Brent Elder Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, CA, US

Palo Alto, California, US

Managing team that supports the assembly, testing, and field support for advanced Broadcom switch development platforms, and overseeing lab operations and vendors that support these activities.

Santa Clara, CA, US

We are developing the test infrastructure to enable the development and production of SiTime's revolutionary technologies in 5G, infrastructure, mobile, IoT, industrial, aerospace-defense, and automotive products.

Foster City, California, US

San Jose, CA, US

• Responsibile for developing test systems required for characterization and production testing of Invensense sensor product line, including software, electronics, mechanical systems, and automation. Sensor types include.
• Staffed up R&D team from 12 to over 30 engineers
• Managed development of three generations of test systems (2 proprietary, 1 commercial) for pressure sensor products.
• Set up acceptance testing in Italy for Osai pressure testers, and in Japan for TESEC/FocusTest automotive inertial sensor testers
• Managed effort to develop 1st and 2nd generation microphone SNR measurement fixtures
• Built up characterization lab using a mix of custom-built and commercially sourced systems to evaluate stiction, high-g shock damage, thermal cycling stress, linearity with acceleration and temperature, pressure shock.

Cupertino, California, US

• Managed engineering group responsible for developing and deploying the hardware and software needed to test the sensor subsystems in Apple mobile products, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, ambient light sensors.
• Developed custom test fixtures for miniaturized optical proximity sensor at component, subassembly, and system level
• Designed new test fixtures for ambient light sensors on flex circuits
• Worked in cross-functional groups to diagnose and address sensor failures,
• Reduced cycle times and improved yields on test fixtures to meet production targets
• Supported flex circuit assembly vendors and contract assembly manufacturers

Scotts Valley, CA, US

• Developed a Firewire-based DSP audio effect accelerator product line (Satellite Quad and Satellite Duo)
• Managed UAD-2 DSP-based PCI Express card audio effects accelerator project from conception through launch over an 18 month period. Staffed up team to drive core elements, including DSP code porting, logic and PCBA.
• Streamlined software development processes to increase the rate at which new DSP audio effects plug-ins could be released to market
• Led engineering team through a redesign of the LA610 Mark II Microphone Preamplifier, a tube-based product which reduced manufacturing cost by over 30%.
• Managed the 710TF hybrid tube/solid-state preamplifier project, the lowest cost product of that type that UA had ever shipped.
• Organized engineering departments, instituted regular project meetings, set up and tracked engineering schedules, reported status, cost, and risk factors to president, and instituted initial set of document control.

* Managed development teams that created numerous audio peripheral products for PCs and Macs, including USB, 1394, and PCI products.* Worked with marketing to develop product proposals, including estimated material cost and resource loading.* Developed system architecture and technical specifications to guide team efforts* Developed low-noise analog.

Santa Monica, CA, US

* AD8000: designed hardware and managed mechanical and software team members to develop an 8 channel professional A/D converter for studio applications* C768: developed replacement for low jitter PLL product* AMBus: lead effort to develop a time-multiplexed audio stream multiplexer and formatter (Apogee Multimedia Bus)* Managed audio format converter.

• Actuator Electronic Control Unit: designed servo control unit for family of linear actuators* Direct Optical Viewing Element: managed and delivered $500K program for military to develop a 2-axis gyro-stabilized.
• Boeing Missile System Test Stand: assisted in the development of a data acquisition system and algorithms for measuring forces and torques from a magnetically suspended missile subsystem.* Kinetic Kill Vehicle.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

* System End-To-End Simulation/Emulation Testbed: lead software integrator for Strategic Defense Initiative space warfare simulator using multi-threaded processes and IPC* Kinetic Kill Vehicle Mission Definition: assisted in developing software for SDI mission simulation* Special Sensor/Microwave Image (SSM/I) System Support: acted as systems test engineer.