HOWARD LEVEQUE 4316 Oxbow Ct. (410) 465-6714 Ellicott City, MD 21042 hl12eaba4@westpost.

net SUMMARY Extensive experience in the design and development of RF/Radio communications eq uipment such as receivers, exciters, and related products, including DSP impleme ntations. Areas of strength include circuit design and system design for new RF /Radio product developments. EXPERIENCE Recent Permanent Orbital Sciences Scientist May 2008 to July 2010

Design and system architecture for satellite GPS receiver, computation and displ ay of receiver parameters such as gain distribution, IP3, IP2, P1db, AGC range, attack and release, noise figure, filtering, image rejection, IF rejection, LO f eedthrough, S/N, noise temperatures, RFI levels and frequencies, LNA, roofing fi lters, defining interface with DSP, etc. Circuit and system design of Ultra-Stable-Oscillator synthesizer for the MMS spa cecraft, phase-locked loops - fractional-N loop, Integer-N loop, test and checko ut of engineering boards, write NASA specifications for OCXO, USO, VCXO, identif y and utilize space qualified components, generate schematics and parts lists, r eview RF and analog layout, investigate alternate synthesizer approaches, techni cal coordination with vendors, present design review, other analog and RF design work. Technical Contractor/Consultant 1995 a" 1998 2003 a" 2008 EDC: Circuit and system design, and technical analysis of new HF/VHF receiv er/transmitter product. Apcom: Analyze and develop solutions to design problems in 20-3000 Mhz synthesi zed receivers, HF and VHF receive multi-couplers, and .5-8 Ghz 6X6, 16X32, and 3 2X48 microwave switches. Cornet: Design of high-speed (50MHz) A/D and D/A converter analog circuitry. R F switching matrix. SGS Thomson: Technical evaluation of radio and rf patents, devices, and circuitr y. Michelle Larson P.C.: Technical evaluation of RF/analog/digital patents and asso ciated circuitry. Allied Signal: System and circuit design of an HF/VHF/UHF digital tactical recei ver for MATTS program, 30 - 400 Mhz, 1 Hz steps; FSK, BPSK data, voice. Calculat e S/N, noise figure, third-order intercept, second-order intercept, 1 db compres sion, gain distribution, AGC distribution, filter requirements, IF rejection, im age rejection, LO reradiation, SFDR, etc., to meet system requirements. Performe d component selections and circuit design. Other Permanent Corvis Corporation 1998 a" 2003 Senior Analog Design Engineer a Design of analog circuitry DC-200 MHz in support of optical communications sys tems, AGC systems for laser amplifiers, many different RF and analog communicati ons circuits.

Link-Plus Corporation 1977 a" 1998 Chief Engineer (1982 to 1998) H.F. Communications Corporation Founder (1977 to 1982 - merged with Link-Plus) a Design and development of communications products from original concept throug h production release. a HOWARD LEVEQUE Page 2 a RF system design and analog and digital circuit design for units using AM, AME , SSB, DSB, FM, PM, FSK, BPSK, and other modulations. a Determine DSP algorithm functional requirements and manage software developmen t and test. a Bench-level design, technical staff direction, project scheduling, budgeting, marketing support, and customer technical interfacing. Products designed: a Family of DSP-based radio modems that reduce noise and interference in AM/SSB voice links an average of 22 db by using syllabic compression to reduce the tran smit complex waveform peak-to-average ratio and linked inverse receive expansion to accurately restore dynamic range. An FM control tone is used for compander linking. Automatic frequency calibration of HF links is done by transmission of a calibrate format for pattern correlation, frequency measurement, and baseband translation in the receive demodulator. Allows transparent data communications b etween voice syllables. Variations (see patents) provide improvements in FM voic e quality, provide multiple-access capability, and reduce peak-to-average transm it requirements for multitone data by inverse processing in the demodulator. a A multichannel synthesized dedicated HF receiving system with up to 24 receive rs remotely controlled from up to 12 operator positions, using novel frequency c onversion scheme. a Synthesized dedicated HF SSB exciter-PA of high spectral purity for USB/LSB vo ice and data. a System and circuit design of a VOT/VHF multi-modulation FM transmitter with hi ghly accurate modulation characteristics used to determine airborne VOR receiver accuracy. FAA approval. a A full duplex FSK trunk-dialer modem that allows telephone dialing, ringing, a nd conversation across HF/SSB radio. Appears as normal telephone operation to un trained operators. a A speech-plus unit that provides simultaneous voice and data over standard HF/ SSB links. Circuits designed: a DSP processors, ROM, CODECs, IIR/FIR filters, anti-aliasing filters, radio int erfaces, RF amplifiers, IF amplifiers, audio amplifiers, attenuators, mixers, RF filters, IF filters, audio filters, AM/SSB/FM detectors, synthesizers, phase-lo ck loops, AGC loops, ALC/TGC loops, system logic, PLAs, A/D-D/A converters, FSK/ PSK modems, microprocessors, BITE, power supplies. Contract studies: a Tactical communications jammer analysis (govt.), companding FM noise reduction (SBIR). a Investigation of intelligent HF receivers for automatic signal acquisition and interpretation. a Synthesized remote-control HF exciter design for AME/USB/LSB/FM SSB, 2ISB, 4IS B a Various others for FEMA, FAA, FCC, USCG, ITU, etc. Frederick Electronics Corporation 1973 a" 1977 Manager, Radio Group. a Technical supervision of engineers and technicians, hardware design, budgeting

, scheduling, proposals, and customer technical interfacing, from concept to production releas e. a Design lead for M1575A synthesized HF exciter; 2-30 MHz 100 Hz steps, using a multi-loop indirect digital VHF synthesizer. a Design lead for M1555 family of synthesized HF exciters. a Modem design. Earlier - Rockwell-Collins, Boeing, Philco-Ford <1973 Design Engineer a DC-VHF circuit design on the RT-1016/ARC-153 HF transceiver (USB, LSB, AM, SSB /2ISB). a IF detection noise blanker, 888B auto-tuning HF receive front-end HV filter. a S-band tracking down-converter. a Writing code to test SSB/FM, SSB/AM, PAM-PCM/FM telemetry systems. EDUCATION University of Santa Clara: Graduate studies toward M.S.E.E., 75% complete Louisiana State University: Graduate studies toward M.S.E.E. Louisiana Tech University: B.S.E.E. 1965 HOWARD LEVEQUE Page 3

PATENTS 4,107,612 Phaselocked Loop Exciter Generator for HF Transmitter 4,271,499 Method and Apparatus for Digitally Implementing a Linked Companding Te lecom System 4,839,906 Processor-based Linked Telecommunications Companding 4,868,861 Trunk Dialing Converter 4,907,217 System and Method of Transmitting Complex Waveform over Communications Channels 4,944,024 Method and Apparatus for reducing Noise in Linked Companding Telecommu nications 5,022,055 Trunk Dialing Converter 5,058,202 System and Method of Transmitting and Receiving a Lincompex 5,065,451 Frequency Drift Compensation in a Radio Communication System 5,095,539 System and Method of Control Tone Amplitude Modulation in Linked Compa nding 5,454,010 System and Method for Calibration of Frequency Hopping OTHER Clearance: S/INFOSEC; prior TS/SBI. (all inactive now)