Senior Analog Engineer at Philips Color Kinetics
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Senior Analog Engineer at Philips Color Kinetics
- Past
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- Senior Electrical Engineer at Energetiq Technology
- Principal Engineer at General Dynamics AIS
- Graduate Student Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Education
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- University of Michigan
- University of Chicago
- Connections
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- Industry
- Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Websites
Fred Niell’s Summary
Physicist with over a decade of high power and pulse electronics design and engineering, as well as high speed algorithm implementation on FPGA hardware. Specializing in high voltage, high current pulse electronics, as well as nonlinear modeling of magnetic elements and circuitry. Extensive experience with switch mode power supplies for industrial applications. Key skills include high power electronics, magnetic switching, high current and high voltage systems, FPGA algorithm design, pulse power systems, extensive digital, analog PCB and electronics design experience.
Fred Niell’s Specialties:
RF and controls engineering & design, FPGA, CPLD, DSP, imbedded microcontroller experience, Verilog, VHDL, CoreFire design synthesis, simulation, verification, particle accelerator design (Power RF, Controls, Machining, Vacuum, Magnets, Instrumentation), C, C++, COP8 assembly, PIC assembly, Protel, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, OrCad, Xilinx 8.1i (10.1i), Vellum, Matlab, LabView, MS Office, UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Mac OS X, Competency in Spanish, Lapsed TS clearance
Fred Niell’s Experience
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Senior Analog Engineer
Philips Color Kinetics
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Senior Analog Engineer designing power supplies for commercial, entertainment, and retail LED lighting solutions
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Senior Electrical Engineer
Energetiq Technology
(Semiconductors industry)
May 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Design, modeling, prototyping, and production of multi-MW per pulse inductively driven light sources. Up to 60kW continuous power delivery. Design work from nonlinear magnetic modeling all the way through PCB layout and fabrication. Designed 25kW 3-phase power supplies, several pulse and CW plasma drivers. Designed >100kW per pulse laser drivers. Experience with power systems from mW to GW. Currently leading product development team for laser-driven deep UV light source.
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Principal Engineer
General Dynamics AIS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GD; Defense & Space industry)
September 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 9 months)
Studied radar algorithms specializing in MTI work and implementation of high speed real-time image formation algorithms on FPGA hardware and cots high power computing systems. Studied statistical signal processing and STAP.
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Graduate Student Researcher
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(Government Agency; Research industry)
June 1995 — April 2003 (7 years 11 months)
Worked in RF Group designing and modeling ferrite cavities and RF power amplifiers. Later worked in CDF group as a graduate student. Designed and built amplifiers and modulators over 15kV, 20kW.
Fred Niell’s Education
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University of Michigan
MS , Physics , 1999 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Graduate Employee Organization, Optical Society of America, Alumni Schools Comittee
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University of Chicago
BA , Physics , 1995 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Society of Physics Students
Additional Information
Fred Niell’s Websites:
Fred Niell’s Interests:
Climbing, guitar, audio, high power electronics, industrial design, nixie tubes and other vacuum tube electronics
Fred Niell’s Groups:
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, IEEE Electron Devices Society, Optical Society of America
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University of Chicago Alumni -
Power Management Professionals
Fred Niell’s Honors:
Eagle and Eagle Television, London, UK
Scientific Consultant, Spring 2003. Explained nuclear physics and reactor design dynamics for new Channel 4 UK documentary
The British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK
Featured Scientist, Fall 1999. Appeared in PBS/BBC cosmology series, “Stephen Hawking’s Universe." Explained role of particle accelerators in understanding matter, work of pioneers in high energy physics. Demonstrated function of two particle accelerators of my own design and construction.
* GDAIS Creative Technology Proposal Award for novel container inspection system for Homeland Security, February 2006
* GDAIS Excellence Award for program achievements, November 2004
* Member of Alumni Schools Committee, recruitment interviewer for University of Chicago, September 2003 to Present
* ASC Outstanding Volunteer Award, January 2006
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