My professional engineering career began in the late 1970’s, when I worked as an engineer in several radio stations and recording studios in and around New York City. I interrupted that work to pursue a master’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. I fell in love with the Boston area, and have made my home in nearby Concord, MA ever since.
Consulting
I am an active consultant for many engineering firms in the MetroWest area, doing design, debugging, and quality control work. I have extensive experience with signal conditioning circuits, subsystem interfaces, power conversion, noise reduction, actuator drive, safety switching and other electronics. I have over 24 years of experience in electronics design and test in the aerospace, biotech, automotive, and RFID areas. Contact me if I can help with your design or test challenges.
Tag Safety Systems, Inc.
In 2003, I founded Tag Safety Systems, Inc. to develop and commercialize tag-based distance measurement systems for real-time locating, collision avoidance, search and rescue, loss & theft prevention, and other applications. Since then, TSS has developed a digital signal timing technique, called TagView™, for precision real-time locating of RFID tags in logistics, materials handling, and healthcare applications. TSS holds two US patents and six international patents.
The patent portfolio which underlies TagView™ is for sale. Click here to find out more about purchase of this technology.
Aerospace Electronics
After completing my Master’s degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT, I worked for Cambridge-based Payload Systems, Inc (now Aurora Flight Sciences R&D Center) helping to design and build numerous experiment packages which flew aboard the Russian Mir space station, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station. I’ve performed design, qualification, and acceptance testing of flight hardware for McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, NASA, and MIT, and directed the design, fabrication, and operation of ground support and training equipment for support of Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and Russian Mir missions. During my 13 years with Payload Systems, I was privileged to provide astronaut training for several flight crews, and perform operation of experiments aboard NASA’a KC-135 zero-gravity aircraft (the aptly-named “Vomit Comet”).