Engineer Manager

JOHN WISS

**** *** ****** • Carlsbad, CA ***** • 760-***-**** home • 760-***-**** cell • ********@*****.***

Qualifications for Technical Manager / Senior Technical Professional

Equipped with 20 years of experience in both larger structured and small entrepreneurial organizations. Works well independently and as a technical lead, directing multidisciplinary teams of engineers in bringing advanced communications-based products from conception to product launch under budget and time constraints. Recognized in the industry and professional organizations as an authority on wireless systems; has contributed greatly to the advancement and introduction of these systems to the wireless community. Holds seven patents and current active Top Secret Clearance with special access privileges. Additional areas of expertise include:

Client/Customer Relations • Policy/Procedure Development • Earned Value Management • Forecasting/Budgeting Process Improvement

LEAN Certification • Product Development • Total Quality Management • Technical/Project P&L

System Architecture • Team Facilitation • Technological Innovation

Accomplishments

• Developed telemetry system Simulation and Modeling bit-exact models, allowing Friend/Foe blue force tracking system. The system was selected and implemented by Department of Homeland Security’s Border Security division. (Self-employed)

• Led team members in developing novel techniques for investigating the shock and vibration on communication waveforms. The completed project, currently deployed in Iraq and Iran, allows dB loss determination for various microphonic effects on the communications’ frequency reference for an on-the-move satellite-based system. (Classified technology company)

• Developed online calibration techniques for Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters (PADCs), increasing SINAD and SFDR significantly; corrected PADC impairments using digital processing techniques, greatly disrupting the ADC market by producing devices with 1/10th the power of competing devices. (IQ-Analog)

• Generated $3M+ in revenue from an original $1M contract by managing new developments, IRAD budgets, and technical support of the largest number of new technology products. (L-3 Linkabit)

• Designed and developed the WIN-T (army on the move) waveform from concept to deployment in Iraq in less than three years with a team of four software engineers and three systems engineers. (L-3 Linkabit)

• Designed a Bluetooth-type modem that integrated RF and modem functions on a single CMOS IC for <$3 per device (Prominent Communications) What were the results of the modem? The RFIC passed compatibility testing and sold 11M units at a cost of less than $5 USD.

• Wrote specifications and designed a network for DHS, minimizing cost while maximizing system threat sensitivity. Principal contributor of RFP/RFI for the border security DHS system, allowing coordination between CONUS and Mexico for a classified customer.

• Supervised a team of ten engineers in developing a high-performance secure satellite communications product for a large government contractor utilizing 802.1xx and an enhanced 108 Mbps communications system. Served as system architect for standard WLAN-based IC products (802.11a/g/b), completing the products in eight weeks with a team of 15 people from many engineering disciplines. (Prominent Communications)

Work Experience

Corporate Engineer, FOR A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY (name classified) 2008-Present

Served as the principal designer of a software receiver for Thuraya’s satellite-enhanced ground-processing receiver. Contributed to enhanced telemetry system design, based on advanced network coordination of test articles for the military.

Chief Scientist/Director/Project Engineer, DSP, L-3 LINKABIT 2003-2008

Served as the principal designer of the mesh IP over Satellite system physical (PHY); selected by WIN-T as the communications-on-the-move networking standard.

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JOHN WISS

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Work Experience, Continued

Director of Wireless Systems, NBAND COMMUNICATIONS 2000-2002

Oversaw the development of an IEEE 802.11a WLAN demonstration prototype, including software, RF/analog hardware, and modem.

Systems Engineering Manager, SOLECTEK CORPORATION 1999-2000

Designed/managed a multidisciplinary team, developing an IEEE 802.11a/b/g system and proprietary enhanced mode OFDM system with >155 Mbps throughput in less than ten months.

Principal Member of Technical Staff, ENSEMBLE COMMUNICATIONS 1997-1999

Conceived, designed, and developed a 20 Msym/sec burst QAM modem, implementing an Ensemble Adaptive Time-Division Duplex (ATDD) airlink in an LMDS application. Designed a PHY layer waveform, selecting a pulse-shaping, FEC, modulation format. Developed a special rapid-convergence equalization algorithm, key to system reliability.

Systems Engineering Manager, COMMQUEST TECHNOLOGIES 1994-1997

Served as lead systems engineer of a $30M technology-advancement program to reduce secure communications systems’ cost. Developed waveform and processing algorithms for a coherent, bandwidth efficient, frequency-hopped SATCOM system with concatenated FEC, including a Turbo codec tightly knit with the logic design and software teams.

MTS, HUGHES CORPORATION 1990-1994

Designed a telemetry system for a spacecraft system. Developed the DSP code to verify operation of the command links. Designed downlink processing for hardware testing of a military satellite. Contributed to the MPEG 2/4 compression standard, which eventually became the DirecTV standard.

Recent Patents

“In-Phase and Quadrature-Phase Rebalancer,” Filed 12/2000 Property of J. W. Assignment Reverted to Inventor

Allows I/Q analog demodulators to have sufficient fidelity to demodulate high order modulations using inexpensive I/Q splitters

“Synchronizing Clocks Across a Communications Channel,” #7,907,640, Granted March 15, 2011

Allows an adaptive time-division duplexed (ATDD) system to operate efficiently in a half-duplex mode

“Carrier Frequency Detection for Signal Acquisition,” #7,336,732 B1, Granted February 26, 2008

Allows rapid carrier signal acquisition by searching for BPSK/QPSK/OQPSK single carrier systems utilizing advanced DSP

“Estimation of Signal-To-Noise Ratio By Processing Measured Error Vector Magnitude,” #7,397,871 B2, Granted July 8, 2008

Allows the estimation of signal SNR to < 0.25 dB absolute using the error vector magnitude at threshold signal levels at high BER

“Tracking the Phase of a Received Signal,” #7,606,342, Granted October 20, 2009

Multi-channel approach to estimate the phase of receive signal using start of message signal along with frequency estimate mentioned in #7,336,732B1

“Compatible Preparation and Detection of Preambles of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) and Narrow Band Signals,” #7,643,535 B1 Granted January 5, 2010

Specially designed IP over SATCOM waveform with ability to operate in high bits/Hz modulations down to a 15 dB spread factor on up to 4 channels independently at a time

“Receiver and Transmitter Calibration to Compensate for Frequency Dependent I/Q Imbalance” #7,856,050, Granted December 21, 2010

Allows a multichannel receiver using digital IF to correct for frequency dependent I/Q imbalances and DC offsets as carriers move along input bandwidth which may be 100x the BW of a single carrier in the receiver bandwidth via dynamic calibration

Education

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois – Chicago

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois – Urbana

Program Management Certification (Earned Value Management System)

Certificate in Leadership Management, Baron Center

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