PROFILE
Dedicated and versatile Electronics Engineer with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills demonstrated by years of experience designing, developing and testing electronic products. Possess the ability to dive into hardware, firmware and system level design issues and manage a project from concept to completion.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
Design Analog and digital design, microprocessor hardware, RF, QAM, OOB, ABEL HDL/VHDL, CPLD/FPGA, embedded software, Assembly C/C++, Visual Basic, real-time data acquisition, servo control systems, digital filtering, instrumentation, RS232, I2C, SPI, PCI, 68K/local bus, proficient with a wide base of laboratory test equipment
Tools Orcad CIS, Allegro PCB SI, Viewlogic, ACCEL PCAD, Specctra, Labview, Pspice, Matlab, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio, Metrowerks IDE, MS Visual C++ Studio, PVCS revision control
Platforms WinXP, Linux OS, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, pSOS RTOS, VMEbus
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MOTOROLA MOBILITY, Lawrenceville, GA 2000 – Present
Electronics Engineer Principal Staff 2009 – Present
Lead hardware design of Verizon Fios advanced set-top box (ASTB) products and Verizon Media Server.
HW Engineer 2003 – 2009
Motorola's 1st generation dual tuner PVR ASTBs for Telco and cable plants.
HW Engineer 2000 – 2003
Motorola's industry-leading DVi family of ASTBs for European broadband operators.
Oversee schematic and PCB design, organizing internal / external design reviews, mechanical design reviews, reviewing product marketing and functional specifications, test planning, issue tracking / reporting and phase review presentations. Expertise in high speed signal integrity – PCB constraints / design and testing (DDR, HDMI, SATA, USB, ENET, 1394).
• Led engineering team to ensure full Design for Verification Testing (DVT) coverage and UL, FCC, RoHS, Dolby, HDMI, MoCA and Energy Star compliance for on-time production of high quality products.
• Supervised lab technicians to ensure proper project and task priorities and help develop their technical skills.
• Established excellent working relationships with systems, software and firmware development teams.
• Worked intimately with chip-set vendors to troubleshoot problems and transform reference designs into producible products.
• Worked directly with the factory to solve production line and manufacturing issues to increase production yields.
• Improved product cost and performance by evaluating chip-set and product designs for optimum solutions and alternate technologies.
• Conducted power budget / distribution analysis to achieve efficient and cost-effective designs.
• Authored / edited hardware high level design and release notes documentation.
• Upgraded OrCad CIS database to improve netlisting process.
• Initiated and developed test automation using Labview and Visual basic to improve test efficiencies.
• Designed debug module hardware to reduce product costs and save 98% on emulation tools.
• Compiled and wrote assembly / C/C++ code to support HW development needs.
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 1994 – 2000
Electro-Optical Systems Group, Air Defense Systems Department
Associate Electronics Engineer
Standard Missile Block III Agegis LEAP Intercept Program 1999 – 2000
• Led development efforts for a Kinetic Warhead Simulation Control Computer (KW SCC) system consisting of a VME-based embedded controller, VME-based buffer boards, a counter / timer module and FPGA logic that interfaced the missile’s Solid Divert and Attitude Control System to SGI Origin 2000 processors for in-system simulation.
• Implemented schematics, PCB layout, FPGA logic design, C-language drivers under the pRISM+ IDE and pSOS RTOS, VME bus mapping, software message protocol design and MFC PC-based GUI development over a TCP/IP socket interface.
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