Professional Profile
Proven multi-disciplinary hands-on electronic hardware and software product development professional experienced in architecture, definition, development and detailed design of diverse consumer products, energy and power products, optical telecom systems and industrial manufacturing equipment.
Direct Contributor
- Mixed Signal Hardware Development incorporating discrete power and sensitive analog circuitry, offline and no-isolated power supply and magnetic transformer design, embedded Cortex ARM and
- Complex product development often requiring a blend of Hardware, Embedded Firmware, Windows Software and ElectroMechanical Design development disciplines.
- Developed Hardware products containing a variety of technology, including:
- Discrete power supplies including offline AC, PFC and DC SMPS often with custom magnetics.
- High gain, low noise high slew Rate analog front end signal amplifiers
- Discrete low capacitance measurement based upon discrete Colpitts Oscillator
- Sensitive analog receivers for use in fiberoptics and noise-floor electrical sytems.
- High power and high voltage discrete analog amplifier products
- High speed and ultra low power embedded ARM and other CPU digital circuits and systems
- CPU based subsystems involving SDRAM, USB, Ethernet, and many more peripherals.
- High speed digital complex FPGAs using Verilog and VHDL
- Developed Firmware for multiple products containing a variety of technology, including:
- Real time embedded firmware with and without FreeRTOS for Cortex-M ARM, PIC, MSP430, many more microprocessors
- Object Oriented embedded system developed in C+ on Free-RTOS operating system.
- Architected and developed custom multi-threaded synchronization system software and API utilizing producer-consumer and server-client data exchange architecture.
- Developed am embedded GUI intended for product configuration
- Integrated BACNet API on a Industrial airflow controller
- Competent in the usage of a variety of engineering tools, including:
- Cadence, Orcad and Altium for PCB design, including schematic entry and PCB layout.
- LTSpice, PSpice and Intusoft Magnetics designer for analog development
- Rowley Associates and IAR for embedded firmware development
- MS .NET C++ and C# for Windows software.
- Familiar with Perl and Python command line and server side script development
- Familiar with Solidworks for electro-mechanical development and Xilinx and Altera verilog for FPGA designs.
Technical Leadership
- Led architecture definition, specification and detailed development of products within the power utility, industrial printer, telecommunications, and consumer product industries.
- Facilitated corporate partnerships and collaborated on international technical specifications
- Direct management of skilled software, hardware and mechanical development engineers and support staff such as technicians and assemblers
- Project Management involving at least fifty engineers, with direct interaction with core executive staff of a company with a billion dollar revenue stream.
- Established product development processes, quality assurance procedures and manufacturing traceability and management tools.
