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About George M. Harris, P.E., Principal:
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Detailed C.V. Follows:
-George M. Harris, P.E. was born in Bangor, Maine in March of 1952.
-George worked as an electronics technician in Portland, Maine from 1971 to 1972, and then worked as an FAA Certified Avionics Technician at Northeast Airmotive at the Portland Jetport from late 1972 until entering the University of Maine in the fall of 1974.
-In 1974, he entered the University of Maine at Orono, and after a five-year program, received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, with Minor Concentrations in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, in 1979.
-In 1979, with experience in electromagnetics and Radio Frequency, (RF), networks gained in independent study at Standard Communications Corporation in Los Angeles, California while in College, George was hired after graduating from the University by Shively Laboratories, Inc. in Raymond, Maine.
-Responsibilities included design, testing and commissioning of high power RF broadcast antennas and military equipment, as well as other engineered RF products.
-In 1980, after a year at Shively Laboratories, George left to become special projects engineer for high power RF and microwave products at Dielectric Communications, (a unit of General Signal Corporation), and was in that capacity for two years.
-In November of 1982, George left Dielectric to become Founding Principal of Electronic Systems Engineering Company, (ESE), in Portland, Maine, (a High-Power Microwave and RF Physics Networks and Antenna Systems Consultancy).
-In February of 1984, George completed the 5 year required Engineering Apprenticeship and passed the 16-hour examination, and became a Licensed Professional Engineer
-Between 1984 and 2007, George authored, published and presented seven technical papers in the Proceedings of the IEEE, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Titles of these works are:
-Power Testing of High Power Antennas
-High Power Frequency Domain Multiplexing
-Complex Antenna Pattern Measurements
-Design of a New Low-Downward-Radiation TV Antenna
-Improved RF Performance of Multi-User Sites Using Optimally- Spaced Antenna Arrays
-New Low-Downward Radiation Antenna Technology for On-Channel TV Repeaters and SFN’s
-During this six-year time period, his consultancy served clients such as The U.S. Air Force assigned to work on the Clustered Cavity Klystron Program for the A.W.A.C.S. Airborne Warning & Control Platform.
-Other clients included many large and medium-sized organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Aritech Corp, ADT, Clear Channel Communications, Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation and many others.
-In 1987 and 1988, George delivered four technical seminars as an Expert Professional from the United States on Broadcast Antenna Technology to regulatory authorities overseeing the licensing and use of high power microwave and radio frequency systems in Brazil, France, Germany and Venezuela.
-In 1991, after receiving a large contract from Argonne National Laboratory for the complete design and manufacture of the ultra-high-vacuum, high-power S-band microwave system for Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source Linear Accelerator, George founded RF Technologies Corporation, (RFT), in Lewiston, Maine.
-There, the Company designed and manufactured the complete S-band and U.H.F. RF and microwave drive and instrumentation systems for Argonne National Laboratory.
-In the following 3 years, RFT went on to completely design and build the octave-wide 3.0 megawatt RF L-H heating system for M.I.T.’s Plasma Fusion Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and then a much larger system for General Atomics in San Diego, California.
-Other operations included the design and manufacture of the L-H RF heating system for India’s Institute for Plasma Research in Amadabad, India.
-The company then moved on to design many other high power RF and microwave systems and networks for Scientific Research, Industrial and Medical applications.
-In 1995, RFT introduced its complete line of Digital Television Broadcast Antennas to its expanding line of RF and Microwave-based products.
-Over the 13-year period from 1991 to 2004, RFT developed a diverse installed base of high power RF and microwave engineered products and systems all over the world. Customers with long relationships include Raytheon, Boeing Aerospace, Hughes Aircraft, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Argonne National Laboratory, Yale University, M.I.T., Duke University, Stanford University, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan), International Paper Company and others.
-In 1995, George was principle inventor of a new high power industrial microwave technology-based system for the highly precise application of microwave power used in the manufacture of Laminated Veneer Lumber. The Intellectual Property for this technology is protected by three issued U.S. Patents issued to George.
-Currently, high power industrial microwave systems based on his technology are in use in many countries in the world including the U.S., Canada, new Zealand and Russia.
-During his tenure at RFT, George has been the principal or sole inventor for nine issued U. S. Patents covering high power microwave and RF physics-based networks, systems and applications.
-In addition to the nine issued U.S. Patents, George currently has seven more U.S. Patents Pending, (with an eighth to be filed), covering systems, methods and networks relating to high power microwave and RF physics applications and related technologies.
-George has been an amateur radio operator since he was nine years old, holds a General Radiotelephone Operator’s License with Radar Endorsement and is a Licensed Private Airplane Pilot. He is a full Member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, and is "Consultant to the Firm" for many well-established global Consulting Engineering organizations for High Power Microwave and RF Applications.
-In 2004, RF Technologies Corporation was sold to The Ferrite Company, Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire. From 2004 until the end of his Contract in December of 2008, George served as President of RF Technologies, LLC, (a Ferrite Company), where he oversaw general operations as well as all product development activities for high power RF and microwave systems.
-Between 2004 and 2008, George was Staff Consultant for high power industrial microwave systems at the Ferrite Co., Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire.
-Since 2005, George has served on the Engineering Physics Oversight Board at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, and beginning in 2006, he also serves on the Dean’s Academic Advisory Council for the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine.
-Because of his work in High Power Microwave Physics and related fields, in 2007 George was inducted into the Francis Crowe Society as Distinguished Engineer by the Society’s Board, after his nomination for that Honor by the Chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of Maine.
-George enjoys skiing, hiking, swimming and boating. Hobbies include amateur radio and restoring and riding vintage motorcycles. He enjoys playing classical and folk guitar and trying to sing.
