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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Programmable Solutions Group | Programmable Software and Solutions | Architectural Pathfinding

Austin, Texas Area

Programmable Solutions Group | Configurable Logic Engineering

Austin, Texas

Programmable Solutions Group

Austin, Tx

In addition to being a Firmware Design Engineer (my formal title on the organizational chart), I was also heavily involved in Product Management for the scientific imaging group.Among my accomplishments and contributions are:● Lead business strategy development for Thorlabs Quantalux, including financial analysis, competitive analysis, infrastructure requirements, COGS modeling, five forces analysis, sales strategies and market requirement definition● Owned third party supply opportunities for cameras in the Thorlabs catalog, advising management on catalog portfolio analysis, identification of suppliers, technical validation, and sales projection. Drove product development cycle through phase gates to release.● Influenced all levels of the organization through discussion, presentations, and forum contributions● Created, supported, and presented exhibits at domestic and international trade shows (Orlando, San Francisco, Yokohama, Tokyo)● Worked to strengthen vendor and customer relationships through business meetings at home and abroad● Driver of embedded systems architectures, including supplier management, COGS control, firmware, communications architectures, regulatory compliance, FMEA, and product harmonization● Managed successful firmware rearchitecting and feature development for scientific CCD cameras● Supported thermal performance analysis of hermetically sealed TEC systems● Key systems integrator, developer, and inventor of world’s first Quad Tap Interline CCD TDI Slide Scanner● Architect, Developer, and Contributor to embedded systems reference designs used throughout Thorlabs' many business units

Austin, Tx

At Atonometrics, I developed controllers for solar panel test equipment. This includes hardware development, firmware development and maintenance, software development and systems integration with PC and PLC hardware.When I arrived at Atonometrics, the principal product was a current-voltage measurement system controlled by an 8051-series controller connected to a host computer using a highly constrained TELNET protocol. I worked with management and the engineering team to develop a new system based on the ARM Cortex-M4. Leading the embedded systems development, I contacted suppliers, evaluated controller options, and lead the system architecture definition and schematic capture for a system based on Freescale Kinetis. We were one of the first adopters of the Kinetis series (I was working with PK60's on the first batch of boards). As part of the platform architecture, I implemented the enabling circuitry to switch the internal system communication from SPI to CAN and implement an RMII-to-PHY ethernet interface. Host computer communication was changed from the TCP-based TELNET to a UDP protocol, allowing for broadcast messaging to multiple monitoring PCs. I worked closely with mechanical engineering and layout contractors to ensure safety isolation, signal integrity, and power supply requirements were properly specified and validated. Assisted with system level FMEA. After the launch of the I-V system product, I worked with engineering to repackage a portion of the product into a new compact version for field measurements as part of a soiling measurement system.

I co-founded a technology startup focused on indoor localization using WiFi on embedded devices. Our market and development focus was on smartphones, particularly android devices. We built a REST API using Python Flask to coordinate our client with container based cloud microservices.

At 21CT, I conducted research on SBIR grants across a wide range of topics, including control of unmanned systems, image processing, human factors, and natural language processing.My contribution to these efforts focused in two main areas: control and coorindation, and image processing.Control and coordination schemes that I developed included generation and validation of motion models, control methods, and multi-agent coordination. I also advised on the development of evolutionary neural controllers for agent coordination.Image processing principally focused on adaptive foveated image processing. Also, I aided in the development of GPU-based foveated filtering and application of those filters to game simulation environments.

My experience at ANADIGICS included extensive electrical test and measurement. I designed and constructed test circuits and wrote computer programs to coordinate test instruments. Also, I assisted in the statistical analysis of test results, including T-Tests and ANOVA Gage R&R.I would best describe the experience as a test and insturmentation tour de force, including exposure to or development of just about every test conducted on GaAs power amplifiers.Much of this work occurred in clean spaces of varying degrees.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Phd, Engineering

Jointly conferred by Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-- Graduate Program in Biomedical.

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