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Highly Skilled Electronics Design Engineer

Hardware & Software Development / Embedded Applications / Systems Integration / Product Development

Highly Regarded Design Engineer with expertise in guiding fundamental project management initiatives in a the Electronic and Communication Industries.  Innoxxxxxxtive, ambitious, and disciplined with a talent for cultixxxxxxting & maintaining excellent relationships with key management professionals.  Reputation for identifying internal and external resources to optimize productivity while maintaining cost control. Proficiency in hardware and software design and the challenges associated with their integration.  Superior ability to communicate highly technical information to audiences of all levels.

 

w Highly familiar with microprocessor, microcontroller and Digital Signal Processor-based designs that combine digital and analog subsystems, along with the associated software and firmware.

w Track record of leading successful design projects that secure market share and lead the marketplace in innoxxxxxxtion.

w Adept at identifying and translating voice of customer inputs into specifications and high-xxxxxxlue products.

w Experience in designing electronic components including: analog, high speed A/D and D/A conversion, high density PLD s and FPGA s, SRAM and Flash RAM, digital logic families and processor designs, and expertise in circuit board layout, routing of high-speed circuits.

w Software design skills include languages C/C++, assembly languages, visual programming, embedded and Digital Signal Processor programming, Object PASCAL, LabVIEW, and legacy languages. 

w Proficient in Windows, DOS and OS/2 operating systems and a broad range of embedded systems.

w Authored programs on low-level drivers and xxxxxxrious assembly languages to high level, object oriented graphical user interface applications.

 

 

Consulting Design Engineer, Xxxxxx, XXXXXX (2005 to Present)

w Secure design contracts with xxxxxxrious clients to provide engineering support and project management services.

Client List

ð  Prime Photonics, Inc., Blacksburg, XXXXXX C Assisted fiber optic sensing company develop VectorLite 122 and ensured timely delivery for product rollout; led design and testing of digital signal processing hardware and firmware.

ð  Lambda Instruments, Inc., Blacksburg, XXXXXX C  Led development efforts for NIDaq and USB 2.0 based spectrometry hardware, GUI and DSP software and drivers for fiber optic sensors, ensuring compliance with project scope according to NASA and other government contracts.

ð  XXXXXX Tech, Florida Atlantic University and University of North Carolina C  Led interface applications for hardware and authored software to aid in the collection, collation, and interpretation of psychological study data for the Universities.

Luna Analytics, Inc., Blacksburg, XXXXXX, Senior Systems Design Engineer  (2003 to 2004)           

w Led design and development efforts for Peltier control system; a device based temperature controller and lab instrument utilized in research on proteins in the body.

w Designed complex fluidics system to keep fluids within 0.1 degrees C of a target temperature.

 

Luna Innoxxxxxxtions, Inc., Blacksburg, XXXXXX, Senior Systems Design Engineer (1995 to 2003)

w Acted as liaison for numerous clients and led project management initiatives for new product development.

w Led efforts in designing hardware and embedded software for Fiberscan 2000; a fiber optic, sensor  based precision measurement system, received an award from the SPIE international optics society.

w Designed embedded redundant software for SMATTE (Shaped Memory Alloy Thermal Tailoring Experiment); a satellite based experiment employing shaped memory alloys for controlling the shape of xxxxxxriable gain antennae systems.

w Led design efforts for FiberPro; a USB based hardware plus embedded and PC based software for this PC based version of the standalone Fiberscan 2000 system.

w Created hardware and software for Chemical Detection System; utilized to remotely detect the presence of chemical weapon deployments in the field.

w Provided project management leadership for the Red Tide Study; designed a spectrometry based system to aid in government field studies of the Red Tide phenomenon in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

Surface Inspection Technologies, Inc., Charleston, SC Consulting Design Engineer (1990 to 1995)

w Led the design of a complete software and diagnostic system for a high speed automated quality control inspection process and sorting of bearing balls; integrated computer vision and real time image processing to support manufacturing goals.

 

 

ICRA, Inc. (Institute for Computer aided Research in Astronomy), Alterswil, Switzerland

Consulting Design Engineer  (1986 top 1995)

 

Gap Mountain Studio, Xxxxxx, XXXXXX (1986 to 2004)

Consulting Sound and Design Engineer

 

Xxxxxx Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, XXXXXX (1980 to 1986) 

Project Engineer

 

XxxxxxlleyLab, Inc., Boulder, CO (1979 to 1980)

Design and Service Engineer

 

 

Xxxxxx Polytechnic Institute and State University

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Music