Charles Climer Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Advanced Engineering group is chartered with applying engineering talent to the goals of maintaining uninterrupted operational excellence and with continuous improvement of operational activities. This results in three types of projects:• Sustaining engineering projects which support continued production of revenue generating product lines.• Engineering projects for product enhancement and resolution of latent design issues.• Engineering projects for operational efficiency. Examples are contract manufacturer changes, supplier consolidations and production facility moves.These activities are rarely greenfield projects and require significant cross functional coordination across the organization to ensure smooth transition for the project’s outputs..Across our projects my contributions include:• Engineering individual contributor role as subject matter expert for resolution of the most challenging problems in the electrical engineering arena. These are consistent with my expertise in embedded systems, printed circuit board development and FPGA development.• Project management for both equipment and disposables projects. As product manager, my role is not as subject matter expert--my role is to ensure project schedule, to provide mentorship, and to coordinate among a cross functional team. These projects are not always within my technical area of expertise. Recently, management of projects not in my area of technical expertise presented challenges which I found most rewarding.

Ridgefield, Ct

Development of PCIe circuit cards based on Altera Arria II GX FPGA and TI Stellaris ARM processor using Mentor DX designer

New Haven, Ct

Electrical engineer for medical device startup for enhancements to an in vitro diagnostic device called the Ikoniscope®. This FDA approved device is a robotic microscope for automated slide handling and scanning. Led development of an intensified camera system and development of a PCI based camera and piezo motor control based on Xilinx Spartan FPGA. The FPGA was designed using VHDL in a Xilinx ISE environment and incorporated Xilinx IP (Microblaze processor, UARTs, timers, interrupt controllers, etc.) with a multithreaded operating system.

Naugatuck, Ct

Lead Hardware engineer for the company. Reestablished hardware development environment that was lost due to market/company volatility. This included schematic capture, timing analysis, FPGA synthesis and mapping. Established outside vendors for mechanical and PCB design. Negotiated and incorporated intellectual property to minimize cost/risk of development cycles.-Hardware designer for Packet processor using the MPC8260 as a control processor and an Agere APP550 as the network processor. Created mechanical design concept and supervised mechanical design contractor. Responsible for all aspects of electrical design including architecture, FPGA design/partitioning, schematic capture, interface with outside CAD vendor and design bring up.-Hardware lead for LIM (Line Interface Module) Personality Module. Supervise activities of designer responsible for development of this mezzanine on the packet processor mentioned above. Provided guidance with tools, architecture and tool familiarization.-Hardware lead for development of a LIM named OC-N. Responsible for definition of architecture, selection of processor and selection of SONET/SDH UNI device. Supervised activities of outside contractor. Interfaced with outside CAD vendor. Responsible for integration/bring up of prototypes.-Hardware designer for a secure gateway based on the Freescale MPC8272 communications processor, a Broadcom 5 port 10/100 Ethernet switch, and PMC COMET devices.

Shelton, Ct

Manager and individual contributor for team responsible for development of telephony recording equipment for a major OEM. Contributions included: bringing a new SOHO recorder to market, quadrupling the recording capabilities of a DSP based compression card, and enhancements to existing product to add an Ethernet interface. In addition, provided consulting and engineering services to an OSS subsidiary to develop and bring a Sonet/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexer to market.

Primary hardware architect of next generation Media Gateway. This product was a highly available ATM switch for ISP offload and Tandem Replacement. Sonet/SDH OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48 as well as PDH DS1, E1, and DS3 were to be supported. Produced hardware architecture that met marketing requirements while maximizing use of existing company intellectual property. Worked with marketing to take this project from concept to completion of the hardware architecture.-Lead engineer for hardware and software development of Legacy Circuit LIM. Directed day-to-day activities for two hardware engineers and a software contractor. This design provided high-density adaptation (similar to AAL1) of legacy interfaces to an ATM network. In addition to lead engineer role, responsible for design of FPGA and CPLD devices for this project. VHDL designs were captured with VisualHdl and synthesized with Leonardo. Responsible for this development from the earliest concept to production.- OC-3 LIM. This design used a Coldfire processor, PMC-Sierra SUNI devices, a Lucent FPGA, and an Altera CPLD to provide two APS protected OC-3c interfaces. Interface to the cell controller was via Utopia Level 2 interface. Completed design of FPGA and integration of the LIM with the cell controller. Complete final artwork modifications to resolve jitter and noise issues on the design before production.

Marlborough, Ma

Lead engineer for development of various embedded processing system designs. Designs included: a number of single board computers, proprietary and MIL-STD communications interfaces, motion control devices for avionics applications, and an energy management display control device for use in the home. Accomplishments also included C software development.

Greensboro, Nc

Development of secure bubble memory systems for the military.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.94

Activities and Societies: Winner Graduate Qualifying Project Team. "Protect Then Serve: The CORA Enhanced Uniform Business. Creating Value.

Msee, Computer Engineering Concentration, 3.45

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, 3.53

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi