Charles J. Malek, P.E.

Current

• Principal Systems Engineer at Rockwell-Collins
• Consulting Engineer, Patent Agent, and Instructor Pilot at Charles J. Malek, P.E. & Associates

Past

• Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola, Inc.
• Principal Engineer at National Semiconductor
• Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Summary

Director/Manager of Engineering/Principal Systems Engineer. P.E. and Patent Agent with 20 issued U.S. Utility Patents covering cellular, cordless, and secure land-mobile radio. Providing Consulting Engineering and Intellectual Property services.

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Specialties:

Consulting Engineering, in embedded SW, DSPs, FPGAs, continuous-time analog, systems and semiconductor architecture and design, and communications theory for the wireless, telecom, avionics/aerospace, and consumer electronics industries.
Piloting and flight Instruction.
Intellectual Property: Expert Testimony, patentability analysis, portfolio development, and contract patent proscution.

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Experience

• Principal Systems Engineer

  Rockwell-Collins

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COL; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Business and Regional Avionics and Inmarsat SATCOM systems engineering.

• Consulting Engineer, Patent Agent, and Instructor Pilot

  Charles J. Malek, P.E. & Associates

  (Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff

  Motorola, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1998 — May 2006 (8 years 5 months)

  Technologist. Expert in Signal Processing, highly embedded SW, ASIC/FPGA baseband chip design for telecommunications, communications theory, and protocols for 3GPP1, 3GPP2, IEEE802.16e, IEEE802.11x. Patent Agent and Patent Committee Technical Reviewer.

• Principal Engineer

  National Semiconductor

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NSM; Semiconductors industry)

  January 1995 — January 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  Chief Architect for Cordless. Faculty Member at National Semiconductor University, teaching CDMA and communications theory. Award-winning researcher. Specialist in new business development for cellular and cordless technologies.

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1974 — January 1995 (20 years 8 months)

  Principal designer for many OEM products in Secure Land Mobile Radio. Marketing, Applications Engineering, and Customer support for Western Europe and Japan in the. Secure Comm International Marketing group. COMSEC experience, U.S. citizen. SW Architect for Cordless Telephones. DSP Instructor for IS-136. Direct Manager for small, focused R/D teams. Architect and Designer for ISM, DECT, and PHS cordless FPGAs.

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  1970 — 1974

Additional Information

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Interests:

Commercial Pilot and Instructor Pilot for Airplane Single and MultiEngine Land and Instrument Airplane. Advanced and Instrument Ground Instructor.

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Groups:

IEEE.
AOPA.
EAA.
ARRL.

•    Motorola Alumni
•    Chicago Technology Network
•    Motorola Past & Present
•    Lake County Prosperity Forum

Charles J. Malek, P.E.’s Honors:

Motorola Distinguished Innovator.
National Semiconductor Nif/T Innovation Award.
National Semiconductor FY1996 Outstanding performance Award.
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying registered Model Law Engineer.

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