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Consultant
EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Power Conditioning, High Power Electronics, Expert ConsultantExpertise in lasers, high voltage, high power electronics, energy systems, energy storage, filter, and high-frequency capacitors, polymer laminates, impregnating fluids, pulse transformers/magnetics, and electromagnetics.
Extensive knowledge regarding pulse power systems, switches, high power modulators, impulse measurement systems, high-repetition rate capacitors, switches, voltage and current monitors, and charging techniques.
Other areas of specialty include power conditioning, advanced weapons, defense analysis, measurement techniques, hot-cathode electron-beam gun breakdown, high-energy gas laser physics, picosecond electrical pulse generation and measurement, and laser plasma diagnostics.
Highly regarded in areas including low-voltage triggered, subnanosecond spark gaps and thyratron devices, pyroelectric detectors, gaseous pulse-discharge induced chemical processes, gas halide laser system, laser and discharge devices, and high-repetition-rate power conditioning systems.
This consultant is an expert in areas including internal high-frequency partial discharges, rep-rate energy discharge capacitors, capacitor research and development, polymer laminates, and high voltage measurement.
Additional experience includes power and propulsion technologies, nuclear weapons, transportation, space technologies for advanced power sources, manufacturing power sources, dielectrics, radiation, and electrical insulation
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aerospace, Electrical, Electronics, Energy, Government, Manufacturing, Military, Research and Development
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
M.Sc., Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
B.Sc., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director, a major university
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Provided teaching and directed research of electrical engineering students in the area of lasers, high voltage, and high power electronics engineering. Was directly responsible for the funding, planning, staffing and recruitment of students, as well as direct management of all research activities of the High Power Electronics Institute. This included research on enabling factors in insulation life of High Power Electronics materials and systems (including, energy storage, filter, and high-frequency capacitors; polymer laminates; impregnating fluids; and pulse transformers/magnetics). Supervised a team of engineers, 1 post-doctoral fellow and 18 Master's and Doctoral students, in conjunction with visiting scientists and industrial technology-transfer participants. The Institute to date has engaged in numerous research programs totaling over $2.8 million, and has served to establish an integrated graduate and undergraduate program in High Power Electronics Engineering, electrical insulation, power conditioning and related technologies. Established the first integrated B.Sc. through Ph.D. program and laboratory facilities in High Power Electronics, emphasizing electrical insulation behavior in the repetitive pulse environment; thesis supervision, dielectrics teaching, teaching laboratories and individual projects supported through continuing federal and state funding. Developed a senior, doctoral-level graduate course in Advanced Topics in High Voltage Engineering as well as a truly engineering-oriented undergraduate applied electromagnetics course. Served on several university and educational committees. Was technical adviser to the Federal Government on many committees and programs.
Project Leader, Power Conditioning and Applications, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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As Project Leader for Power Conditioning and Applications, was responsible for design and development of new, advanced state-of-the-art high average power pulse power components and systems, including energy storage devices, switches, and high power modulators as well as developing the pre-requisite impulse measurement systems. Initiated and created at LANL the first group for R&D in repetitive power conditioning. Initiated several novel R&D programs forming part of the group activities, including development of long-life, high-repetition rate capacitors, switches, and voltage and current monitors all closely allied with industry and universities. Initiated and successfully completed interactions with outside contract agencies. DARPA, for example has recently awarded LASL major project responsibilities in the laser component area; in particular R&D with industry of ultra long-life energy storage components. Technically directed in detail R&D projects in capacitor switching, charging techniques, and voltage and current monitors to the present point where staff engineers are effectively completing the subsequent development phases. Served as a scientific advisor to several LANL divisions in Power Conditioning, Lasers, Advanced Weapons, and Measurement Techniques. Established first LANL training programs in Pulse Power at the technician and staff levels. Prepared, with other LANL staff, full written lecture material.
Resident Research Scientist, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
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Was co-principal investigator in a long-term AFOSR research program to understand hot-cathode electron-beam gun breakdown mechanisms to improve gun reliability.
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Established first Graduate Course in Pulse Power/High Voltage Technology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and created with LANL staff full written course text. Actively worked with the university towards establishing a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. curriculum in High Power Electronics.
Staff Scientist (Physics), National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Was Scientific Team Leader directing the High-Energy Gas Laser Physics research program in the Division of Physics. Was responsible for program management and execution of research and technology development on ultrafast, discharge-pump gas lasers as well as picosecond electrical pulse generation and measurement techniques for present and future laser plasma diagnostic requirements. Successfully carried out research on and development of Impulse measurement systems, low-voltage triggered, subnanosecond spark gaps and thyratron devices for low-jitter applications, pyroelectric detectors, gaseous pulse-discharge induced chemical processes. Developed first high-energy rare gas halide laser system, as well as other laser and discharge devices having explicit size and repetition rate scalability. Served as a government advisor in high-reliability, high-repetition-rate power conditioning systems and components to several Canadian and American government agencies and numerous industrial concerns.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Technical Contributions:
Discovered and identified through his research, lifetime limiting internal high-frequency partial discharges in operating rep-rate energy discharge capacitors.
Developed the first practical techniques for the detection of high-frequency internal partial discharges and pre-breakdown events in polymer laminate structures, extensively reported in the High Power Electronics Institute Reports.
Delineated the presence and importance of such low-level internal partial discharges in energy discharge capacitors, and validated their life-limiting properties, enabling for the first time direct correlation between component and/or materials life/reliability and the presence of such discharges.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Honors Mathematics & Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
New York Academy of Sciences
The Electromagnetics Academy
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Institute for Advanced Technology, University of Texas at Austin
Tesla Memorial Society, Inc.
Space Power/Power Conditioning Requirements/Concepts Panel, Arlington, VA
National Academies of Science and Engineering
Power Sources Manufacturer's Association of America
Custom Electronics, Inc., Oneonta, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Holder of patent related to high voltage measurement. Author of numerous books, publications, and hundreds of presentations on subjects including high power electronics, advanced power sources, laser technology, infrared technology, capacitor technology, energy storage and transfer, and more.
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