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Embedded Systems and Prototyping Expert Resume

Resume of BIG Consultant
Principal Industries Served:
  • Computer
  • Communications
  • Electronics
  • Hardware / Software
  • Systems Design
  • Manufacturing

Education:

This expert received a M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Colorado Technical University.


Expertise and Services:

Embedded Systems and Prototyping Expert Resume

This expert specializes in electronic product design specializing in embedded systems, analog, digital and mixed-signal design, and application engineering. Further expertise includes reference designs, R&D and prototyping, schematic capture, and printed circuit board design and layout.

This consultant offers more than twenty years of experience in analog, digital, and mixed signal component-level design of microprocessor- and microcontroller-based systems. This expert also offers expertise in control systems, sensors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, CMOS, ECL, TTL, PLDs, FPGAs, SCSI, RAID, Fibre Channel, optoelectronics, fiber optics, neural networks, DSP, ICs, EMI/RFI/EMC, RF, microwave, transmission lines, antennas, telephony and data communications.

This expert is extremely proficient with use and calibration of most electronic instrumentation with strong hands-on laboratory and prototyping skills, PCB design and fabrication and product manufacturing and testing.

This expert is highly experienced in modeling and simulating systems using tools like: EDA, OrCAD, PSpice, AutoCAD, Cadkey, L-Edit, Maple, Matlab, Verilog, and MS Project for project management, as well as printed circuit board design and layout.

This expert also has experience with computer hardware, software and networking includes LAN, WAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, network protocol analyzers, Windows networking design and administration.


Professional Experience:

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing expertise in electronic design engineering, embedded systems, analog, digital and mixed-signal design and application engineering, research and development and prototyping, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

 

Principal Engineer / Owner, engineering consulting firm

Was responsible for management, engineering, financial and personnel operations, electronic product design specializing in embedded systems, analog, digital and mixed-signal design, application engineering, reference designs, R&D and prototyping, schematic capture, printed circuit board design and layout, PSPICE simulations and model design.

 

Technical Program Manager, Atmel Corporation

Analyzed and solved IC production problems. Coordinated and managed IC manufacturing processes. Managed entire USB product line production.

 

Application / Design Engineer, Atmel Corporation

Designed SOC ICs, software and hardware development systems. Supported and assisted IC design team on advanced security processor. Was responsible for technology R&D and characterizations of test parts, US customer support of ARM-based products, US customer support of AVR product line.

 

Senior Application Engineer, Avnet Corporation

Designed microcontroller-based storage systems using SCSI, Fibre Channel, RAID, and SANs. Provided hands-on customer support for electronic devices and components.

 

Senior Electronic Design Engineer, Trimm Technologies

Served as engineering lead on SCSI, Fibre Channel, power supplies, and embedded system design. Designed and implemented I2C-based enclosure management system. Designed and built environmental testing and aging system for product fabrication lines.

 

Senior Engineering Manager, MCI Corporation

Served as Senior Manager of hardware and software design team. Designed complex hardware and software training systems. Designed and implemented voice and Internet GUI and database access systems.

Additional Experience:

Federal Express, Inc. (Senior Engineer)

Designed and implemented sophisticated LAN and WAN business solutions. Built custom database server hardware and software. Designed and built custom communications interface hardware.

Excel Systems, Inc. (VP of Engineering)

Designed hardware and software systems for government use. Designed custom hardware and software for industrial manufacturing control systems. Designed PC-based buffered digital I/O product.

Logical Systems, Inc. (HW/SW Design Eng.)

Lead network designer. Designed LAN and WAN hardware and software for large hospital project. Designed and built custom alarm panels. Provided engineering and technical support for product software team.

Calibration Technology (Engineer)

Managed company operations and personnel. Repaired and calibrated electronic test equipment. Designed and built prototype test equipment. Designed and built product prototypes. Designed and installed commercial satellite reception equipment.

City of Colorado Springs (Communications Engineer)

Repair and maintain Public Safety and Public Service radio equipment under FCC license. Supervise radio repair and install technicians. Design and support citywide microwave installations. Use sophisticated test equipment to evaluate communications systems.

Hewlett Packard (Field Engineer, Houston TX)

Provided technical support to sales staff. Managed equipment repair and calibration lab.

Hewlett Packard (Electronics Technician)

Tested and repaired cathode ray tube devices. Turned on, troubleshot and calibrated oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and spectrum analyzers. Worked in R&D lab with new product design team. Helped design new oscilloscope product line. Introduced and trained assembly and test staff on new oscilloscope.

This consultant offers experience related to:

Electronics, AC, analog, admittance, black box, circuit, DC, digital, divider, mixed signal, computer, design, consultation, calculation, distortion, modeling, analysis, capacitance, current, frequency, bandwidth, inductance, ESR, dissipation, depletion, first-order, second-order, resistance, power, parallel, series, energy, magnet, magnetic, voltage, amplitude, phase, source, susceptance, Ohm, farad, microfarad, nanofarad, picofarad, polarity, time, harmonic, spectrum, phase angle, leading, lagging, impedance, inductive reactance, capacitive reactance, flux, sink, source, thermal, electromagnetic, electrostatic, static, oscillator, components, watt, positive, negative, drop, rise, resonant, realtime, period, periodic, ground, feedback, filter, bandpass, bandstop, notch, highpass, lowpass, biquadratic, Butterworth, Chebyshev, Sallen-Key

Analog, analog design, op amp, amplifier, amplitude, Bode, operational amplifier, integrator, differentiator, CMRR, common mode, bandwidth, coupling, decibel, damping, damping factor, DC, direct current, charge, gain, gain bandwidth product, rails, slew rate, node, mesh, inverting, noninverting, R, C, L, RC, RL, RLC, transfer function, Laplace, Fourier, power factor, corner, frequency response, offset, risetime, falltime, setup, hold, series, parallel, sinewave, squarewave, triangle wave, pulse, sinusoidal, open-loop, linear, ringing, perturbation, lead, lag, convolution, current source, voltage source, CCCS, CCVS, VCCS, VCVS, anode, cathode, bypass, bias, biasing

Digital, digital design, decimal, fan-in, fan-out, AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR, ECL, TTL, exclusive OR, exclusive NOR, Schmitt trigger, mixed signal, mixed signal design, A/D, D/A, analog to digital, digital to analog, hexadecimal, binary, ascii, conversion, inverter, Boolean, bit, byte, nibble, decoder, register, counter, logic, De Morgan, expander, multiplexer, MSI, LSI, Karnaugh map, gate, ALU, half-adder, full adder, 2s complement, flip-flop, truth table, latch, clock, D flip-flop, JK flip-flop, edge-triggered, level-triggered, toggle, shift register, ripple counter, synchronous counter, ring counter, tri-state, bus, computer memory, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, EPROM, PROM, programmable, volatile, nonvolatile, instruction, mnemonic, dynamic, SDRAM, SCSI, RAID, Fibre Channel, IDE, EIDE, PCI, floppy, hard disk, SAN, WLAN, wireless network, 802.3, cycle, instruction, program counter, carry, stack, pointer, push, pop, execute, indirect, halt, flag, parity, sign, overflow, segment, shift

Communication, I2C, SPI, RS-232, RS-485, HPIB, GPIO, Firewire, JTAG, boundary scan, packet, balanced, single-ended, UTP, TP, STP, shielded, unshielded, Cat-5, Cat-3, hub, switch, Ethernet, WLAN, wireless LAN, LAN, WAN, 10-Base-T, 100-Base-T, 1000-Base-T, gigabit, handshaking, TCP/IP, FTP, SATA, NRZ, NRZI, Firewire, protocol analysis, Monte Carlo, PSPICE, Matlab, Simulink

Embedded system, microcontroller, microprocessor, CPLD, FPGA, Verilog, VHDL, simulation, port, Atmel, AVR, Microchip, PIC, signal processing, DSP, control system, firmware, static RAM, SRAM, clock, LED, LED display, LCD, LCD hardware, LCD software, driver, 7-segment, 14-segment, alphanumeric, plasma, 8080, 8085, 8051, 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Intel, AMD

Electronic instrumentation, instrument, logic analyzer, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, DVM, digital volt meter, current meter, ammeter, voltmeter, measure, measurement, calibrate, calibration, metrology, standard, ohmmeter, probe, shunt, actuator, meter, sweep generator, signal generator, sound pressure level, SPL

Capacitor, battery, cell, primary cell, secondary cell, fuse, regulator, architecture, resistor, inductor, carbon film, mica, ceramic, electrolytic, diode, pin diode, Schottky diode, zener diode, transformer, Hall Effect, SCR, triac, pin diode, switch, relay, solenoid, termination, bridge, rectifier, connector, speaker, microphone, transducer, sensor, BJT, CMOS, MOSFET, JFET, FET, transistor, NPN, PNP, junction, potentiometer, rheostat, wire, cable, ribbon cable, characterization, collector, emitter, base, gate, drain, power supply, signal source, pulse, risetime, falltime, linear, switching, fiber optics, single mode, multimode

Audio, class A amplifier, class D amplifier, speaker, woofer, squawker, tweeter, crossover, non-polarized capacitor, L-pad, T-pad,

Video, DTV, HDTV, SDTV, HDMI, component, composite, RGB

RF, antenna, mixer, synthesis, transmission line, modulation, modulator, noise, PWM, QAM, SNR, phased array

Printed circuit board, PCB, layout, controlled impedance, multilayer, ground plane, power plane, OrCAD, via, footprint


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