John Nicosia

jnicosia1@tampabay.rr.com
Dunedin, Fl. 34698
(727) 741-2208
Professional Experience
Honey Bear Electronics

April 2012 to present

Dunedin, Florida
Designs of late from HBE include:

Requirements were to design an interface with a CCD sensor and transmit its
output signal, control signals, and power over a fifteen foot cable while
maintaining signal purity, and regenerating the control signals. This was done by
using differential drivers for the output signal, which were impedance matched to
the cable, and LVDS transmitters and receivers, also matched to the cable, for
the control signals. The signals were transmitted using a standard USB to mini
USB cable. The receiving end at the computer interface could receive four
channels. This was needed for a modification to a spectroscopy system which
was having noise issues. The unit was put into production, all documentation
including schematic, layout, gerbers, and BOM were delivered, and the
customer is in production.

Same customer, next design. In this unit, the design required a sixteen channel
multiplexed design to read the outputs of 16 of 128 Nitrogen cooled sensor
diodes for an infrared spectrometer. The design consisted of 8, 16 channel
boards, which include, per channel, a low noise impedance matched gain stage,
an integrator with a reset, and two sample and hold circuits with separate resets
to measure and maintain the dark and sampled data. These two sample and
hold circuits were inputs to an instrumentation amplifier whose output went to a
16:1 multiplexer, which was buffered and sent to the main computer for
digitization. All documentation for this unit is also complete with schematics,
layout, gerbers, and BOM for production.

Mosquito trap (slightly different requirements). A trap (non fatal) was required
that would run off of various inputs from 4.8 to 28 V and supply a fixed 6.3 V to a
motor and lamp, and a fixed current to two rows of LEDs. The unit had three
selections for turn off voltages depending on battery type (to protect the
batteries from over discharge), and two switches for operating modes,
depending on the requirements. All power supplies were switching for efficiency
and battery life.

Telecommunication Systems, Inc.

January 2012 to March 2012

Tampa, Florida
I worked as an engineer designing circuit boards using Altium, which I learned during this time.
I was laid off when TCS did not get the contract that I had been hired to design.
Honey Bear Electronics, LLC

June, 2002 to December 2011

Dunedin, Florida
I am self employed as a consultant, and have built a virtual company, HBE, with other consultants,
who are available by contract, including RF, board layout, firmware, software, mechanical and other
EEs. In this role I have worked on and designed schematics, circuit boards and final assembles
including testing for final deliverables.
Designs of late from HBE include:

Power supply. Designed and laid out a power supply for a fly away terminal
meeting mil specs for output noise and conducted input noise and spikes, with

inputs from any standard AC, (90-265V), DC, (10-60V), and a rechargeable
battery. This unit supplied up to 200 W from any input with automatic switchover,
and was approximately 2 inches square. Design included thermal analysis,
current flow analysis and interconnect integrity analysis for proof of design. This
unit was shipped, as originally designed, (with two white wires).

LCROSS/NASA modification to QE65000 for moon mission. I redesigned a

version of the QE65000 for requirements for a flight to the moon. This included
verification of the unit in a vacuum, over a wider temperature range, and with a
different input voltage and control structure. The unit completed its mission and
supplied spectrometer data to the space craft which is available on line, showing
that water is present on the moon.

Spectrometers for Ocean Optics in Dunedin. Products included the QE65000,

USB2000+, USB4000, NIRQUEST, Light sources for 3000 V bulbs, incandescent
and LED, and the JAZ stackable spectrometer system, including many of its
stackable subassemblies.

Custom electronics for automobile aftermarket products and protection circuits

for products already in the field.

Tracking telescopes using a 486 based Linux machine.

Tampa Microwave Lab, Inc.

Tampa, Florida

July, 1993 to June, 2002

This is a small business. I was brought in as a part

owner. I was serving many job functions.
V I C E P R E S I D E N T , ME MB E R O F TH E B O A R D O F D I R E C TO R S , D I R E C T O R O F
S A L E S A N D M A R K E TI N G , E N G I N E E R

Initially responsible for sales and marketing of microwave pr oducts,

with engineering tasks, including:
advertising, wor ld wi de customer interf ace and support, quotes and
contract negotiat ions, f ield repr esent ative hir ing and management,
catalog and data sheet generat ion, or ders f orecasting, marketing
direct ions, and sales entr y. I also gener ated, and was responsible
f or, the tampamicrowave.com web page.

Increased sales >15% per year f or 9 ye ars by steer ing the company
to higher levels of integration of its products, and by helping
develop and put into product ion new devices based upon digital
technolog y.

Moved the company into higher levels of product sophist ication and
AUPs using TML cor e t echnolog y to increase prices and prof it s.

Current engineer ing tasks including:

Product ion support, design and prod uction of digital f ractional N
phase locked oscillators using PLDs and synthesizers, high
eff iciency switching power supplies f or microwave applications,
logic interf aces, DDS f unctions f or extremely low step size
synthesizers, coding f or RS485 and 432 interf aces, aut omatic
testing programming, VHDL, Basic, and PIC assembly language
coding.

Am f luent in W ord, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Front Page, several

PLD coding system s, and Boolean programming, if required, f or
PLDs.

Systems design.
Designed system level m icrowave, ( up to 30
GHz), subsystems based upon customer requirements, using both
Tampa Microwave and vendor part s. Negotiated, won , and
managed contracts exceeding 1.2 Million Dollars.

February, 1992 to July, 1993

Honey Bear Electronics

Dunedin, Florida
CONSULTING ENGINEER

Digital and analog designs f or small and medium pr ograms.

Designs included high voltage (10 KV) power suppli es, mult i
channel t ime delay controllers f or electr onic detonation, and silver
recover y systems f or photographic developers.
February, 1986 to February, 1992

Avantek, Inc.
Dunedin, Florida (Field Sales Office)
FIELD SALES ENGINEER

Sales of microwave
throughout Florida.

In the f irst f ive years grew the territ or y by 500%.

Distr ibut ion sales doubled, and accounted f or approximately half of

sales.

Duties included dir ect account calls to engineering, purchasing,

and managem ent at all levels, working with distributors, presenting
seminars, negotiating contracts, specif ications, and pr ices, and
managing own of f ice.

Hunter and Ready

Dunedin, Florida (Field Sales Office)

compon ents,

militar y

and

com mercial

June, 1984 to November, 1985

DISTRICT SALES MANAGER

Sale of real-t ime multitasking operat ing systems f or em bedded

microprocessor applications

Texas Instruments, Inc.

Clearwater, Florida (Field Sales Office)

October, 1979 to June, 1984

FIELD SALES ENGINEER

Account responsibilities, both direct and through distrib ut ion, f or

Pinellas Count y, Flor ida.

Off ice manager with several million dollars of sales. Systems and
product engineer presented technical seminars on microprocessors,
minicomputers, linear, digital, opto, and discrete devices.

Sperry Microwave Electronics

Clearwater, Florida

August, 1976 to October, 1979

SENIOR ENGINEER

Design of analog measurement and stimulus of automat ic board

testers.
Design of arbitrary f unction generators with DDS and PLL drivers,
DMMs, f requency/time inter val monitors.
IEEE interf aces using the 2901 processor including "nanocode f or
the 2901.

High resolut ion PLLs, and high speed pulse generat ors.

General Dynamics EB Div

Groton, Connecticut

August, 1974 to August, 1975

ENGINEER

Analog and digital design f or the missile t ube environment al control

system f or the Trident submarine program

D U C A T I O N

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1970 to 1974

T ROY, NEW YORK

B ac h e l or of Sc ie nc e, E lec tr ic al E ng i ne er i ng , C on tr ol S ys t em s

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

T ROY, NEW YORK
Mas t er s of En g i ne er i n g, El ec tr ic a l E n g in e er i ng , C on tro l S ys t em s

1975 to 1976