Prior to becoming a private consultant, John Herrmann served as the Director of Engineering Energy Accessory Product Development for Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI), accountable for development of new platforms and strategies for all energy accessories, creating technology roadmaps and white papers, presenting to customers and senior leaders, and providing technical consultation for all MSI businesses and customers. John had oversight for MSI’s Penang, Malaysia Energy Accessory Design Center, which included an expatriate assignment to establish 6 Sigma Design methodology, best practices, comprehensive documentation and review processes. John served on the Science and Advisory Board (SABA) & Patent Committee, was awarded 45 US patents, authored 3 publications, and was a 6 Sigma Green Belt. He contributed as an industry consultant to the revision of the IEEE 1725 and TIA 4950 regulatory standards. 

John earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University and Associates Degree in Pure & Applied Science from Dawson College, Montreal Canada.

John Herrmann

President

Prior to becoming a private consultant, Stephen Donnelly served as Engineering Manager responsible for HazLoc (ATEX/IECEx, CSA, MSHA, FM3610, TIA 4950) Battery and Charger development for MSI. Stephen contributed to regulatory standards development (IEEE 1725, TIA 4950, and IEC 60079-11). His product development responsibilities included: Technical Committee Chair reviewing all system, concept, and design documentation, including test specifications, qualification test plans, and developing technical requirements; manufacturing oversight and review with New Product Introduction (NPI) Team to manage flawless, seamless integration of new processes with factory environment. He served as Technical Advocate for Motorola Solutions Patent Committee to assess ideas for viability for patent pursual on their technical and business merit. Stephen was the Supplier Commodity Lead for Power and Charger Solutions for the corporation. 

Stephen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Steve Donnelly

Senior Consultant

Prior to becoming a private consultant, Donald Flowers served as MSI Electrical Design Engineer and Project Team Leader responsible for design and development of leading edge, ruggedized, lithium-ion batteries and charging systems for military and professional grade mobile radios.  In this role Donald gained years of energy-focused experience and was awarded multiple US patents associated with energy products.  He was heavily engaged in analyzing and optimizing battery performance and charging methods and developed a high level of expertise in failure analysis and root cause identification.

Prior to working at MSI, Donald worked at L3 Harris Technologies, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (formerly L3 Communications Display Systems) as a Systems Engineer where he designed and developed military and commercial aircraft cockpit display systems; The Boeing Company, Military Aircraft and Missile Systems, Duluth, GA (formerly Rockwell International Defense Systems) as a Member of Technical Staff – Electrical and Systems Engineering where he designed and developed electronic circuits and test equipment for military missile programs.

Donald earned a Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering at Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA.

Donald Flowers

Senior Consultant

Prior to becoming a private consultant, Mike Geren developed platform solutions and products for portable devices (batteries, chargers, switch-mode power supplies, field programmers, data readers, embedded mP control). Mike is skilled at designing PCB layouts and circuits for Electromagnetic Field containment to meet EMC and high-speed transmission line requirements. He is adept at evaluating the circuit design and PCB layout of a product to determine if the product will pass EMC standards, UL safety standards, CISPR Class-B Radiated and Conducted Emissions, Class-A harmonic current suppression and Radio Desense, environmental tests, common-mode noise suppression methods for USB communication circuits, circuits to suppress 6kV power line surge and power line electrical fast transients, Failure Modes and Effects, Wireless Power Resonators, CST Simulations of Field distributions, Q and efficiency, designing power systems that meet California Energy Requirements and performing Worst Case Analysis, Tolerance analysis of electrical circuits and systems, and has a 6 sigma Green Belt certification. Additional skills include Agilent ADS, Agilent VEE, ADS Momentum, Cadence Allegro, CST, Crystal Ball, HFSS, JavaScript, Mathcad, MiniTab, Mentor PADS, Python, PSpice. Other Electrical Engineering work experience includes: SPARTON ELECTRONICS, INC., Deland, Florida, and GENERAL ELECTRIC, Neutron Devices, Largo, Florida. 

Mike has earned a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL with a Thesis Option on “Planar Transmission Lines for characterizing a Substrate”. Mike also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

Mike Geren

Senior Consultant

Prior to becoming a private consultant, Glenn Slaton served as an Electro/Mechanical Designer with 29 years’ experience drafting schematics from engineering sketches in accordance with ANSI Y32.2, and designing single, double and multilayer boards, including control boards, RF boards, interface boards, high voltage boards and high-power boards. Managed and created library parts used in the PADS software. Worked with engineer’s trouble shooting PC boards individually and as systems while creating complete drawing packages for each. Have designed and drafted mechanical housings and final assemblies using IPC, Mil-STD and ANSI specifications as guidelines. Worked abroad developing relations and introduced new products increasing international exposure. Reverse engineered control board used in flight simulator for Delta Airlines and designed replacement. Glenn is skilled in the use of the following CAD tools: Cadence – Allegro PCB Designer, PADS – PCB, Power PCB and Logic, Visual CAM / Gerbtool, and Auto-Cad versions 10,11 and 12. Glenn attended the Tri-County Technical College “College Transfer Program and Electronics Engineering Technology (EET)” where he earned trained and earned certificates in: ANSI Y.14 (GD&T), Statistical Thinking for Industry, 8051 microprocessor, and IPC Flex circuit. Glenn attended “Circuit Board Layout to Reduce Electromagnetic Emission and Susceptibility” classes by Dr. Tom Van Doren from University of Missouri-Rolla.

 

Glenn Slaton

Senior Consultant

Dan Jakl is recognized as a subject matter expert in wireless energy transfer technologies and ensuring energy system designs comply with environmental and efficiency standards. Those standards include substance restrictions, energy efficiency standards such as the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) standard covering small battery charging systems, US DOE’s BC standard, ERP directive, and those that cover external power supplies, worldwide.  Dan worked directly with the CEC, US DOE as well as industry trade associations during the development of many of these standards and was responsible for reviewing proposals considering existing and future technologies utilized by industry.  While working at Motorola Inc., one of Dan’s responsibilities was to ensure products meet substance restriction regulations such as RoHS, REACH and Green Passport.  As new substances are added he routinely reviewed products for compliance.

Dan lead research and vetting of wireless energy transfer technologies, as wells as designed and prototyped several solutions by integrating both software and hardware of one or more of these technologies into larger systems for commercialization. 

Dan’s experience developing embedded software and hardware interfaces for energy systems dates to the earliest flip phone and cell phone industry’s first Li-Ion battery pack charging system.   Dan also managed an embedded software development department for several years while continuing to develop advanced charging system architectures and was responsible for Key Process Area (KPA) software development process improvements. 

Dan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso IN. and an Associate in Science degree from College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.

Dan Jakl

Senior Consultant

John A. Herrmann

Marketing and operations lead