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A message from the owner : 
Hello. My name is Larry Weinberg. I'm the owner and senior design engineer of Precision Tracking Systems (PTS),
a progressive R&D electronics company nestled among the serene pines and mountains of beautiful southern
Oregon.
PTS started in 1988 as a small group of engineers trying to come up with better radio tracking devices, but has
blossomed into a full featured turnkey engineering company; servicing the electronics industries needs for quality design engineering right thru production generally at costs lower than they could do themselves.
Our diversified engineers are networked from around the country working from their own homes or offices. All of our assemblers are Mil-Spec and/or NASA-Spec certified; design cycles follow the KISS method, AND because of our telecommuting capabilities, our overhead is so low we can show a profit
charging less than the next guy (and that's with NO markups on parts and outside services). Our clients include companies
like Motorola, Nextel, Fiber Optic Lighting Inc., Eckstein Brothers Inc, ....the list goes on. Needless to say, it has worked well for
us.
Over the years, we've learned to build on our strengths with the idea being that our quality based services would have to be capable of paying for themselves with enough left over to move onto the next project, and sustain
us as well. It happened. Here we are 12 years later still going strong on our own merit, owing no one, working on our own terms.
We've had the good fortune of working on a wide variety of products and technologies, with an even
wider variety of design disciplines, which makes our knowledge base strong. Working with client engineers has been a
wonderful and learning experience as well. I sincerely hope that we can get together to discuss how we might be of help.
It never fails to amaze me how well our projects turn out. I guess its because everyone here truly enjoys what they do; and
when you enjoy what you do, you do it well. Let's smile.
Executive Personnel Profiles :
Larry Weinberg, Owner/Engineer
Job Description:
- Primary duties: Business Management, Contract Negotiations and Design Engineering.
- Generate original concept schematics and PCB layouts.
- Determine enclosure and user interfaces for product development.
- Heads R&D engineering endeavors related to Product Development.
- Oversees Quality Control and Assurance, physical distribution, product and packaging design, new product development, business and product improvements.
- Responsible for customer support, manufacturing coordination, raw materials management and allocation.
Design Engineering Experience:
- 20 years designing analog, digital, mixed technologies, in high and low power applications with disciplines ranging from instrumentation control, audio, and rf thru micro-processor/controller/computer design to customized client products in medical, communications, DSP and telemetry, GPS, and other applications.
- Designs range from single sided standard thru-hole to multi-laminate 0.3 micron SMT for micro-applications such as PCMCIA, flex mylar, etc. using various CAD/CAM systems.
- High end applications include contracted military and civilian projects for Litton: Navigational Guidance and Control Systems,
Los Alamos Natl Labs: X-ray Cameras and Imaging devices,
NASA: Life support computer interfaces, Laser Based and Experimental Defense Networks,
JPL: Global Positioning Systems,
Kaiser: Wireless Remote Medical Diagnostics,
Exide: 2.4Meg KVA Uninterruptable Power Systems .... and others.
- Low end applications include industry driven products such as Sound Systems (Parasound Spica), Controllers, Satellite Uplinks, Radio Tracking, Interoperability Solutions (Motorola), Cellular Radio, Logic Control, Security systems, and more.
- Generation of code for following: CNC, Gerber, Excellon, and other fabrication file formats.
- Firmware development utilizing RISC/CISC for PIC microcontrollers.
- Extensive reverse engineering experience.
Highlight Achievements:
- 2nd Lead Design Engineer for motherboard of first IBM clone (Eagle Computers).
- Designed and Installed life support computer interface for Shuttle Columbia (NASA).
- Designed and installed control systems for Los Alamos X-ray camera (13 million frames per second)
- Owner and Sr. Design Engineer of Precision Tracking Systems since 1988.
- Achieved "first refusal" rights on outsourced Motorola projects.
- Received Man of the Year 1995, 1996 for motivational speaking and involvement with "Students at Risk"
Outside Associations:
- Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce
- C.B.E.C (Community Business and Education Center) Josephine County Advisory Board Member
- Member, American Legion Post 28
- State of Oregon Authorized Electronics Training Facility for the Chapter 31 Job Skills Program from the Veterans Administration, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Portland Community College Agencies
- 25 years (adult) BSA with 10 years as Scoutmaster of Troop 126.
- Scout Commissioner, District and Council Scouting, BSA, Crater Lake Council
Dave Case, Resource Manager
Job Description:
- Primary duty: Personnel and Production.
- Interviews, tests, trains new personnel.
- Maintains Disability Awareness Program.
- Shop Manager.
- Oversees and coordinates all production departments.
- Head of Engineering Support, Prototype Management
- Custom hardware fixtures and test implementation.
Experience:
- Twenty eight years supervising, maintaining, managing personnel and crews in highly industrialized facilities.
- Eight years prototype and engineering support,
- Welder / fabricator
- Tool designer
- Mold maker / machinist
- Detail assembly process engineering
- Retrofit Engineering
- Hazardous materials, clean-room specialist.
Highlight Achievements:
- College instructor in Fabrication Technologies, CAD/CAM, Materials Allocation Management
Outside Associations:
- Boy Scouts of America - 30 years
- Phi Beta Kappa alumni
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- Committee, Grants Pass High School Band Auxiliary
- Associate, Southern Oregon Steelheaders Association
- American Red Cross instructor
- Various Community Awareness projects
