This group is headed by Ivan Krivokapic, who is our Director of RF Systems Engineering. Ivan has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia and has almost 20 years of experience, having worked for ADC Telecommunications, Quake Wireless, and Graviton. He came to us from ST Microelectronics, where he was responsible for a team of System Engineers and all aspects of the RF system design of an RF ASIC transmitter/receiver chipset. He also has several patents and disclosures. ikrivokapic@san.rr.com
Valeri Timochenkov – Valeri has a PhD and a total of about 23 years of teaching, research, and IC design, three of which were at Multilink Technology Corporation and five of which were with us here at Pulse Link. He is one of the core team members in our RFIC group, with great experience with design for GaAs, Si, and SiGe technologies with both IBM and Jazz Semiconductor.
Viktor Novozhilov – Victor has an MSEE and about 23 years of experience in IC design and worked for Samsung and Multilink Technology before he came to Pulse Link five years ago. He is also one of the core team members on our RFIC group, with great experience with design for GaAs, Si, and SiGe technologies with both IBM and Jazz Semiconductor. vnovozhilov@msn.com
Diane Stauffer is our Supervisor of Physical Design, though in this role she is still very much “hands-on” with RFIC layout. She has an AAS in Electronic Technology, and has studies Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Business at the university level. She has over 20 years of Physical Design with companies such as Sequoia Communications, Qualcomm, National Semiconductor, and CommQuest. Diane_ms@pacbell.net
Brian Mann is the company’s Manager of RF Design Verification. He started with us as a Test Engineer, coming to Pulse Link from Northrop Grumman, and moved up quickly. He has a great deal of experience with LNA’s, mixers, VCO’s, and synthesizers. Brian has a BSEE from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and, besides Northrop, has worked at Aristos Logic Corp. and Ditrans. Brian is a bit of an “adrenalin junkie”, with hobbies like surfing, wakeboarding, and skydiving. Bse_bmann@yahoo.com mann.brian@gmail.com
Alexandr Yampolsky is also part of this group, as an RF Test & Characterization Engineer, working for Brian Mann. Alex has over twenty years of experience in the design and test of RF equipment, working for companies such as Ericomp, MCSI, and Broadband Innovations. He joined us from the Motorola San Diego Design Center, where he was an RF Engineer working on the development, implementation, and characterization or RF/mixed signal circuits. He has also been responsible for the design of test boards for IC evaluation. Alex has a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University. Syamp@sbxglobal.net
Bladimir Genoves is an Associate Engineer in the RF Group. Bladimir came to us from the local operation of Altera, though he has also worked at Cubic Defense, L-3 Communications, and Hughes-JVC. Bladimir started his technical career in the Marine Corps, where he attended the Communications Electronics School at Twenty Nine Palms and then spent some time with the Corps in Okinawa and at Camp Pendleton. He then went on to get his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electronics Engineering from ITT Technical Institute. This is a very high level person and we have been hard pressed to find more people as good as he is. bgenoves@cox.com
Mark Oskowsky is an RF Test Engineer working for Brian Mann. He had originally worked with us for five months on a consulting basis, and we were so impressed by his work that we hired him on. Mark has a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Illinois, as well as an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. markoskowsky@hotmail.com
Jason Dawkins – Jason is the company’s IT Manager and has build up and maintained a network of 38 servers, switches, and 250 PC’s. In his role he has been involved in a total corporate move from one location to another, setting up the complete infrastructure, and supporting both general computer systems for the company and specialized need for various engineering departments. Jason has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and has also gotten his MCP, MCSA 2000, MCSE 2000, and Red Hat Linux certifications. This guy knows his stuff! He has also worked for Computer Science Corporation, Structural Genomix, GKN Aerospace Chem-Tronics, and HP. jdawkins@san.rr.com jdawk@yahoo.com
Adrian Dela Cruz is our Help Desk Specialist in IT. He came to us from Tritech in Sorrento Valley and, besides providing us all with desktop support, he also helps with Software Testing. He has a BS in Mathematical Sciences from UC Santa Barbara, is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and is very adept at the day-to-day set up and maintenance of our computers and equipment. Aidc2@hotamil.com iceman_74@hotmail.com
Miwa Pitre is our multilingual (English, Japanese, and some Spanish) Senior Accounting and Benefits Administrator. I have a hard time keeping our vendors from hiring her away from us because she is so efficient, helpful, and pleasant to work with. She is very adept with QuickBooks, accounting, and general benefits administration; as well as the purchasing process. She has an AA Degree in Business and has worked as a Purchasing Coordinator for NEC in the Bay Area, and Dino Construction and Microplus in Japan. She has also taken many courses at both Cal State San Marcos and Rockhurst University in Human Resources, Accounting, and Accounts Payable Management. She has over ten years of experience in clerical and accounting roles, though she also worked in purchasing for NEC in Santa Clara for several years. Miwapitre77@yahoo.com
Lisa Garcia – Lisa is the Purchasing/Materials Manager here at Pulse Link, and she has over 20 years of experience in Purchasing and materials management. She has worked with companies such as QTRON, All American Semi., Jabra, RF Industries, Loral Conic, Dot Hill Systems, Graviton, and General Dynamics. As the Materials Manager she is hands-on involved with purchasing, but also manages a staff of three to meet many of the needs of the company.
Sdblonde4@aol.com Lisa.garcia4@yahoo.com
Lois Cooper is our Product and Asset Control Coordinator. She also has experience as a Buyer with Mobility Electronics, Cardinal Health, Smith Medical, QTRON, and TRW-Raytheon. She has a Certificate in Purchasing from UCSD, and has taken numerous courses from the National Purchasing Management Association. Lcooper001@san.rr.com
Kellyanne Ingels is a senior Administrative Assistant. She helps us with reception duties and resume tracking and logging, as well as setting up interview schedules and applicant and executive travel. She has also worked in accounting firms (and is also familiar with QuickBooks) and the hospitality industry, and helps with the Sales & Marketing database and with expense report reconciliation. kaingels@yahoo.com
Jill Benrey – With almost six years with Pulse Link, Jill acts in both a Paralegal and IP Legal Assistant capacity. Working with our in-house patent attorney, she is responsible for filing patents, tracking patent office actions, typing up – and adding the design graphics – for patent filings, as well as maintaining our investor contact list and Cap Table. jbenrey@san.rr.com
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Tony Fleet is Pulse Link’s Building Superintendent. As such, he is responsible for the day-to-day management of our building. He oversees the janitors and is the go-to person to contact for anything that needs to be done in the building. He is responsible for maintaining OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) logs, ensuring that we comply with their regulations, and make sure the MSDS (Manufacturer Data Safety Sheets) are kept up-to-date and reflect the chemicals kept in the facility. He is also responsible for maintaining the building, grounds, and parking lot; keeping it looking like a professional environment. Tony also helps with shipping and receiving and supervises our outside cleaning crew. Jony1979@aol.com
Arthur Scheele is our facilities supervisor. Arthur has over 20 years experience in home building and facilities and has also built some of the Plexiglas housings to protect our antennas for demonstrations in the rain, built antenna mounts for the dish antennas, built the metal encasements for antenna filters, and rebuilt our anechoic chamber. He has also done some shockingly good work in wiring some of the offices. Arthur also works on special projects, preparations for trade shows such as CES, and is our interface to the builders on other construction work that we have had done to accommodate our growth in the past. honoluarips@aol.com
Mike Wang is our Lead UWB Systems Engineer, and one of the most productive members of our team. He has a great grasp of systems, communications, algorithm development, and just how things are supposed to work. Mike has his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and worked for Lucent Technologies in New Jersey for about four years. From there he went to Metron Communications and then to TIA Mobile in the Los Angeles area, before joining us over four years ago. mikefwang@hotmail.com
Soumya Nag is a Principal UWB Systems Engineer in the Systems Engineering group. Soumya is a very international guy, having received his BS in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering in India, his MSEE from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. After completing his university studies, Soumya went to work as an RF Engineer at Time Domain in Huntsville, Alabama for three and a half years and then went to Alereon in Austin, Texas doing Systems Engineering. He has his name on several patents, is a music junkie, plays the guitar, and goes to lots of concerts. sknal@yahoo.com desioffspring@yahoo.com
Aldrin Albano – is a Senior RF Technician working primarily with our R&D Group, where he has conducted ultra wideband channel measurements at different types of buildings in and around San Diego and in our lab. Prior to Pulse Link he worked at Kyocera Wireless and, before that, Qualcomm, Inc. Aldrin is very talented and thorough and it is extremely difficult to find people with his high level skill set. aldrin_albano@sbcglobal.net
John Eldon – “Dr. John” has been with Pulse Link since 2002 and is now the Director of
Digital ASIC Design. He has over 30 years of experience in the high tech world and has worked for Logic Devices as their CTO, Fairchild Semiconductor as Principal Staff Systems Engineer, and TRW/LSI, among others. He has a BS and MS in Solid State Physics, and a Doctorate on Environmental Science and Engineering. He teaches a course in Verilog design for UCSD, has several patents, and has had more that 30 articles printed in various technical publications. J.eldon@sbcglobal.net j.eldon@uclaalumni.net
Eugene Yee is a Principal Digital Design Engineer, reporting to John Eldon. Eugene came to us from L-3, and has also worked at Hughes TV/COM International, and Turbonet Communications. He has a BSEE from Cal. State Sacramento and an MSEE from the University of Southern California and, with 18 years of experience, is one of the best engineers around. eug@znet.com
Levente Jakab is an ASIC Design Engineer who joined us from Marvell Semiconductor, where he was a Senior ASIC Design Engineer. He has also worked for n/Vidia in the Bay Area and at the Computer Architecture Group at MIT, where he received his BSEE and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. artistjake@gmail.com
Russ Dowe is our MAC ASIC Design Manager and came to us from Freescale Semiconductor – the old XtremeSpectrum/Motorola combination in Washington, DC - four years ago. Russ has a BSEE from the New York Institute of Technology and, between Lockheed and Freescale, has over 20 years of experience in all areas of digital ASIC and FPGA development. He is also a classical pianist and is part of our company band - the “Ultra Wide Band”. rdowe@cox.net
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Lan Dang is our Lead ASIC Verification Engineer, reporting to Russ Dowe. In the past Lan has worked for IBM, Amdahl, and Fire Power, Inc, but she had been working at Cisco from 1995 until January of 2007. She moved to San Diego five years ago when her husband transferred here due to his job, and was commuting to San Jose for Cisco about once a month until we hired her. She received a BS in Computer Science – with First Class distinction - from San Jose State University in 1987. Lan-dang@yahoo.com
Tomoo Taguchi is a Senior ASIC Verification Engineer (though he also does some ASIC design) and reports to Russ Dowe. Tomoo moved out here from Colorado and joined us from Hewlett-Packard, where he has worked for over four years (though he also worked for them for another six years previously). Prior to that he had worked at AMCC here in San Diego. He has a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from Princeton University and has worked as an ASIC Development Engineer, Synthesis Application Engineer, and ASIC Verification Engineer. tomoot@yahoo.com
Hung Trang is an ASIC Verification Engineer, reporting to Russ Dowe. Hung has a BS in Computer Science Engineering from UC Davis and has worked for Cisco Systems in the Bay Area for seven years. While there, he worked on the successful verification of five ASIC’s and 2 complex FPGA’s. httrang@yahoo.com
James O’Keeffe is our Manager of ASIC Physical Design, reporting to John Eldon. Jim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has worked for Raytheon, TRW, Uniden and, most recently, spent 12 years with the local Texas Instruments group as a Senior ASIC Design Engineer. Jim.okeeffe@yahoo.com
Barinderjit “Bobby” Bawa is a Senior DFT Engineer working in our MAC area. Bobby has a Bachelor of Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and has also taken a number of graduate courses in IC design from Carlton University in Ottawa. He has worked as a design or verification engineer for a number of companies, such as Wisetronics, Mitel, Chrysalis-ITS, Sigpro Wireless and, most recently, Texas Instruments. Bbawa1@yahoo.com
Knut Odman heads up our Software Group as the Manager of Software Engineering. Prior to Pulse Link, Knut worked for Freescale, Telelogic (in both Sweden and the US), and Nohau Technologies. He pursued his MSc. In Computer Science and Engineering at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Knut has been involved in IEEE Standards activities for 802.15, has been heavily involved in the 1394 Trade Association, and has a long list of patents. kodman@cox.net
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Jon Cox is a Software Engineer with a hardware background. Jon graduated from the Marine Corps Communication Electronics School in 29 Palms and spent several years with the Marine Corps. He then spent several years at Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Nokia in Senior Technician roles while working on his BS in Computer Science at UCSD. He started at Pulse Link working in our Wireless Lab and then used his hardware knowledge to help the Software Development Group design GUI’s and get ready for demos. jjcox@iexpres.com joncox@sbcglobal.net
Aditya Deore had been our lead Software Test Engineer, reporting to Knut Odman, for about a year and a half; going into a Software Development role about six months ago. In addition to software development, he spends a good deal of his time in the lab resolving problems. Aditya has a BS in Electronics Engineering from VIT in Pune, India and an MS in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University, and joined us from Qualcomm, where he had been working for three years. adityadeore@hotmail.com
David Smith is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer working for Knut Odman. David came to us from Solekai Systems, where he was a Staff Software Engineer. He has a BS in Electronics Engineering Technology from California State University, Long Beach and, in the past he has also worked for Kyocera, Conexant, and VeriFone. Dsmith54@san.rr.com
Russell “Rusty” Cashman is our MAC Protocol Software Engineer, reporting to Knut Odman. Rusty has his BS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and has 18 years of work experience, having worked for PCSI, Texas Instruments, and Knovative Communications. rcashman@cox.net
Iain Huntly-Playle is our Director of Systems Integration and Test. In this role he is responsible for definition, design, and production of our Product Requirements and System Specifications documents, and the resulting system level hardware definitions. In addition, Iain’s responsibilities include engineering schematic development and production, testing/debug and integration, development of test plans and performance characterization, associated project schedules, cost analyses, production of associated user manuals and similar associated requirements. Iain has a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, as well as an MS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from San Diego State University. Iain has worked at IBM, Hughes Aircraft, and Palomar Display Products. He was the Director of Engineering for Wireless Technology for Avocent Corporation for three years and was the Director of Product Development for NCODIX, where he worked on real-time streaming of compressed high definition video over 1394 isochronous channels. iain@thehps.net iainhp@hotmail.com
Sheng Li is a Senior Software Application Engineer, and has been working in our Multimedia Lab for the last year and a half. He also helps out in the Systems Integration area. Sheng has a BS and MS in Materials Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, as well as an MS in Computer Science from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He has worked for a number of companies, such as Iomega, Packetvideo, Avocent and, most recently, Ncodix where he worked on ultra-high bitrate audio/video streaming protocols such as IEEE 1394. He is also a Black Belt Sudoku player. Li_sheng@sbcglobal.net
Dave Carbonari – Dave is our Principal RF Engineer and joined the company in its very early days six and a half years ago. He has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from City College of New York and is a registered Professional Engineer. Dave has also worked with Avocent, Carbonetics, and other companies, and is a great lab person – if you don’t know what’s wrong with something, Dave will find out for you. carbonetics@earthlink.net
Michael Sleva is a Senior Software Engineer working in the Applications Group, and doing high level software development when he isn’t on the road going to trade shows and customer demos in support of Marketing. “Mike” received his BS in Computer Engineering from UC Irvine in 2001, and worked for Z-force Communications in the Irvine area before joining us at the end of 2004. Hbmike7400@yahoo.com
Malhar Bedarkar is a Senior Application Software Engineer and, like Mike Sleva, reports directly to Iain Huntly-Playle. Malhar moved out to San Diego from Washington, DC. He has a BSEE and received an MS in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003, where his research work was in “Indoor Position Location using 802.11b Networks” and “Frequency Planning in 802.11b Networks”. malhar@hotmail.com
Bill Faeth is a Senior Electronic Technician, and there is nothing he has not yet been able to figure out, test, and improve. He has an AS Degree in Basic Electronics from Brunswick Institute of Technology and has over 20 years of experience in the field, having also worked for Lumistar, SBS Technologies, SEMCO, and Loral. Bill is also a musician, surfer, and all-around good guy. The list of equipment he knows how to operate is just too long to put down here! billfeath@sbcglobal.net
Skip Yutkus is a Senior PCB Designer. Skip is also a ham radio operator and came to us from Momentum Computer, though he has also worked for APW Electronic Solutions and Connector Technology among others. Skip.pcb@gmail.com
Jan Dunn is one of the first employees hired by Pulse Link and, during her time here, she has filled in at a lot of different positions – Receptionist, Computer Technician, Accounting Assistant, and Lab Technician. She is currently a Lab Technician – which means that, in addition to helping out with the assembly and testing of electronics systems, she looks after all of the equipment in the Wireless Lab. She graduated from both the Navy Basic and Advanced Electronics schools. silkisteele@aol.com silkisteel@gmail.com
Dieuthuy Nguyen (nickname is “Tweety”) is our Senior Manufacturing Technician. She is working on her Associates degree and has ten years of experience in manufacturing and assembly; soldering, inspections and board touch up at Litton, Northrop Grumman, and Rockwell Collins. dieuthuy@pthyon.com
Prasanna Bijadi is our Software Integration Manager, reporting to Iain Huntly-Playle. Part of his job is to determine test specifications and coding for testability and he has been working hard to build up that new group. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, and has worked for LG Electronics in India and Sierra Wireless and Nextwave Wireless here in San Diego. prasannakb@hotmail.com
Ray Uribe is our Manager of Test Engineering, and came to us as a Senior Product Engineer from Conexant, where he was the Design Verification Engineer Group Leader. He has a lot of experience in mixed signal and ASIC Product Engineering, having also worked in this role at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems for a number of years. Ray received his BS in Industrial Engineering in Electronics at the Technological Institute of Tijuana. Ray.uribe@msn.com
Andy Chiang is a Senior Test Engineer in our Packaging and Test Department. Andy has his academic background in Electrical Engineering from the City Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, and got his Masters degree in Engineering Management from the University of Warwick in England. He came to us from Qualcomm, where he was also a Test Engineer, though he has also worked for Motorola/Freescale in Tempe, Arizona and for Motorola in Hong Kong for ten years. Andyc51@yahoo.com
Mike Meyer joined us as a Test Engineer in January 2006 from Vitesse Semiconductor in Camarillo. Mike has a BSEE from Santa Clara University and, while he was working on that, he worked several summers with the Army Corps of Engineers in Monterey. After college he joined Maxim Integrated Products for nine years and then worked at Vitesse for about a year and a half. He was working on his Master’s degree in Communications and Signal Processing at Cal. State Northridge though, since he is moving down to this area, he will transfer to a local university to complete his degree. mikedmeyer@gmail.com
Kyle Martin, who consulted with us for a while, joined Pulse Link as our Vice President of Sales, and also does business development. He is fluent in Japanese, which he can speak, read and write. Kyle has an M.S.E.E. from the University of Massachusetts and received his M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. He has built his entire career in the wireless telecommunications market, starting with a focus on RF circuit design. He eventually migrated into the business side of technology where his hobby of studying Japanese led to an expatriate assignment in Tokyo, Japan. Kyle has worked for Ford Aerospace, HP, Silicon Wave, Bermai, and InSilica. kylemartinusa@gmail.com
Anup Singh is our Product Marketing Engineer. Anup has an MSEE from the University of South Florida, and just received his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. He came to us from Entropic Communications, where he was a Senior Lead Engineer on the MoCA chipset. Prior to that he spent seven years at Intel, where he worked in technical marketing for the Itanium and Xeon chipsets. singhanup@yahoo.com
Edwin Chen is our Senior Director of Asia Pacific Sales. He is a very international guy who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and also speaks some Japanese and Korean, so he gets around Asia very easily. Edwin has Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in Australia and his Global MBA from the University of Southern California. He has worked at Rockwell, Delco, Comstream Corporation, and Conexant Systems, and helped set up our operation in Taiwan. Edwinchen5257@yahoo.com
Nilson Yu is our Field Applications Engineering Manager in Taiwan (though he is covering all of Asia), and reporting to Edwin Chen. Nilson joined us from Conexant, where he was the FAE Manager for Taiwan, having worked there for the past four years. He has also worked for Ansoft in Taiwan and is very familiar with TSMC, UMC, and the other technology companies in that country. Nilson received his BSEE from FU-Jen University in Taipei and his MS in Microwave Engineering from National Sun-Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. nilsonyu@msn.net
Peter Martinez is our Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property, though as our sole in-house Counsel he advises management on ALL legal matters. Peter has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, as well as a Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law, and about 12 years of experience in both law firms (Baker & McKenzie and Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps) and in industry (4+ years at Pulse Link. He is admitted to practice law in California and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark office, and is a former Chairman of the San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association. pmpatents@gmail.com
Jim Boyd is our Senior Program Manager. Jim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University and has a Certificate in Technical Project Management from the American Management Association. He has worked for Titan Linkabit, PCSI, Qualcomm, Sierra Wireless, and RF Micro Devices. He also spent a year in Nanjing, China teaching English at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Jim has a great background for our needs, having managed the lifecycle development for Bluetooth chips and associated software, and working in the area of wireless technology solutions and systems integration and deployment. boydkeogh@juno.com
Moazzam Hossain is a Principal Engineer in our Advanced Technology Group. As such, he works on advanced level projects linked to our future development efforts, such as ASIC verification, research on video content security, and research on how best to develop digital multimedia content. He has a BSEE from Rajshahi University and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and has worked on ASIC design and verification projects Panasonic Semiconductor Development, Marconi Communication, Nortel, and Logic Vision. moazzamh@hotmail.com
Our executive staff will be working for a while to clean up operations, close the company down, and sell off the assets. You may view their bios at: www.pulselink.net/about/management.htm
Ron Chaffee is our Vice President of Engineering and may be reached at rchaffee04@cox.net.
Rudy Fischer is the Vice President of Administration for the Company and may be reached at rudyfischer@earthlink.net.
