Starting at age 14, 1953 onwards, designed and built high fidelity sound systems for friends and relatives using vacuum tubes and hand wound power and audio output transformers.  Semiconductors, at that time, would just be a few selenium rectifiers.

Development of High Energy Physics and Scientific Research Instrumentation Systems including Spark Gap Trigger Amplifiers for Bubble and Drift chambers

CD Ignition System Produces Low Engine Emissions,
EDN Magazine Design Award;  Voted Best Design of Issue, May, 1976 and third place winner of the EDN 1976 Annual Circuit Design Contest 

Accelerator Front End Electronics Signal Processors

Optical detectors for CT, PET scan, Florescence Spectroscopy

Precision research instrumentation systems that require low time walk, low noise performance

Systems for Controlled studies of Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields

Control Systems for the ALS Gun Electronics

Master Trigger for the ALS Timing system

Tuning of the ALS Linear Accelerators

The ALS Booster and Storage Ring Cavities Servo Systems and all associated low power electronics
LBNL Director Outstanding Performance Award, October, 1993

The High Power ALS Cavity Window Coating System
Engineering Division Director Spot Recognition Award, February, 1998

The stand alone ALS Cavity Test Stand

Spallation Neutron Source Front End Electronics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  TN.
*Electronics Engineering Consultant,  2000-2002
LBNL Director Outstanding Performance Award, June, 2002

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