STEVEN
KAISER
25 years hands-on experience in electronic hardware and software design and development, typically in scientific R&D environments.
Can lead overall project planning, introduce new
technologies, and provide technical leadership across an organization.
| 1986 1982 |
Master of Science - Scientific Instrumentation in
Physics Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering Technology |
University of
California - Santa Barbara, Dept. of Physics California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo |
| 2005.02 - present 2003.10 – 2005.02 |
Electronics Facility Mgr / Asoc
Dev Engr Electronics Shop Mgr / Sr Dev Engr |
University of California
- Irvine, Chemistry Dept University of California - Riverside, Chemistry Dept |
Responsible for the design,
maintenance, troubleshooting and calibration of electronics equipment used in
scientific laboratories on campus.
Design work encompasses all disciplines of electronics, including
digital, analog, RF, high voltage, PC interfacing, etc. Design and construct electronic
instrumentation from rough sketches with scientists. Assist and advise students and faculty with their research
equipment and software. Responsible for
the management and operation of the department Electronics Shop. Supervise technicians and assign day to day
tasks. Evolve and maintain inventory of
electronic components. Maintain
technical files and financial records.
| 1999.04 – 2003.09 | Senior Hardware / Software Engineer | Celerity / Kinetics Fluid Systems / Unit Instruments |
Hardware design, development and high volume
production support responsibilities for Unit’s gas flow digital metering and
control devices. Introduced several new
product lines from design through manufacturing. Rewrote company’s firmware in C for portability. Win 95/98/NT/2k environment.
| 1996 - 1999 | Sole Proprietor | Kaiser Instruments |
Design, construction, and marketing of my custom
scientific instruments to the neuroscience community worldwide.
| 1988 - 1996 | Development Engineer | Univ of California - Irvine, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology |
Designed and constructed several DSP-based medical
acoustics digital stimulus generation/data acquisition systems for auditory
physiology research. Wrote a large body
of MacOS software for scientific analysis.
Provided technical resources to faculty investigators, assisted academic
animal research, and supported instrumentation for two campus research
laboratories. Supervised periodic
student help.
| 1986 - 1988 | Senior Development Engineer | University of
California - Irvine, Dept. of Radiological Sciences LA County-USC Medical Center, Section of Cardiology |
Designed and constructed a medical ultrasonics digital acquisition system for PCs. Wrote 2D and 3D scientific graphics, graphical user interface for DOS, and signal analysis software. Supported faculty and student research into quantitative ultrasound methods.
| 1984 - 1986 | Development Engineer | University of California - Santa Barbara, Dept. of Physics |
Designed and supervised construction of an undersea
computer system and its high speed interface to a surface computer. Wrote embedded system software. Designed and supervised construction of
numerous small electronic instruments for university research. Responsible for all campus electronic
instrument repair. Unix & DOS environment.
| 1983 - 1984 | Systems Engineer | Spatial Data Systems, Goleta, CA |
Provided hardware design, test engineering, and
national field service for a medical digital image processing system. Supervised two technicians. DEC PDP-11 environment.
| 1982 - 1983 | Electrical Engineer | Archer-Spencer Engineering Associates, Santa Barbara, CA |
Designed electrical power and lighting systems for
hospitals, gov't, and commercial buildings.
EIT registration.
| 1979 & 1980
Student Engineer Provided technical design assistance integrating a KC-135 cockpit computer. Provided test engineering for the Navy's fighter Infrared imaging system. |
National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Edwards, CA Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA |
• Binaural Interaction Revisited in the Cat Primary
Auditory Cortex. Journal of
Neurophysiology. 2003.
• Responses of Inferior Colliculus Neurons to
Time-Varying Interaural Phase Disparity.
Journal of Neurophysiology.
1994.
• Interaural Phase Coding in Auditory Midbrain:
Influence of Dynamic Stimulus Features.
Science. 1991.
• Detection of Early Fatty Plaque Using Quantitative
Ultrasound Methods. 18th International
Symposium on Acoustical Imaging. 1989.
• Frequency Variations in Real-time Ultrasound
Equipment. Journal of Ultrasound in
Medicine. 1988.
• Cardiac Function by Optical Measurement of
Fluorodilution. Master's Thesis. 1986.
• Micron particle sizing by photodiode array
detection of laser diffraction patterns.
Master's Thesis. 1986.