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Gary
Bergstrom
Electrical Engineer
Education
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Ohio State University
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1977
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Ohio State University
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy, 1973-1974
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Wittenberg University,
Springfield, Ohio.
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Physics, 1973
Job Experience
President - Magnesense,
LLC
2000 - Present
- Co-founded the company with
Joe Seale
- Primary architect for both
electronic and software systems
- Applied for 5 patents, 4
granted so far
- Presented paper to SAE TOPTEC
symposium on flux control of electromagnetic valves
Engineering Consultant
to FluidSense, Inc. - a medical infusion pump startup company
1996 - 1998
- Designed most of the initial
electronic hardware
- Built the initial electronic
hardware and some of the mechanical hardware
- Wrote the initial control
code
Consulting Engineer
1988 - present
Partial list of projects:
- Corneal thickness gauge
(pachymeter) for Vision Medical Instruments
Designed electronic hardware and software for measuring the thickness
of a cornea by measuring an ultrasound signal - 1 patent issued
- Designed analog hardware
for BrainMaster Technologies, an EEG measurement company
- Ferrous metal detection
system for Predict DLI
Redesigned a system used to detect wear particles in used oil from rotating
machinery.
- Wrote the software kernel
for a British company (MPE) for their commercial Motorola 68HC12 Forth
system.
- With Joe Seale, designed
a magnetically levitate ultrasound system for Nicolet/EME
1 patent issued
- Designed hardware for
Dallas firm (New Micro's Inc.), including single board data acquisition
hardware (16 bit A/D, V20 CPU board, DSP board)
- Designed and built a video
frame grabber/digitizer for NASA Lewis (now Glenn Research Center)
- Designed embedded hardware
and software for lighting control systems for ETA Lighting.
- Designed and manufactured
a 90 channel strain gage system for tire measurement for Goodrich Tire.
- complete electronic design/fabrication of amplifiers & filters
all the way up to and including the embedded processors that collected
the data
Partner/Director of Engineering
- Spectrum energy
1996-present
- Co-developed battery charging
algorithm for lead acid batteries. 1 patent issued.
Director of Software Engineering
NEVE/Orion Research Inc
1990-1991
- Designed hardware and headed
3 person software team that developed a mixing console for the television/video
industry
- Financial problems closed
the company in 1991
Partner - Symtrac Corp. specializing
in blood pressure monitoring
1985-1990
- Developed hardware for detection
and measurement of ultrasound signals for use in pressure measurements
(blood and eye pressures)
- Support came from Critikon,
Inc. (a J&J company) and the NIH.
- Wrote software to control
hardware
Senior Design Engineer - Keithley
Instruments
1980-1985
- Designed
a number of products and in-house systems including:
- 705 Scanner - microprocessor
based, IEEE488 controlled switching system
- 1920 AC to DC Trms convertor
for use in top end voltmeters
- In-house 6809 in-circuit
development system
- 6 ½ digit meltimeter
digital hardware/power supply/first pass software design
Senior Engineer -dbx Inc.
1977-1979
- Designed high end audio
equipment in the Boston area. 1 patent issued
Programming
I specialize in writing embedded
code for 8/16 bit processors and DSP chips. Forth and assembly language
are my major languages, but I also write in C, AWK, Fortran, VB, Postscript,
LUA and assorted others when required. Engineering
Design
I design analog systems and microprocessor
embedded systems. I used CAD tools for pcboard layout, magnetic FEA, Spice
(integrated into the schematic capture system I use). In addition I do spreadsheets,
graphics, presentations, report writing, and grant proposal writing.
Professional
Societies
I am a long term member of the
IEEE, a member of the SAE, and a past long term member of both the AES and
the ACM. |
