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San Mateo, Ca

Part of a team working on exciting next-generation communication technology designed specifically with the military and public service fields in mind.Worked with a small cross-functional group of engineers to create and optimize the product; a small, battery powered and wearable device, for which every nano-amp could have an effect on product battery life, and loss of connection and down-time could be life-threatening. Created production test fixtures, building hardware and writing Matlab software to provide simplified pass/fail criteria.Designed and optimized near-field magnetic induction and NFC antennas.Optimized end to end input and output audio quality of system through analog and digital filter development and user experience studies.Adapted core technology to numerous infrastructure radio and other audio interfaces through the analog and digital design and layout of an array of interface boards.Designed and built units for field testing by major league professional sports and various military organizations, and worked as a cross-country travelling field support engineer for the tests.

San Jose, Ca

Designed and built the Cisco Touch 12, a robust embedded touchscreen UI device to control the entire line of Telepresence products.Co-designed a PCI-e 3.0 backplane for next generation TelePresence model.Architected and designed a prototype MEMs microphone array for the UMI home Telepresence system.Designed an LED controller board and validated LED light bars to replace old halogen lights and ballasts in the then new CTS 1300 Telepresence System.

Provided Active Directory support for a large domain.Worked directly with staff and faculty to resolve hardware and software issues.

Worked in a large C codebase associated with one of the larger pieces of software ARTG maintains.Programmed in Verilog in the Quartus environment (Altera FPGAs).Read board-level schematics and manipulated circuits to perform different functions.