Daniel Gowans Email & Phone Number

West Jordan, UT, US

US

Survey Capability Team Strategic Lead, Product Line Manager, research and development engineer, and consultant for engineering teams involved in design of cutting edge, complex hardware and software systems processing high volumes of real-time data. Participate in proposal efforts in response to customer needs, crafting feasible solutions that could meet.

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• Product line lead for industry best solutions that have brought in over $50 million dollars in the last 3 years and are projected to bring in over $180 million in revenue over the next 5 years from multiple customer.
• Lead engineering teams amidst changing priorities in the realization of high speed complex hardware / firmware / software systems with multiple customized releases per year
• Compromise and collaborate with stakeholders to create solutions that meet budget and schedule, while achieving as many requirements as possible, maximizing ROI
• Attend industry trade conferences to expand contact base and gain technical knowledge, bring back information to educate teams on new technologies and opportunities
• Participate in research and development activities with company and partners
• Work with management to improve the efficiency of our engineering execution

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• Guided / mentored from 8 to 14 junior and senior engineers in careers and technical work
• Formed and led a team that created and documented tailored engineering processes for entire site – now used for guidance and training of senior engineers
• Created and led a local System Engineering, Integration and Test (SEIT) team
• Partnered with senior management on staffing, training programs, execution evaluation and improvements, and assessment of engineering goals and productivity metrics
• Instrumental in hiring some of the Utah site’s top engineers, from candidate selection to on-site interviewing and hiring to technical on-boarding
• Completed individual performance evaluations, provided compensation guidance

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• Excelled as deputy systems engineer on design, development, test, launch, and operations of a novel, user-centric, extremely high speed, reliable and flexible processing platform that generated over $200 million in.
• Performed architecture definition, sub-system design and documentation, simulations, interface development, and test, working with hardware, firmware and software teams
• Guided supply chain activities for standing up prototype systems on time and on budget
• Gained trust and strong rapport with customers and company leaders through interacting on a regular basis to educate, discuss technical progress, risks, and product roadmaps

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• Procured several million dollars of optical, high speed digital and RF test equipment for programs. Managed lab budgets. Improved efficiency and usage of lab space during growth
• Implemented system for remotely routing test signals to test beds. Created concise training for engineers using lab spaces. Helped program engineering teams set up test beds

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- Developed high speed data path processing firmware and hardware from requirements to delivery and integration with software control systems- Defined and performed prototyping of embedded software controllers. Hardware lead engineer on several high-profile customer-facing projects- Frequent planning and design reviews with program technical leads.

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- Evaluated and improved company's advanced printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing process- Debugged manufacturing issues- Designed improvements to CAD processes such as a novel test strip generator tool- Learned entire PCB manufacturing process from CAD to board verification

Santa Clara, CA, US

- Assisted in ASIC design and layout of high speed clocking systems- Autonomously generated complex test vectors for multi-million gate ASIC used as main bridge chip in HP Itanium product line- Performed placement and routing of functional blocks, with estimation of size and power needs- Analyzed and reported on parasitics in laid out designs

- Intern with hardware development and program management groups- Assisted in test execution on cutting edge visual hardware systems- Test scripting and automated test reporting- Programmed databases to help manage supply chain and parts procurement

Masters Of Science In Engineering - Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering Of Large Scale Complex Hardware Software Systems

Bsee, Computers, Semiconductors, Logic Design