Ron Fiorello

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ABOUT RON FIORELLO

Registered Professional Electrical Engineer (P.E.) in Ma. Innovative and seasoned professional. Well versed and skilled in many areas of power electronics conversion, analog design and project management. Detailed design skills include; over 30 yrs experience in high power resonant conversion/soft switching converters, BLDC motor drives, HF muti-kW HF inverters, PV sine-wave micro and string inverters, electronic lighting (HID, CFL and LED light sources), AC/DC converters (including various PFC topologies), AC/AC converters, analog/digital electronics (including embedded firmware development). 3 US patents in electronic lighting, multiple patents pending in wireless power transfer. An extensive track record of successful innovation and development/design for high volume, lost cost high quality power electronics-> Power conversion and inverter design, including circuit, magnetic, modeling, analog and digital control loop design and analog circuit design.·>Proficiency in computer simulation, including simulation in Pspice, Matlab, Simulink and Mathcad.·> skilled in microcontroller and DSP development. Some experience in FPGA and CPLD coding in Verilog and VHDL.·> EDA tools: Orcad (Capture, Schematic, Layout, etc), DXdesigner, PADS PCB. PC express for prototyping.·>graduate course work in power electronics, machine theory, motor drives, alternative energy sources, power distribution systems, field theory, antenna theory and embedded systems.>MS Thesis on stand alone PV inverter system design-> Excellent technical skillsSpecialties: Power systems and power electronics converter design/ development for solar and other high efficiency applications. Analog and digital design. High frequency/medium power switching resonant amplifier design. Embedded digital control of power electronic converters ( including C and assembly language firmware coding)Pspice, Mathcad and Matlab simulation of power converters.