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Company Background

Introduction
Management

Resumes

President/Proprietor of ADI American Distributors Inc, David Beck
Engineering Manager, Craig Borax
Engineering Supervisor, Milton Rosen
Elizabeth Alaiyan, Quality Control Manager
Carl Bryant, Manufacturing Manager

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Company Background

Introduction

American Distributors Inc. (ADI) is an ISO-9002 certified distributor of Electronic and Electro-Mechanical components. Founded in 1983, ADI serves domestic and international customers in both commercial and military markets.  

ADI American Distributors Inc. (ADI) was incorporated in 1983 in the state of New Jersey. ADI is a broadline, value added distributor. ADI has branches in Charlotte NC, Hemel Hempstead UK and Boston MA, and representatives in New Jersey, Texas and California. ADI’s customer base includes:

• GEC Marconi (Preferred Supplier).
• TRW / Lucas Aerospace (Preferred Supplier)
• Smiths Industries
• Hewlett Packard (Preferred Supplier).
• Transistor Devices (Supplier of the year, Dynaload Division)
• Lockheed Martin
• Leach Corporation
• Boeing

In 1993 ADI was certified and maintains certification to ISO 9002 by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance company.

In 1995 ADI added an engineering department to complete it’s product and service offering. The engineering branch became known as Tidal Engineering. A department of ADI, chartered with the objective of adding engineering services and OEM products to ADI’s offerings, Tidal Engineering has made great strides in creating unique products and services. Standard products and engineering services are a growing portion of ADI’s business.

Management

ADI is operated by an experienced group of managers and engineers.

• David Beck is President and owner of ADI and has 17 years experience in executive management, sales, marketing, purchasing and contract management.
• Craig Borax is the Engineering Manager and Chief Engineer of ADI/Tidal Engineering. Craig has 17 years of design experience in power electronics and embedded computer/software design. In addition he has 12 years of military and commercial project management experience.
• Milt Rosen is our Engineering Supervisor. Milt has vast experience in systems and magnetic component designs. Milt also serves as marketing manager for ADI/Tidal products.
• Elizabeth Alaiyan is our QC Manager.
• Karl Bryant runs our manufacturing subcontractor and is President/Owner of Maxwell Electronics.

Resumes

President/Proprietor of ADI American Distributors Inc, David Beck

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, William Paterson College, 1980
Masters of Business Administration, Fairleigh Dickenson University, 1984

David began his career in electronics working as a contract administrator and purchasing agent for Lucas Aerospace. He opened the US based purchasing division for Lucas in 1981. As a contract administrator he managed the AV8B fuel control system program and performed liaison duties with Government DCAS and DOD personnel. In 1982 David began working for Pioneer Standard where he had responsibility for key accounts including ITT Avionics. He increased sales by 40% during his tenure at Pioneer.

In 1984 he took over ADI, then a division of Resnet, Whippany NJ. He has taken ADI, a startup, to annual sales exceeding $10 million. His direction and leadership have brought ADI a loyal base of domestic and international customers doing commercial and military business.

Engineering Manager, Craig Borax

Education
Master of Engineering, California Polytechnic Institute, 1982
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1980

Craig Borax began has 17 years of broad experience with emphasis on building intelligent power conversion equipment. Craig began his career at General Dynamics Pomona Division where he designed and integrated computers for missile launching systems and radar systems. Craig also designed the control electronics for the Air Launched STINGER missile system before going to Trilectron Industries.

As Vice President of Research and Development at Trilectron, Craig developed new products combining his expertise in power electronics with his digital electronics experience. A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based 60 kVA frequency converter (60-400Hz) was a result of that synergy. Craig also developed several other large power converter designs including:

• A 70 kW phase-shift resonant switching converter for the F-22 Aircraft.
• A micro-computer based programmable battery charger analyzer.
• A programmable precision 60KW DC source that has become the standard ATE power supply for NASA’s Space Station subcontractors. The sources use MOSFETs as linear post regulators to obtain state of the art transient, ripple, dynamic range and regulation performance.
• Microprocessor based real-time controls for generator fault protection, three phase SCR gating control and 400 Hz generator controls. Craig served as Program Manager and Chief engineer on several multi-million dollar design/development/manufacturing programs including the F-22 External Power Converter (EPC) program. He developed and supervised the development of numerous technical reports in accordance with military standards such as Safety Analysis, Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis, Reliability, Integrity and EMI. Craig also has developed numerous industrial control and power conversion products. Two of the military projects were a 90 kW DC power supply for a US Navy Submarine Oxygen Generator and a portable DC power source for the US Marine Corps rated at 3 kW.

After more than nine years at Trilectron, Craig founded Tidal Engineering to consult on system, hardware and software design. Craig continues to use his experience in industrial controls, DSP hardware and software, Windows (tm) programming, power electronics, hardware design and packaging.

Engineering Supervisor, Milton Rosen

Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
Servo System Analysis program at the Servo Laboratory of M.I.T.
Navy V-12 Program and Engineering Officer

Milton Rosen is our Engineering Supervisor and Sales Engineer. Milt has extensive creative and innovative engineering experience in the design, fabrication, testing and sales of magnetic and electronic systems. Milt has organized and supervised groups for start up companies and divisions. Milt began his engineering career in the US Navy as an engineering officer while on the Navy V-12 Program. During his Naval career he completed his BSEE degree at Iowa State University. Milt assisted in the design of instrumentation and control for nuclear reactors. His efforts resulted in system qualification and these systems became fully operational aboard US Navy vessels. After leaving the Navy Milt completed the rigorous Servo System Analysis program at the Servo Laboratory of M.I.T.

After the Navy, Milt lead the engineering teams of the leading power electronics companies of the time Bogue Electric Co. and Basler Electric Co. Milt also spent several years building a company based on his renowned expertise called Milro Controls Co. Milt has innovated in many areas. He developed the first commercially available digital over-current relay for use by utilities and large industrial users. After building the sales of Milro (MIltonROsen) controls to one million annually he sold it to Ward Leonard Electric.

In the last ten years Milt started the Metglas Products division of Allied Signal Corporation as Senior Scientist/Manager Electromagnetic Applications. There he optimized design of amorphous metal cores for oil filled distribution transformers. Milt designed and built high efficiency power transformers and reactors using amorphous metal cores. Units have been built and installed in some utility systems for life test evaluation.

Elizabeth Alaiyan, Quality Control Manager

Education
Electronic Technician, Devries Technical Institute, 1985
Category C Instructor/Examiner, US Army MICOM Soldering Technology School, 1988
Certificate: Developing, Documenting & Implementing Quality Management System, Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Training Services, November 1993
Certificate: Internal Quality Auditing Course, Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Training Services, November 1995

Elizabeth completed her training in electronics at Devries in 1985 and went to work as a technician at Trilectron Industries in Hawthorne New Jersey. After a short while she was promoted to inspector where she became familiar with the MIL-I-45208 inspection system. In 1988 she successfully completed the rigorous soldering inspection and training course at the US Army MICOM headquarters in Huntsville AL. In 1990 she was promoted to quality manager for the New Jersey Division of Trilectron Industries. Elizabeth was also responsible for the certification of all Trilectron Employees to MIL-STD-2000 soldering standards. In 1991 she organized the transition of the production of several US Air Force contracts and all remaining production to Trilectron’s new Palmetto Florida headquarters. After the closure of Trilectron’s New Jersey Facility, Elizabeth helped Amerace of Livingston NJ close their NJ facility and open a Florida Facility.

In 1993 Elizabeth became QC manager for ADI American Distributors Inc. of Whippany NJ. Elizabeth quickly implemented, certified and is now maintaining an ISO 9002 system.

Carl Bryant, Manufacturing Manager

Carl came from a military electronics background at Redm Corporation in Wayne NJ. His company has automatic insertion and surface mount equipment capability. He is currently producing equipment under large multi-year contracts. He has always exceeded our expectations concerning delivery and quality.

Contract Personnel

ADI maintains a network of four to five highly skilled engineers with various expertise for use when engineering workload exceeds the capacity of our full-time employees.