Senior electronic systems design engineer with passion for inventive design, tactical approach to achieving goals, collaborative leadership style. Proven experience in project management, electronics and software design, manufacturing, technical communications and team building.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BRIDGEPOINT SYSTEMS
Oakland, CA, 2003 to present
Senior Project Engineer
Managed development for smartcard-based physical access control product line sold to government customers. Developed electronics and firmware for three card reader products based on Motorola HC908. Reverse-engineered and extended Forth firmware and Visual Basic applications. Managed installations at US Army bases in Virginia and North Carolina. Managed two technicians and two software contractors.
POWERTOUCH TECHNOLOGY
San Francisco, CA, 2003
Contract Electronic Design Engineer
Developed audio interface for PC-based Nextel dispatch system. Designed and produced analog electronics.
MOTO DEVELOPMENT GROUP
San Francisco, CA, 2002
Contract Electronic Design Engineer
Developed two products for a client in the personal entertainment market. Worked from high-level specifications and produced working prototypes in less than two months. Delivered complete design documentation, schematics and PCB design, costed bill of materials with alternate sources.
BSQUARE SILICON VALLEY DIVISION (closed July 2002)
Sunnyvale, CA, 2002
Senior Hardware Engineer
Designed electronics for handheld computer platform running WindowsCE and Intel XScale processors. Wrote application notes instructing customers in modifying the standard hardware for using the XScale built-in USB port and supporting PCMCIA and SDIO Cards.
IRIDIGM DISPLAY CORP.
San Francisco, CA, 2001 - 2002
Senior System Electronics Engineer
One of two electronics engineers in a 15-person company, supporting new display technology transition from laboratory to product. Engineered characterization system that provided performance feedback to manufacturing process, resulting in rapid improvement of display quality. Developed system that demonstrated gray-scale display for the first time at key trade show. Designed portable power supply that allowed sales people to take demonstration system to customer sites.
DOLBY LABORATORIES
San Francisco, CA, 1998 - 1999
Electronics Design Engineer
Led the development of the DP572 Dolby-E Decoder, used for multi-channel audio distribution in digital television broadcast studios. Worked with company officers and senior engineers in San Francisco and New York to define product specification in line with marketing goals. Designed product using four processors, a real-time operating system, Ethernet, and specialized video and digital audio interfaces. Accelerated the project by mentoring a junior engineer in designing subsystem. Supervised prototype manufacturing and test program development.
CONNECTIX CORPORATION
San Mateo, CA, 1995 - 1997
Hardware Engineer
Led USB interface development and manufacturing test program for QuickCam digital video camera. Represented Connectix in the USB Implementers Forum and developers? conferences. Created prototype that provided software engineers with development platform 6 months before camera hardware completion. Demonstrated USB QuickCam VC to the press at Spring Comdex 1997. Developed and managed manufacturing test program for three generations of QuickCams. Recommended design changes that reduced manufacturing cost by more than 10%. Worked in a three-person team to transition manufacturing operation from Bay Area locations to rural Mississippi, resulting in significant cost savings.
RMS TECHNOLOGIES
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1993 - 1994
Hardware Engineer
Designed and simulated comparator card to test spacecraft data system. Simulations resulted in prototype going to production with no modifications, a first for the group. Developed buffer reconstruction algorithms. Documentation included flowcharts to enable software engineers to integrate my design into system. Delivered presentations in design reviews, earning high praise from senior NASA staff. Oversaw production and wrote test software.
UC BERKELEY SPACE SCIENCES LAB
Berkeley, CA, 1990 - 1995
Senior Engineering Aide
Supported engineers developing instruments for satellite-based space physics research. Designed electronics for electric field sensors and satellite power supply. Analyzed heat-transfer to gauge performance in the vacuum of space. Created and documented procedures for instrument power supply acceptance test.
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Emphasis in Signal Processing and Electronic Systems
COMPUTER AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
Core Competence
Electronic systems design
Microcontroller development
FPGA design
Windows software development
Technical Software
OrCAD, Protel,
ViewLogic, Cadence
SPICE, MATLAB
Microsoft Developer Studio: Visual C++
Graphics/Web Design Tools
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, GoLive
Microsoft FrontPage
Productivity Applications
Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Outlook
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