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MAJ Blaine was commissioned as a Signal Officer upon graduating as a member of the United States Military Academy's bicentennial class in 2002. His assignments include a variety of duty positions in the 82nd Airborne Division and 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, N. C. He most recently served as the Company Commander for HHC, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He also has served two tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom and one tour in Operation Enduring Freedom, as a Contingency Communication Platoon (CCP) Leader, Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of Staff MNC-I, and as S6 for 2-508 PIR respectively. He is a graduate of the Signal Officers Basic Course, Signal Captains Career Course, BDE/BN S6 Course, Airborne School, Jumpmaster School, and the Combat Diver Qualification Course.

Recent Positions :

20012-Present: Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2008-2009: Company Commander, HHC, 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division
2006-2008: S6, 2nd Battalion, 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division
2004-2006: Aide-de-Camp Chief of Staff XVIII Airborne Corps and Multi-National Corps Iraq
2002-2004: Contingency Communications Platoon (CCP) Leader, C. Co, 82nd Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2011
B.S., Electrical Engineering, United States Military Academy, 2002

Journal Articles:

R. W. Blaine, S. E. Armstrong, J. S. Kauppila, N. M. Atkinson, B. D. Olson, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “RHBD Bias Circuits Utilizing Sensitive Node Active Charge Cancellation (SNACC),” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 3060-3066, 2011
R. W. Blaine, S. E. Armstrong, N. M. Atkinson, J. S. Kauppila, T. D. Loveless, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “Single-Event-Hardened CMOS Operational Amplifier Design,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 99, 2012.
S. E. Armstrong, R. W. Blaine, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “Single-Event Analysis and Hardening of Mixed-Signal Circuit Interfaces in High-Speed Communications Devices,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 99, 2012

Proceedings:

R. W. Blaine, B. D. Olson, S. E. Armstrong, W. T. Holman, J. S. Kauppila, and L. W. Massengill, “SNACC: Sensitive Node Active Charge Cancellation as a RHBD Technique for Bias Circuits,” Proc. of the 2010 Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems, Längenfeld, Austria, Sept. 2010
S. E. Armstrong, T. D. Loveless, R. W. Blaine, N. M. Atkinson, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “Single-Event Vulnerability of Mixed-Signal Circuit Interfaces in Communications Devices,” Proceedings of the 2011 SEE Symposium, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2011.
R. W. Blaine, S. E. Armstrong, N. M. Atkinson, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “A RHBD Bootstrap Current Source Utilizing Sensitive Node Active Charge Cancellation (SNACC),” Proceedings of the 2011 SEE Symposium, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2011.
R. W. Blaine, S. E. Armstrong, B. D. Olson, W. T. Holman, J. S. Kauppila, and L. W. Massengill, “A Hardened-by-Design Bias Circuit Utilizing Sensitive Node Active Charge Cancellation (SNACC),” Proceedings of the 36th Annual GOMACTech Conference, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2011.
R. W. Blaine, S. E. Armstrong, N. M. Atkinson, J. S. Kauppila, T. D. Loveless, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “Single-Event-Hardened CMOS Operational Amplifier Design,” Proc. of the 2011 Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems, Sevilla, Spain, Sept. 2011.
S. E. Armstrong, R. W. Blaine, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, “Single-Event Analysis and Hardening of Mixed-Signal Circuit Interfaces in High-Speed Communications Devices,” Proc. of the 2011 Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems, Sevilla, Spain, Sept. 2011.
R. W. Blaine, N. M. Atkinson, J. S. Kauppila, S. E. Armstrong, T. D. Loveless, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, "Single-Event Hardening Techniques for CMOS Operational Amplifier Design," Proceedings of the 37th Annual GOMACTech Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar. 2012
R. W. Blaine, N. M. Atkinson, J. S. Kauppila, S. E. Armstrong, T. D. Loveless, W. T. Holman, and L. W. Massengill, "RHBD Techniques for CMOS Operational Amplifier Design," Proceedings of the 2012 SEE Symposium, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2012

MAJ Blaine’s research interests include the following areas:

Microelectronic Circuit Design
Radiation Effects - Single-Event Effects
Advanced Analog Design

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MAJ Raymond Blaine