Senior management

Technology Officer R and D project development New business development System engineering

At Direct Drive Systems:
• Developed a break through system topology, 3S MOT/GEN, for implementing high speed, high power permanent magnet AC motor drive systems, patents pending
• Developed a high speed torque-assist (hybrid) drive for pipeline gas compressors
At Siemens Energy & Automation:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Direct Drive Systems – Cerritos, CA, USA Jan 2008 – Present
Director of Systems Engineering and Electronics
• In charge of establishing and transferring IP for magnetic bearing technology.
• Chief engineer for system level engineering.
• Responsible for power electronics programs supporting existing projects.
• Program manager for oil and gas pipeline applications.
Direct Drive Systems – Cerritos, CA, USA July 2006 – Jan 2008
Director of Power Electronics
• Responsible for the Power Electronics converters for company programs.
• Chief engineer for system level engineering and customer quotations.
• Lead technical sales and marketing support / new business development.
• Responsible for Intellectual Property development for DDS.

Siemens Energy & Automation – Alpharetta, GA, USA 2002 – July 2006
Traction and Open Pit Mining Engineering Manager
• Primary responsibility for continuously developing and improving traction products at SE&A
• Group lead for the open pit mining engineering; where SE&A is the competence center for Siemens world wide
• Development team lead
• Systems manufacturing support, methods and processes to reduce costs, enhance product quality and increase productivity, analyze, develop and implement test/repair and upgrade procedures.
• Develop new vendors and qualification tests for new products and systems.
• Support Sales and Marketing / Project Management / New Customer & Market Development and System Specifications.
• Responsible for GTO mining truck system
• Chief engineer for prototype development

Siemens A&D LD I – Nuernberg, Germany 2001 – May 2002
Senior R&D Engineer

Siemens A&D LD T – Erlangen, Germany 1999 – May 2001
Project Manager
• Managed new generation heavy rail traction system development for the US market with Siemens TS.
• Project Manager for OEBB2016 E-block traction system for the Austrian Railway

• May 1998 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Dissertation: “Overmodulation Control and Performance Factor Evaluation for Space Vector Modulation Methods.”
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
• 1992 - 1995 MS in Electrical Engineering, Thesis: “A Computer Controlled Battery Characterization System.”
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
• 1987 - 1992 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Senior Project: “Simulation of a Separately-Excited dc Motor Fed From a Three-Phase Controlled Rectifier.”
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

IEEE

several patents and papers