Batavia, Illinois, United States
Experienced Principal Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in AutoCAD, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Analogue, and Radio Frequency (RF). Strong engineering professional with a MS focused in Electrical Engineer from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Manage the Accelerator Division department responsible for accelerator and beam line detectors and electronics that measure particle beam parameters.
Support for electronics systems for Fermilab's Linear Accelerator and Booster Synchrotron Accelerator. Areas include Low Level RF control and beam diagnostics. Hardware Design for both analog and digital, FPGA based signal processing. Construct FPGA firmware in VHDL. Generate code for board testing in C, C++. Involved with every aspect of projects from the initial specification to installation and commissioning. Project Manager for the Booster corrector magnet upgrade. Served four years as secretary for the laboratory Electrical Safety Subcommittee.
Design of analog and digital electronics for particle beam diagnostics, including beam loss, beam position and beam intensity profile monitors. Design, fabrication and testing of electronics crate data acquisition controller and crate backplane utilizing low EMI design techniques for the CDF collider detector. Provided design and documentation support for the upgrade of the CDF 5000 Amp cryogenic solenoid power supply interlocks and solenoid protection. Provided design and procurement support for a wide variety of cable assemblies, electronics crates and power supplies and sensors. This includes electrical engineering support for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope (SDSS). Served on review committees for CDF grounding and shielding, printed circuit boards, and provided evaluations of EMI noise associated with various detector systems. Also served on other system safety review committees reviewing electrical systems, flammable gas systems and oxygen deficiency hazards.
Primarily responsible for the design and testing of HVAC controls. We designed, built and installed prototype controls in an effort to develop standards for U.S. Army contractors Made improvements in data acquisition and controls of a large HVAC testing facility. Concurrent thesis work involved the modeling of a hot water to air heat exchanger and the application linear quadratic regulator optimal control to this system.