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I lead my teams with an attitude and goal of right first time, and aspire to work processes that have repeatability, clarity of expectations, identifiable artifacts, ease of implementation and tribal knowledge replaced with readily locatable information. A basketball coach once said, “If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over” – that's even more applicable to a poorly implemented hardware design and the immense cost and schedule impact of finding a bug in final test..𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 • Management of engineering teams including hardware, FPGA HDL, software and mechanical engineering • Project management process development to ISO 9001/AS9100 • Budgeting and finance management • Program management • Product Lifecyle Management (PLM), including Oracle Agile • Personnel reviews. Hire and fire/RIF • MS Office/Project, SharePoint𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 • PC and computer systems including x86 and Arm CPUs, System on Chip, Computer on Module, FPGA and CPLD (AMD/Xilinx and Intel/Altera), PCI Express switches, Switched Fabric Networks, PCI, GPUs, PC Motherboards, COM Express, COM HPC, DDR DRAM, SDRAM, microcontrollers, USB, PLLs, DLLs, solid state lasers • Display systems and technologies, including HD-SDI, HDMI, DVI, LCD, and OLED. Traditional and helmet mounted display systems • Mechanical architecture and product design/management including conduction cooling • Embedded and rugged computing system design including Small Form Factors (SFF) and low power. • Techniques: High speed digital design, PCB layout, analog and digital design, PC architectures and components, video technologies, rack and chassis design, cooling techniques (both air cooled and conduction cooled systems). • MIL-STD-810F (environmental), MIL-STD-461E (EMI), MIL-STD-1275B and MIL-STD-704F (power) • Tools/Languages: Verilog, VHDL, C, Cadence (Orcad, DE-HDL, Allegro), Mentor (DxDesigner schematic capture, Expedition PCB layout, IO Designer-FPGA pinout), Xilinx ISE and EDK, Altera Quartus, Modelsim, OrCAD𝗤𝗔 • ISO 9001 and AS9100 process development, both engineering and company wide𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 • Sound technical writing ability • Working expertise in US EAR and ITAR export laws and company policy development • Small company HR, Finance (AR and AP), Shipping & Receiving • U.S. citizen (single nationality) and holds a Secret clearance

Listed skills include Embedded Systems, Fpga, Hardware Architecture, Pcb Design, and 21 others.

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  University Of Sussex

  Electronic Engineering/Computer Science