Power Electronics, Superconductivity Expert Consultant ResumeThis associate is an expert in high-performance application of power, technology and technical management, project management, and general management experience in electromechanics.
This associate possesses knowledge and experience in allied fields of power electronics, system dynamics and control, applied superconductivity, and research and development.
This expert is highly experienced in areas including organization and direction of development teams and proficiency of staff, quality of work product, engineering documentation, and corporate intellectual property.
Additional specialties include compact, high performance electric motors and drives, DOD, aerospace / military, and shipbuilding industries. More specific specializations include commercialization of superconductivity, medical NMR imaging, hydraulic transients in pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, and integrated ore-to-finished-product steel mill. This expert’s specializations include design and application of electric motors and generators, including permanent magnet, wound-field, and reluctance. Specific areas of expertise include brushless dc, brush type dc, induction machines, and solid state PWM electric motor drives. More expertise includes electric drive systems and dc/dc converters.
Other areas of interest include controlled rectifiers, armature conductors, air gap armatures, and high voltage electrical generator and windings. More interests include fine adjustment of persistent current loops, non-orthogonal correction coils, high homogeneity magnets, and superconducting filter coils for high homogeneity magnetic fields. Further areas of specialization and interest include detachable magnet carriers, novel electromagnetic engine valve actuators, alternator control circuits, and superconducting alternator testing. Additional specializations include superconducting electrical machines for ship propulsion and applications of superconductivity in AC rotating machines.
This associate has extensive knowledge regarding superconducting alternator testing and technology, superconductors in large synchronous machines, superconducting AC generator design, and superconducting rotor research Further knowledge includes superconducting performance testing, aerospace generators using high purity cryogenic aluminum conductor, lightweight superconducting alternators, and high power electric machines. Additional expertise includes pulse disk alternators for electromagnetic gun power supplies, magnetic suspension of motor rotors, design of conventionally-laminated high-speed interior PM synchronous machine rotors, and superconductivity in electric power and transportation.
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.
Providing expertise in engineering management, program management, practical electromechanics, power electronics, system dynamics and control, and applied superconductivity, scientific research, patent infringement expert witness testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
Principal Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Served as Principal Research Scientist, and Director of the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems, overseeing and supervising numerous contributing researchers.
Vice President and Chief Engineer, Kaman Electromagnetics Corporation, Hudson, MA
Established a functioning, professionally competent engineering organization. The organization was transformed from one in which only the founders could make technical decisions into one where a broad range of technical programs were conducted simultaneously, some without any direct input from the founders. The organization also grew by a factor of four in annual sales volume, and succeeded in transitioning from a purely contract R&D operation, with the Department of Defense as the principal customer, to a mixed business which in 1997 and 1998 derived more than half its revenues from the commercial sale of internally developed products. Program Manager for large development programs. Intellectual Property Officer.
Program Manager, Mechanical Engineer, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
Led a number of advanced development projects in applied superconductivity, including the largest superconducting generator (20 MVA) to be operated at full load. Initiated the development work that led to General Electric's factory that produces the superconducting magnets for all of the company's medical nuclear magnetic resonance imaging products.
Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technical contributions to construction and testing of an electric machine with a superconducting field windings.
Engineer, American Electric Power Corporation
Studies of hydraulic transients in a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant.
Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Thermohydraulic design of nuclear power reactor cores.
Engineering Trainee, Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Varied technical duties in an integrated ore-to-finished-product steel mill.