William R. Jupin
(610) 631-1018 2054 Yorktown South
(484)
620-9724 (cell)
Jeffersonville
,
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Experienced team
leader, project manager, senior system / subsystem engineer.
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Participated in NASA
spacecraft programs from conception through
launch and successful post launch activities.
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Generated
specifications, test plans & procedures for DOD and NASA
programs
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Provided
technical support to NASA GSFC in resolving RF
test and integration anomalies on the Calypso Spacecraft
program.
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Provided RF
Spacecraft Communications
expertise in S-Band Command and Telemetry architecture design.
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Performed link
analysis reviews, participated in NASA
presentations and reviews, and participated in subcontractor technical meetings
and negotiations.
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Used High Speed
Digital Design to bridge gaps between subsystem specification, and component
hardware design.
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Provided
Broad-based design and analysis support to: analog, RF,
digital, DSP processors and embedded components at component, PCB &
subsystem level,
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Supported
industrial, commercial, aerospace military applications & developed:
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Low spurious
noise RF circuitry,
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Low phase noise
generators and PLL circuits,
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Precision parts
per million DC circuitry,
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Low noise &
distortion audio circuitry,
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High power
interface circuitry in modular and distributed systems
operating at frequencies from DC up to 500 MHZ.
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Also developed:
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Spacecraft
RF component system at 8 GHz,
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Modular spacecraft
telemetry component for military use,
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Digital systems
and interfaces at speeds to 350 MHz,
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Low jitter data
and clock recovery unit,
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Numerous mixed
signal systems up to 200 MHZ.
MAJOR QUALIFICATIONS _________________________________________________________________
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Experienced
system & subsystem engineer, team leader,
project manager.
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4 years NASA
spacecraft programs conception, launch and post
launch actions
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5 years RF
Spacecraft Communications
and Telemetry architecture design.
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4 years RF
Communications systems design & analysis
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4 years
electronics systems testing
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Used High Speed
Digital Design to bridge gaps between subsystem specification, and component
hardware design.
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Generated
specifications, test plans & procedures for DOD and NASA
programs
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Carried multiple
projects from conception through hardware fabrication and integration and test,
both in end product development and as a designer and fabricator of special test
equipment.
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Performed
analysis and advised in various legal areas including both patent and civil
litigation.
Work
History_____________________________________________________
October 2004 to Present
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Provided legal
assistance in a multi-million dollar civil litigation suit on semiconductor
testing. Provided IT technical,
logistics, and management support, as a subcontractor to IBM ITS,
· Provided technical consulting support to NASA GSFC in order to resolve some RF test and integration anomalies on the Calypso Spacecraft program.
· Designed, built, and integrated a 50 amp 240V AC power system controller and power monitor for a proprietary mobile application.
October 2002 to October 2004 RDA Inc. , Doylestown PA
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Delivered fully
functional packaged, modular VHF transmitter / data test generator unit for a
Naval Research and Development Program.
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Unit was PC/104
packaging compliant, utilizing RF, mixed signal,
analog, high speed digital, and FPGA technology. This
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System conceived
and simulated using MATLAB, SIMULINK, SPICE, and EAGLEWARE RF
and filter design CAD, and carried through to multilayer PCB design and
fabrication.
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Packaging design
and fabrication was also accomplished in-house.
o Unit achieved low RF spurious, ultra low phase noise, and reliable clocking to over 300 MHz.
September 2003 to December 31, 2003
Swales Aerospace, Beltsville MD
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Provided RF
and Spacecraft Communications
expertise in spacecraft S-Band Command and
Telemetry architecture and design.
· Performed link analysis and reviews, participated in NASA presentations and reviews, and participated in subcontractor technical meetings and negotiations.
September 2002 to December 2002
Aluna Group,
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Generated a
patent review and technical analysis report, as RF
and Communications expert.
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Reviewed
applicability and validity of patents in area of communications
device.
o As part of this activity, performed technical analysis and simulations using MATLAB.
October 2001 to June 2002
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Participated in
research and development project as a systems and
hardware design engineer.
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Activities
encompassed end-to-end RF communications
architecture design with SIMULINK simulation, through prototype mechanical and
hardware circuit board fabrication and test.
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End product is a
half duplex communications system utilizing 40
Mbps DBPSK at 2.45GHz.
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Currently, a very
high performance phase detector and clock and data recovery unit have been
fabricated and tested.
o The components have extracted a signal buried in noise, and recovered a clock with total RMS jitter of 20 ps, with reference timing resolution 30 ps.
December 1999 to May 2001
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Participated in
successful integration, test, and launch of EO1 spacecraft.
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Modified RF
special test equipment, wrote and executed test plans and procedures and
performed link analysis for both S and X band subsystems.
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Developed
computer simulation of S-band multi-antenna far-field pattern, which modeled
actual on orbit conditions with reasonable fidelity.
· Performed fault diagnosis & design analysis of intermittent S band transponder.
June 1997 to December 1999
Northrop Grumman,
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Conceived,
designed, simulated, tested, and integrated flight qualified high speed (105
Mbps) X band QPSK modulator for EO1 spacecraft.
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Design activities
included high-speed analog and digital design, RF,
active and passive filtering, and digital communications.
· Conceived, analyzed, simulated, and designed state of the art mixed signal and DSP based (SHARC) digital receiver for proprietary very low-level RF detection application for a cable system.
March 1997 to September 1997
EER Systems, Seabrook, MD
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Redesigned and
integrated embedded low power transmitter / controller unit.
o Design encompassed mixed signal for a low power application, which was capable of operating in a sleep mode and waking autonomously
September 1995 to January 1997
General Instrument, Horsham PA
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Developed
hardware and software for special test equipment to be used in testing digital
cable systems.
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Test included
MPEG-2 transport stream compliance tests, RF and
BERTS test configurations for impairment type tests.
· Designed custom test PCB to synchronize & extract MPEG packet information.
Dec 1991- Aug1994 & April 1995 - Aug 1995
EER Systems, Seabrook, MD
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Devised,
designed, procured and successfully integrated launch vehicle instrumentation
and S-band high rate telemetry system.
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Developed data
acquisition system, using PC-based boards and HP-VEE test software.
o Designed special test equipment for charging and high power loads testing of flight batteries
1983 to 1991
General Electric
Astro-Space Division,
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Project engineer
directing team of junior engineers developing architectures and components for spacecraft
data-handling subsystems.
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Managed VLSI DSP
IR&D project; utilizing proprietary state of the art pipelined FFT chips,
and developed high-speed DSP applications.
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Commended by Air
Force as author of study on high data-rate architectures.
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Participated in
Star Wars Phase A study, developing analog interface circuitry and high-speed
mixed signal simulator for electro-optic focal plane array.
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Lead designer for
shuttle audio/video interfaces, designed audio and video circuitry and special
test equipment.
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Supported design
of ultra High Data Rate secure Data Switch for NASA
STGT.
· Lead engineer responsible for specification, design, fabrication, and test of flight-qualified telemetry unit for ultra secure DOD MILSTAR spacecraft program.
1981 to 1983
General Electric
Advanced Systems Division,
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Member of
research group developing next generation equipment to control high voltage
power transmission systems.
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Successfully
designed and integrated two large-scale digital and twelve medium-scale mixed
signal PCB's and one analog Power distribution subsystem.
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Developed special
test equipment, including a programmable, high speed/high power active load unit
to test switching power supplies.
· Filed patent applications for two circuit designs.
1978 to 1981
Biddle
Instruments,
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Developed high
precision analog instrumentation and microprocessor-based high voltage corona
detection test instrument.
· Established and coordinated initial development of embedded control into high voltage cable test sets.
Education
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BS,
Trade Associations
· Mr. Jupin currently serves as Program Chair for the IEEE Philadelphia Section Consultants Network, (CONET).
· Member of IEEE Circuit and Systems, Signal Processing, Communications, & Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies.
· Member of Audio Engineering Society.
Special Training
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MATLAB and
SIMULINK to analyze and simulate Communications
links, signal processing applications, and analog and digital filter
development.
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EAGLEWARE RF
CAD for RF circuit and filter design and
analysis.
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SPICE simulator
for schematic capture and for high speed analog , digital and some RF
design.
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Programmed in C,
Pascal, Assembly, and UNIX shell.
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Training in
Real-Time System specification and design.
· GE corporate courses in Systems Engineering Methodology, Project Leadership, satellite communications, and signal and image processing.
Recognition
Mr.
Jupin has received commendation letters on a variety of programs, was nominated
for the GE Aerospace Technical Excellence award, and was selected to participate
in GE Aerospace System Engineering Training Program.
President of BILECTRON Inc., an engineering consulting and service business (inc.1992).
Publications
"Spacecraft Processing
Architectures",
"Measurement of Dielectric Constants using Resonance Techniques” American Journal of Physics, May 1976.
