Will Murray

Sr. Electrical Engineer

Summary

Quarter Century of Product Design Involvement Includes:

Radars, Auto-Pilot Sensors, Radio's-Life-Flight and Emergency Services, Satellite Phones for

Business Aircraft, Wireless Handsets, DSL Modems, VOIP Phones, Semiconductors, and Electronics Manufacturing, Rugged File Servers, Avionics Computing Modules, Active Vibration Control Systems- Power over Ethernet Link, Industrial Controls(Networked) Oxygen, Inert Gas Systems Extensive experience in electronics and software engineering in the Aviation/Aerospace and Wireless industries, Experience in the Semiconductor and Electronics Industries. Background encompassing product, research, and software development. Possess strong development and implementation skills. Demonstrates a keen knowledge in software, CAD tools, algorithm symbolic reduction tools and programming languages with the ability to quickly grasp new technologies. Creative engineer that

emphasizes customer satisfaction through quality of product and service. Contact via Free InMail -- or –

Specialties

Electronics -- Analog Hardware Design and Digital Hardware Design at the Printed Circuit Board Level -- over 30 boards Designed, up to thousands of components. Orcad, Cadence, Mentor-UNIX FPGA Firmware in VHDL, with Modelsim, and some Verilog, over 20 PLD, and CPLD's and 7 FPGA's

Embedded Software as it relates to Hardware in C, C++, and Assembly Language, -over 10.

Hardware Requirements, and Specifications, Test Requirements and Specifications, Since 1995. Hardware Verification and Test.

Experience

Sr. Electrical Engineer at Cobham Mission Systems

February 2009 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Analog and Digital Circuit, and Software, Specification, Design, Test, Support, and Qualification to FDA, Military and Commercial(FAA-RTCA) standards. Oxygen, and Inert Gas Products – Formerly Carleton Lifesupport

Sr. Electrical Engineer at Carleton Life Support Systems

February 2009 - Present (1 year 3 months)

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Projects Included

*AC Power Supply Design for Inert Gas Generating System

*Preliminary Software Qualification of Re-Breather Oxygen System -- Recommended

Implementation of Code coverage testing.

*Lead Electrical Engineer on Companies first On-Board-Inert-Gas-Generating System done to

RTCA DO-254 Firmware Safety Standard(Level A system, With Level D Monitor)

Design includes EMC Qualification to DO-160 --

1 recommendation available upon request

Co-Moderator at Mixed Signal Electronics / PCB Design Group on LinkedIn

March 2008 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Connecting Mixed-Signal, Analog / Digital Board Level Design Professionals -- Click on the Icon

found on my profile to join.

Co-Moderator at Avionics Design Group on LinkedIn

March 2008 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Connecting Members of the Avionics Design Community --

Co-Moderator at FPGA / CPLD Design Group on LinkedIn

December 2007 - Present (2 years 5 months)

The FPGA / CPLD Design Group on LinkedIn aims to help connect professionals in the fields of CPLD / FPGA / and ASIC design.

Co-Moderator at SDSM&T Alumni Group on LinkedIn

November 2007 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Connecting South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Alumni on LinkedIn

Consultant Design Engineer(Electronics-FPGA) at Confidential Electronics Mfg. Co.

April 2008 - December 2008 (9 months)

Develop/Verify Data-link related functionality in VHDL for FPGA based Active Vibration Control System for Helicopter. Make Recommendations for Improving Ethernet Link Performance. Layer's 2-3 Protocol Stack Development and Specification for Custom Hardware Control. (Sub 200uS loop) using Xilinx ISE/ Mentor Modelsim tools for Synthesis, Test-bench, Simulation, Place and Route and Verification, and C++ for Development

Perform RTCA-DO-160 EMC Testing of prototype hardware, data-mine results, and write up

recommendations for design improvement. Make Recommendations for Design Improvement relating to FPGA aspects of designs. Perform Vulnerability Analysis and Test of Networked Control Systems using Smartbits, and other tools.Write recommendations for network security procedures for Networked Industrial Vibration Control Device – Applied until tool vendor patched Xilinx Micro-Blaze stack code. Review and Make Recommendations for Design Improvement relating to FPGA / POE circuits.

Contribute to DO-254 Process Effort.

Consultant -- Electrial Engineer at Rockwell Collins

March 2007 - April 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Consultant to Business and Regional Systems Group --Hardware Platforms-- via Volt

Terrain Awareness and Warning System

Develop T.I. C55x Code Composer Studio based code to debug FPGA based Prototype for NAND FLASH controller ASIC. Use USB Blaster, and Altera Quartus Signal-Tap Logic Analyzer. Debug Prototype PCB.

Common Computing Module:

Evaluate AFDX/ARINC 664 Ethernet Parametric Testing Solution. Write Turbo-ATLAS Software to control Ethernet Measurements via Tektronix DPO Oscilloscope. Model Ethernet Test Path with SPICE Circuit Simulator. Integrate Ethernet measurements with test suite. Modularize Test Suite. Modify Lauterbach Emulator scripts. Add routine to load Flight Software. Make Recommendations for Test/Equipment Improvement

File Server Unit : -- Write Test Specifications and Requirements. Simulate Ethernet Signal Path with HSPICE. Test, Correct Design of Unit.

787-GGM: -- Recommend EMI Gasket Solution.

Electrical Design - Hardware/VHDL at Xennia Technology Inc

May 2005 - January 2007 (1 year 9 months)

• Design and development of VHDL based FPGA print engine for Xaar Omnidot -760 Printhead. --Used to Print LCD processing Steps, and Nano-Technology processing steps - Control/Jetting for 30 Ton Ink-Jet. Design used 420MBPS LVDS Serial Links to Print Heads.

Design was over 1.2 Million Gates of VHDL.

• Add new features to VHDL based FPGA based Print Engine Designs using Xilinx ISE/ Mentor Modelsim tools for Synthesis, Test-bench, Simulation, Place and Route and Verification.

• Aid in Debugging ATMEL AVR RISC micro-controller code for Print Engine Aux. Processors.

This included algorithm/filter development using Maxima for software in the loop logarithmic

temperature compensating piezoelectric array warp control switching power supplies(48wX2x4x6) array output.

• Recommend/Implement Design Improvements to Printed Circuit Board Designs -- ORCAD tools.

• Support Production and Repair of circuit boards through development of BOM’s, ECO’s and

Procedures.

• Other duties as required by a small and fast paced start up organization.

1 recommendation available upon request

Electrical Design Engineer at Texas Instruments

2003 - 2005 (2 years)

• Voice over Packet and Digital Subscriber Loop ASIC’s verification and board level support.

• Implemented Digital Verification Debug Board for ADSL-II Modem, and Xilinx Virtex FPGA

Daughterboard for 6713 DSK printed circuit board hardware, some supporting software and Verilog, and performed ASIC physical verification tests. Used Cadence Orcad for schematic capture for printed circuit board design input. Assisted in performing signal integrity analysis using Cadence Spectraquest,. Run ADSL modem Networking Subsystem Verification Tests.(MIPS-Vision ICE, IXIA Ethernet generator)

*Accurately forecast Insufficient Throughput in Design 3 months prior to tape-out.

• Used Code Composer studio to write ARM and C54xx C code for C5472 VOIP ASIC hardware diagnostics.

3 recommendations available upon request

Design Engineer Baseband at Nokia

1999 - 2003 (4 years)

• TDMA phone base band hardware and firmware design and verification.

• Implemented audio and energy management portions of printed circuit boards and verify audio, analog, and memory subsystems, as they interact with base band processor portions of designs.

Simulated EMC components with APLAC simulator. Team member of Failure Modes Effects

Analysis(FMEA).

• Supported ASIC cost reduction efforts and production efforts. Integrated new ASIC’s with

required new software changes, and evaluated required hardware changes. Team successfully delivered over 18 million phones.

• Tested designs for EMI, EMC, ESD, and HIRF compliance and modified as required.

*Initiated Discussions that eventually led to Merger between AWR and APLAC.

• Regression tested software releases as they related to the base band and audio hardware, and took operating system traces.

*Wrote Nokia Dallas Baseband ASIC in Product Laboratory Verification Process Document.

*Field Check of Voice/911 Call Performance in Dallas Rush Hour Traffic -- W/Data Logging to PC

Staff Engineer at Honeywell

1996 - 1999 (3 years)

-as part of AlliedSignal -Olathe

• Lead a team of seven engineers to develop an airborne PBX hardware/software sub-function of an ARINC-761 (Airsat-5/8) based aero-SATCOM for a 747/777 class and large biz-jet aircraft.

Team designed high-complexity mixed-signal PWB with over 1,200 components, CPLDs totaled over 15,000 gates. Wrote the initial hardware requirements spec. Team developed 30,000 lines of OO device drivers and built in self test code in SEI level three process and under RTCA DO-178B software safety guidelines.(E1, TSI, ST bus, audio, digital, VHDL, STU-III)

*Project group completed First Concorde LEO SATCOM Call above Mach 1.2

*Project group completed First ER2 LEO SATCOM Call above 65,000 Feet.

*Field/Flight Test of Airsat in "Zippin Chicken" King Air

1 recommendation available upon request

Sr. Project Engineer at Honeywell

1993 - 1995 (2 years)

• As part of AlliedSignal - Prescott

* Assisted with feasibility study for Aero-I Satcom High Power Amplifier – (digital/software

portions).

*Aided in the initial launch of Flightphone-800.

*Assisted with Flight Management System feasibility study(68349 vs PowerPC MPC555 design trade-offs)

*Feasibility Study of Digital Passenger Communications System(PBX/Handsets for SATCOM)

*Support of Below Multi-purpose Transceiver -- Installation Diagrams, Field /Customer Support, Custom Applications, Documentation Package Preparation

* First of Type Field/Flight Test Support for OH-58, OH-6, P-3, C-37, Tracker, other

Government/Military Aircraft, Of Flexcomm-II, ARC-513, other Radio Programs

ARC-513 Support for Air Force One

*Worked with Customer to Identify Issues with systems by Flying on customer aircraft including during Tactical Situations

*Submitted Idea for Commercial Low Earth Orbit Aircraft SATCOM to V.P. of Engineering

Project Engineer at Honeywell

1990 - 1993 (3 years)

-- As part of AlliedSignal/Sundstrand/Global-Wulfsberg

• Co-wrote 18,000 lines of C/Assembly for 8051 to control new 30-960 MHz. AM/FM transceiver for Life-Flight / Aerial Firefighting / Emergency Services / Search and Rescue applications.

*Hardware effort included new main processor board for Control / Display Unit, radio mother board design, assist with radio MCU/DSP on DSP/Logic board.(RS-485,RS-422,SPI,I2C,A/D,D/A,DSP,audio)FCC,DO-160.

*Flight/Field Test of some of The First Helicopter Surface Mount Electronics in The World

*Troubleshot numerous SMD and other issues by Flying with Customer and Observing Issues

during Flight Test

*Design Pioneered Phase-locking of the MCU/DSP to the RF Reference Oscillator

*Design was first Aircraft Grade 30-960MHZ Transceiver in world

ARC-513 Support for Air Force One

Electrical Design Engineer at Texas Instruments

1985 - 1990 (5 years)

• Designed, developed, and integrated a radio frequency compensation module for Broadband ADF(Automatic Direction Finding) like application. Design also did Gain and Offset Compensation for Auto-Pilot Improved previous design by adding Error Detecting and Correcting Memory(EDAC), and reducing the number of circuit cards from two to one. Designed analog, and digital hardware. Wrote assembly language, C, and Pascal for test and real-time software. Prototyped TMS320-based hardware and software to perform coordinate vector rotation in real time.

• Implemented pre-production design improvements on K-band Automatic Frequency control board for Multi-mode Radar Application. Improved hardware and revised TI BASIC GPIB test software for unit and environmental testing.

1 recommendation available upon request

Education

The University of Texas at Arlington

Electrical Engineering, 1988 - 1990

The University of Texas at Dallas

Graduate Coursework - Engineering, 1986 - 1987

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering, 1981 - 1985

Activities and Societies: USMCR-P-L-C -- Aviation, Intramural Football, Intramural Basketball, Amateur Radio Club

Awarded Professor of Military Science Award of Distinction Medal -- for Stopping Cadet's Fall During Rappelling Exercise with My Body

Northwest College

Dual Enrollment - Engineering Prep, 1979 - 1981

Activities and Societies: National Dean's List

Honors and Awards

Past President Yavapai Amateur Radio Club ,

Who's Who in the West 1995

Who's Who in the Midwest 1996

Interests

FPGA, VHDL, PCB Level Design, C/C++, Assembly Language, New Product Development,

Electronics Design, Embedded Software Development,

Trout Fishing, Linux, Amateur Radio, Radio Controlled Vehicles,

South Dakota School of Mines Alumni Group on LinkedIn,(Co-Moderator)

FPGA/CPLD Group on LinkedIn (Co-Moderator)

Newsletters at : http://www.wwmurray.com/ssl

Mixed Signal Electronics / PCB Level Design Group on LinkedIn (Co-Moderator)