Jim Sozanski

Jim Sozanski is a design engineer with product development experience at companies such as Teradyne and Bose Corporation. His 22-year career includes design of consumer electronics, base station components and precision test equipment subsystems. Jim’s disciplined approach and creative thinking combined with his simulation, design and layout skills have been instrumental in his success with complex analog and RF circuits, including amplifiers, active and passive filters, PLLs and power supply subsystems. He is also experienced at developing control software in the Linux environment. Jim has a BS/EE from Yale University and holds 2 patents.

Experience

octoScope, Inc. 2007 – present
Principal Engineer
Component level design engineer focusing on analog and RF circuit design. Projects include power amplifier subsystem, fast switching power supply, pulse generator for a high power semiconductor test system, RF front end design for a wireless test systems and a variety of other projects.

Bose Corporation 1995 – 2001
Principal Engineer
Technical project lead for consumer electronics product development, including the Bose home theatre products; developed a variety of audio amplifiers and other analog circuitry; managed a team of engineers, including electrical, software and acoustical engineers

MRS Technology 1987 – 1995
Project Engineer
Staff electrical engineer; worked on production equipment for manufacturing flat panel displays: large area step and repeat microlithographic equipment; designed electrical subsystems, including motion control, vision system components and a variety of other circuitry; developed control and test software

Teradyne, Inc. 1982 – 1987
Design Engineer
Worked on automated test equipment hardware including phase locked loops and a variety of video test circuitry

Education

Yale University, Yale College, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1982

Patents

US patents 7,477,120 and 5,483,345