Resume.

Greetings;
     In view of the recent postings of job ads, I have decided to take the
process a step further and post a job-wanted ad. If this is junk mail to
you, please delete it now, and I'm sorry to have wasted some of your time.
     My resume is attached as an ASCII file. I have done useful work in many
areas of EE. My most recent experience is the discovery and development of a
new type of electrically-small antenna through numerical modeling. I am
looking for any position in research, development, or design, in either an
industrial or academic (non-teaching) setting. Thanks for your
consideration.

Douglas B. Miron
mirond_at_mg.sdstate.edu

                              Le Petit Resume

Miron, Douglas B. 4 February 1995

Professional Electrical/Electronic Engineer with 30 years'
experience, half industrial, half academic. Research, development,
design, application, production and customer support from dc to
microwave, pW to MW powers, analog and digital.

Recent experience in:
     Small antenna design, patent pending
     UHF filter development
     UHF VCO design
     Conventional and advanced numerical impedance matching
     Low power radio data link design
     Microstrip network design and simulation
     Speech processing
     SIMD parallel processor design
     Control system analysis, design, and simulation

Software Skills:
     BASIC, FORTRAN, C, APL
     AHPL, VHDL
     MATLAB
     PSPICE
     TeX
     Assorted word processors

People Skills:
     As a Project Engineer, I have worked around the weaknesses and
used the strengths of the people under my supervision. I have
persuaded people in other departments, who owed me nothing, to work
to our common goal. I have sought knowledge and understanding
needed for my projects, not only from the literature, but also from
engineers of other disciplines, and my coworkers on the shop floor.
     An engineer's first instinct is to be helpful, whether it's
picking up one end of a load or explaining a point of science.
This attitude has always led to good relations with customers and
fellow employees.

For details, see Le Grand Resume.

                           REFERENCES

References are all current members of the EE Dept. at SDSU. They
are (area 605):

Robert Finch, home 692 7708, office 688 5712.

David Galipeau, home 692-6891, office 688 4618.

Dennis Helder, home 854 3805, office 688 4184.

Virgil Ellerbruch home 692 4772, office 688 4161.

My phone numbers are:
Home 692-7977, office 688-4016.

EE Dept. office 688-4526.

Mailing address for all EE faculty;

EE Dept., Box 2220
Harding Hall
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007

My home address;

221 17th Ave.
Brookings, SD 57006


                   LE GRAND RESUME

Douglas Bernard Miron 4 February 1995
Professor, Electrical Engineering
South Dakota State University

                            EDUCATION
Yale University 9/57-6/63 B. E. 1962
New Haven, Connecticut M. E. 1963
U. of Conn. 9/67-5/77 Ph. D. 1977
Storrs, Connecticut

                           MEMBERSHIPS
IEEE (Senior Member),
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES),
South Dakota Engineering Society (Registerd).

                            LANGUAGES
Currently using English, C, APL. Used to know French,
Russian, German, trading Spanish, various machine languages from
the IBM 1620 to Intel 88/86, various BASICs, PL/I, FORTRAN.

                         RECENT PROJECTS

1993-1994 Advanced RF Power Amplifier Design
     Feedback design for power amplifiers appears to be in a very
primitive state. I have done some numerical trials with totem-pole
stages, and written a proposal to apply a numerical model of the
feedback admittance function(s) to an optimization process. This
approach is more likely to develop a global optimum than the
standard approach of guessing a topology and starting element
values.

Summer 1994-present Series-Resonant Small Dipoles
     Some years ago, I numerically discovered a diple shape that is
series-resonant at about 1/8 wavelength. Recently, I have
constructed wire models that are series-resoant at 1/10 and 1/12.5
wavelength. Patent application filed 11 October 1995.

Jan-March, 1993 Synthesis of Lowpass Ladders
     Given an impedance function which optimizes power transfer to
a specified load, find a polynomial approximation which leads to a
physically-realizable ladder network. Standard polynomial
approximation methods are not constrained to avoid imaginary-axis
roots, so they are chancy. I discovered and developed a quadratic-
factor form which allows an unconstrained parameter search for the
best fit. This is part of a long-term effort to develop compact
and efficient HF-band rf systems.

Fall Semester, 1992 Text-to-Speech, Phase I
     This is a feasibility study for InterActive Inc. of
Humboldt, SD. They would like to add natural-sounding computer
speech to their business software products. I am currently
surveying the literature and the market to assess the buy/build
and software/hardware tradeoff implications.

August, 1992 Numerical Impedance Matching
     That month I wrote a paper based on work done by Y. Tu, for
his M. S. thesis, and me. The core of the paper is
that we have converted Carlin's method of finding an optimal
matching network impedance function into an unconstrained search
problem.

current Graduate Students and Their Projects

Cyle Wold, "HF/VHF Pulse-Width Modulator".
Brian Piersel, "Digital Processing for a Wireless Data Link".
Hamid Safdari, "Network-Tracking Mobile Receiver System".

Master's Projects Supervised

"Design of Mid-UHf Voltage-Controlled Oscillator", 1986, Hassan
Sowlat.
"The Vector Processor", 1986, Ramachandra K. Manja.
"Accessing the Vector Processor from APL", 1986, A. Joseph
Rajkumar.
"HF Wide-band Omnidirectional Antenna Systems", 1987, Han-Tak Kwak.
"Effect of Transistor Selection on VCO Performance
`Analytical-Numerical' Study", 1987, Ravinder Kumar.
"Parallel Processing of the Fast Fourier Transform", 1988, Ke Zhou.
"The Fast Hartley Transform on a Parallel Processor", 1988, Boon
Pock Lim.
"The Vector Processor", 1990, Jianmin Chen.
"Design of an Optimal Matching Network with an Improved Numerical
Model", 1991, Yongcheng Tu.
"ImagePc, A Software Package for Image Processing", 1991, Jin-Lin
Yu.
"Design of an Omnidirectional Transmitter for Detection of
Biological Events
in Humans and Animals", 1991, Mehdi Horri.
"Measurement Fixtures for 300 Ohm System Components", 1991, Choon
Kwee Tan.
"Modeling and Simulation of a Chemical Injection System" 1994,
Brian Steward.
"RF Development for a Wireless Data Link" 1994, Darrel Koupal.

                        EMPLOYMENT
6/63-8/65 Pratt and Whitney Aircraft/UAC(now UTC)
          East Hartford, Connecticut
Duties: The Scientific Staff was a consulting group for other
engineering groups engaged in advanced power systems research.
As a result, I worked on a wide range of problems from circuit
design through analysis of gas flow controls to analysis of the
dynamics of a nuclear power heat transfer system.

9/65-7/67 Electric Boat/GD
          Groton, Connecticut
Duties: The Underwater Development Section was mainly concerned
with small research submarines. We also designed trainers and
rendered assistance to other engineering groups. Problems I
handled here were such things as coordinate transformations for
sonar, underwater visibility, motor control, battery gas testing,
etc. The largest project was one for a proposal. I designed a
computer program which simulated the design of a search and
rescue submarine, ran it through a test mission, and evaluated
its cost/effectiveness. I supervised two programmers and coaxed
scaling and performance information out of numerous engineers.
The program worked, but Lockheed got the contract.

9/70-8/72 Bio-Engineering Institute
          University of New Brunswick
          Fredericton, New Brunswick
          Canada
Duties: Circuit design for first solid-state generation of
myoelectric instrumentation.

9/72-1/73 South Norwalk Electric Works
          South Norwalk, Connecticut
Duties: SNEW is a generation and distribution system owned by
the people of South Norwalk. As their latest piece of generation
arrived, their consulting electrical engineer was hurt in a
tractor accident. I was hired to supervise the installation and
checkout of the electrical and control systems for the new
diesel-driven 5 MW unit. It was their first pushbutton-startup
unit and it has many automatic features. There were several
vendors, so compatibility assurance was a major part of the
effort, and it turned out to require a hardware modification
because a pulse from an engine-speed-detecting relay was wiping
out a diode bridge in the voltage regulator. I did some
buy-or-generate strategy and contract studies, designed a
load-shedding system, discovered that the breakers were set to
protect their supplier instead of their generators, and wired a
black-start emergency generator.

4/74-7/79 Hermes Electronics Ltd.
          Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
          Canada
Duties: At Hermes I was mainly concerned with applications and
improvements of high-frequency active receiving loop antennas.
During my stay, I designed the interface circuits for a circular
array; developed programs to calculate the responses of ideal and
non-ideal circular arrays; developed algorithms for HF
direction-finding by phase measurements in a circular array. I
was also occupied with production and customer support.

10/79-present Department of Electrical Engineering
               South Dakota State University
               Brookings, SD 57007
Over most of the past fifteen years, I have regularly taught the
undergraduate courses in Electromagnetic Field Theory, RF
Electronics, and Linear Control Systems. I am also presently
teaching, in alternate semesters, the graduate courses in
Microwave Theory and Advanced Digital Hardware. My current
research interests include rf circuit design and electrically-
small antennas.

Summer 1981 E. F. Johnson Co.
               Waseca, Minnesota
Developed an internal antenna for an 850 MHz handheld
radiotelephone.

Summer 1984 IBM Corp.
               Rochester, Minnesota
Extended an existing math model for the prediction of readback
bit-error rate in a magnetic disk data storage system.

                            PERSONAL
Born Newport, R.I., USA, 19 December 1940.
Married, three children.
Health: Low vision since birth. I use magnifiers to read test
equipment, a CCTV system to read and write, and magnification
software in my computer. I can't drive, but I can use public
transportation without aid. Otherwise, my general health is
good. I've missed one working day in ten years, eat well and
exercise regularly.

                          PUBLICATIONS
Company Reports

"Circular Array Response; Theory and Calculations" Hermes
Technical Report TR 75/1, 1975

"Theory for Application of a Circular Array" Hermes Technical
Report TR 75/17, 1975

"Common-Mode Response of a Rectangular Loop in a Vertical
E-Field" Hermes Technical Report TR 75/21, 1975

"Application of Supergain to Hermes Linear Arrays" Hermes
Technical Report TR 76/14, 1976

"Noise Calculation for Active Receiving Antennas" Hermes
Technical Note TN 76/34, 1976

"Effect of Ground Reflection on Active Receiving Antennas" Hermes
Technical Note TN 77/7, 1977

"Loop Preamplifier Development-1978" Hermes Technical Report TR
78/18, 1978

"N to One Hybrid Converters" Hermes Technical Note TN 79/19, 1979

Journal Papers

"Low Noise Amplifier for Myoelectric Measurements" Medical and
Biological Engineering, January, 1973

"Image Motion on the Retina" Am. J. Optometry and Physiological
Optics, vol. 53, no. 8, August 1976

"Improvement of Ocular Resolution in the Presence of Nystagmus"
Ph. D. Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1977

"Digital Data Processing Applied to HF DF by Phase Measurement"
Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal, April 1978

"The Singular Integral Problem in Surfaces" IEEE Trans. on
Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-31, no. 3, May, 1983

"A Hybrid UHF Narrow-Band Filter Design" IEEE Trans. Circuits and
Systems, vol. 38, no. 4, April 1991.

"The Short Fat Dipole; Development in APL of a MoM Solution",
ACES Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Winter, 1991.

Conference Papers

"Survey of Recent Results for the Singularity Problem in the
Electromagnetic Integral Equation" Proc. North Dakota Acad. Sci.,
vol. 38, p30, April, 1984

"Software for Linear Systems Study and Design" Proc. North Dakota
Acad. Sci., vol. 41, p17, April, 1987

"The Vector Processor; Low-Cost Parallel Computing" Proc. North
Dakota Acad. Sci., vol. 41, p84, April, 1987

"Computers and Design in Teaching Electromagnetics", Proc. North
Dakota Academy of Science, vol. 44, p32, April, 1990.

"programming in Undergraduate Electromagnetics", presented at
APL*PLUS Users' Conference, Stanford, CA, 9 August 1991. (Proc.
published by STSC, Inc., Rockville, MD)

"Synthesis of Long Lowpass Ladders", Proc. 385h IEEE Midwest
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1993.

"Simplifications for Numerical Impedance Matching", Proc. North
Dakota Academy of Scinece, vol. 48, p28, April, 1994.

"Experiments with Generalizers and Artificial Neural Networks",
Proc. North Dakota Academy of Science, vol. 48, p35, April, 1994.

"Some Simplifications for Numerical Impedance Matching with a Small
Antenna Example", Proceedings of RF Expo West 1995, published by
Argus Business, Atlanta, GA, pp74-80.

Magazine Article

"Short-Line Impedance Matching; Some Exact Results" RF design,
March, 1992.

Book

Design of Feedback Control Systems, HBJ, 1989.

In Process

"Some Simplifications for Numerical Impedance Matching, Wilth
A Small Antenna Example", submitted to IEEE Trans. on Antennas and
Propagation.

"An Unconstrained Optimization Formulation for Synthesis of a
Lowpass Ladder to Realize Specified Resistance Function Data", to
be submitted to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems.

Chapter-length Handouts

"Design of Sampled-Data Control Systems"

"Matching Networks"

"The Charged Cylinder Problem"
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