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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Multidisciplinary technical lead responsible for delivering new products

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

R&D Development and design of patient monitoring systems for the MRI environment.I lead electrical efforts across the patient monitoring parameter space.

Logan, Utah, Us

Frequently working on multiple concurrent projects, I do some of everything from R&D new product development through sustaining engineering. I lead projects and get involved with recruiting and building teams too.Sustaining Engineering:• Designed 10 circuit boards from scratch and augmented or revised 15 others. Up to 10 layers mixed signal with high speed digital and small signal analog.New product development:• Scope technical deliverables, trade requirements, develop and enact plans for riskreduction, lead, design and drive process improvement.• Blank sheet VHDL design targeting Xilinx Spartan 6 to integrate multiple Sony IMX 2D CMOS imagesensors.• Designed a BLE board implementing a PCB trace antenna.• Debugged and augmented existing embedded C code to add new features.• Designed and successfully implemented a challenging VHDL logic design which sums up to 1080 lines (configurable) from the sensor in real time as they are received.• Designed and implemented a 3 to 1 'gear box' logic design to concatenate and store 12 bit data received as 4 bit interleaved nibbles from a SERDES.• Implemented and augmented existing SPI and UART modules.• Data captured on 4 lanes at 350Mbit/s DDR.• Designed prototype boards ground up including footprint creation, power supplies,differential controlled impedances etc.• Entire design was done with limited access to datasheet resources meaningexperience, tenacity and trial and error has to fill the gaps.• Wrote VHDL testbenches for the design.• Bench testing for optimization of integration time, gain, blacklevel and binning.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Reporting directly to the president of the company, the products upon which I work set the industry standard for ruggedized robotic inspection equipment. I am responsible for product sustainment, continuous improvement and new product design.Since joining I have augmented the electrical design review process reducing design errors;Led a company wide effort to improve PCB design and reliability from the ground up;Designed 3 circuit boards from scratch, including a unique analog circuit that maximizes the efficiency of a light source by dynamically maintaining voltage headroom to a preset margin, reducing self heating to half the previous design.Debugged, redesigned 3 mixed signal boards providing significant product improvement;Redesigned a board reducing noise to bring product yield from 75% to 100% after integration and test;Wrote firmware in C for a PWM controller using NXP micro and code warrior;Implemented an SVN server and repository fully integrated with Altium for board design and part library configuration management.Implemented a company wiki to collate and make better use of existing knowledge, and foster better inter department comms.

I design new core spectroscopic products and custom solutions from requirements through to transfer to manufacture and in service support in collaboration with my colleagues from mechanical, software and application science disciplines.This comprises electrical circuit design and simulation, schematic capture (Altium) circuit layout including USB 2.x and 3.x, Gb ethernet, SPI, I2C, RS232, 422, 485, LVDS, TTL, UART; buck, boost and buck/boost power supply design; Analog design (amplifiers, filters, sallen-key, analog front end, constant current LED drivers, low noise, low ripple) through to test/verification and product delivery.Since joining I have been instrumental in delivering 3 products to market, through CE testing, and spearheaded independent TUV safety certification of a high voltage lightsource which I designed.I have made significant contributions to firmware development across several products in C (Keil, Cypress FX2, PIC24) and VHDL (ISE, Modelsim, ActiveHDL) including bug identification/eradication.I designed complete interface components at 100 MHz speeds in VHDL for Toshiba and Hamamatsu linear CCD detectors targeting Xilinx Spartan series.

Reading, Gb

Electrical Engineer(Arming and fuzing system) 2013 -2014I led a team of scientists and engineers to develop, design and test the arming and fuzing system for a nuclear warhead. My responsibilities included: design of the embedded instrumentation for test and verification of the system, circuit simulation of analog transistor circuits, digital simulation of VHDL code for FPGA targets. I was responsible for ensuring the team adhered to the design to manufacture process, with appropriate generation of documentation, and wrote the guidance and approach to grounding and EMI.Design/Test Engineer (Condition Monitoring systems) 2008-2011I led a team of engineers of differing disciplines to develop a prototype external condition monitoring system for nuclear warheads, from blank sheet through integration, testing and verification. I took a hands on role in analog small signal design of op amp filters as well as coordinating and carrying out integration, test and verification of the system (this involved the use of C++ on an embedded PIC target). I organized, planned and conducted a complex series of tests which were offsite with limited time and resources.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

I was responsible for a novel approach to verification, validation and qualification of a mixed signal ASIC. I had to find new ways of satisfying the requirements of high reliability processes to achieve the qualification effort within tight timescales by leaning out the deliverables without loss of quality. I designed and wrote the approach, and also completed hands on design and delivery of the custom test set using VHDL, labview and teststand.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Electronics design/test engineer (Missile Systems)I took responsibility for the testing, verification design changes for 3 electrical subsystems of a full up cruise missile. This involved analog design and C programming for TI embedded microprocessor. After completing the subsystem testing I moved on to work within systems integration team to produce a full up system all the way through to successful flight test.Pre Flight Confidence Test Lead (Full up missile testing)As part of the final test phase of the missile system, I was responsible for the full up preflight environmental testing. This included the organization of the team of 5 engineers over the 24 hour test, go/no go calls, fault reporting and root cause analysis, diagnosis and debug. I undertook training in Lean 6 Sigma.