Industrial Design Engineering Lead
Resume:
David M. Britz
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Going forward
My goal is to apply my skills and work experience in a forward looking company. A company that employs industrial design practices in their product design and development process. More so that my skills would be applied in a leadership role to guide, nurture and motivate a multi-disciplined creative team. My goal is to inspire this team to invent and to create products that capture the imagination of our customers and far exceed market place expectations.
Background
David started work for AT&T the day after AT&T’s first divestiture. He worked contiguously for AT&T at multiple New Jersey AT&T research facilities until October 2013. With the closure of AT&T’s Florham Park Lab facility in 2013, David left AT&T to pursue his own consulting company focused on high frequency wireless optical and radio communications. In mid-2014 David returned to AT&T Labs in Middletown as a Kohl Group consultant to participate in a highly secret project later to become publically known as Project AirGig. Though a consultant, David led a design and prototype realization team for AT&T and was responsible for the project’s physical design, appearance and prototype realization over multiple AirGig design generations. David also built over 60 functional field trial prototypes for operational evaluation in collaboration with the project’s electrical and RF AirGig researchers. This prototype research work came to an end in mid-January 2020. To date, David has in submission or has been granted over 100 patents ranging from medical devices, metamaterial holograms, nano-energy harvesting, smart phone video and liquid lens eye scanners to FSOC and THz communication devices and systems. More recently David has compiled an extensive AirGig portfolio. A comprehensive patent list is available upon request.
Values and skills
The values and skills that David would bring to a forward looking company:
Highly motivated and a self-starter
Values trusted relationships and works actively to establish that trust
Comfortable presenting and promoting ideas, standards activities, and market opportunities
Works collaboratively with other inter-organizational teams for project advancement
Skilled in directing and empowering design teams, providing leadership, and mentoring
Ability to rapidly grasp and integrate complex interrelated design and product requirements
Powerful imagineering, visualization and invention skills, a visual thinker who “thinks outside the box”
Solid history in optics, radio science and product design engineering
Strong best design practice skills for design simplicity and manufacture
Strong ergonomics and human factors background
Strong rendering and graphic illustration skills (PowerPoint)
3 years’ work experience with SolidWorks CAD
Long history in prototype realization, model making, and more recently 3D printing
Looking back
In his early years with AT&T, David worked on a wide range of telecom products ranging from public telephones, ISDN phones and speakerphones, conference array modules and early video-capable smart phones. Later he became recognized as AT&T’s subject matter expert for Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) and still later the SME for Terahertz (300 GHz to 3000 GHz) devices for super high frequency wireless communications. These short range, super high capacity 10-100 Gbps technologies are now finding application in indoor/outdoor WLANs, neighborhood, municipality, P2P and street-level wireless networks. Super high capacity street- level interconnected wireless networks will help to future-proof edge networks for the expected surge in wireless “big data” and 5G. This work led directly to David’s engagement with AT&T’s Project AirGig.
Professional activities
David has represented AT&T and also the IEEE 802 organization on numerous occasions, presenting to advisory and governmental organizations such as the FCC, NTIA, ITU and IEC. This work focused on encouraging these organizations to consider the commercial use and regulation of spectrum above 100 GHz, encouraged commercial expansion of FSOC and the THz band technologies worldwide. He also collaborated with the U.S. CORF, a government spectrum advisory organization to develop a means for spectrum co-existence between active commercial services and protected passive services (astronomy and earth monitoring) in the THz frequency bands. David was also directly engaged in collaboration with Terahertz technology advocates and R&D collaborators (University of Braunschweig THz Center and Northrop Grumman), among others to orchestrate the continuing evolution of Terahertz radio transceivers, links and system standards.
David was a founding member and Chairman of the FSO Alliance and a founding member of IEC-TC76 Working Group 5 Part 12. David was a U.S. delegate to the IEC on laser safety standards for the emerging FSOC industry and he was also a founding member and Chairman of the MoGIG Working Group within the IWPC industry consortium, a group focusing on technologies and network topologies required for multi-gigabit wireless LANs. David was the founding member and Vice-Chair of IEEE 802.15 THz Interest Group hic focused on device standards for THz communications. He was engaged with the ITU/WRC and U.S. CORF delegation on impending THz spectrum usage and allocations regarding active and passive services until 2013.
David was multiply published within the WCAI, SPIE, IEEE, and Laser Institute of America. He produced numerous papers and presentations on FSOC and THz networks to internal and external AT&T customers. David participated in a number of Government, Military, and DARPA FSO-centric activities, as well as subject-related conferences around the world. This critical work on standards, conferences and industry collaborations ended with AT&T’s closure of multiple research organizations in 2013.
Personal Background
David is Australian by birth but now a U.S. citizen naturalized in 2017. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design receiving his Master of Industrial Design in 1980. David and Jeanne were married in 1980 and have two grown children, Helen and Peter. Jeanne had a long career in Interior Designer, now retired. Helen is a Super Fund Contracting Officer for the EPA in Washington, D.C, and Peter is an entrepreneur and business man in New Jersey. In his spare time David is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer and telescope-maker. He is actively involved with the National Science Foundation’s Astro Nova program, a school outreach activity teaching science and astronomy to middle school students.
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