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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Remote

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Design and development engineering and consulting for military, instrumentation, medical device, acoustic, audio, and power electronic systems clients. * Efforts resulted in three new medical device designs. * Military programs produced several patent applications for personnel protection device. * Improved image quality of focused ion-beam tools with advanced pre-amplifier design.* Acoustic/Audio consulting to improve intelligibility and instrument separation using advanced materials and driver selection for small venues. * Design and guidance for IEC 61000 and IEC 60601 compliance testing.

Kennesaw, Ga

Design hardware platform based on older style Gaming cabinet to improve cost and functionality.

Duluth, Ga.

Product design and development of skill based games. Embedded control systems, digital lighting, sound and power design and maintenance of legacy products. Introducing many new components to product lines.● Designed digital lighting interface providing first use of lighting tied to game state.● Designed first point of sale platform Trulink™● International travel to procure uncommon cabinet design now branded Rainbow 24D™

Duluth, Ga.

Senior member of hardware R&D for advanced gaming machines utilizing embedded processor design and control of LED lighting arrays. Specific charter is to develop ideas to enhance gaming experience. Designed and built temperature controlled oven/refrigerator for whole system compliance testing. Provided support to facilities in Mexico for legacy products. Audio design and concept development for new platforms.

Guided Therapeutics

Design and Systems Engineering of an optical biopsy device which when inserted into an endoscope is used to gauge the presence of dysplasia in the barretts region of the esophagus.

Design and development engineering of high power (4kV/1.2kA) flash lamp systems Product management of solar panel and cell testing systems. * Designed company's first electronically variable long pulse flash lamp system. * Created novel class AAA solar simulator platform for solar panel and cell manufacturers. * Developed automated PID test equipment and subsystems for internal and customer use. * Produced design changes and documentation to achieve IEC-61010 approval.

Design and development management and engineering for eight x-ray fluorescence product lines. * Principal Controls and Systems architect of company's first major capitol equipment design integrating core X-ray spectroscopy hardware and software with multiple embedded (Allen Bradley) control elements, power and safety systems including SIL1-3 levels of risk. * Electrical Engineering management and development activities for all hand-held, semi-portable, and capitol equipment products. - Including the introduction of three new products. * Design highlights include improvement in power usage increasing useful runtime of handheld life by 30%. Added design improvements that permit different types of x-ray detectors to optimize performance while ensuring critical areas of design pass CE EMI standards.

Design and development of analog and digital signal processing instruments, systems and modules. * Principal designer of design-in Analog and Digital filter modules. * Responsible for all phases of development, sustaining engineering, test, and regulatory process. * Introduced four new products as principal analog designer. * Chief technical source of all new product proposals covering market strategy, design, test validation, costing, scheduling, price, delivery, and acceptance criteria. * Provide applications support of twelve distinct product groups with current, new and prospective customers. * Increased products marketability through adding video and sub-Hertz regions to selected product lines. * Designed c-PCI based 24 channel 24 bit ADC with precision anti-alias filter design. * Expanded product capability into mil spec performance regions across select product lines. * Introduced first industry generic "smart sensor" signal processing package for integrating distributed sensing platforms. * Manage department of four engineers. * Third Chief Engineer since company's founding in 1967.

ultra low noise imaging design & high voltage designElectro-optic systemsPortable chemical assay instrumentationPersonnel Protection devices

Systems and Electrical Engineering for airborne laser radar range finding system. * Design and Development accomplishments include redesign of detector package to reach sub- nanosecond resolution, while significantly increasing linear dynamic range. * Developed an advanced high power mirror scanning system, increased system performance limits while reducing the cost of the system component by half.* Created and implemented a strategy of accelerated testing of system for final test and delivery.* Negotiate and manage offsite assembly contracts to increase production volumes.* Improved inventory controls for long term and short term budget projections. * Devised a component test policy that cut field failures by 90%. * Worldwide travel and representation with customer base.

Systems and Electrical design, development, specification and project management of a prototype Optical Biopsy System for cervical and other similar soft tissue cancer detection and staging.* Management of outside design house development objectives and milestones, maintaining an on time, on budget schedule. * Management tasks included assigning and negotiating weekly development tasks for group of 15 Engineers including industrial, electrical, optical, mechanical, and software engineers. Reported directly to CEO all budgetary and developmental milestones, alternatives and projections. * System specification and electrical modeling and design of optical, fiber optic, mechanical, electrical and computer systems and subsystems for optical biopsy device meeting pre-IDE medical device standards.* Author of several novel invention disclosures for: Multiple optical source stimulation, Optical source time encoding permitting synchronous detection. Proprietary disposable element with an embedded electronic signature for hand held component. Reflective optic transmitter/receiver system and associated scanning elements.

Design and development of high voltage power, isolation, arc and transient suppression circuits and cabling managing all phases from inception and test development, to marketing support for a variety of high voltage applications up to 150 kV. * Management, design and coordination of all aspects of image acquisition and processing program achieving several critical technology milestones. * Charge amplifier and high-speed transimpedance device design and modeling using SPICE and Matlab.* High speed, low noise linear optical isolation design and development.* Prepare written reports as technical resource for characterization and demonstration of image acquisition standards for Sematech funded contract of next generation Mask Repair tool performance standards employing stochastic and statistical methods for identification and characterization of image quality.* Developed under Sematech contract first use of MTF in Focused Ion Beam industry as image quality metric. Adopted as a world-wide standard of image performance definition in Ion Beam industry.* Managed CE certification procedure for all Micrion systems regarding EMI and Low Voltage directive.* Design and development of electronic control and processing circuits for Focused Ion Beam

Courses Toward A Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

B.S, Electrical Engineering, 3.0

Focusing on Physical Devices, Circuit design, Research in Plasma Spectroscopy

Certificate, Computer Electronics

900 hour program) Graduated second in a class of three hundred

Bachelor, Audio Recording; Music