis, office platforms and applications (e.g. UNIX/Linux, Windows)
Broad multi-disciplinary experience, interest in physical and health sciences, philosophy, ethics, theology, and music.