LIB SRC INC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Principal Signal Processing Engineer
Brendan Garvey received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. Brendan has over 25 years of experience in the model development, simulation, design, and FPGA implementation of digital communications, wireless, and DSP sub-systems. Software tools and languages: Brendan has experience with MATLAB, VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog, digital logic simulators, the Catapult C high-level synthesis tool, and C++.
From 1988 through 1998, Brendan worked at SiCOM in Scottsdale, Arizona on various signal processing and digital communications blocks. He was the sole developer of a Hilbert Transform ASIC which he took from design to release to the foundry. He also performed simulations and trade-off studies on a charge-pump based symbol tracking loop for a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) demodulator ASIC.
From 1998 through 2003, Brendan worked for Motorola in Chandler, Arizona. Here his tasks included FPGA design, research and simulation of an all-digital symbol tracking loop based on a farrow interpolation structure, also analysis and simulation of a carrier tracking loop of an existing 64/256-QAM design.
From 2003 through 2005, Brendan worked for Spectrum Astro in Gilbert, Arizona. Here he was the Responsible Design Engineer for a satellite uplink/downlink board. Responsibilities included FPGA design modifications and board-level testing.
From 2005 through 2015, Brendan worked at General Dynamics Mission Systems in Scottsdale, Arizona. Here Brendan worked on multiple modem and waveform designs, helping to take designs from specifications and system models into FPGA implementation. He developed hardware micro-architectures for PSK spread and non-spread demodulators. He performed high-level design, detailed design and characterization of an OQPSK demodulator. He also worked on a radar program where he designed the digital downconvert module.
In 2015, Brendan started his own LLC, where he conceived, designed and implemented a cloud-based simulation framework intended to accelerate the simulation of C-based wireless communications and radar systems. The purpose of this simulation framework is to give the user the ability to create their own virtual cluster within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), while hiding the complexity and implementation details. The tool was taken to the proof-of-concept stage: an all-digital symbol tracking loop was simulated on a 69-node cluster, with a speedup of 56. Brendan actively worked on this project through 2017.
From 2018 through 2021, Brendan worked as a contractor doing C++ software development. He was part of a modeling team responsible for creating a cycle-accurate C++ model of a custom scalable processor. Brendan was specifically responsible for creating a C++ model of an HBM (high-bandwidth memory) controller.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
Brian Hibbeln's three decades in the Department of Defense and the US Intelligence
Community have earned him accolades for his ability to unite people, funding and advanced technologies to benefit warfighters and give the U.S. a competitive edge on the battlefield. Today, he is a sought-after strategic advisor to policy institutes, technology associations and growth-minded technology firms that rely on his recommendations to guide their way forward.
Prior to entering the private sector, Mr. Hibbeln served over three decades in the U.S. Defense Department and Intelligence Community, championing novel uses of commercial systems, sensors and platforms.
Prior to entering the private sector, Mr. Hibbeln served over three decades in the U.S. Defense Department and Intelligence Community, championing novel uses of commercial systems, sensors and platforms.
The last decade he held senior roles such as:
Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Special Capabilities in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
First Director of the Special Capabilities Office, overseeing $2B+ in resources and leading Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations for intelligence, space, airborne, and other remote-sensing operations
Director of the Remote Sensing Center-National Capital Region, where he managed $8B+ in government contracts, while delivering tech demonstrations and operational support to combatant commanders globally
Chief Scientist and Chief Systems Engineer of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Staff at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), where he developed methods to address hard intelligence problems and advanced space based MASINT architectures, while providing recommendations to the Director of Central Intelligence, Congressional staffs, senior policy decisionmakers, and numerous operational and intelligence customers
Before embarking on his government civilian career, Mr. Hibbeln was an active-duty Air Force officer assigned to both the National
Air and Space Intelligence Center and the NRO. Upon release from active duty, he was awarded the Joint Meritorious Service
Medal, a certificate of achievement from the Director of the CIA, and the NRO Silver Medal. In 2001, he was recalled to active duty
to serve in Operation Enduring Freedom, where he led several initiatives using national, civil, and commercial space systems to
combat terrorism and provided operational support to forces and the Intelligence Community. He also served as White House
Job Titles:
- Senior Microwave Design Engineer
Bruce Bosco received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.
rom 1987 through 1990, Bruce worked as a Microwave Design Engineer at M/A-COM Active Assemblies Division (now Crane Technologies) in Chandler, Arizona. Projects and design activities included medium power and low noise amplifiers. Further, he began working on improving the reliability and manufacturability/repeatability of dielectric resonator oscillators (DROs), more specifically, voltage tunable/phase lockable DROs. To support this work, he developed a preliminary MATCAD-based design algorithm that provided a means of evaluating tradeoffs between output power, phase noise and tuning range of the DRO's. Bruce also worked as a research assistant in the area of ultra low-loss, pin diode switches. He also served as project lead on several key programs. Note that all of the these modules/subsystems were for military/aerospace applications and were therefore hybrid, hermetically sealed technologies.
From 1990 through 1994, Bruce was involved in the emerging RF Identification (RFID) field with Amtech Systems Corporation in Albuquerque, NM. Design work included synthesizers, modulators, detectors, switches and other similar networks. Some notable work included the introduction and incorporation of surface mount filters and other emerging technologies that would lead ultimately to lower cost manufacturing costs, including greatly reduced tuning and alignment time by the RF Technicians. Bruce also developed a unique planar radial combining structure that was implemented to combine several low cost, plastic packaged FETs into a power amplifier of about 1W. Finally, Bruce furthered his oscillator experience in the development of a ultra-low phase noise, electromechanical tunable cavity oscillator
From 1994 through 1998 Bruce worked as a Senior Microwave Design Engineer at Comtech EF Data, in Tempe, AZ. Here he served as project lead for several key microwave projects in the area of earth terminals for satellite communication applications. Focus was on high performance wireless product design and development with emphasis on low-cost manufacturing, reliability, and a highly transparent solution for the end-use customer. Circuits included amplifiers, oscillators (DROs, cavity and lumped element), filters, and other high frequency circuits. Integrated subsystem designs included synthesizers, up and down converters, and phase locked frequency converters. Frequencies involved ranged from 6 through 18 GHz. Further, Bruce was extensively involved in mechanical conceptual design, cost analysis, and test planning.
From 1998 through 2001 Bruce was employed by Motorola Satcom Division, Tempe, AZ, where he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. His role including lead designer for numerous MMIC and hybrid designs. He was a contributor for foundry interface and evaluation and device model extraction. Bruce led multiple, complex, next generation projects include MMICs operating from 2.5 to 60+ GHz. Designs included power and low noise amplifiers, frequency multipliers, mixers and other active and passive circuits. Bruce formulated a novel approach to implement a 60 GHz MMIC VCO with on-chip resonator and voltage tuning option. Design met all design specifications through careful analysis, simulation and design and was one of the first MMIC VCOs to be demonstrated at this frequency. Finally, Bruce directed the design of a 24 to 33 GHz low noise MMIC amplifier with excellent noise/gain performance, and highest linearity of any known commercially available competitive device. Chip size was 50% smaller than competing available devices at the time.
From 2001 through 2009, Bruce was with Motorola Corporate Labs, also in Tempe, AZ. His interests included the design and development of commercially viable, very high data rate systems and networks. During this period, Bruce was involved in R&D activity at Gigabit data rates, primarily over WLANs but also including WPANs and point-to-point backhaul applications. Further, he directed system architecture conception, simulation and design including packaging and antennas. This work cumulated in leading a cross-functional team that produced a low cost multi-gigabit point to point wireless system utilizing the newly released, unlicensed 60 GHz band. Bruce was also involved in other R&D work including low cost, high performance packaging solutions, participation in IEEE 802.15.3c - high rate PHY using the 60 GHz band, FMCW radar protypes at 60 and 77 GHz and millimeter wave imaging at 94 GHz.
From 2009 through 2015, Bruce returned to Comtech EFData, in Tempe, AZ, where he served as a Staff Scientist. His primary role was to develop a line of Ka band transceivers for SATCOM applications. Projects included up and down block converters and LNAs. Bruce was also involved with Ka band power amplifier PA design work including linearization and power MMIC procurement and evaluation.
From 2015 through 2019, Bruce worked at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ. Bruce served as the "Responsible Engineering Authority" (REA) on several key developmental programs. Most of this work was performed at module or sub-module level. Functions included synthesized sources, IF converters, GPS antenna modules and so on. End-use for most development work was for missile guidance systems and support systems. Other focus of work was on redesign of various modules to update designs and remove obsolete components. Frequencies ranged from 1 GHz to 12 GHz.
From late 2019 through Present, Bruce has been involved in consulting and contract work. Work to the present point has been focused around designs involving extensive EM simulation, for example, combiner networks, filters and compact planar antennas. His present interests include advanced simulation techniques, advanced architectures and leveraging his extensive experience to provide reduced cost, manufacturable high end electronic solutions.
Collin Bolles is currently finishing his degree in Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, Collin has over 5 years of experience in software development ranging from cloud computing to embedded firmware.
From 2016 to 2018, Collin worked as a full-stack web developer at Valogix. Here he developed applications for monitoring the health of several hundred servers.
From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a research intern at Blue Spiral developing a pipeline for image classification training. Additionally, he researched the
applications of machine learning for image classification in augmented reality application using the Microsoft Hololens. He later returned to Blue Spiral to work on application of drone imaging technology and optical character recognition (OCR).
In 2019, Collin worked on development of a user interface used by a small business producing individual miniature bowling lanes.
During 2020, he worked at Herrick Technology Labs. With his time there, he developed software for a central control computer which interfaced with a multitude of radio systems.
In 2021, Collin worked at D3 Engineering writing Linux kernel modules for the NVIDIA Jetson platform. Collin focused mainly on embedded vision applications working with a wide range of technologies ranging from RGB cameras, to ToF modules, to proprietary imaging solutions.
Collin also joined the Electric Vehicle Team at RIT in 2018. There he developed embedded software for EVT's REV2 all electric track motorcycle which raced up Pikes Peak. In 2020 he took on the role as the Firmware Lead. During his time as lead, he has developed a custom platform for developing for the STM32 microcontroller used by the team leveraging the STM hardware abstraction layer (HAL). He then used the custom platform for the firmware used in the battery management system designed by the Electric Vehicle Team.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Senior Vice President
David C. Rahn earned his Bachelors' degree from the University of Maryland in Criminal Justice Forensics and Psychology in 1987, being honored to study under Thomas Mauriello, the famous forensicist who developed the manual on creative crime scene analytics. David was on Dr. Mauriello's team which developed the "Crazy Glue" method of obtaining fingerprints from porous materials like paper and clothing. That internship led to a multi-year stint in plain clothes working "Donnie Brasco" style, under cover, which led to the take down of the main channel of the cocaine route through the Rafel Edmunds gang towards the ends of the 1980s in College Park, MD. After spending time on the force, David returned to the classroom at Mount St. Mary's University earning two (2) Masters degrees, one in philosophy/theology and one in Ethics. He completed his STL from the Pontifical JPII Institute, Washington, D.C. campus of the St. John Lateran University of Rome and completed the coursework, but ABD for his Doctorate in 1995. David served in several capacities in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, lastly serving as chairman of the finance committee which, through only ethical and creative investment methods, turned $3 million in endowment into $72 million within three (3) years all while utilizing funds from this pool to purchase land for future parishes to be built, upgrading two (2) high schools, establishing a scholarship fund and building three (3) group homes for unwed mothers to be safe from domestic abuse.
After leaving the Diocese, he studied for his CFP (certified financial planner) designation in 2002 and a CIB (Certified Investment Banker) designation in 2006. In 2002, David's finance professor and mentor died suddenly, leaving David to complete his education in finance and economics on his own. David founded and operated DAVLAW Enterprises, Inc., the parent company of three (3) separate but affiliated companies, as its President and CEO. DAVLAW consisted of a mortgage bank, an investment and insurance company and a residential and commercial real estate investment firm. David and his team proudly boast that they never participated in any of the sub-prime shenanigans which led to the market crash of 2007. Remaining true to his ethical principles, his companies survived and grew when many did not. In 2016, in order to be able to spend more time with his family, David sold his interests and joined TrueNet Communications as a contractor, Senior Data Analytics Officer supporting their primary client, Comcast by maintaining the budgeting, forecasting and productivity tracking duties for Comcast's Construction Division.
David Joins LIB SRC INC at its Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and has every intention of helping LIB SRC INC (LSI) grow dynamically, vertically and with the same ethical basis which is at the core of his every decision. Clients will find that their trust will be earned each and every day and employees will find that no one will every feel anything less than complete respect. One of the proudest moments of his life was during his farewell from DAVLAW, the nighttime cleaning lady, Jucinta, gave a wonderful tribute to David when she recalled a story about what she called "the man who gave me faith back in people". She had only recently gotten her green card and had two (2) children to care for. Her husband had been killed walking home from work in El Salvador a few years earlier. She was facing raising two (2) young children in a new country making only pennies compared to the bankers and insurance executives. But many nights, she would find some, small bag at her locker. Toys for her son, a jacket for her daughter, an umbrella, food, gift cards for Best Buy, even tickets to the professional footbol (soccer) team for her whole family. Usually something, but never with a name who it was from. Jucinta finally figured it out because she began to notice that the only person still at work besides her was "Mr. David, el jeffe." The best part, she said, was that the gifts were labelled for the child they were meant for. David knew their names and their struggles. This man takes the time to get to know his teams, he cares about them, their challenges and always makes every one, no matter their position, feel important, like he could not do it all without everyone, even the cleaning lady.
Job Titles:
- Manager of Mechanical Engineering
John Sochacki received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho and his M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.
From 2007 through 2008 he worked as a research assistant in the MRCI group at the University of Idaho where he primarily worked on implementing rad-hard semiconductor devices in commercial foundry processes.
In 2008 he also worked at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman Washington doing hardware design, VHDL, and verification.
From 2008 to 2010 he worked in the connection one group at Arizona State University in conjunction with Boeing modeling radiation effects, implementing rad-hard semiconductor devices in commercial foundry processes, doing VLSI ASIC design, characterizing chalcogenides for use in C-RAM, and mitigating SEE and SEU in SRAM cells. Also in 2010 he worked at General Dynamics as a Radio Frequency Radiation Engineer. From 2010 to 2011 he worked in the CSSER group at Arizona State University where he developed the Lattice MeSFET, implemented MeSFETs in commercial foundry processes, worked on L and S Band class E/F MeSFET amplifiers, and worked on a MeSFET high frequency buck converter for use high radiation environments.
From 2011 to 2015 he worked at ComtechEFData in Tempe Arizona as a Microwave and DSP Engineer where he has worked on high power microwave amplifiers up to 2KW, designed state of the art intelligent linearized GaN based power block up converters, designed and developed wideband analog microwave pre-distortion linearizers, researched and developed novel communications related technologies, worked on satellite modems, and was the sole inventor on three patents.
From 2015 to 2019 he worked at Viasat in Tempe Arizona doing high capacity geosynchronous payload design, high capacity satellite system design, defense system design and development, and high capacity satellite system signal processing for the Viasat-2, Viasat-3, and Viasat-4 systems.
From 2019 to 2020 he worked at Herrick Technology Laboratories in Germantown Maryland as the manager of the systems engineering department and worked on the development of novel and fast paced electronic warfare systems for the AFRL, USMC, SOCOM, and NAVY.
From 2020 to 2021 he worked at Intelsat in McClean Virginia doing conceptual level future high capacity satellite system design and simulation for the Intelsat next generation fleet.
Joshua Sackos earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Washington State University (WSU) in 2013, and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Portland State University (PSU) in 2016. His academic focus has been on Embedded Systems and their applications for solving real-world problems.
He was first introduced to computer programming in 1994 when he began programming in the C language at the age of thirteen, after seeing the topic discussed in Hollywood movies. He quickly developed a passion for computers which led to his first internship in 1996 at Summit Projects, an e-commerce company. At Summit Projects Joshua learned HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks, and CSS. Joshua left Summit Projects in 1998.
In 1999 he began a new e-commerce position at WebNW where he learned/applied ASP and SQL, to create dynamic database driven websites with fully functional back-end interfaces. The backend interfaces allowed clients to completely manage the appearance of their websites, add/remove products, process orders, and more. Joshua left WebNW in 2001. From 2001-2007 Joshua ran his own e-commerce consulting company.
During his time at WSU (2010-2013) Joshua developed a passion for creating hardware/software solutions for real-world problems, including but not limited to agriculture, aerospace, communications, and robotics. He obtained an internship with the WSU Mathematics Department to design HW/SW solutions to generate randomized lighting effects (data) for an image analysis team.
In 2012 Joshua became a Microprocessor Systems teaching assistant at WSU, and began an FPGA internship at Digilent Inc. where he wrote VHDL and Verilog demos for Digilent's product line. After completing his B.S. in Computer Engineering he participated in a summer internship focused on High Performance Computing (HPC) at the New Mexico Consortium in Los Alamos, NM. In his HPC internship he learned about Linux system administration including topics such as LDAP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, Apache, NFS, IPTABLES, PXE Booting, and Erasure Coding Cloud Storage technologies.
Joshua's time in Los Alamos lead to a Post-Baccalaureate position in Intelligence and Space Research Division 3 (ISR-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which he started in 2013. During his first year at Los Alamos he developed a Single-Event-Upset (SEU) mitigation system for FPGA's operating in the space environment. His work consisted of developing VHDL logic circuits, writing C/C++ firmware that ran inside of an RTOS, PCB design, and developing Python GUI's for data acquisition and analysis.
Over the course of six years at LANL Joshua worked on mission critical applications ranging from helping small farmers preserve their crops against frost damage, to making significant contributions to the SHERLOC and SuperCam Mars 2020 Perseverance rover instruments. After completing his work on the SHERLOC and SuperCam instruments in 2019 Joshua left LANL to relocate to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to his family.
In 2019 Joshua decided to participate in a summer research opportunity as a contractor with a Financial Technology (FINTECH) company. The successful research led to an extended full-time contract with the client, where he created a Python-based software platform that enabled the rapid development of new innovative FINTECH tools. He integrated the Python platform with pre-existing C# libraries and dynamically exposed the tool suite(s) to the cloud. After completing his contract in 2021 Joshua taught himself about operating heavy machinery, excavating bare land, installing AC power service, septic systems, etc., to transform a plot of bare land into a home for he and his family.
Job Titles:
- Mixed Signal Design Engineer
Werner Fochler began his career in 1993 at MDE International (now Kett Engineering) in Burton MI, a company that provided test services for car and truck manufacturers. His initial work installing data acquisition equipment into the company test fleet soon led to opportunities in designing custom hardware. This included fabricating PCBs and enclosures and designing cable assemblies for installation, as well as creating all the necessary documentation.
After moving to Arizona, Werner took a position at PRA Inc in Scottsdale in early 1994. This was a major turning point, as it was a small company that gave him opportunities to develop a diverse skillset. During his time there, he contributed R&D work to the oscillator and crystal test systems that were the company's main focus, developing test fixtures and debugging new designs. In addition, Werner played a key role in initial development of a fire retardant drop control system for Marsh Aviation, a system which was later used by aircraft to fight the large refinery fire in Turkey in 1999. In particular, he wrote microcontoller assembly code running in the various hardware modules, contributed software to the main controller unit, and installed the prototypes at Marsh Aviation in Mesa AZ, performing numerous ground tests along with Marsh Aviation personnel.
In 1998, Werner left PRA to join Radyne Corp, at the time a leading supplier of satellite communications ground equipment. At Radyne, not only did he get the opportunity to help develop a variety of new products, but more importantly was lucky enough to establish friendships that continue to this day. His work there covered all phases of new product development, from initial component research and schematic design through prototype bring-up and release to production. When Radyne was acquired by a competitor in 2008, most of the engineering team was brought over to the new company. There, Werner continued to hone his skills in satellite modem hardware design and continued to be involved in every stage of product development.