Fred Katz

Current

• Owner at Fred Katz Consulting, Inc.
• Member at LICN

Past

• Senior Project Engineer at Honeywell Security & Custom Electronics
• Consultant at Space Systems Loral
• Chief Engineer, East Meadow Operation at Hameg Instruments GmbH

• Senior Engineer at Norden Systems, div of United Technologies (now Northrup Grumman)
• Principal Engineer at Telephonics Corporation
• Chief Engineer at Quantum Sensing, Inc
• Engineer at Hartman Systems
• Engineer, PRD Division at Harris Corporation
• Engineer at Fairchild Space and Defense Systems

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Education

• City University of New York

Connections

315 connections

Industry

Consumer Electronics

Fred Katz’s Summary

Experienced Electrical Engineering consultant with extensive experience in commercial and military electronics.

Fred Katz’s Specialties:

• Clever Inventions & Patents
• Innovative Algorithm Creation
• Commercial and Military Products
• Intellectual Property Development
• Analog & Digital Circuitry & Systems
• Wireless, Sensor & μPower Circuitry
• System Analysis and Documentation
• Security, Marine & Energy Saving Design
• Passive Infrared (PIR) Motion Sensor Expert
• Occupancy Sensor Design
• Winning Proposals, Contracts & Specifications

Fred Katz’s Experience

• Owner

  Fred Katz Consulting, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  Fred Katz Consulting, Inc is a privately held engineering consultant organization. FKC is an electronics consultant firm, that is based in Long Island, New York, that supplies clever, innovative solutions to industry in the area of electronic design, designs for large volume production, scientific studies, proposal generation and other tasks; specializing in analog design, digital design and system architecture and design.
  www.FredKatzConsulting.com

• Member

  LICN

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

  I have been a member of LICN since 2004.

• Senior Project Engineer

  Honeywell Security & Custom Electronics

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 1996 — June 2006 (10 years 6 months)

  Designed consumer product circuitry for mass production. Developed high-tech, wireless, low-powered sensing devices used for home and industrial security and for home automation applications. Invented new and original product ideas and developed Intellectual Property for Honeywell, including multiple patent applications (one patent granted and the others currently pending). Expert in the design of low-power, high-gain sensor circuitry. These were used for economical production of large-scale commercial products in that they reduced the component count of the products. Proficient in highly accurate and precise temperature sensing instrumentation, and developed a wireless heat detector. Invented, designed and developed a wireless frost, heat, freezer, refrigerator and flood sensor. This item replaced a single function device at a savings of 40% of the previous manufacturing cost. It is explained in detail on the internet at the following

• Consultant

  Space Systems Loral

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  September 1995 — June 1996 (10 months)

  Participated on the ATARS camera system. Performed Built In Test (BIT) analysis, troubleshooting and critical review of existing digital/analog designs. Identified design deficiencies through statistical data-analysis modeling techniques. Wrote specification for a 256 mega-pixel reconnaissance camera system. Reverse-engineered and created block diagrams for a complex video system. Participated in a proposal team (TARS camera system) for an electro-optical sensor sys-tem, obtaining a development contract for the target product.

• Chief Engineer, East Meadow Operation

  Hameg Instruments GmbH

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Ran NY division of large test equipment company. Wrote catalog and data sheet text. Developed printer interface for 1GHz spectrum analyzer. Analyzed product failure modes for design improvement.

• Senior Engineer

  Norden Systems, div of United Technologies (now Northrup Grumman)

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 1978 — June 1992 (14 years 6 months)

  Designed Digital Signal Processing (DSP) circuitry for sonar acoustic intercept (AN/WLR-9, AL/WLR-12, BQQ5, BQQ6). This electronics processed sonar signals and differentiated between enemy submarines and marine crustaceans and mammals.
  
  Designed digital data trap used to capture acoustic signals from audio tape. Was responsible for locating obsolete components as well as new components such as hybrids and ASICs.

• Principal Engineer

  Telephonics Corporation

  (Public Company; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 1975 — January 1978 (3 years 1 month)

  Lead circuit design engineer for the Advanced Systems IR&D group, developing fast turn around circuit/system designs, proposals and new business activities. Was responsible for the development of a digital stereo entertainment system used in commercial airliners. Designed communication control electronics and displays. Performed analog and digital circuit/system designs for proposals and developed the hardware upon contract award. As a result of writing a winning proposal, the company received a contract from IBM valued at well over $50M. Designed and developed a MIL-STD-1553 data interface.

• Chief Engineer

  Quantum Sensing, Inc

  (Semiconductors industry)

  January 1970 — January 1975 (5 years 1 month)

  Developed custom circuitry for optoelectronic devices. Designed and fabricated custom phototransistor sorting and test equipment. Supervised staff in building an automatic gasket sorting machine and a motor speed control based on optical scanning.

• Engineer

  Hartman Systems

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  1969 — 1970 (1 year )

  Developed digital circuitry for the S-3A's Sonobouy release system. Performed an analysis and computer simulation for Power Up Reset in a complex multi-level power supply system.

• Engineer, PRD Division

  Harris Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HRS; Defense & Space industry)

  January 1967 — January 1968 (1 year 1 month)

  Designed the Buffer Control Unit (BCU) for the Versatile Avionics System Test (VAST). Selected a line of digital logic that was used in all designs done by the company. Worked on a sub-nano-second pulse generator and developed a high speed decade divider module used in a frequency synthesizer.

• Engineer

  Fairchild Space and Defense Systems

  (Defense & Space industry)

  June 1964 — January 1968 (3 years 8 months)

  Developed special purpose test equipment for the LEM PRA used on the Apollo module. Designed and perfected special test equipment for the EA-6B Analog/Digital/Synchro converter.

Fred Katz’s Education

• City University of New York

  BEE , Electrical Engineering , 1959 — 1964

  New York State Regents Scholarship

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Delta Phi Fraternity
  CCNY Rifle Squad

Additional Information

Fred Katz’s Interests:

Computers, Electronics, Boating, Travel, Fishing, Photography

Fred Katz’s Groups:

Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Membership Grade: Senior Life Member
IEEE Consultants Network on Long Island (LICN)
New York Society of Professional Inventors, Inc.
Suffolk County Inventors & Entrepreneurs
MENSA Society
Long Island Metal Workers

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•    Mensa - Official 'Linked M's' SIG (USA)
•    IEEE-USA
•    Honeywell
•    Loyal Order of Moose
•    Long Island Business
•    Security Industry Network
•    Security Consultants and managers
•    Ex Honeywell Group
•    BAE Systems Employee & Alumni Network
•    Harris Corporation
•    Long Island Engineers
•    Riverhead NY
•    IEEE Consultants Network - Metro-NY
•    IEEE Long Island Consultants Network (LICN)
•    NE IT Consultants
•    Long Island Advancement of Small Business

Fred Katz’s Honors:

US Patent Awards (6)
IEEE Senior Member
IEEE Life Member
Six Sigma Program - Green Belt
NY State Regent's Scholarship
Mensa - 25 Year Membership Award

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