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Richard C. Cabot PhD
1980 Twin Points Rd.
Lake Oswego, OR  97034
503-635-XFRM (9376)
503-720-4436
email: rich@xfrm.com

Professional Experience

Audio Precision (1998 to 2001). Vice President, Chief Technology Officer.

  • Ultimate management authority for engineering, documentation and computer support groups totaling 20 managers, engineers, writers and technicians.
  • Responsible in partnership with President for general corporate management.
  • Develop corporate strategic direction.
  • Chief architect for new products.
  • Represent the company at technical conferences on audio.
  • Represent the company’s interests on international standards committees.

Audio Precision (1984 to 1998). Vice President, Principal Engineer.

  • Managed several dsp engineers and consultants.
  • Responsible in partnership with three other founders for general corporate management.
  • Develop corporate strategic direction.
  • Specific responsibility for research and development of new digital signal processing technologies.
  • Represent the company at technical conferences on audio.
  • Represent the company’s interests on international standards committees.

Tektronix (1978 to 1984). Design Engineer, Project Leader.

  • Responsible for design of audio frequency test and measurement products.
  • Project leader on SG5010 programmable audio oscillator.
  • Design engineer on AA501 audio distortion analyzer.
  • Design engineer on 067-0938 audio distortion measurement fixture.
  • Represent the company at technical conferences on audio.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1977 to 1978). Instructor.

  • Duties included teaching undergraduate electrical engineering and acoustics classes and supervising independent study projects in audio and acoustics by undergraduate students.

National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Amplified Sound as a Source of Acoustic Trauma" ( summer 1977). Principal Investigator.

  • Developed and proposed a research project to study the effects of amplified sound on hearing acuity.  Served as principal investigator after grant was funded.  Duties included directing research, supervising 5 student researchers, drafting final report.

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1977, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  • M.S. Mechanics, 1976, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  • M. Eng. Electrical Engineering, 1975, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1975, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  • Completed additional graduate level courses in Statistics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  • Executive MBA, 2001, Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)

Continuing Education

Completed various continuing education courses and seminars on management, audio and electrical engineering, including

  • AEA/Stanford Executive Management Program
  • Mastering Management Skills, AEA
  • Managing Innovation in Development Projects, Oregon Graduate Inst.
  • Oversampling Delta-Sigma Data Converters, UCLA
  • A Structured Approach to Object Oriented Design, Elite Systems
  • Extreme Programming, OCATE
  • Business Trends, U of Oregon, AIM program

Attends virtually all conventions and conferences of the AES and of the IEEE Audio Group and attends many IEEE ASSP, NSCA and ASA conventions and other industry conferences.  Presented numerous papers to these industry conventions and conferences.

Professional Accomplishments

  • Registered Professional Engineer in Electrical and Acoustical Engineering in the State of Oregon.
  • Received 14 patents on various electrical circuit techniques and digital signal processing techniques.
  • Published over 30 papers in the fields of audio frequency electronic circuit design, digital signal processing, acoustics and the perception of sound
  • Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
  • Previously held the posts of President, International Vice President, Western Region Vice President, Governor, Publications Policy Committee Chairman and Convention Papers Chairman, in the AES
  • Currently Chairman of the AES Digital Audio Measurements Standards Committee.
  • Developed and Chaired the AES International Conference on Audio Test and Measurement (1992).
  • Member of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society Review Board.
  • Former Signal Processing Editor of Sound and Video Contractor Magazine.
  • Senior Member of the Institute of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Member of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
  • Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
  • Member of the Canadian Acoustical Society.
  • Member of Sigma Xi (a scientific research honorary society).
  • Member of Eta Kappa Nu (an electrical engineering honorary society).

Professional Consulting Experience

  • Pioneer Laser Entertainment, Long Beach  CA.  Tested and evaluated 2 models of power amplifiers.
  • Biamp Systems, Portland  OR.  Designed a graphic equalizer, a parametric equalizer, redesigned a four channel limiter, two power amplifiers and redesigned a multi-channel mixing console.
  • BGW Systems, Hawthorne  CA.  Designed a portable powered mixing console including equalizers.
  • Audio Control, Lynnwood WA.  Redesigned their real time analyzer filter bank to ANSI specifications. 
  • Broadcast Electronics, Quincy IL.  Designed a cross-correlation based automatic tape head azimuth error corrector. 
  • Interactive Technology, Portland OR.  Designed an interface circuit and noise filter for connecting a photometric probe to the company’s television data transmission equipment.
  • Yamaha Professional Products, Buena Park  CA.  Redesigned a graphic equalizer to reduce noise.

Related Experience

Appointed by Governor Kitzhaber to the Oregon Central Business Registration Coordinating Council, advising state government on streamlining the registration and regulation of businesses in Oregon.

References available upon request