Frank J. Effenberger
147 Pleasant Knoll Way,
Freehold, NJ 07728
Office: (978) 983-2532,
Home: (732) 625-3001
Work Experience:
1/00-present Director,
Systems Engineering, Motorola,
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Directed the system
engineering group, managing their work assignments and personnel development,
interfaces to marketing and development, and guiding company-wide technology
direction.
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Introduced company
into the FSAN industry consortium, and made Motorola a leading contributor in
this forum – gaining critical visibility to ILEC customers.
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Edited several ITU-T
recommendations in ITU-T Question 2/15 group, including those describing WDM,
DBA, and 622 Mb/s systems of B-PON, and the main protocol specification of
GPON.
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Serve as liaison
between ITU-T SG-15 and the IEEE 802.3ah task force, promoting the commonality
of systems and the sharing of information.
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Designed the next
generation passive optical network (PON) protocol for immediate development,
and directed development of interface logic devices.
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Led system-level design
of WDM upgrades for the PON product line, emphasizing the cost and performance
trade-offs important in access networks.
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Authored many
patents in the field of broadband optical fiber access.
1/00-2/04 Consultant.
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Provided continuing
support of Army wireless data networking projects, centering on the topics of
application aware networks, distributed network management, and optimal mobile
code.
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Provided senior
engineering guidance for Discovery Semiconductor’s product developments,
including a balanced receiver for 40G systems, and high frequency test
instrumentation.
6/99-1/00 Senior
Network Scientist, Science Applications Int’l Corp.,
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Performed a
technical oversight role over several projects in the DARPA Global Mobility
(GloMo) advanced wireless networking program.
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Developed a
program-wide integration design and the programmatic implementation of this
design, working with all the many GloMo participants.
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Managed and
technically directed the production of several software components required by
the GloMo integration effort.
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Wrote proposals and
white papers for various Department of Defense project solicitations, and
personally presented them to Directors and Managers in DoD. Several of these have yielded multi-million
dollar awards.
8/95-6/99 Research
Scientist,
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Designed and
analyzed broadband access systems, primarily focusing on advanced fiber-based
solutions such as FTTH, FTTC, and HFC systems.
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Integrated and
formalized capacity engineering models and methods for broadband networks that
carry ATM, IP, and circuit-switched traffic.
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Originated several
patents in the area of optical fiber communications.
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Developed software
modeling tools for the analysis of fiber networks, and computer network
management systems.
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Studied the
interaction of ATM and Internet protocols with real time services, such as
voice and video, to find efficient interworking methods.
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Authored many
technical and economic reports and papers in the fields of access-networks and
optical transmission of analog video.
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Led the planning and
development of a service investment model of cable TV networks for an
international client, including extensive customer interaction.
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Played key role in
the first office application of a new FTTH system for RBOC, including vendor
interaction, technology selection, and network design.
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Analyzed and
developed standards for communications networks.
1/94-8/95 Vice-President of Technology, Discovery
Semiconductors, Inc.,
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Designed novel
systems and devices, including ultrafast detectors (40 GHz and beyond), optical
interconnects, opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs), and ultralight
satellite systems.
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Developed a
theoretical model for the dual-depletion width ultrafast detector, which drove
its development and improvement.
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Built several
manufacturing laboratory set-ups for the characterization and testing of
communications photo-receivers.
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Prepared SBIR
proposals and reports that attracted over $3M of funding.
7/89-6/91 Electro-Optical Engineer, EG&G
Princeton Applied Research,
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Designed and tested
several solid state detector systems, including a Image-intensified CCD, a
spectroscopic process controller, and a polymer curing analyzer.
6/88-9/88 Intern,
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Designed and built
DFB laser transmitters for passive photonic loop / LambdaNet experiments. These were some of the first WDM experiments
of their era.
Education:
8/91-8/95 Doctor
of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering.
CREOL -
Dissertation: “Signal
and Noise in SPRITE Detectors.”
My thesis work on SPRITE
infrared image detectors, directed by Prof.
G. Boreman, centered on the modeling the dynamic behavior of bulk
semiconductor devices. In addition to
this work, I also studied solid-state lasers, and designed and constructed
several diode-pumped laser sources, difference frequency generators, and
optical parametric oscillators.
9/88-5/89 Master
of Science in Optics.
GPA 3.73 (4.0 Scale),
Ranked First in Class.
While attending the
8/85-5/88 Bachelor
of Engineering in Engineering Physics with High Honor.
Engineering Physics
Department, Stevens Institute of Technology
GPA 3.64 (4.0 Scale),
Ranked 17 out of 319.
Expertise Infrared detectors, imaging detector
systems, image processing, software, and electronic circuit design, communications
systems, standards, network protocols, simulation, statistics, economic
analysis, fiber optics, semiconductor lasers, solid-state lasers, nonlinear
optics.
Academic Litton
Fellow, GE Graduate Fellowship, Garden State Distinguished Scholar,
Awards
Professional IEEE Senior
Member, Tau Beta Phi.
Societies President
of CREOL OSA chapter, 1994-95.