Juan Alberto Torres Resume









   
 
Juan Alberto Torres
34 South Lane
Orchard Park, NY, 14127
Phone: (716) 662 3842
e-mail:[email protected]

US citizen



EDUCATION

  1. Ph. D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain (November 11, 1991. Qualification: Magna cum laude. Title: "Mathematic Analysis and Development of prediction models in HF. Transceiver automatic control application).
  2. B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain July 29, 1987. Qualification: A . Graduate Project: "Data Communication between Madrid and Barcelona in HF".

EXPERIENCE

  1. 07/04-present. Patent Examiner, Full time
    US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
    Jefferson Building, 2C55
    500 Dulany Street
    Alexandria, VA 22314
    Areas: Patent Examination
    Responsibilities:
    • Patent Examination

  2. 03/98-07/04. Associate. Systems Engineer, Full time
    VOCAL Technologies, Ltd.
    200 John James Audubon Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14228
    Areas: Intellectual Property, Patents application and Systems Design
    Responsibilities:
    • Embedded system design.
    • Support Engineer for: V.92, IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b and GPRS.
    • Patents Applications: Advance coding (Turbo codes and LDPC) for ADSL modems (G.lite, G.dmt) and Wireless LANs (IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b. 802.16); DFE and filter design for ITU V.92/V.90.
    • IEEE, ITU, TIA and ETSI Standards Development participation on IEEE802.11, IEEE802.16, G.lite, G.dmt, G.vdsl, V.92, V.44, T.38, MoIP, AT Commands, Modem testing, TSB-37A, TSB876 and THIPHON.
    • Participation in Technical Congress (IEEE ICASSP 2001, ISIT 1998 and 2001)

  3. 01/93 12/97: Engineer. Full time
    TELEFONICA DE ESPA�A S.A.
    Areas: International Commercial Relations
    Job: working in Carrier Relations on:
    • International traffic forecast for the next five years with two models, the elasticity to tariffs model, and the time series ARIMA (Box Jenkins) model. Implementation with the Excel.
    • TELEFONICA`s representative in the ISA P1 project (Information System Architecture, International billing and accounting for the Pan European Network) Unisource.
    • New Services Implementation Group, worked in the Switch Hubbing service, the Switch Transit Service, Pooling, Free phone, etc.
    • Developing GISERIN 3 for the control of the incoming and outgoing of the TELEFONICA's International Traffic, taking into account refilling, hubbing and pooling.
    • Assessor in the International Commercial Relations area for the ISO 9001certification.

  4. 03/92 12/97: Profesor titular de Universidad (Tenure Professor). Part time
    Mathematics Applied to Information Technology Department Telecommunication
    Engineering School. Polytechnic University of Madrid
    TOPICS: Integration, Differential equations, Calculus, Numerical Analysis. Finite Elements.

  5. 03/88 01/93: Engineer. Full time
    Company: TELEFONICA S.A.
    Areas:
    • Specification on Radio equipment.
    • Work on the technical specification of equipment for TELEFONICA.
    • Digital radiolinks for 2, 2x2, 4x2, 8, 8x2, 16, 16x2 & 34 Mbit/s: Minilink from Ericsson,
    • DMC 15 & DMC 23 from AT&T; Phillips. TDMA: SR500, SMD 30, RT 1500 2000.

  6. 01/87 03/88: Engineer. Full time
    Company: TELEFONICA S.A. Areas: Radio Communication Laboratory.
    Resposabilities:
    • Testing of equipment for TELEFONICA. Trunking, TDMA.

  7. 11/87 03/92: University Associate Professor. Part time
    Mathematics Applied to Information Technology Department Telecommunication
    Engineering School. Polytechnic University of Madrid
    TOPICS: Integration, Differential equations, Calculus, Numerical Analysis.

  8. 09/86 01/87: Engineer. Full time
    Company: SENER. Areas: Defense and Space Job: design of missiles in the EFA project. Project SGBL. using aerospace
    components. Design in the Eureka project. ADE unit for solar feed and antenna
    pointing of the satellite, worked for one month in ITS, Toulouse (France)


LECTURES



  1. �Maintenance of the TDMA Systems". Seminar Rural Telecommunications. GAS 7, CCITT. 05/90.
  2. "Performance of TDMA Systems". Seminar Rural Telecommunications. GAS, CCITT 05/90.
  3. �New Methods to compute HF Systems". Spanish Military Center. Madrid June 1992. ETSIT.
  4. �V Course on Military Telecommunications". Hoyo de Manzanares. Madrid. From 4 9 90 to 4 16 90.
  5. �Microwave Radio links". TELEFONICA S.A. From 6 9 91 to 6 11 91.
  6. �Filter Discrimination Rejection Parameter in Radio links". TELEFONICA S.A. 6 9 91 to 6 11 91.
  7. "What is next in xDSL". May 5-9, 2000 Instiute of Telecommunication of Vienna.

COURSES ATTENDEDED



  1. "Error Correcting Codes and Reed Solomon ECC". Prof. Dr. E. J. Weldon in Forum Hotel, London, from 5 28 90 to 5 30 90.
  2. "Combined Digital Coding and Modulation Techniques". Dr. Gottfried Ungerboeck, Forum Hotel, London, from 5 31 90 to 6 1 90.
  3. "Broad band systems". TELEFONICA 1997.
  4. "Intelligent networks". TELEFONICA 1997.
  5. "ISDN: Introduction to ATM". TELEFONICA 1997.
  6. �International Conference on Information Theory 98�. MIT Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts. 08/98
  7. �International Workshop on Audio Signal Processing (IWASP). Pocono Manor. PA 09/99.
  8. �Second International Conference on Turbo Codes and Related Topics�. Brest, France, 2-6 Sep. 2000.
  9. �ICASSP 2001�. Salt Lake City, UT, 2-6 May. 2001.
  10. �International Conference on Information Theory 2001�. Washington DC. 06/01.


INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH



  1. 01/93 01/94:"Planning and Management of HF Communication Systems". ESPRIT PROJECT
    7244 PMCS. PARTNERS: SGT (Servicios Generales de Telecomunicacion, Spain,
    CML (Cabinet Maurice Louget), France, PCI, England, UPM, Madrid, Spain
  2. 01/89 01/91: "HF Intelligent Communication Interface". ESPRIT PROJECT 2058 ICI.
    PARTNERS: BTI (British Telecom International). London. SAIT, Brussels,
    Luxembourg. UPC, Barcelona, Spain. UPM, Madrid, Spain

BOOKS



  1. "Rural Telecommunication". Section 4.3.3 vol. I. TDMA Systems. Telecommunication International Union (ITU T).
  2. "Communications by Radio". with Professor D. Jose M. Hernando.
  3. "Handbook on HF Telecommunication". Digital telecommunication section on Eb/No.
    Radiocommunication Telecommunication International Union (ITU R).

ARTICLES



  1. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando, & J. Tutor, "An Improved HF Field Strength Prediction Method". IEEE Transaction on broadcasting, vol. 38, no 3, pp.167 171, September 1992.
  2. J.A. Torres. "New method for computing the MUF in HF Radio communications ". Electronic World # 210 . October 1990. pp. 91 94.
  3. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando y J. Tutor. "Computation of the field strength for HF Radio Communications". Electronic World. January February 1993. pp. 51 56.

PUBLICATIONS IN CONGRESS



  1. ITU Document SG15/Q4 IC-087: �A configurable multilevel/full turbo encoder with 4, 8 or 16 states encoder with single, double or triple turbo encoder configuration for ADSL�. Irvine, CA 9-13 April 2001.
  2. ITU Document SG15/Q4 CF-038: �Method for using non-squared QAM constellations with independent I&Q for receiver soft-Decision decoding techniques for ADSL�. Clearwater, FL 812 January 2001.
  3. ITU Document SG15/Q4 HC-073: �Results of the requirements requested in BA-198R1 for the technique proposed in BA-020 for G.992.1.bis and G.992.2.bis�. Huntsville, Canada, July 31 � August 4 2000.
  4. ITU Document SG15/Q4 BO-087: �New proposal of Turbo codes for ADSL modems�. Antwerp, Belgium 19-23 June 2000.
  5. ITU Document SG15/Q4 NT-122: �Text to include a turbo encoder in the transmitter of G.992.1.bis and G.992.2.bis�. Nashville, TN 1-5 November 1999.
  6. ITU Document SG15/Q4 NG-097: �Considerations about the power penalty of Reed-Solomon FEC in ADSL systems in regard to the use of inner encoders�. Nuremberg, Germany 2-6 August 1999.
  7. ITU Document SG15/Q4 BO-087: � Comparison of simulation results for different coding techniques (Uncoded, Reed-Solomon plus Trellis and Reed-Solomon plus Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Codes) for G.992.1.bis and G.992.2.bis�. Boston, MA 10-14 May 1999.
  8. ITU Document SG15/Q4 PO-071: �Inclusion of a Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code in the G.992.1-bis� Portland, Oregon 18-22 January 1999
  9. ANSI T1E1.4 Document T1E1.4/98/299. �Line impairment: detection of home�s bridge taps (ATU-R) and crosstalk (ATU-R)�. San Antonio, Texas. August 31-September 4, 1998
  10. ANSI T1E1.4 Document T1E1.4/98/300. �Text to include an optional Concatenated Convolutional Codes in the ANSI T1.413 Issue 2�. San Antonio, Texas. August 31-September 4, 1998
  11. ANSI T1E1.4 Document T1E1.4/98/301. �inclusion of Concatenated Convolutional Codes in the ANSI T1.413 Issue 2�. San Antonio, Texas. August 31-September 4, 1998
  12. ANSI T1E1.4 Document T1E1.4/98/312. �Proposed ITU SG15/Q4 Contribution regarding text to include an optional Serial Concatenated Convolution Code in G.dmt�. San Antonio, Texas. August 31-September 4, 1998
  13. ANSI T1E1.4 Document T1E1.4/98/301R1. �Inclusion of Concatenated Convolutional Codes in the ANSI T1.413 Issue 3�. Plano, Texas. November 30-December 4, 1998
  14. ITU Document SG15/386 �Text to include an optional Serial Concatenated Convolutional Codes in the next version of G.dmt� Geneva October 12-23 1998.
  15. ITU Document SG15/Q4 AB-093. �Use of Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Codes PCCC (Turbo-Codes) for G.dmt and G.lite Antwerp�, Belgium, 3-7 August 1998.
  16. ITU Document SG15/Q4 AB-120. �Text to include an optional Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Codes (PCCC) in the Draft G.dmt Recommendation�. Antwerp, Belgium, 3-7 August 1998.
  17. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-100. �Refined channel probing for G.hs�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998.
  18. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-099. �Diagnosis of failed xDSL Modem Connections�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998.
  19. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-098. �Bridge taps detection and location�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998.
  20. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-097. �Cross-talk Impairment Identification�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998.
  21. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-096. �Loading Coil Location�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998
  22. ITU Document SG15/Q4 WH-095. �Loading Coil Detection�. Waikiki, Hawaii, 29 June � 3 July 1998
  23. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J. Tutor, "Correction Coefficients to Obtained an Improved HF Field Strength Prediction Method". CCIR Study Group 6A Document no. 6A/39 September 1992.
  24. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J. C. Ossorio, "Comparison Between the NOSC Method, the FTZ Method and the Oslo Database, for Computing the Critical Frequency of the F2 layer".CCIR Doc No. 14. October 1991.
  25. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J.C. Ossorio, "Comparison Between the Davies Method (Report 894.2), the Muggleton Method (Report 340.6), and the Oslo Database, for Computing the Critical Frequency of the E layer". CCIR SG 6A Document #. 15. October 1991.
  26. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J. Tutor, "Improved Method for Computing the Median Field Strength in HF Communications". CCIR Study Group 6A Document no. 16. October 1991.
  27. J. Tutor, J.A. Torres & J.M. Hernando,, "Improved Program for Comparison the Median Field Strength Prediction Methods in HF Communications". CCIR Study Group 6A Document no. 24. October 1991.
  28. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J. Tutor." Considerations about Locations of Control Points". CCIR Interim Working Group 6/1 Doc 6/406. July 1991.
  29. J.A. Torres, J.M. Hernando & J. Tutor." Basic MUF of Single and Multi hop F2 modes 0 4000 Paths and Exceeding 4000 Km". CCIR IWG 6/1 Doc 6/405. 1991.
  30. J.A. Torres. "New Method of the MUF Prediction for a Personal Computer". CCIR IWG 6/1 Doc 376. February 1991.
  31. J.M. Hernando & J.A. Torres. "Consideration about the MUF and Field Strength Prediction". ETSIT/UPM. CCIR IWG 6/1 Doc 375 . December 1990.
  32. J.A. Torres. "Typical Equipment and Performance of the TDMA Systems". Group GAS 7 CCITT UIT. Athens (Greece) from 21 5 90 to 25 5 90.

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PATENTS



[1] CIELO: PC PROGRAM
Computation of Circuits Ionospheric (Study with thE LOckwood Method). June 1992.

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