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, Testbench, 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 piezo 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 eventualy 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

1 recommendation available upon request

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

tradeoffs)

*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

Continuing Education

-, Engineering, 1995 - 2009

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 ,

Strathmore's Who's Who 1996

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)

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