High frequency design
(experience up to about 10 GHz or so)
Active circuits
S-parameter based design
Spice simulation
Linear simulation
Passive Circuits
Filter and matching network synthesis and simulation.
General circuit-pack development
Have done some Verilog, microprocessor programming, VB.NET and used
tools such as Mathcad and Scilab/Scicos.
Currently (since April 28, 2008)
Ciena Corporation
Core Switching Division
1185 Sanctuary Pkwy, Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA. 30004
Sr. Principal Engineer
Design of circuitry for the new circuit packs to be used on the new
Centaur(tm) optical network switch.
May 2004 to April 2008
CardioMEMS, Inc.
387 Technology Circle
Suite 500
Atlanta, GA. 30313
Manager of Electronics Hardware/
Sr. RF Engineer
Managed the electronics hardware group
Lead engineer on DSP-based AAA/CHF sensor monitor
Worked on productization and cost reduction of CardioMEMS' original
monitor product.
Created conceptual design of a miniature FPGA-based hypertension
sensor monitor.
December 1997 to May 2004
Ciena Corporation
Multiwave Metro Division
1185 Sanctuary Pkwy, Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA. 30004
Sr. Principal Engineer
Lead HW developer on a 10G MSA optical transceiver
Lead HW developer on an OC-3/12 DWDM "Metro" Transceiver
Assisted in development of a reduced-cost OC-48 DWDM Transceiver
RF/Analog engineer team member for the "Extended-Reach" OC-48 DWDM
transceiver
Participated in system design for next generation "Metro" system.
Performed preliminary system simulations for duobinary OC-192
transceiver.
Designed and optical line amp daughter-card for the Metrostream(tm)
system.
Awarded two patents related to receive-system EDFAs.
February 1994 to December 1997
Electronic
System Products, Inc.
11450 Technology Circle
Duluth, GA. 30097
(company no longer exists, but was a subsidiary of Antec, which is
now part of Arris Interactive)
Sr. Staff Engineer
ESP was a general-purpose product design consulting house. My
work there was a mixture of projects for various customers -- the
largest of which was Nortel. I was the RF lead on the
"Cornerstone Voice" RF modem, which formed the basis of the Antec/Nortel
joint venture: Arris LLC.
I was the chief designer of the analog section of the "Etherloop"
modem, which would be the main product of the "Elastic Networks"
spinoff from Nortel.
Other projects:
-FSK modem for a CATV interactive TV system
-QPSK modem development for a CATV video game network
-FSK receiver for a video-on-demand system
-Troubleshooting of a developmental 155MB/S modem
-Differential GPS hand-held for golf course use
-Root-Raised-Cosine filter design for 51MB/S modem
February 1991 to February 1994
MCC
Panasonic
1225 Northbrook Pkwy
Suwannee, GA 30024
(I was actually at their Alpharetta location. They moved to
Suwannee after I left and have since desolved.)
Sr. Staff Engineer
Development of a number of cellular phone projects. I worked
on one mobile-mount phone and two hand-helds. In addition, I
did some PA linearity simulation work in support of the TDMA
cellular initiative.
January 1986 to February 1991
Wegener
Communications
11350 Technology Circle
Duluth, GA. 30136
Staff Engineer
Re-designed L-band BPSK data demodulator
Designed RF portion of L-band BPSK modulator
Assisted with integration of Wegener VSAT terminal
Designed compact FM satellite data receiver
January 1984 to January 1986
Scientific
Atlanta
4311 Communications Dr.
Norcross, GA. 30093
(Old address: the new company is on a Cisco campus off of
Sugarloaf Pkwy)
Electrical Engineer II
Designed analog portion of CATV video scrambler
Designed transmitter portion of 16 QAM modem
Completion of modem hand-held programmer software
September 1980 to December 1983
Cox Cable
Communications
1400 Lake Hearn Drive
Atlanta, G. 30319
Started as: Engineer Intern
As of January 1982: Design Engineer
Worked on videotext terminal FSK modem
Developed analog descrambling circuitry for analog set-top
September 1978 to August 1980
Georgia Tech
School of Geophysical Sciences
Atlanta, GA. 30332
Electronic Technician
Support of Geophysical research
Construct, test, field-install, and troubleshoot seismological
recording devices.
Summers(3) 1976-1978
Maryland Public
Broadcasting
Bonita Ave.
Owings Mills, MD. 21117
Engineering Intern
Provide engineering services for a mobile TV production van
Operate audio console, video-tape machine, camera control as needed.
Pull camera cable, set lights, align cameras in preparation for
production.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
B.E.E.
RF and Analog Design
Linear simulation with Agilent/Eagleware
Spice simulation
Mentor DxDesigner
Orcad Capture
MS Office
Some VB.Net, C, Verilog
I am NOT currently actively looking for a change in career.
Donald J. Miller
address and phone contact information is currently being withheld.
donmiller (at) mindspring.com