Director of Engineering at Dymedix Corporation
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
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- Director of Engineering at Dymedix Corporation
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- Sr Principal Engineer at Ciber
- Pres/CTO at CTPX
- Director of Production/Engineering at Nicollet
- Project/Design Engineer at ADC
- Product Engineer at Siemens
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Reinhold Henke’s Summary
Highly experienced, German-trained Electronics Engineer backed by more than 29 years of professional product design, development and management expertise. Energetic leader and dynamic motivator with a record for infusing enthusiasm into his management and design team.
His professional experience spans three multi-national corporations and three local start-up companies. Accomplished career in program management covering product design and development of high tech collateral for the industrial, commercial and consumer industries. Invented and co-invented over 50 US and international patents.
Reinhold's designs, products and patents have enabled revenue streams exceeding a Billion dollars for his employers, clients and customers.
He specializes in world class product design utilizing a systematic and repeatable patent and product development strategy. Extensive experience in traversing the scale from simple to complex, medium to large projects.
Reinhold excels in leading management and development teams with a strong inspirational leadership style. His outstanding interpersonal skills and dynamic working style integrates well with an existing professional environment, delivering superior product within the corporate constraints of time, budget and resources.
Reinhold Henke’s Specialties:
• Concept to Customer
• Extremely High Speed
• IP Mining and Harvesting
• Laser Transceivers
• Life Testing
• Medical Devices
• Microwave and RF
• Product Commercialization
• Project Assessments
• Quality Evaluations
• Reliability/Robustness Test Methodologies
• Reverse Engineering
• Safety/Telecom/Emission/Homologations
• Sensors
• Signal Integrity
• Very Low Power Designs
• Virtual Device Development
• Wireless
Reinhold Henke’s Experience
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Director of Engineering
Dymedix Corporation
(Medical Devices industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Designed and developed a dynamically dosing Neuromodulation system to help people worldwide to sleep better and live longer
Pioneered a unique patent mining strategy resulting in over 3 dozen US and International patent applications.
Implemented a fast, reliable and low cost electronic product development method, strategy and platform with a seamless migration path from concept to production
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Sr Principal Engineer
Ciber
(Public Company; CBR; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 10 months)
[client] Designed, developed and brought into production a high power, high current, high temperature, and high reliability arc suppressed power relay for applications in the food processing industry resulting in two (2) patent applications.
[client] Designed, developed and brought into production a multi purpose diesel powered cabin and engine heating aggregate for trucking applications in the automobile industry.
[client] Trained, taught and instructed members of the design and development team in the art of testing and designing an EMC proof product in the RF to 10 GHz operating region.
[client] Evaluated and improved the design documentation and physical implementation for a 4 Gbps Fiber optic laser transceiver module.
[client] Designed, prototyped and tested a new VoIP supporting speaker pedestal interface device for a well known Fortune 500 Fast Food Corporation... The prototype needed to be designed, built and tested within three weeks from start of the project. -
Pres/CTO
CTPX
(Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
March 1990 — 2004 (14 years )
Created, manufactured, marketed and sold a line of extremely flexible telephony interface conversion products, including the very novel, small, fully isolated SocketSLIC module, which supports 32 selectable and programmable interfaces. Pioneered line of truly universal PC-based Computer Telephony signaling interface converters. Obtained safety and telecom approval for the first PC based telephony interface converter in Australia.
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Director of Production/Engineering
Nicollet
(Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1988 — 1990 (2 years )
Managed, guided and operated a full-scale engineering design and development department. Authored and published technical papers, relating to low emissions, low susceptibility, low noise analog and high speed digital design environments maintaining the utmost signal integrity at very low cost. Was invited to speak at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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Project/Design Engineer
ADC
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1984 — 1988 (4 years )
Designed and developed high-speed digital and analog transmission products, data/voice multiplexers, digital and analog telephony equipment and fiber optic transmission systems for industry and government. Got involved in all aspects of high volume, high quality electronic manufacturing, including prototyping, test, quality assurance, pre-production, production release, full production and ongoing quality control.
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Product Engineer
Siemens
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1980 — 1983 (3 years )
Installed, tested and maintained earth satellite transceiver stations, VHF, UHF transmitters and Microwave communication systems for government and industry. In addition to a high level of technical and people skill, the position also required high level security clearance. Other key requirements were leading and managing a fully trained four-person technical team, traveling extensively and maintaining an impeccable rapport with military and commercial customers.
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Reinhold Henke’s Interests:
Science & Technology Travel & Education Rocks & Minerals Music & Table tennis
Reinhold Henke’s Groups:
Member of the IEEE for over 25 years
Member of the National Geographic Society for over 25 years
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Reinhold Henke’s Honors:
A Sampling of Titles of My Most Recent US and International Patent Applications:
1. Heat Management System for a Power Switching Device
2. Apparatus and Method for increasing Switching Life of Electromechanical Contacts in a Hybrid Power Switching Device
3. Agitator To Stimulate The Central Nervous System
4. Polarized Respiratory Air Temperature and Pressure Change Sensor
5. Closed Loop Neuromodulator
6. Anti-Habituating Sleep Therapy for a Closed Loop Neuromodulator
7. EMI/ESD Hardened Sensor Interface for a Closed Loop Neuromodulator
8. Activity Detector for a Closed Loop Neuromodulator
9. Stimulus Timer for a Closed Loop Neuromodulator
10. Dosage Optimization for a Closed Loop Neuromodulator
11. Wireless Pyro/Piezo Sensor System
12. Wireless Pyro/Piezo Sensor
13. Wireless Pyro/Piezo Sensor Transceiver
14. Wireless Pyro/Piezo Sensor Base Station
15. Hybrid Circuit for a Pyro/Piezo Sensor and Stimulator
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