Senior Electrical Engineer EMC/EMI, Defense & Power Systems

Timothy Leonakis P.E.

Registered State Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer

917-***-**** text & voice P.E. License: CA E13436 & IL 06204251

Email:*********@*****.*** Native Born US Citizen

Serving Classical Electrical Engineering market for 40 years

Specializing in: Utility Power, Systems Design, Integration and Test, Instrumentation and Control for Avionics, Cellular, E3/EMI/EMC GPS, RADAR, Microwave and RF Communications for Satellite and Spacecraft, Electric Power and Motor Control, Test Stands, Automation, ATE, and Facilities Power.

Elektra Corp Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, Consultant/Owner 10/1995 to Present

Client/Job List:

Client: Northrop Grumman, Chandler, AZ. Next Gen. Interceptor Missile 6/2023 to 5/2024

Interceptor of belligerent InterContinental Ballistic Missiles. EME/E3/EMI/EMC for All Up Round, GTM-2 Contract. Liaison with Missile Defense Agency. Set System Requirements and Testing.

Client: MobilCom Dallas, TX, Tower Radiation (AT&T, T-Mobil, Sprint) 05/2016 to 6/2023

• Gen 5 Professional Engineer Certifier for State and Federal levels of E3/EMI/EMC Electro-Magnetics.

•Human Radiation power level safety P.E. Approvals.

• Gen 4 Professional Engineer Certifier for State and Federal levels of E3/EMI/EMC Electro-Magnetics.

•Human Radiation power level safety approvals and P.E. Stamped reports to government agencies.

Client: Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, WI, Utility eGrid, 10/2015 to 4/2016

• Prototype Development 8x1 Mega Watt Energy Storage Systems for Utility Mains Back Up.

• 6.9 KV Switchgear, Vacuum CBs, XFRM-Rectifier 24 polyphase, Bolted Fault at KEMA test site

• Energy Management System Test and Integration. Lithium Ion Technology, 720 to 860 VDC.

• Integration with S & C contractor 1MW Inverter/Converter/Chopper. Work E3/EMI/EMC problems.

Client: MobilComm Dallas, TX, Cell Tower RF Radiation (subclient: TMobil) 09/2014 to 9/2015

• Gen 3 Professional Engineer Certifier for State and Federal levels of E3/EMI/EMC Electro-Magnetics.

Client: Emerson/LiebertNetwork Power Systems Delaware, Ohio 07/2014 to 08/2014

• 1200 KVA, 480V, 3 Phase Utility Mains Back Up Power Systems.

• Lightening Surge design and test I.A.W. IEEE C62.41, equipment ampacity not available in the market.

• Configured facility Delta-Wye Isolation feeds with breakers from the 12,000V Transformer.

Client: MobilComm Dallas, TX, Cell Tower RF Radiation (subclient: TMobil) 01/2014 to 06/2014

• Gen 2 Professional Engineer Certifier for State and Federal levels of E3/EMI/EMC Electro-Magnetics.

Client: UTAS Goodrich Aerospace, Uniontown, OH, Pulsed Power De-ice system, 09/2013 to 12/2013

• Pulse Power High voltage anti-icing for aircraft flight control surfaces.

• Prototyping and proof of engineering concept in wind tunnel icing facility.

• Selection of Power Semiconductor Device Switches.

Client: Elektra Corp, Carrollton, Ohio, Start up Motor re-winding facility, 11/2011 to 8/2013

• Start up effort to serve the motor re-wind market.

• Market volume insufficient to support business. Effort suspended.

Client: Calix, Minneapolis, MN, Radio Optical Fiber, 3/2011 to 10/2011

• Equipment specification and purchase; Engineering Instruction of Radio Frequency over Fiber Optics.

• Design and analysis for Noise Power Ratio performance; LAN of Instrumentation.

• Noise Power Density Generation and determinations. RF Spectral Analysis. HF and VHF.

• Specified laser powers, optical attenuations, fiber spools, and Optical/RF receiver parameters.

Client: General Atomics, San Diego, CA, PREDATOR DRONE, 4/2007 to 8/2010

• Lynx Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Program Architect and Executor of the Value Added Process.

• Reduce flight test hours by advancing ground test: Improved production yield From: 1 to 100%.

• Devised and Implemented Lynx program test architecture from receiving parts to Final Assembly.

• Released PlanTest Documents and used for production confirmation of the value added process.

• Devised Mercury Computer System and Radio Frequency Test for Line Replaceable Units.

• Automated the code load for: Board Support Packages, Operating System,RADAR Application Code.

• Created 100% receiving inspection Electronic Performance tests for previously untested items.

• Created and Developed Diagnostic RACEWAY Tests now being used at the Engineering Facility RSG.

• Drafted initial releases of test documents for the Synthetic Aperture RADAR ( SAR ).

• Created instruction to load WindRiver Board Support Packages for Motorola’s Single Board Computers. • • Created instruction for loading VxWorks Operating System into the Single Board Computers.

• Created instruction for loading RADAR Application Code into the Single Board Computers.

• Client: Global Solar Electric (GSE) Solar Cells, Tucson, AZ 12/2006 to 2/2007.

• Designed High Volume Automation Test for pliable steel foil Applied Materials Solar Cells.

• Automated Plasma Arc Lamp solar simulation intensity control calibration to gold cell standard.

• Interface serially to Mitsubishi Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) using Labview software RS232.

Client: Lockheed, Trident II Submarine Fleet Ballistic Missiles, Sunnyvale, CA 5/2006-8/2006

• Prepared Acceptance Test Specifications and Functional Test Software using Test Stand and Labview.

• Specified Missile Interlocks, Relay Interlocker, Decoder, and In-flight Data Processing.

Client: Lockheed, Dallas, TX 07/2005 to 1/2006

• Avionics test stand design for controller, data concentrators and cross channel data link.

Client: Smith Aerospace, Flight Recorders (Black Boxes) : 02/2004 to 07/2005

•Simulation of FCC ARINC-429 using PCI adapter cards and driver software.

• Lowered scrap rate by 75%. Trouble shoot special design problems in avionics imaging systems.

Client: Motorola Free Scale, Sterling, VA 09/2003 to 01/2004

•Development of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radios and antennas and teamed with Tektronix

• Liaison with Rhode/Schwarz to develop a new generation of UWB test equipment for manufacturer use.

Client: Sanmina/SCI, Huntsville, AL 05/2003 to 08/2003

• Developed encrypted data transmission equipment w/Labview

Client: Northrop, Rolling Meadows, IL 09/2002 to 04/2003

•Verification by Tested of Electronic Warfare Counter Measures for JS Fighter: Microwave and RF.

Client: Talla-com, Tallahasse, FL Defense Pocket Radio, 06/2002 to 09/2002

• Test Stand and Labview for Military IPOD using Blue Tooth and IEEE 802.1 wireless.

Client: Eaton Aircraft, Grand Rapids, MI, 02/2002 to 05/2002

•Performed PDR, CDR and Qualification of Aircraft Avionics Systems.

• Build high power motor stand for 7000 rpm hydraulic pump

• Wrote Performance Requirements, Facilities Assets Selection and Coordination for Test Verifications

• Simulation Equipment Design, Power Waveform Timelines and Test Reports

Client: Sirius Satellite Radio, Manhattan, New York 4/01-2/02

• Validated COFDM, OFDM and TDM Radio Design Certification for SDARS

• Captured Satellite and Terrestrial RF transmission data and create golden standard data files

• Wrote Labview programs to load binary files into Rhode and Schwarz SMIQ and AMIQ to Japan OEM.

• Designed a self executing program to verify and validate 21 equipment units of Test Bench for Japan

Client: Hughes Network Systems, Cell Base Stations, Germantown, MD 5/00-3/01

• Performed Parameter Test and Evaluation per ETSI Standards for GMSK and EDGE technology

• Analyzed Susceptibility and Emissions of Spurious Signals, Intermodulations, and Out of Bands

• Tested Transmitter Mean Carrier Power, Power Masks, and Error Vector Magnitude on Agilent 4406

• Designed Amps Cellular, Modem and GPS integration for data collection and management system

•Oversight of vendor deliverables and develop customer requirements

Client: Globalstar CDMA Mobile Satellite System. San Jose, CA 5/99-4/00

• Operated HP 8562E Spectrum Analyzer Gain Flatness of Qualcomm's CDMA IS-95 of User Terminal.

• Verified Initial Low Acquisition Angles of Satellite Signals at Gateways. Airborne Installations and Test

• Tested Gateway Quality of Service Field Test in various environments

• Operated Qualcomm’s User Terminal Diagnostic Monitor Field Data Analyzer (UTDM)

• Performance Evaluation in Additive White Gaussian Noise with Anritsu MT8803G Tester

Client: Texas Instruments/Raytheon, Dallas, TX, 05/1998 to 05/1999

•Project Engineer, Implemented Labview ATE test set up and instrumentation InfraRed Automotive optics

• Reduced Motor controlled production test execution time from 14 minutes to 4 minutes

Client: Motorola, Fort Worth, TX, Cellular GSM Infrastructure 11/1997 to 04/1998

• Performed Validation Test of PCS 1900 GSM Base Station and components

• Verified by test Fractional N Synthesizer, Receiver, Transmitter, Bit Error Rate test

• Performed and wrote Lab View Automated Tests to measured Phase Noise, Lock Time, & Fading test

Client: ITT mobile communications 09/1996 to 11/1996

• Performed RF Engineering for Co-site mitigation of TDMA using EMI Coupling analysis.

• Analysis and E3/EMI/EMC test of Airborne Radio GOES Weather Satellite Optical Imager

Client: Sundstrand Aircraft, Rockford, IL Consultant Electric Power Products 10/1995 to 09/1996

• Performed Radiation Analysis for with RTCA DO-160, IEC 801.2, IEC 803.4, FCC PART 15

• Constructed Test Stand and tested Avionics Power Generation, Generation Controls and Distribution

• Instrumented Actuation Motors and Motor Controls.

• Test programs: Gulf Stream V, Daimler-Benz, Boeing, European-Aerospace, Canadair Global Express

Employment:

MCL Inc, Bolingbrook, IL, 07/1992-09/1995. Senior High Voltage Power Supply Engineer

• Designed RF & Microwave High Power TWT, and Klystrons for INMARSAT

• Designed Power Converter for 4KW 11KV, 95 kHz. 3KVA and 10KVA Converters

• Designed SMPS Electronics for Commercial Satellite Market: C-Band and Ku-Band

• Designed Power Controller circuitry: Analog circuits, feedback op-amps, and comparator design.

Rockwell Space Station Electric Power System, Canoga Park, CA, 10/88-7/92. Product Engineer

• Power Systems Design. Electromagnetic Interference E3/EMI/EMC specification and design

• Designed Fault tolerance and protection coordination, power conditioning converter assessment

• Performed control analysis with Easy-5, MICROCAP and Personal Computer tools

• Specified DC-DC Converters, Battery Charge/Discharge Converters to Mil-Std 704D

• Specified Thermal Control System requirements, Process and Instrumentation, P&ID, Algorithms

• Project Engineering: Prepared manpower loaded schedules with Microsoft PROJECT

Hughes Aircraft, Los Angeles &Tucson, AZ, 5/86-10/88. Microwave & RADAR Systems Group

• Production Quality Acceptance Testing: E3/EMI/EMC, MIL-STD 461, MIL STD 704

• Tested IF Receiver, Filter Processor, Range Correlator, RF Processor, I/O, Telemetry Data Interface

• Wrote Test Requirements Document for in flight diagnostics, Command, Control and Communications

• Analysis of High Power Phase Shifters used in Airborne Phased Array Antenna

• Analysis and Test of Transmit and Receive antenna module.

• Analysis of avionics microwave and RF electronics using Super Compact, Touch Tone

Westinghouse, Baltimore, MD 4/85-5/86, Antenna Radiation and Microwave Engineer

• Designed Prime Item Ultra low sidelobe antennas (Elevation RADAR).

• Specified and analyzed omni-pattern for side lobe jamming detection.

• Receiver Network, Beam Forming Matrices, LNAs, Receiver Detectors, Rotary Joints, Receiver mixers

• Designed and verified RF front end electronics, waveguide to coax transitions

US Navy 9/76-9/80, USS H.B. Wilson DDG-7, 8/1979-9/1980,USS O’Callahan FF1051, 3/1977-8/1979

• Operated and maintain Ship board Satellite and Terrestrial Radio, RADAR, Electronics.

• Communications suites included LF, MF, HF, VHF, and UHF frequency bands.

• Secret Clearance. Rover Duty Nuclear Weapons.

Education

University of Illinois, Chicago Major: Electrical Engineering

BSEE: March, 1985. GPA: 4.5/5.0 Minors: Electro-Magnetics & Controls

Supplemental classes: Johns Hopkins, Cal State US Navy Electronics & Satellite Comm 1976-80

Honors and Awards and Interests

Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, Golden Key academic honor society. Five Dean's List Awards. Published E3/EMI/EMC article. Member: NSPE. Two time marathon runner. US Swim Masters Medalist

Software Tools

Satellite Tool Kit (STK for coverage and access times). Visual Basic. PADS 2000. Power456. Compu-vision. Autocad. Visio. Excel. Word. MicroCap. Easy5. AS400. Fortran. PL1. MS Project Plan. Lab View. MatLab. HP’s BenchLink. Will provide laptop and licensed software.

Certifications and Licenses

Professional Engineer Electrical License States: California and Illinois

NARTE: E3/EMI/EMC/EME Certified, National Association of Radio & Telecom Engineers

HVAC 1994 California State License: 654853; HVAC San Fernando Trade College.

Heavy Equipment Operator Jan. 2023: operator-academy.com, Brentwood, NH

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