FRB Design and Development Principals

 

Stephen Dunifer

 

Stephen is an electronic systems design engineer with extensive experience in RF, analog and digital design.  He has designed, developed and marketed a complete line of FM & TV transmitters/amplifiers, antenna systems and related equipment for the community broadcasting sector.

 

His areas of expertise include: digital and microprocessor/microcontroller circuit design; RF; audio; video; data acquisition and sensors; I/O and interfaces; power supplies; power and motion control; instrumentation, both industrial and biomedical; PCB design and fabrication; rapid prototyping using 3D printing and CNC machining; sheet metal design and fabrication; technical writing; and 3D CAD.

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Stephen is very experienced in working with component manufacturers and vendors, both domestically and in China.  He has established working relationships with a number of PCB fabrication and assembly houses in China along with several injection molding manufacturers as well.

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Greg Ames

 

Greg has more than 30 years in the technology field. He has held numerous roles including Software Developer, Project Lead, Project Manager, Product Manager, Director of Engineering and V.P. of Engineering. He worked for Apple Computer on and off for more than 17 years and has led a number of technology development and engineering organizations, most recently SunEdison.

 

As a hands-on developer specializing in Internet and Internet of Things solutions,  he has built a number of solutions including remote vehicles, monitoring of home devices, monitoring of seniors and power management. He has also been involved in a number of large art projects presented at Burning Man.

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Greg works with a number of embedded platforms including Arduino/Atmel, ESP8266/ESp32, nRF52 series and Raspberry Pi.  His expertise covers the following software tools: C, C++, Java, Java Enterprise, Pascal, Assembler, Arduino Ide, Eclipse IDE, Linux, Debian Linux, RTOS, Apache Tomcat, MY SQL, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite.  In addition, Greg has an extensive background in computer hardware.