Professional Summary
Electrical Engineer with 21 years of experience in hardware design and software development. From product concept to schematics, to PCB design, to full-scale production, testing and quality control. Trained in analog and digital signal processing. Experience with multiple applications and systems, including digital filters, PCI and USB buses, Analog & Digital discrete electronics. Firmware and driver level software development using machine code, C and C++ in Windows, Linux and/or Mac OSX.
Skills
Fluent in both English & Spanish
Advanced critical thinking
System-level electrical design and integration
Technical support
Abstract and concrete variables
Knowledgeable in PCB design & assembly
Highly skilled in 2D CAD
Microsoft Office Suite
Proficient with Orcad & Eagle PCB
Assembly, C and C++ programming
Power systems
Extensive use of Analog and Digital Oscilloscopes, Logic, Protocol & Spectrum Analyzers, Signal Generators, and Multimeters.
Excellent hardware design, troubleshooting and test skills.
Driver development for Windows and Linux
Hardware firmware design for PCI and USB buses.
IEEE488 protocol, SICL & GPIO interfaces
Proficient with Windows, OS X and Linux platforms
Work History
March 2006 to May 2013
Mountain View Community Church Fort Collins, CO
Pastor/Music Director & IT/Audio & Video Engineer
Coordinated and planned all worship services (up to 4 per week) for a 1000 member congregation. Responsible for song selection, songwriting, music production, multi-room video & audio broadcast and design, live sound and multitrack recording of services.
Taught a variety of music, sound, video and computer classes, clinics and seminars. Imparted Biblical teaching and counsel in both the US and the Czech Republic
Mentored, managed and scheduled 50+ volunteers that served in the areas of music, sound and multimedia to better improve the competency and efficiency of all the paid and non-paid staff.
Performed in-depth testing of digital mixers and troubleshot audio and video equipment such as LCD projectors, Flat screen TVs, amplifiers, digital I/O audio systems, digital snakes, digital personal monitors (AVIOM system) and musical instruments.
Installed Mac based computers for sound and multimedia as well as maintained and troubleshot church computer network.
February 2001 to March 2006
Test & Measurement Systems (TAMS Inc.) Loveland, CO
Hardware/Firmware/Software Design Engineer
Designed & Developed Firmware & Hardware of GPIO & GPIB cards for PCs to be used in Windows & Linux systems using PCI and USB buses.
Rendered technical drawings and electrical systems specifications that exceeded company standards.
Programmed and used FPGA components from Xilinx Spartan II-2.5V series and Spartan 3 series (specifically: XCF02S, XC17S200, XC2S200, XC3S50). Also used, IEEE488 Bus Transceivers, Wishbone SoC (PCI-IEEE488), Cypress EZ-USB micro controllers, and other hardware components for HPIB and USB interfaces.
Designed and developed Schematics and PCBs for TAMS 61488, 62622 & 63622-USB using Orcad Capture and Eagle PCB software. Generated gerber and bom files for manufacturing and components purchasing for prototypes and later for production.
Worked directly with component providers and manufacturers during the product early design stages to insure cost effective/high quality full-scale manufacturing and production of TAMS cards.
Designed and built TAMS cards test stations for manufactures for testing and quality control. Also trained engineers and technicians at the manufacturers production facilities to achieve TAMS cards production based on TAMS high quality standards.
Ported windows drivers to new Windows Driver Model for all the TAMS cards (60488, 61488, 61622 & 62622)
Developed and maintained software using Windows IDE, .NET and other Unix/Linux based tools.
Visited customer sites and troubleshot/solved software/hardware problems related to TAMS cards and customer's own designs and setups.
May 1998 to November 1999
Lucent Technologies Denver, CO
System Test Engineer
Multimedia Messaging Quality Assurance Group System Test Engineer and Linux Kernel Developer.
System test responsibilities: written and executed test plans for Lucent Voice Messaging Systems. Automation and improvement of testing tools and test plans. Designed custom scripts in k-shell for evaluation and troubleshooting of different systems under test.
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