ALEXANDER RAPHALOVITZ

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SARASOTA, FL. 34241

941-***-**** (H), 941-***-**** (M), bs07zh@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSION:

* Electrical and Electronic Engineering

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

* Industrial Controls

* Telecommunication

* Aerospace, Defense

* Digital Signal Processing / Imaging

EXPERIENCE:

* Analog. Component level design; CRT and LCD based monitors; power supplies and regulators, linear and switching; converters of all kinds; RF transceivers; preamplifiers; power amplifiers; instrumentation amplifiers; analog processors.

* Digital. Digital functional generators; digital frequency multipliers; various control units & PC interfaces; wide use of *processors & *controllers including DSP, PowerPC, as well as CPLD and FPGA in various applications, etc.

• Mixed Signal. A-to-D, D-to-A converters & modulators; motor controllers; digital controllers with analog front end for biomedical instrumentation, industrial electronics, avionics and vetronics; audio/video processors and much more.

* Computers. More than 20 years experience working with OrCAD (Cadence) Capture, PCB and PLD Design packages, permanent user of AutoCAD and most of Windows based programs, familiar with Metrowerks, Borland, and many other packages, very strong knowledge of computer architecture. Personally built hundreds of computers for personal and commercial use.

* Project Management. Lead most of the projects from the concept to production including PCB design, testing, production setup and certification. Experienced in designing in compliance with ISO-9001, IEC-60601 (UL), CE, DO-254 (FAA) and 21CFR820 (FDA) quality regulations. Held senior management engineering position for last 25 years.

WORK HISTORY:

* May 2008 - Present HW Engineer - contractor. General Dynamics, Sterling Heights, MI

* June 2004 – May2008 Chief Design Engineer. Discovery Technology International, Sarasota, FL

* May 2000 - June 2004 Director of Engineering. World Precision Instruments, Inc., Sarasota, FL

* Apr. 1997- May 2000 Lead Design Engineer Baker Electronics, Sarasota, FL

* Apr. 1996 - Mar.1997 Senior Engineer. MTS Systems Co., Cary, NC

* Sep. 1995 - Apr.1996 Design Engineer. Baker Electronics, Inc., Sarasota, FL

* May 1993 - Sep.1995 VP Engineering. EFO Technologies, Inc., Sarasota, FL

* July 1992 - May 1993 Senior Project Engineer. SMC, Inc., Sarasota, FL

* Jan. 1991 - July 1992 Chief Engineer. PMD Engineering Co., Bloomfield, CT

* 1984 - 1989 Principal Engineer. Research & Development Division (RDD),

Kuibyshev Institute of Telecommunication, USSR.

* 1978 - 1972 Research Engineer. RDD, Kuibyshev Institute of Technology, USSR.

EDUCATION:

* 1971 - 1976 MSEE Kuibyshev Institute of Technology, USSR. Graduated with Honors.

* 1996 - 1997 Various Certificates, including DFM from Motorola University.

PUBLICATIONS:

* 2 articles in Professional Magazines.

* 27 USSR and US Patents (List of Patents available upon request).

PERSONAL:

* Born and educated in the USSR. In USA since 1990. US citizen since 2000.

* Holding Active Secret Security Clearance

Experience:

* Sep.-Nov. 2009; Oct. 2010-Present. Sr. Design Engineer- contractor for QinetiQ-NA, Long Beach, MS

Lead designer of a multichannel LIDAR data acquisition system. Xilinx Virtex-5 based design precisely considered including sophisticated switching/LDO power network. Actively participating in the company telemetry projects.

* May 2008-Sep. 2010. System/HW Engineer- contractor for General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, MI.

Actively participated in the Processors and Network Group projects. Co-managing the efforts of building the demo unit of fiber-optical video/data management network.

* 2006-May 2008. Co-founder, Partner and Chief Design Engineer. Mednotech, LLC. Sarasota, FL.

Designed DSP based Nitric Oxide Breath Analyzer (NOBA) system with less than 1 ppb gas concentration sensing ability. Heavily involved in setting up the documentation flow required for class 2 medical device FDA certification.

* June 2004-May 2008. Chief Design Engineer. Discovery Technology International, LLLP. Sarasota, FL.

Partner and Head of Engineering Department. Lead designer of scientific instruments for biomedical, optical, chemical, space and military applications. Designed unique DSP platform based biosensing instrumentation with 1 fA noise floor and 120 dB dynamic range, positioners with single nm accuracy; unique piezoelectric motor based manipulators & robotic devices, etc. All of the devices on www.dti-nanotech.com personally designed.

* May 2000-June 2004. Chief Engineer /Director of Engineering. World Precision Instruments, Inc. Sarasota, FL.

Lead designer of scientific instruments for biomedical and chemical research: stimulators, controllers, meters of various kind, etc. Designed Apollo4000 NO analyzer with 10 fA noise floor and 100 dB dynamic range; DS8000 stimulator based on Altera Flex10K FPGA. Developed a common I/O platform based on Freescale 56F826 DSP.

* 1995-1996, 1997-2000. Design Engineer /Sr. Engineer/Manager of R&D. Baker Electronics Inc. Sarasota, FL. (acquired by Honeywell in 2001).

Designed and built various devices used in cockpit panels and cabin management systems (CMS). Personally designed a new class of cabin amplifiers. Designed sophisticated modular 1000W power amplifier and D-class amplifiers. Leading hardware designer of TI DSP based Digital Audio Cockpit Panel and Motorola PowerPC based Multiplexed CMS - audio/video/control network for aircraft cabin.

* 1996-1997. Senior Design Engineer. MTS Systems, Inc. Sensors Division, Cary, NC.

Responsible for implementation and testing of new designs in emerging market group. Personally invented and built new magnetostrictive effect based displacement sensors.

* 1993-1995. Chief Engineer / VP Engineering. EFO Technologies Inc. Sarasota, FL.

Designed and built a system for automated projecting imagesetting N70-I used in prepress process in printing industry. Personally designed a proprietary sophisticated PC interface the system based on.

Also designed a new liquid level magnetostrictive probe with proprietary fast serial communication protocol.

* 1992-1993. Senior Project Engineer. Sarasota Measurement and Controls Inc. Sarasota, FL.

Designed measurement systems based on magnetostrictive effect. Built several versions of liquid level probe with a very accurate temperature measurement. Also designed various PC interface modules.

* 1991-1992. Chief Engineer. PMD Engineering. Inc. Bloomfield, CT.

Designed instrumentation amplifiers, current drivers, PC interfaces, etc. using with magnetostrictive devices.

Invented a revolutionary new magnetostrictive displacement sensor which now used all around the Globe. Built 4-20 mA output displacement transducers, precision temperature test bench, probe simulators, and much more.

* 1984-1989. Principal Engineer. R&D division, Kuibyshev Institute of Telecommunication, USSR.

1984. Project Manager. Designed and built a displacement transducer with current and digital outputs for pressure measurement based on a patented cyclic voltage-current regulator. Also designed 4.5 digit ADC.

1985. Designed a device for solving unlinear differential equations with partial derivatives. Responsible for implementation and testing of an analog signal processor.

1986-1987. Project Manager. Designed and built an analog-digital spectrum analyzer for car engine noise analysis. Built digital sine wave generator, digital frequency multiplier, analog digital modulator, switching coordinate system transformer. Also involved in the government-sponsored design of a RF paging system for local military.

1987-1989. Designed a digital spectrum analyzer based on fast Fourier transform for car engine noise analysis. Responsible for implementation and testing of a color CRT based monitor, switching AC power supply, front-end interface, etc. The design was based on the embedded PDP11 computer.

1979-1990. A private company founder and owner. Designed and built different proprietary electronic musical devices: power amplifiers, equalizers, flangers, phasers, distorters, compressors, reverberators, octave multiplexers, drum synthesizers, etc.

* 1972-1983. Research Engineer. R&D division, Kuibyshev Institute of Technology, USSR.

A member of the team designing digital control system for one-dimensional recording based on solution of a proprietary unlinear differential equation for tracer motion of the linear recording device. Personally responsible for the implementation and testing of a control unit of brushless dc servomotor, code band signal conditioner and computer interface. More than dozen patents were granted as the result of this research.

1981. Project Manager. Designed and built a measurement device for testing potentiometric and capacitive sensors. Implemented patented analog-to-digital converter, switching power supply, etc.

1981-1982. Project Manager. Designed and built analog-digital spectrum analyzer based on direct Fourier transforms. Designed patented digital sine wave generator, digital frequency multiplier, analog-digital modulator, etc.

1983. A member of the team designing analog-digital device for measurement of random signal characteristics. Personally responsible for implementation and testing of a patented bucked brigade device (BBD) based storage.

1976-1978. A member of the team designing analog-digital spectrum analyzer based on Walsh-Fourier transform that meant to be used for vibration testing of electronic equipment. Personally designed and built digital functional oscillator, digital frequency multiplier, pulse modulator, coordinate system transformer, etc. Few patents were granted.

1972-1976. A member of the team designing data communication system employing binary orthogonal signals on the basis of synchronous serial communication. Personally designed and built a digital functional oscillator, coder and interface.

Master thesis based on this project.

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