Benjamin Kamen

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Email: resume+ben AT benjammin.net
   
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Senior level Computer/Electronics Engineer with over 25 years of experience in the field. Since 1992, my employment roles have involved reporting directly to senior management for assignment to typically autonomous projects. Working as a consultant since 2005, I've brought success to design projects in the fields of scientific research, military, medicine and industrial test. My current client list includes top 10 U.S. Universities, U.S. Government agencies, research firms, as well as various startups and clients with unique needs.

Skills Highlights:

Computer Technology: Over 30 years experience covering everything from Unix/Linux to Windows to Mac to you-name-it.
Network Technology: Developer level familiarity with OSI Protocol stack and it's relationships with protocols both past and present. (TCP/IP, Ethernet and others) Worked and experimented in Telecom/Cable Industries for > 20 years.
Embedded Systems Design: Experienced with many families of microcontrollers. (Microchip, Intel, Atmel) However, I do several Microchip based designs per year.
Application Specific Design: FPGA/CPLD Design in both Xilinx and Lattice IDE's. I've implemented simple to complex designs using over 1 millions gates.
Programming Languages: Includes C, Verilog/VHDL, Unix styles scripting (TCL, shells) and more.
SCH/PCB Proficiency: Pulsonix, Protel and Pads/PCB (as well as others). SMPS, RF and IPC Savvy.
Design/Prototyping Lab: Equipped for design (CAE software), prototyping (SMT & TH Assembly, CNC) and test (Oscilloscopes, DMM, SigGen, and more).
Technical Writing: Web or printed content that documents technical concepts for client/company use.

Other interesting skills:

Private Pilot & Aircraft Owner: U.S. FAA issued Private Pilots License with current medical and personal craft to visit clients.
Other Interesting Accolades: Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the year.

Inventions:

  • US Patent:6393016 (Issued: 2002-05-21) - Telephony signal transmission over a data communications network...
  • US Patent:6307853 (Issued: 2001-10-23) - Re-routing telephony communications traffic through a private branch exchange...

    • Scientific Papers/Publishings:

  • Larkin, R.P. and Kamen, B. Migration at low height over the mountainous areas of Vermont, USA. National Wind Coordinating Committee, San Antonio, TX, November 2006.

  • Larkin, R.P. and Kamen, B. Feasibility of using WSR-88D Radar Data to Characterize Bird Migration in the Mountainous Lanscape of Vermont, USA. INHS Technical Report 2007 (31), Issued 18 May 2007.
  • Multi-Channel Coherent Wildlife Radio-tag Receiver and Direction Finder
    (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Steven J. Franke and George W. Swenson, Jr. - Co-Principal Investigators
    Todd Borrowman, Research Assistant
    Benjamin Kamen, Engineering Assistant
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