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Dr. Stiles has over 30 years experience leading and managing a broad spectrum of technology developments and R&D for wireless and fiber-optic hardware and systems, satellite communications systems, and remote sensing systems; including systems engineering, technology identification and technology selection. He has managed technology developments and built engineering teams in startup environments.
For the last four years, Herschel has been providing consulting services to a variety of companies, including market assessment, technology assessment, and engineering management. During this time, he has also acted as the VP of Engineering for Phasebridge, Inc., a hybrid optical packaging and technologies company targeting government technology and production contracts for FOG transceivers, RF transport over fiber and Terahertz. This activity led to an acquisition by a public company.
Herschel spent thirteen years at TRW (NGST) in various technical, systems engineering and management positions ending with Advanced Systems Manager, where he led strategic planning for communications/electronic subsystems for their core government customers, and was responsible for winning over $20M in key technology developments. Subsequently, he held various positions at two Loral companies over four years. He was Director Development and Systems Engineering for CyberStar responsible for technologies and systems to support satellite based broadband multimedia services and later, Deputy for Technology and Systems at Space Systems/Loral responsible for technology and R&D plans to support strategic positioning for future satellites and systems.
Herschel was the CTO and SVP Engineering for Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc. and built an engineering team to a peak of over 250. Herschel was responsible for technology and implementation for high-speed modem products, optical sub-carrier multiplexing products, DWDM and switching/grooming products. At Centerpoint his team developed the highest-rate QAM modem available in the industry (to 1 Gbps) for an OEM application, an optical networking and transport system level product for telecom carriers that was in trials, and completed development and deployment of a carrier-class DWDM transport system. Herschel also oversaw the integration of merged engineering teams that resulted from corporate acquisitions.
Herschel has a BSEE and an MSEE from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, where he was an Assistant Professor for two years prior to moving to TRW.
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