Rivière Consulting

Over Twenty Years of Industry Experience

Before starting his full-time consulting business, Mr. Rivière worked on electronic engineering applications spanning Telecommunications, Industrial Control, Lasers, Medical Diagnostics, Automotive, and Semiconductor Capital Equipment.

A recent client of Rivière Consulting is Redwood Microsystems, for whom Mr Riviere developed the electronics for their Integrated Gas Panel, a low-cost multiple-channel flow regulator.

Former employers include Trazar (automatic impedance matching networks for plasma chambers) and MobileAria (security & fleet management systems for the trucking industry).

At Echelon Corporation, Mr. Rivière worked as an individual developer and later directed a hardware design group. This group developed board-level products based on the LonWorks platform for distributed control networking. He was a key contributor on a project that networks 27 million Italian homes. Mr. Rivière also managed the development of products such as i.LON 1000 Internet Server, LonTalk Network Interfaces and modules for the LonPoint System.

While working for Abbott Diagnostics (a division of Abbott Laboratories), he gained experience with ISO 9000 compliant processes, GMP, and FDA requirements. He was the architect and principal designer of the electronic system for a high-end automatic blood analyzer (Cell-Dyn 4000). This was a multi-disciplinary development that included optics, fluidics, mechanical subsystems, and biochemistry. This complex design involved a wide range of digital and analog circuitry.

Mr. Rivière has expertise in the area of laser controllers and operator interfaces; he designed electronics for a pulsed YAG laser for Spectra Physics. In the areas of Industrial Instrumentation and Control, he designed moisture measurement systems for Sensortech Systems, utilized for monitoring, data logging, and calibration of several networked intelligent transducers.

In the late 1980s, the Foxboro Company hired Mr. Rivière to design an ASIC for a high volume industrial process controller. Vertitron used his services as a consultant to design an elevator control.

In the early days of cellular phones, cheaper alternative architectures where explored by companies like Xytel Communications, where Mr. Rivière developed a Mobile Information Terminal and designed telephone interfaces and circuitry for analog mobile telephones using pre-existing trunked two-way radios.

Before Mr Rivière moved to the USA in 1983, he was a Planning Engineer for ENTel (National Administration of Telecommunications) -Currently Telefónica de Argentina.

Mr. Rivière holds a MSEE degree from the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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