Alex Herman helps clients either as an individual contributor or as a prime contractor for complex, outsourced product development. In many cases, Alex collaborates with engineering experts, academia researchers, supply chain and manufacturing channels, while providing senior executives with the information to make sound business decisions.
Alex draws on over 30 years of direct experience with the Telecom, Medical Systems Military and Social Networking systems segments of the US manufacturers. He holds 10 patents and has authored (and co-authored) several technical presentations and numerous corporate presentations. Alex holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Polytechnic Institute of new York (currently Polytechnic University) in Electrical Engineering.
In 1994 Alex Herman founded and served as the principal of HeliComm Inc in which Alex co-designed an autonomous wireless shelf label for supermarkets and department store. He then merged HeliComm into HeliOss Communication Inc. and served as the VP of Engineering and Operation where he system engineered and supervised the development, marketing and manufacturing of Millimeterwave and Microwave high-speed SONET rate) wireless links.
After the “Telecom industry melt down” Alex helped selling HeliOss to an OEM customer and then pioneered a consulting business which was interrupted by full time positions at Philips Medical; and nTAG interactive. He streamlined the design and production (and reduced the cost to build) of several models of Philips Medical Patient Mentioning’s Patient-Worn-Devices. In 2007 Alex joined nTAG Interactive (a young company), where he instituted Manufacturing Engineering, significantly reduced nTAG’s products manufacturing costs and improved the product design and performance. Currently nTAG is a Alex Herman Engineering client.
Alex Herman begun his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he was a designer of the ISABELLE project (proton-proton-colliding-beam-accelerator) high vacuum electronic controllers and the and pioneered CSMA/CA network to control the entire accelerator. He then joined Motorola Codex and developed early Ethernet hubs, switches and the Motorola Wireless LAN. After 7 years at Motorola Alex joined Chipcom Corporation and where he designed the first 10-Base-T 8 ports modules for ORNet. He helped founding Windata and served as the Vice president of Engineering supervising the development and engineering services of Wireless LAN systems.
Engineering Services
- Regulatory compliance (FDA, FCC, ETSI).
- Patent application evaluation and technology licensing advice
- Early company life technical management (engineering and manufacturing) for young companies
- Product cost reduction project (via re-engineering, improved Supply Chain and/or production environment /location)
- Production line transfer to low cost territories (US, China, Singapore, Eastern Europe)
- Design and production troubleshooting/cost overrun in the field, lab or during production
- Design for cost
Manufacturing Engineering
- Translation of corporate business targets into manufacturing engineering planning, bidding, scheduling and implementation. Establishing a Manufacturing engineering management system including:
- Planning, design, and implementation of Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)
- Selection or Optimization of contract manufacturers (CM).
- CM bidding and negotiations
- Supply chain management including logistic management and coordination between the supply chain components.
- Documentation development and maintenance
- The planning, management and rapid implementation of production expansion or retraction as per corporate needs
- Functional test system development for board level and assembled product level
Education:
- Master of Science Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York 1980
- Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York 1978
Patents Held:
- Increasing capacity of Baseband Digital Data Comm. Networks (BROOKHAVEN )
- LAN Data Comm. Network, (CODEX, Ethernet concentr. with collision avoidance)
- Network Collision Detection & Avoidance Apparatus (CODEX, MAC Wireless LAN)
- Networking Circuitry, Concentrator for Token Ring and Ethernet (CODEX )
- Networking Circuitry, Concentrator for Token Ring and Ethernet (CODEX )
- Communication System Concentr. Config. to Different Access Methods (CHIPCOM )
- Wireless Communication System (WINDATA, protocol and system design)
- Wireless Communication System for the Retail Market (HeliComm – ERSI)
- Load balancing system for 802.11 a/b/g enterprise system (Legra)
- Integrated Vehicular Positioning and Communications System (ACS – Independent Contractor)
Presentations:
- LAN-HUB, an Ethernet compatible low cost / high performance communication solution. ACM
- SIGCOM August 1987
- Radio LAN with collision avoidance protocol. Invited paper, XXIInd General Assembly of the
- International Union of Radio Sciences, August 1987.
- A Flexible Alternative to Multi-Media LAN Installations – A Conceptual View, INTERFACE’ 85.
- Process Control for ISABELLE System. IEEE transactions on Nuclear Science Vol. NS-28 June 1981.
- IEEE 802 standards activities: IEEE 802.3 (10-Base-T) and in IEEE 802.11.
