Meet Saad Thabit
Founder of DRF Engineering Services, Saad Thabit brings over 30 years of industry experience working with start-ups and global organizations to build the next generation of power electronic products.
DRF is an electronics engineering consulting firm specializing in the design and development of power electronics for various products ranging from 3D printers to ECG monitoring devices, with a focus in Advancing power conversion for renewable energy and storage.
Saad Thabit founded DRF Engineering Services to provide customers with access to experienced product development, mechanical, and test engineers. Combined with high-touch customer service, DRF’s engineers work with customers to meet design and engineering goals on time and on budget.
The team’s experience includes the design of analog and digital circuits, circuit simulation, precision instrumentation and sensors, amplifier design, power supplies, low and high-power switching converters, motor drives, power electronic designs, and more.
Before DRF Engineering, Thabit was the Director of Power Systems at Altaeros, the developer of aerial cell towers providing connectivity to rural communities and industries. At Beacon Power Corporation, a world leader in the design and development of flywheel-based energy storage systems, Thabit was responsible for designing and developing power electronics used in a high-speed flywheel system. He played a vital role in two major projects involving frequency regulation for large-scale energy storage systems, each rated 20MW/5 MWH. These projects, funded by the DOE, and successfully commissioned, were the first of their kind and continue to be operational today.
Thabit began his career at Keltron Power System, a designer, and manufacturer of a diverse range of uninterruptable high-voltage power supplies, as a developer of automated test stations for high-voltage power supplies.
Saad Thabit holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Baghdad in 1990. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family and traveling, playing pickup soccer, basketball, and golfing.
Our Story
After working in the industry for nearly 20 years, DRF’s Founder Saad Thabit decided he needed a change. First, he spent some time working for a start-up. After a few months, Saad wasn’t satisfied and continued his search.
While on a trip to Jamaica to sort things out, Saad visited Dunn’s River Falls, an experience that left a lasting impression on him. Dunn’s River Falls is a spectacular waterfall. There is a treacherous hike to the top of the waterfall, where the water beats down on you, and slippery rocks make your footing risky. But people join hands to form a human chain up the entire waterfall’s path. Every person takes part in this struggle, and the walk is slow-going, but each person helps you toward your goal – the top of the stunningly beautiful falls.
This great sense of community and struggle had a lasting impact on Saad inspiring him to create his own path. Thus, DRF Engineering Services was born! Since founding the company in 2013, Saad has worked his way up to his own “waterfall,” one client at a time – just as how he worked his way up the challenging path at Dunn’s River Falls – hence the name DRF.
Engineering consultation Group
DRF is an engineering consultation group, specializing in power conversion and power testing. We have experience with design review, power stage design, simulation and modeling, component specification, PCB and enclosure layout, acceptance test planning, and on-site test execution.
Savings
We keep our customers’ costs in mind as we are developing and designing to make every project cost-efficient.
Personal Craftsmanship
Our customers have built their technology around grid-interactive inverters, generators, flywheel energy storage, and synchronous motors and controls, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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