Heinz has more than 20 years of technical, marketing and management experience in the analog, RF and microwave arena. His expertise is in concept development, systems architecture and analysis, and simulation. Before founding CustomRF he was general manager of Philips Semiconductor's design center in Maynard, MA and did systems engineering and RF design of commercial wireless products at Philips, Systemonic and Raytheon. Prior to that he worked in satellite communications for Raytheon and GTE and in fixed service point to point radio communications for Advanced TechCom. He has three patents and one published article. He served on the Finance Committee in Stow, MA for six years, two as Chairman, and wrote The Stow Finance Committee Standard Operating Procedures Duties and Responsibilities. He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich, Switzerland.