EDUCATION |
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1982-1992 |
Utah State
University |
Logan, Utah |
1985 |
M.S.
in Electrical Engineering |
1986 |
M.S.
in Computer Sciences |
1987 |
Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering |
1989 |
M.B.A.
in Business Administration |
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1972-1977 |
Ohio State University |
Columbus, Ohio |
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B.S.
in Electrical Engineering |
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E.E.
in Professional Engineering |
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WORK EXPERIENCE |
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9/2001-present |
NSTDA, Ministry of Science |
Bangkok, Thailand |
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- Director
of Reverse Brain Drain (RBD) Project
Manage a 50-million Baht R&D funding agency |
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- Secretariat
of the Outstanding Technologist Award committee |
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- Secretariat
of the RBD committee |
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1992-9/2001 |
Orbital Sciences Corporation
(orbital.com) |
Dulles, Virginia |
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Senior Principal
Engineer |
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- Lead Electrical
Engineer on NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s
Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) project. Design
and develop the avionics for
one of the most advanced LIDAR in the world with
resolution of less than 1-ft.
MLA will be flown on the Messenger spacecraft
for a journey to the planet
Mercury in 2004. Lead the radiation and environmental
tests on the MLA’s Range
Measurement unit. Design the Range Measurement
ASIC and FPGAs using VHDL |
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- Designed
and developed U.S. Dept. of Defense’s OV-4 1-meter
resolution spacecraft separation avionics system |
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- Designed
and developed OV-3 1-meter resolution spacecraft
payload system
including both NB & WB Camera, SSR, X-band
Downlink interfaces and Ancillary
data collection. Six Actel FPGAs were designed
for the Camera/ancilliary and
Downlink cards |
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- Lead the
Integration and test of OV-3 satellite payload
system |
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- Designed
and developed SeaStar spacecraft flight computer,
ten flight and twenty-four EDU computers were
built.
( see http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov for details
on SeaStar) |
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- Modified
and improved the APEX spacecraft flight computer
and
its attitude control system |
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- Designed
and developed Error Detection and Correction
(EDAC) and its controller on an Actel FPGA |
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- Integrated
and tested SeaStar spacecraft avionics |
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- Redesigned
the Actel FPGA in the CRD unit on SeaStar |
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- Debugged
the 'Pegasus' rocket flight computer |
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- Designed
and developed BCR for Orbcomm and BATSAT |
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- Involved
in the ISO9000 certification process for SSG |
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- Debugged,
tested and redesigned the CNS-12 GPS product
at Magellan Corporation, a subsidiary of Orbital |
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- Conducted
a 2-week technical training on VHDL Design at
King
Mongkut University of Technology, Thonburi campus |
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- Lectured
on Gigabit Ethernet at Ramkhamhaeng University |
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1984-1991 |
Globesat Holding Corporation |
Logan, Utah |
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Chief Hardware
Engineer |
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- Designed
and developed a Microcomputer System for
Low-orbit Data Communication Satellites |
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- Designed
and developed real-time color video-data compression
board |
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- Designed
and developed B/W video-data compression broad
(15 frames/second) |
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- Designed
and developed three channel FDDI board with VME
interface |
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- Designed
and developed real-time color video-data compression
board |
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- Designed
and developed real-time color video-data compression
board |
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1982-1987 |
Utah State University |
Logan, Utah |
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Graduate Assistant |
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- Designed
and developed ten flight 6502-based controllers
for the "NASA's
Get Away Special" program. Space Shuttle
flights, STS-11 and STS-14.
The controller had a power-down mode in micro-Amp.
(See website http://gas.physics.usu.edu/info/history/G-004.html) |
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- Designed
and developed flasher units for the 'NUSAT' satellite
program
(Space Shuttle flight 51-B) |
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- Designed
and developed Laser communication between PC and
the flight
avionics under test in the thermal-vacuum chamber
at Rocket Propulsion
Laboratory of Edwards Air Forces Base |
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- Research
Engineer (USU faculty) |
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1978-1982 |
King Mongkut's Institute
of Technology |
Bangkok, Thailand |
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Head of Electronics
Division in E.E. Department |
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- Graduate
committee on “Diamond Tester” project at KMIT
Lard Krabang campus |
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- Advised student
projects: Z-8, 8085 and 8080 microcomputer systems,
pH meter, capacitance meter, ultrasonic tooth
scaler, temperature and water-level controller,
16-channel data logger and the 6805-based robot,
“roboMOD” |
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- Advised student
projects: Z-8, 8085 and 8080 microcomputer systems,
pH meter, capacitance meter, ultrasonic tooth
scaler, temperature and water-level controller,
16-channel data logger and the 6805-based robot,
“roboMOD” |
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- Courses taught:
Microprocessor and its applications, Digital and
Analog
Electronics, Electromagnetics, Communication Theory,
Network Analysis and
Synthesis, Digital Control Systems, Digital Signal
Processing, Direct Energy
Conversion and Instrumentation. (Note: the last
two classes belong to the
Graduate School of Energy and Materials) |
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1977 |
Ohio State University |
Columbus, Ohio |
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- Designed
and developed Small Scale Integrated Circuit from
concept design to
final product testing including mask lay-out design,
wafer testing, photolithography, etching, diffusion,
oxidation, assembly, packacking
and final testing |
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PAPERS |
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Tantiphanwadi,
S., “Spacecraft Computers on the SeaStar Satellite”,
USU’s Small Satellite Conference, Aug. 23-26,
1999 |
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Tantiphanwadi,
S., “OrbView-4’s Pegasus Separation Interface”,
SpaceComm’99, AmSat-UK Colloquium, July 23-25,
1999 |
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Tantiphanwadi,
S., Abdou, W., “The Development of an Attitude
Sensing System
for Small Satellites”, Proceedings of the 2nd
Annual AIAA/USU Conference on
Small Satellites, Sept. 18-21, 1988 |
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AWARDS |
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Tantiphanwadi,
S., Abdou, W., “The Development of an Attitude
Sensing System
for Small Satellites”, Proceedings of the 2nd
Annual AIAA/USU Conference on
Small Satellites, Sept. 18-21, 1988 |
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PERSONAL |
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Excellent health,
Married,
U.S. certified private pilot,
PADI certified SCUBA diver,
U.S. permanent resident visa |