The duties of an electrical engineer at Orthoscan include a wide variety of responsibilities: hardware circuit design, circuit board layout, embedded software design, initial circuit board bring-up, troubleshooting issues in production, writing design and test documents, design of component tests, and more.

In 2012, Micro Design Labs Inc moved to Arizona became Micro Design Labs LLC, with all of the same history, experience, and goals as Micro Design Labs Inc.Micro Design Labs Inc was incorporated in the State of Nevada in 2006. We do embedded hardware design and embedded software design for data acquisition products including: environmental monitoring, and radiological assay.Past contracts have included: fault analysis of customer-designed printed circuit boards;revising circuit designs and updating bills of materials;QA and final test;design of new circuit boards include USB, RS232, I2C, and SPI interfaces for data acquisitionPCB revisions and new designs included previous layout corrections, addition of transient voltage spike suppression, marginal timing issue correction, improve high voltage regulation of 500-1200V supply, and enhancements to pulse amplifier and detection circuitry - product is utilized in nuclear fuel rod scanner, passed customer testing, and is now in production.Ongoing design for future product of my own: a personnel radiation portal monitor using plastic scintillant, a photo multiplier tube, pulse amplification, ADC, DAC, discriminators, high voltage regulation, utilization of microcontrollers.Other board designs have utilized various Microchip PICs.The latest design collapses multiple customer cards into one small package of about 1/8 the original card areas, utilizing a Microchip microcontroller, USB, ADCs, DACs, UART, SPI, I2C, and programmed in C. Embedded Software included self-diagnostics, event log, bootloader, self-programming of FLASH, pseudo-EEPROM, start-up, data acquisition, data reporting via USB, and a lot more.

Worked in a team developing a new product, wrote sample code, originated application note, debugged hardware and software, characterized chip features, and enhanced existing code.

Executed various contracts for various customers including software maintenance, software design, hardware design, hardware troubleshooting/repair, and customer training through March 2005. Obtained license for California real estate agent in April 2005. Gained experience in sales, marketing, customer service, time management, and various computer skills. Designed websites. While experiencing new career, decided to return to the electronics/software industry

Sustaining engineer for the IGX8400, developed platform-specific software for frame relay cards [FRM], network trunk cards [NTM/AIT/BTM], and voice card [CVM]. Establish reputation as IGX8400 expert and frequently involved in live-network debugging situations. Position requires ability to quickly assimilate large amounts of information, understand complex designs, and translate project specifications into lines of programming code or hardware change. Necessary skills include firmware design [using C, 8051 assembly, DSP 56001 assembly, VxWorks, pSOS], hardware design background, and knowledge of telecom industry standards [functionality of ATM, congestion management, routing, LMI/NNI].

Support of the mature StrataCom IPX and ongoing support of the newly developed StrataCom IGX. Hired before Cisco Systems purchased StrataCom.

[Owned by Eberline, a subsidiary of Thermo Instrument Corporation, went out of business in 1999.] Primary software designer for automated radiation contamination monitoring and assay equipment [WCM10, LCM4/8/20, GAMMA60]. Small custom design company provided wide variety of responsibilities and opportunities for growth. Received contract specifications, wrote design specifications, coded [using C', Assembly (Z-80 or 8051), or proprietary BASIC-like language], authored user manual, verified functionality, installed equipment, trained customers. Equipment used in nuclear power plants and government facilities is proven to be high-reliability.

Tested and repaired company's main product - an I/O board for the Apple II+. Designed and programmed an EPROM programmer for the PC.