Wireless Techniques was founded with the vision to provide high-quality, innovative multi-disciplinary engineering services at best possible cost. Our team includes staff engineers as well as various subject matter expert advisors and consultants. The team's background is quite diverse, including the ideal blend of industrial experience and theoretical education.
Wireless Techniques was founded in early 2007 by Christian M. Granata. Mr. Granata has developed multi-disciplinary systems for over ten years. He has experience in analog & RF hardware engineering, wired & wireless communication systems, architectural design of real-time DSP systems, power electronics, systems engineering & analysis, project management, electro-mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, and sensing of various physical parameters.
Prior to founding Wireless Techniques, Mr. Granata was at LoJack Corporation where he performed electronic system design as well as hardware and firmware engineering tasks. Most work was focused on wireless system analysis & implementation for GPS location sensing or GSM wireless telemetry for the various LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery Network (SVRN) programs. Mr. Granata was responsible for the design and implementation of the LoJack Listening Post SVRN Monitoring Platform. This project included design of the analog & digital circuitry for power management and system control as well as coding and testing embedded microcontroller firmware for wireless communications via GSM modem telemetry.
Also while at LoJack Corporation, Mr. Granata was responsible for a GPS chipset evaluation program, which included lab and field data collection with high-sensitivity GPS receivers and in-depth statistical analysis of the resulting GPS data sets. An eight-channel GPS constellation simulator was used in the lab for initial chipset qualification based on aquisition and dynamic tracking performance under low-signal conditions. Mr. Granata selected the simulator instrument and wrote instrument control scripts for the various test scenarios.
Mr. Granata's other engineering experience includes design of wireless telemetry transmitters and receivers, DC/DC power converters, and various instrumentation systems. His instrumentation experience includes: a multi-channel bridge pressure sensor interface capable of 16 bit accuracy levels, a closed-loop wind-tunnel velocity control system for thermal characterization of electronics, a three-axis Cartesian robotic gantry & H-Field sensor for magnetic field mapping / calibration of nuclear magnetic resonance magnets.
Mr. Granata completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering in 1999. Mr. Granata currently teaches a 400-level course, "Electronic Systems Design" as a Part-Time Lecturer with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is currently pursuing his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the same university, with a specialization in wireless communications systems and signal processing.
Mr. Landry designs and constructs embedded firmware and PC software. He's known for his ability to rapidly construct code under tight schedule pressure. He's written real-time embedded code for communications, video processing and system control. He's architected firmware and software modules for signal processing filters and transforms, message handling and parsing and most types of embedded peripherals such as timers and serial interfaces. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Mr. Siggelkoe performs system design and simulation of signal processing systems. He is comfortable with both hardware and software, and is skilled with hands-on integration and test. His prior experience was at Polycom Inc. as an engineering intern, where he performed various schematic design tasks for audio PCBs. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His Master's Thesis was in signal classification of bioacoustic signals.
Mr. Wilson constributes part-time to the design, analysis and prototyping of small electromechanical systems. He is working towards his Bachelor of Science degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering with a planned graduation date of Spring of 2009.
Dr. Howard Michel has been a professor at the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth since 1999. His research is focused on: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, Networks and Data Communications, Artificial Neural Networks, and Optical Computing. As a U.S. Air Force Officer since 1976, Dr. Michel has played a key role in many highly technical government programs. Highlights include: directing satellite launches at Vandenberg AFB for five years as well as developing and coordinating DOD open-system architecture acquisition policy and engineering processes at the Air Force Material Command HQ at Wright-Patterson AFB. Dr. Michel received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Wright State University in 1999.
Mr. d'Heilly earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Marketing from Babson College and has worked as a marketing executive in several successful early-stage ventures. After earning his MBA, he joined the staff at the Babson College Center for Entrepreneurial Studies where he published a book of entrepreneurial case studies in 1997. His students won the $10,000 prize in the Mueller Business Plan Competition. He also co-founded a business incubator, Mercury BPS and wore many hats in all aspects of new venture development including business planning, marketing and advertising.
Founder and principal at APX Technical Resources Inc., Mr. Arnold performs systems design engineering and implementation for communications and signal processing equipment for clients like NASA, NATO, USN, and USAF. Current work includes the design and test of the SSXCD Expendable UHF communications Buoy, and the SSXMR Mission Reconfigurable Buoy. He is also responsible for the specification, simulation and performance verification of the IFF interrogator for platforms such as the USAF and NATO AWACS. He performed the system engineering for the NASA Second TDRSS Ground Terminal (STGT), Multiple Access Beamforming Equipment. This is an all digital adaptive phased array currently in service at the STGT, White Sands, and Guam Ground Terminals. He also performed work for the public sector where he designed the systems architecture and scan converter for the DRF 200 medical diagnostic imaging device. Mr. Arnold received his MS degree from Stanford University in 1967.
Dr. Kasilingam, is Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His areas of specialization include wireless communications, signal processing, and remote sensing. He holds his PhD and MSEE from California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Scarlet is an applied physicist with experience in design of measurement systems and devices, and in management of measurement projects. Dr. Scarlet has directed and contributed technically to programs for meteorological sensors, fiber optic sensors, large-area medical imagers, airport noise measurements, "mud logging" data systems (oilfield well drilling analysis), and physical oceanography. Dr. Scarlet received his Ph.D. in experimental solid-state physics at Cornell University.
Mr. Quin boasts 30 years of CPA experience. His areas of expertise include business consulting and advising, forensic accounting, litigation support, peer review and general accounting and auditing services.Prior to QRLG, Tom was a founder and chief financial officer for a venture capital-backed medical company and served as a CFO for a garment manufacturer. His experience also includes a stint as a manager at a national accounting firm, where he specialized in technology and closely-held businesses.
Mr. Fedan has 30 years of RF and analog hardware engineering experience. He has extensive background designing radio transceivers and communication links for the HF thru UHF bands. Has been employed with LoJack Corp., BioRAD, Bose Corp., Motorola, RCA and McDonnell Aircraft. Mr. Fedan has significant experience in all aspects of rf circuit design including low-noise amplification, power-amplification, active and passive filtering, frequency-synthesis and modulation / demodulation. He also has broad design exposure to a vast array of other electronic systems including: switching and linear power supplies, embedded control systems, motion control systems, battery management systems and optical instrumentation.
Mr. Holmes is a principal at Owl Engineering specializing in the mechanical aspects of product design and development for electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical systems. Mr. Holmes has worked as a mechanical engineer for over 20 years, beginning at the Polaroid Corporation in both product design and the product manufacturing organizations. Mr. Holmes majored in Biology for his BS from Bates College in 1980, and earned a BS degree Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 1984.
Dr. White co-founded the Diamond Semiconductor Group where he developed the world's first serial high current implanter. Diamond Semiconductor developed a novel approach for introducing dopants into large semiconductor wafers to enable faster, less costly fabrication of larger wafers with smaller, more-densely packed components. A pioneer with implantation systems using parallel, ribbon-shaped ion beams to control uniformity, flat panel display systems, and super high energy systems, Dr. White has over a dozen issued patents and has made significant contributions to many commercial ion implant systems. Currently consulting with Albion Systems, his clients include commercial manufacturers of ion implantation equipment and semiconductor manufacturers. Other clients are involved in accelerator mass spectrometry, vacuum analysis, magnet manufacture and use, ion source manufacture, plasma physics and film deposition. Dr. White received BA and MA degrees in Physics, and D. Phil degree with a thesis on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, from the University of Oxford, England.