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Carlsbad, California, Us

Full product lifecycle / design and manufacturing of consumer electronic, industrial, and medical products for recognizable brands. Member of executive management team, responsible for the engineering team and technology for the company.* Promotion path: Contractor, Director of Engineering, Executive Team, VP of Engineering, VP of Global Engineering* As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, reported KPI, monitored, forecast, and justified approval of hiring needs due to bandwidth and/or skillset needs.* Executing on my role, lead the teams that design products and organically grow the global engineering team, ultimately significantly increasing the company revenue through manufacturing of the designed products* Provide comprehensive personnel management over a multi-disciplinary engineering team (Electrical, Firmware, Embedded Software, Software, Mechanical and Testing)* Technology leader responsible for all product development, NPD, NPI, and R&D for in-house products (HMI, tablet, power supply)* Defining product architecture (ID, electrical, firmware, mechanical, cloud integrations, APIs, and mobile interfaces) based on customer concepts* Responsible for resource planning, schedule, hiring, P&L, employee relations, career development support, training, etc.* Lead by example, setting clear expectations, consistent communication, and reinforcing a culture of ownership and accountability* Foster the continued professional and technical development of the staff through inspiration, mentoring, education, example and training* Create project proposals/SOW (response to RFQ), including milestones, estimates of product BOM cost, hours per engineering discipline, and product timeline from concept to MP, including regulatory (CE, FCC, Safety / UL)* Provide customers with continual updates on project status, budget and completion of key milestones* ISO 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC 62304 for the design/manufacturing of medical devices

Riverside, Ca, Us

* The board provides the department of electrical and computer engineering with an external perspective on the department’s programs and activities, identifies issues important to the success of these initiatives, provides guidance, counsel, consultation, and recommendations.* The board reviews curricula for relevance and research for purpose and progress.https://www.ee.ucr.edu/boardofadvisors

Summary – In 2004, I accelerated my engineering career development by transitioning from a full-time position to a contractor. I was exposed to complex engineering projects in many different markets, which helped me gain perspective on company culture, engineering depth and breadth of knowledge. Examples below.* 802.11ad WiGig Linux SoftMAC. Wireless Linux Kernel design for on SoC split across Host and SoC.* Freescale i.mx6 ARM Secure Processor. Secure satellite receiver, QAM and video transcoding boards. Encrypted secure boot using ROM, U-boot bootloader, Linux kernel, and device drivers for H/W cryptographic accelerator. PKI certificate chain, Code signing and image encryption, key injection, e-fuse and image verification.* Tensilica DSP. 4G LTE channel estimation algorithms on Tensilica customizable DSP for 16/32-MAC instruction set for use on SoC / Soft Radio.* POS Secure Processor. Board bring-up, architecture and development of (baremetal) embedded software, two stage bootloader and device drivers for a PCI and EMVCo compliant Point of Sale device. Security features implemented in both hardware and software to secure the device, including PIN entry, Smart Card and NFC inputs. * ZigBee / Mesh. IOT products including energy monitoring node, water flow meter, irrigation controller, thermostat controller, and Wifi / Mesh Gateway.* FDA Certified Medical Device. Embedded systems and testing for control systemof a synchrotron proton accelerator to treat cancer (IEC 60601, IED 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971). Embedded software controlling dose and location in hard real-time, computing nonlinear algorithms.* PicoChip. Mobile & cellular base station hardware for WiMax (802.16e) physical layer. Included embedded Linux development.* Arm Processor / SOC. Convergence Layer for HomePlug AV / MAC. Development with Nucleus RTOS (Mentor Graphics).* Intel NPU & Motorola 8260. High-density, VoIP Media Gateway. Control plane processing using ThreadX based RTOS.

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* Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Data Plane / Intel Network Processor (NPU). All aspects of design, system decomposition, implementation, documentation, unit testing, integration, and debugging on Intel multithreaded and pipelined NPU architecture used for a layer 2 & layer 3 packet router, utilizing an ARM processor for the control plane. TCP/IP, Multicast, IPSec / DiffServ, RED* Embedded Software Engineer – Control Plane / Packet Forwarding. Design, implementation, and unit/integration testing of C & C++ software for a real-time embedded system used in a variety of networking applications including TCP/IP, UDP/IP, L2TP, PPP, Frame Relay, and ATM for both data and voice (VoIP) using VxWorks RTOS.* System Test Engineer - Design, execute, and document software/hardware test cases, performance and interoperability for VoIP, CPE and network / router products. Create test software for test harnesses and automation.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

B.S., Computer Science