Mayflower Communications - Quality Through Innovation

Management

Dr. Triveni N. Upadhyay, Founder & Chairman
Dr. Upadhyay has over 25 years of advanced GPS product development and senior level project management experience with the primary focus on developing and marketing low-cost, low-power GPS receivers, integrated GPS/IMU, cellular wireless communications and GPS anti-jam products. As the founder and Chairman, he has been the technical director of projects for the numerous government and industry projects that have made fundamental contributions to the field of GPS anti-jam techniques, GPS/INS navigation and wireless communications systems.

In March 2000, Dr. Upadhyay founded and served as President and CEO of Envoy Networks, Inc., a venture capital funded company focused on developing and marketing third generation (3G) commercial mobile cellular technology and products. At Envoy, Dr. Upadhyay developed innovative technology to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless cellular networks for both voice and data, which are subjects of several US patents. Envoy Networks was acquired by Texas Instruments, Inc in 2002.

Dr. Upadhyay has published over twenty-five papers in technical journals. He is the co-inventor of six U.S. Patents: 2 in wireless communications technology and 4 in GPS technology. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of ION and AIAA, and a Charter Member of TiE (the Indus Entrepreneur) www.TiE.org - a global, not-for-profit organization with more than 40 chapters worldwide promoting entrepreneurship. Dr. Upadhyay is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, received his M.S. from Princeton University and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin.

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Naresh Babu N. Jarmale, Director, Software & Systems Engineering
Mr Jarmale manages the design and development of embedded software for various Mayflower GPS and wireless communications products. Mr. Jarmale's software development and management expertise cuts across many technology areas including software radios, data links and cellular and satellite network protocols.

Mr. Jarmale has over ten years of senior project level management experience in various aspects of design and development of software for various engineering projects dealing with Embedded systems, Microprocessors, DSPs, Data Processing and Communication Protocols, Instrumentation and Graphical User Interface. Prior to joining Mayflower, Mr. Jarmale has held positions at Teradyne Inc., Boston, MA, the Indian Space Research Organization, Indian Institute of Science (SERC) and Baysoft Private Limited in Bangalore, India. Mr. Jarmale holds the B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.S. in Industrial Electronics degrees from the University of Mysore, India.

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Dr. Gowri Rajappan, Director of Wireless Communications Programs
Dr. Rajappan manages the wireless communications programs at Mayflower. He leads Mayflower’s efforts in software defined radio, heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networking, and tactical voice technologies, in order to provide reliable wireless communication systems and technology for government and commercial markets.

Dr. Rajappan’s areas of expertise are advanced wireless communication algorithms such as MIMO and multiuser techniques, communication standards such as UMTS and IEEE 802.11, and ad hoc networking technology. He has several years of experience in research & development of wired and wireless communication systems and networks. Prior to Mayflower, he was a scientist and a business development manager at Nevelex Corporation, where he worked on ad hoc networking and active networking technology. Prior to Nevelex, he was a member of the systems group at Aware, Inc., where he performed research & development of DSL communication systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.

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Bruce C. Warwick, CPA – Controller & Director of Finance
Mr. Warwick has served as our Controller & Director of Finance since December 2007 and as Treasurer since March 2008. He is responsible for managing all functions relating to accounting, finance and contract administration. Mr. Warwick is a CPA with 20 years of experience in public accounting and 10 years of experience in financial management.

Mr. Warwick previously served as Controller for MicroFinancial Incorporated, a publicly traded leasing company from 2005 to 2007. He also served as an officer of both Able Laboratories, Inc. and RxBazaar, Inc. from 2000 to 2005. Able was a publicly held generic drug manufacturer and RxBazaar was a publicly held distributor of pharmaceutical and medical products. From 1988 until 2000, Mr. Warwick was employed at Wolf & Company, P.C., a large regional public accounting and business consulting firm, most recently as a principal.

Mr. Warwick is a graduate of Bentley College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Science in Taxation. He is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

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William LeComte, Hardware Development Manager
Mr. LeComte is the lead principal RF design engineer and hardware development manager responsible for the design, development, test, and evaluation of RF systems used to support the production of GPS interference cancellers, GPS interference location systems, GPS data link systems, and smart antennas and transceivers. As part of his efforts in leading the RF technology at Mayflower, Mr. LeComte has designed miniaturized high-performance synthesizers, multi-channel GPS down-converters, and GPS RF receiver front-ends.

Previously Mr. LeComte worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he was responsible for optical/RF systems design to measure high-speed multi-gigabit data over an experimental 20 GHz terrestrial air-link in which he acted as test director. As part of that effort, Mr. LeComte designed a 20 GHz atmospheric propagation simulator utilizing transversal filter techniques to provide repeatable testing of atmospheric equalizers used to counter the effects of depolarization. From 1990 to 1995 he designed various RF and photonic antenna nulling systems to counter the effects of broadband signal jamming over a 2 GHz bandwidth. From 1988 to 1990 he was involved in receiver designs employing phase-locked loop techniques for reception of communication space satellites in the S and EHF bands. From 1982 to 1988 Mr. LeComte worked on the design, fabrication, and test of various RF and digital subsystems for EHF communication satellites. Mr. LeComte holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S in Microwave Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

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Dennis Minton, ASIC Development Manager
Mr. Minton joined Mayflower in November 2005, and he oversees the Digital Hardware development group at Mayflower. Mr. Minton has over 23 years of experience designing digital hardware. Mr. Minton has expertise in all aspects of ASIC development, namely: architecture, design, verification, test insertion, synthesis, static timing analysis, and packaging. Prior to joining Mayflower, Mr. Minton worked at FreeScale Semiconductor (2005) as DFT Lead Engineer; at Zaiq Technologies (1998-2005) as Project Lead on multiple projects; and at Lockheed Martin Sanders (1984-1998) as a Design Engineer. Mr. Minton earned his BS in Electronic Engineering Technology from University of Lowell in 1989. Mr. Minton served in the US Army Field Artillery during 1978-1982.

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