Last updated: 28 Dec 1996

Synopsis of career experience

19 years of experience in management and design of electronic hardware, software and firmware systems for signal processing and communications. Experienced in electronic system and architecture conceptualization, and product development.

Relevant or Recent Projects
Below is a partial list of electrical engineering projects I have worked on. Disregard the project names, since they only make sense to people in the company who might have heard of the them. These were taken from an internal company resume.

• Digital Technology Manager -- for Advanced Technology Directorate, sets strategy for R&D for high performance digital signal processing capability.

• RailSentry Radar System -- Radar system for terristrial instrusion detection. Managed design team for the digital signal processor, reviewed the radar development, and at present, has assumed mangement of the project.

• Digital Video Scrambling System -- Responsible Design Engineer and lead designer for the original video-bandwidth, digital video scrambler. This system transmits scrambled video in its original analog bandwidth and uses video-rate FIR filters for waveshaping. Later, served as system engineer and technical mentor on the new video scrambler project. Holds two patents on this system including one for digital signal processing algorithm for increased accuracy of the reconstructed video signal.

• Automotive Radar Digital Signal Processor, Responsible Design Engineer -- Managed the design of the DSP subsystem for two generations of automotive collision avoidance radar. He also executed modelling, simulation, visualization and integration for this project. Co-inventor for two patents on this system; one for the overall system design and another for the signal processor.

• Lincompex Program -- On design team, and later managed, a commercial project to build and mass produce a miniaturized voiceband dynamic compander for improving S/N, quieting and fading characteristics for analog radio links. This DSP-based module uses a Motorola DSP56001 processor to implement a suite of complex real-time transforms, tone coding functions and filters.

• Advanced Microprocessor and Superchip R&D, Principal Investigator -- Managed architecture trades for a high performance monolithic MIMD CPU design. He also designed and built a stochastic digital neural network device, which he has since patented, as part of this R&D.

• ADM Program -- Managed the design of an integrated control and display console using Sun workstations, graphics accelerators and assorted signal processors for a wideband, interactive signal processing system.

• VHSIC Phase I FFT chip set development -- Executed architecture, implementation and function partitioning tradeoffs for the programmable FFT chip, implemented in rad-hard VHSIC technology.

• "Stochastic Artificial Neuron with Multilayer Training Capability" (sole inventor), US 5,170,071

• "Radar Signal Processor" (co-inventor), US 5,508,706

• "Compact, Flexible and Integrated Millimeter Wave Radar Sensor" (co-inventer), US 5,315,303, EP 535,780

• "Line Tilt Compensation Method and Apparatus" (sole inventor), US 4,951,314

• "Secure Television Signal Encoding and Decoding System" (co-inventor), US 4,964,162

• MS, Electrical Engineering, 1976, Ohio State University; majored in electromagnetics and antennas, minored in coding and circuit design

• BS, Astronomy, 1974, Ohio State University

• Classes in Digital Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Processing, Communicating for Action

• Amateur radio, Technician Plus license, KE6YEX
• electronic music

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Links to

• Astronomy and NASA Web Sites
• Neural Network Web Sites
• Undersea and Oceanography Web Sites
• Amateur Radio Web Sites

Other good stuff

Good books

Non-fiction Books

• "Cambridge Encylcopedia of Language" by David Crystal
• "Grammatical Man" by Jeremy Campbell
• "The 3-D Cloud Book" by Dieter Lorenz and Max Miller
• There are a whole bunch more, but I haven't got time right now to round them up and type them in.
• Then there are a whole bunch of other books that I have just read a few pages of, but they are clearly pretty good too. So I will list them here also, eventually.

• "Earth" by David Brin
• "Neuromancer" by William Gibson
• ...to be continued

Good movies

Science Fiction Movies

• Soylent Green
• Dark Star
• A Clockwork Orange
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Robocop
• Zardoz
• ...to be continued

• Mondo-tronics, Inc -- The Robot Store
• ...to be continued

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Contact Greg Shreve at: ShreveG@AOL.com