Passionate acoustic engineer with 25+ years experience in acoustics, audio and electronics. Loves to solve problems rather than talk about them

Lead Acoustic Systems Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProgram Owner "Acoustic Design" @ Responsible for management of Acoustics projects within the Technology & Research stream and collaborating & liaising with other technology fields. Responsible for strategic technology roadmapping within Acoustic technology. Contribution to all steps in product development cycle from idea to product development and technical marketing. • Recruited, build-up and developed a team of 4 acoustic engineers (3 internal, 1 external) • Moved project organisation into Sharepoint and developed know-how library in Sharepoint • Dissemination of acoustics knowledge within Sonova group through regular topical lectures and two-part mini course on "Acoustics for hearing instruments" held at various sites • Co-written supplier transducer specification for new directional microphone system • Developed purpose acoustic measurement system based on standard National Instruments hardware and Matlab GUI • Introduced multi-physics modelling language Modelica and environment Dymola for the efficient modelling of vibroacoustic feedback paths in hearing instruments • Patent creation and technical expertise From October 2011 to August 2015 (3 years 11 months) Senior Development Engineer @ • Developed new directional microphone system that is much less sensitive to mismatch (both initial and drift) and has less noise • Build-up extensive library for network analogue modelling, including the transducer models from the suppliers, that runs either under LTSpice or in Matlab • Introduced FMM-BEM to model the effect of torso, head and ear on the in-situ microphone signals. This system is used to quickly judge the omni-directional and directional performance for new hearing instrument concepts during the design phase. From October 2009 to September 2011 (2 years) Acoustic Engineer @ Research and development to improve the vibro-acoustic performance of electrical power steering systems. Numerical modelling of noise excitation and transmission. • Modal analysis and time-domain simulation of flexible multibody systems using MSC Adams • FEA Analysis using NX Nastran and UGS NX as a pre-processor • Supervision of external project to model the vibration excitation from synchronous drive belts From December 2007 to September 2009 (1 year 10 months) Research Assistant/Associate @ Joint spatial audio research project with Digital Theater Systems. The goal was to develop new methods to generate multi-channel format from mono and stereo recording involving blind source separation and deconvolution. My responsiblity was the room acoustics/spatial audio part of the project. Resulted in PhD thesis and 5 journal publications. From September 2004 to September 2007 (3 years 1 month) Research Assistant @ Joint research on bending wave transducers with Fraunhofer IDMT. The goal was to better understand and improve the performance of Multi-Actuator-Panels that were used as loudspeakers for Wave-field-synthesis. Resulted in 1 journal publication and 1 patent application From September 2003 to September 2004 (1 year 1 month) Owner @ Installation of professional audio systems Development of customised analogue and digital audio electronics. From April 1996 to December 1999 (3 years 9 months) Basel Area, SwitzerlandComputer Engineer @ Repair of IT equipment hardware down to chip-level. From August 1996 to July 1999 (3 years) Basel Area, SwitzerlandRelief Manager Youth Centre @ Responsible for managing youth centre in absence of social workers. From June 1995 to July 1999 (4 years 2 months) Basel Area, SwitzerlandAudio Video Engineer @ Installation of large integrated audio-visual systems in conference rooms/centres. Writing of audio-part of contract bids. From April 1994 to July 1996 (2 years 4 months) Basel Area, Switzerland

PhD, Acoustics @ Queen's University Belfast From 2004 to 2007 MSc, Applied Physics @ Delft University of Technology From 2001 to 2003 BEng(Hons), Acoustics @ The University of Salford From 1999 to 2001 Martin Kuster is skilled in: Finite Element Analysis, Simulations, Acoustics, Signal Processing, Matlab, R&D, Physics, Audio Processing, Numerical Analysis, Simulink, Engineering, Modeling, C, Digital Signal Processing, Transducers