Antic’s People
The founders of Antic Wireless
Technologies Inc. are Andrew Lea, Rodney Vaughan and Ron Vanderhelm. Our team has experience in microwave
electronics, antennas, DSP, and radio system design. Antic is currently working with Simon Fraser
University in development
of its initial product offerings.
Andrew Lea
andrew@anticwireless.com telephone 778-229-7185
Andrew received the B.Sc. degree and the B.Eng.
degree, with distinctions, from Dalhousie
University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He worked for Nortel Networks from 1999 to
2000 doing hardware design for high-speed digital communications systems. From 2001 to 2002 Andrew worked for Futurecom
Systems (Concord, Ontario) where the bulk of his work
comprised designing RF amplifiers. He
received the M.A.Sc. degree from Simon
Fraser University
in 2007, where his research focused on compact antennas. Following completion of his degree at SFU,
Andrew worked with the Nokia
Research Center. He has published several papers in the area
of antennas and propagation. Andrew, as
President of Antic Wireless Technologies Inc., fuses the science and technology
of wireless for commercial application.
Rodney Vaughan
rodney@anticwireless.com
Since 2003, Rodney Vaughan has been a
professor in Electrical Engineering and the Sierra Wireless Chair in
Communications at the School of Engineering Science at Simon
Fraser University
in Burnaby, BC. He
has B.E. and M.E. degrees from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and
the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg
University, Denmark. Rodney worked for Telecom New Zealand and the New Zealand Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research where he worked on a wide range of mechanical and
electrical projects. These ranged from
heating and ventilation to acoustic and audio signal processing, and from
network traffic forecasting to microprocessor and DSP technology for abattoir
and bread baking automation, scientific instruments, and communications
systems. At Industrial Research Limited
he developed research programs and personnel in signal processing and wireless
communications. In addition to his
industrial projects, his research includes topics in multipath propagation,
signal theory and processing, implanted antennas, and compact multiport
antennas.
Ron
Vanderhelm
ron@anticwireless.com
Ron, a product development veteran,
brings over 30 years of experience in producing leading edge wireless products for
markets worldwide. Ron was a founding
member of Sierra Wireless in 1993 and during his 12 years with the company,
managed the company’s RF strategy and RF engineering specialists, most recently
as Director of RF Engineering. Before
that, Ron was with Motorola Inc., Mobile Data Division (formerly MDI Mobile
Data International) for 10 years, most recently as Principal Staff Engineer in
the Advanced Product Group. He also
designed VHF/UHF mobile radio equipment from 1979 to 1983 with WR
Communications. Since 2005, Ron has been
an independent consultant to small firms, most notably BluePulse Technologies
Inc. Ron holds a B.A.Sc. degree from the
University of British Columbia as well as a Dipl.T.
from the BC Institute of Technology.