Grant L. Smith
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-smith/11/635/74a
Strong technical management, systems engineering and executive level strategic marketing experience.
Career Achievements:
Recipient of multiple analog and digital sensor signal processing patents with two patents pending in reconfigurable computing.
Presenter in several IEEE conferences.
Winner of Honeywell 2007 Outstanding Engineering award.
Author of contract winning Business Cases/Proposals, securing over $18 Million in corporate and government sponsored research and product development.
Experienced mixed signal 0.18um IBM7hp SiGe BiCMOS RFIC, A/D, DAC, 6GHz VCO designer.
Architect of 0.13 Rad-Hard CMOS Digital ASIC IP.
Technical lead/architect of 50MHz – 10GHz phase noise and jitter analysis instrumentation.
Experienced in design and modeling (Ansoft 3D field solvers) of PWB antenna and miniature radio systems.
Led Design and International Technical Support of advanced optical instrumentation used in >10Gigabit DWDM networking products.
Experience with Digital Beam Forming X band phased array radar systems, satellite based digital channelizer (Polyphase filters) system architect.
Work History:
1/2008-Present Texas Instruments, W.W. Strategic Marketing, Dallas, Tx.
Director of Innovation, Business Development and Systems Engineer, Technical lead on executive decision packages that led to investments of $60M targeting markets with potential revenue of >$1B/yr. Drove RF, and mmWave radar strategic plans that included customer validations, competitive analysis, market studies and execution schedules. Analog systems lead on the team responsible for the execution of a multiple business unit, automotive ADAS and infotainment strategy. Performed technical reviews, gaps analysis and market validation for several programs at TI Kilby research labs with CTO level interaction. Team expert in RF/Microwave, Gbps networking, electro-optics, Radar, Lidar and mmWave backhaul. 4 years as Analog and MCU field applications engineer for the southeast with emphasis on low power wireless, military and industrial customers.
3/2004-1/2008 Honeywell Inc. Advanced Processor Systems, Clearwater Fl.
Technical Director. TS SCI Clearance, SSBI w Poly, Managed design, assembly and test teams of up to 20 engineers. Responsible for system delivery to performance and schedule goals. Led pursuit strategies, requirement document generation and secured $18M/yr in new business. Technical director on FPGA based, high performance, networked computer clusters for satellite imaging payloads. Delivered higher efficiency power architecture designs and wrote system level requirements for next generation radiation hardened regulators. Invented novel IP cores to improve the fault tolerance Xilinx FPGA (Virtex4) for space applications. Lead systems teams on xGbps RapidIO networking and ASIC packaging signal integrity studies. Technical director in space radar pursuits.
5/2002-3/2004 Northrop Grumman/Xetron Corporation, Palm Harbor Fl.
Senior Advisory Engineer, TS SCI Clearance, SSBI w Poly, Delivered architecture and systems designs for high linearity pipelined GSps ADCs for use on the front end of digital beam formed X -Band phased array antenna systems. Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) designer using 0.18um IBM7hp Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS submicron process. Designed low noise amplifiers (LNA), receiver circuits and voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) to 5.0GHz for PLL and synthesizer ICs. Led proposal efforts for GHz sampling ADCs for DBF radar with XAUI 10Gbps optical network interfaces.
12/2000-5/2002 Digital Lightwave, Clearwater, FL
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Managed US and Indian design teams and was responsible for the planning, leadership and delivery of several advanced optical instrumentation products including 10Gbps(OC192) phase noise (jitter) measurement, jitter generation instrumentation and 50GHz spacing DWDM channel add/drop multiplexers. Designer of C/L band Fabry-Perot mirror based DWDM optical spectrum analyzer with ppm drift feedback control requirements. Microwave designer and architect of microwave hybrids/ASICs required for low jitter, instrumentation quality, laser drivers, laser bias control and thermoelectric temperature control and transimpedance amplifiers.
6/1999- 12/2000 Wyle Electronics, Clearwater, Fl.
Analog/Power Field Application Engi...
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