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Lincolnshire, Il, Us

Senior electrical design engineer for tablet computers.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Senior electrical design engineer for tablet computer systems.

Two-year career highlighted by increasingly responsible leadership position in sole technical support for Texas region for Tier 1 computer customers. Recruited as Senior FAE Manager to provide on-site engineering support to Texas Tier 1 customers (Hewlett Packard and Dell) using JMicron devices.Provided technical interface to HP and Dell design architects to keep them updated on latest JMicron designs and determine future specification needs and enhancements. This allowed for better design flow and needs met.Worked with Hewlett Packard test, hardware, and software teams to analyze and correct several issues discovered during notebook development cycles with Jmicron devices. Provided engineering support to JMicron marketing and sales to promote JMicron products and was instrumental on several key wins of design contracts to Hewlett Packard.

Thirteen-year career highlighted by increasingly responsible leadership positions in the design engineering and technical architecture of PC and notebook products. Recruited as Hardware Design Engineer to be lead electrical engineer on design, implementation, and validation testing of validation hardware platform for Compaq-designed south bridge chip, as well electrical engineer on design and implementation of several Compaq Armada 7800 series notebooks, leading to the production of all commercial notebooks increasing sales dramatically.Developed next generation docking stations for 1999-on notebook products as the Lead Electrical Engineer, maximizing profits and increasing notebook sales due to third-level options.Collaborated with alliance partners (Quanta, Inventec, Wistron) in Asia in developing NC series notebooks, producing notebooks and increasing sales.Partnered with Intel in new architecture development, allowing for modifications to chip sets to better meet mobile solutions.Chosen as lead electrical engineer on multiple notebook products based upon Intel, AMD, and Transmeta processors and chip sets. This activity included schematic development, layout reviews, new technology implementation, validation, problem analysis, and program management. Instrumental in meeting and exceeding all First Customer Ship and Annual Field Returns goals for all products, ensuring high level of customer satisfaction.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Fifteen year career highlighted by increasingly responsible leadership positions in the design engineering and technical architecture of terminal and notebook products. Recruited as Procurement Quality Engineer in charge of incoming quality and line support of several piece part commodities (Resistors, capacitors, keyboards, impact print heads, modems, software, monitors, power supplies, and floppy disk drives), maintaining highest quality on incoming parts ensuring lowest return rate and maximizing factory yields.Promoted to Design Engineer on several terminal products (Travelmate 1200 and Travelmate LT220) and notebook products (Travelmate PC5741), increasing sales.Promoted to Lead Product engineer in Custom Manufacturing Services, interfacing with Sun Microsystems and TISC on production and testing of Sun Sparc station processor/cache modules, increasing sales for TI and increasing sales and quality for Sun Microsystems.Promoted to Hardware Design Electrical engineer on design and implementation of several Pentium-based notebook products (90 MHz, 120 MHz, 133 MHz TM5000 Series), increasing sales.

Electrical Engineering

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