John Ross, Ph.D., P.E.
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John Ross
3282 East Vallejo Circle
Moab, Utah 84532
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Phone: 801-359-5957
Fax: 801-931-2020
johnross@johnross.com
http://www.johnross.com
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Professional Experience
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1997- present
Owner
John
Ross & Associates, LLC
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Consulting engineer
in the area of applied electromagnetics, antennas, microwave
devices and RF/analog circuits.
Clients included
small businesses, multinationals, military and government
agencies.
Developed teaming
relationships with other small business and universities to
success-fully win SBIR and STTR contracts. Principal
investigator on resultant programs.
Developed unique
and proprietary cross-disciplinary design automation tools for
solving difficult coupled design problems involving
electromagnetic and circuit analysis.
Developed
proprietary signal processing software to perform spectral and
temporal signal analysis and filtering.
Applied in-house,
government & commercial solvers to analyze & design wide
range of antennas, microstrip devices, and novel traveling wave
tube devices.
Conducted R&D, design & analysis of
smart antennas, re-configurable antennas for military vehicles,
broadband high efficiency monopole antennas for military man
packs, conformal AM/FM antennas and satellite radio antennas for
automobiles.
Invented Clearstream series of HDTV antennas
manufactured and sold by Antennas Direct and available nationwide
in Best Buy stores.
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2004 - present
Founder, President
Viamorph,
Inc.
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Lead
entrepreneurial effort to create startup-company focused on
development and commercialization of new smart antenna
technology.
Forged teaming
relationships between large Fortune 100 companies, universities
and small businesses.
Interfaced with
top-level corporate and military customers, angel investors and
venture capitalists.
Created business
plans and technology strategy to attract Seed Round investment.
Developed expertise in all aspects of startup
operation including company formation, capitalization,
intellectual property, licensing, negotiations, employee and
investor relations.
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2006 - present
Board of Advisors
Somark
Innovations, Inc.
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1996 - 1997
Visiting Assistant
Professor
University of
Idaho
Department of
Electrical Engineering
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1994 - 1996
Staff Fellow
General Motors
R&D Center
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Department
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1992 - 1994
Post Doctoral Fellow
Michigan
State University
Electromagnetics
Laboratory
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Conducted
experimental and theoretical research on radar target detection
and identifi-cation using ultra-wide band/short pulse systems.
Designed antennas
for a life detection radar system used for earthquake rescue
operations.
Provided direction to graduate research
assistants and assisted professors in proposal writing and
report preparation for numerous contracts and grants.
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1989 - 1992
Graduate Research
Assistant
Michigan State
University
Electromagnetics
Laboratory
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Conducted
experimental and theoretical research on transient scattering
phenomena re-lated to radar target discrimination.
Developed
free-field transient scattering measurement facility based on
vector network analyzer.
Time domain
scattering measurements on ground plane and free-field ranges.
Significant hands-on experience in transient
wave scattering and radiation, instrument control, data
acquisition and digital signal processing.
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1990
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Michigan
State University
Department
of Electrical Engineering
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1987 - 1988
Graduate Research
Assistant
University
of Michigan
Radiation
Laboratory
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Conducted
experimental research in millimeter wave remote sensing,
polarimetric cali-bration techniques, scattering properties of
natural targets.
Operated, tested,
repaired, and improved a suite of microwave and millimeter wave
remote sensing radars and radiometers.
Developed, designed and built unique Faraday
Rotator controller circuit used to accurately change the
polarization state of millimeter wave scatterometers.
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1985-1987
Graduate Teaching Assistant
West
Virginia University
Department
of Electrical Engineering
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1984-1985
Assistant Engineer
Illinois
Institute of Technology Research Institute
Annapolis, MD
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Implemented and
tested enhancements to the TIREM (Terrain Integrated Rough Earth
Model) program for predicting wave propagation over the earth.
Developed a program
called CCPAM (Cylindrical Conformal Phased Array Analysis Model)
for use in antenna and EMC studies.
Used NEC-2 (Numerical Electromagnetics Code)
to perform co-site interference study of Marine Tactical
Airborne Operation Control unit.
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Education
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1988 - 1992
Ph.D. Electrical
Engineering
Michigan State
University
East Lansing, MI
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1987 - 1988
Graduate Study, Electrical
Engineering
University of
Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
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1985 - 1987
M.S. Electrical Engineering
West
Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
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1982 - 1984
B.S. Electrical Engineering
West
Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
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Senior Project:
"Optical Density Measurement System"
Emphasis: RF
Engineering and Antennas
Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honorary
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1980-1982
A.A. Engineering
Potomac
State College
Keyser, WV
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Registration
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Professional Memberships
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Patents
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J.E. Ross and E.J. Rothwell, "Complementary
Self-Structuring Antenna", Filed January 2005. Abandoned.
R.E. Schneider and J.E. Ross, "Tapered loop antenna element," US D598433, August 18, 2009.
R.E. Schneider and J.E. Ross, "Double tapered loop antenna element," US D598434, August 18, 2009.
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Publications
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Awards
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Computer Skills
FORTRAN and Visual
BASIC programming
Instrument control
using HPIB interface
Administration
skills in Linux, Solaris, Windows, TCP/IP Networking
Expertise in hardware configuration and
troubleshooting
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Last updated October 18, 2006
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