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Austin, Texas, US

• Designed and built computerized electronic firing system for professional fireworks displays.Designed hardware, firmware, and windows firing software. Firestorm is currently using systems to shoot firework shows in.
• Atmel AVR microcontrollers, GCC compiler
• Wireless communications
• Multidrop RS-485 serial communications
• Real time decoding of FSK time code for music synchronization

San Jose, CA, US

Milpitas, CA, US

NVMe Solid State DrivesWorked closely with asic engineers to identify and implement patches and workarounds for silicon bugs.Error handling at PCIe and NVMe protocol layers.Added features for customer requirements.Bringing up pre-silicon processors on HAPS FPGA machines.

San Diego, CA, US

• Embedded Engineer working on latest generation of cell phone modem chips, including modems integrated on Snapdragon 808, 810 & 820 processors. Worked on CDMA code according 3GPP2 Standards for spread spectrum systems.
• Pre-silicon verification on 2 modem chips
• Participated in 3 modem bring ups.
• Worked on customer issues from Apple, Samsung, HTC, China Telecom and others for existing and pre-production chips requiring rapid turnaround time.
• Worked on Multi-Sim project to allow multiple technologies to simultaneously run on a cell phone sharing limited RF resources while optimizing power usage.

Fremont, CA, US

• Firmware engineer working on latest generation of hard drives. Worked on drives where capacity increased from 160 GB to 5 TB. Member of core team, specializing in download and power up sequence.
• Made improvements to code download to decrease firmware upgrade times by up to 50%
• Improvements to make end user updates more robust
• Modifications to power up sequence to decrease time to ready
• Optimized Serial flash reads and writes.
• Sata interface and serial port communications

US

• Firmware engineer working on Self-Test and Diagnostics code. Worked with multiple teams to develop diagnostics code to decrease test times and improve yields.
• Designed and implemented serial protocol to communicated with drives during self-test
• Wrote code to receive and parse downloaded microcode for field upgradable firmware
• Designed code so drive can contain multiple code sets that can be selected during self-test or diagnostics
• Designed a split self-test so drives could be screened early in the self-test process

• Developed Cellport 3000 Voice Command Hands-free system Pocket Adapters.Developed Samsung N200 and AudioVox 9100 pockets. Assisted on Motorola V60 and Kyocera 2200 pockets.
• Reduced pocket development time from 12 month cycle to 1 to 3 month cycle.
• Designed and implemented Common code architecture.
• Worked with hardware team to design common hardware platform.
• Helped design and implement data connectivity for telematics devices.

Denver, CO, US

Taught assembly language programming for the 68HC11 and C for Atmel AVR. Lab projects included an alarm clock, a voltmeter, and control systems for AUVSI underwater vehicle competition.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

• Software Engineer working on QuarkXPress 5.0 and Web Tools Xtension. Worked on QuarkImmedia, a multimedia Xtension for QuarkXPress.
• Created copy protection code using hardware dongles for International version of QuarkImmedia
• Designed QuickTime movie resampling feature.
• Added features to Windows installer to function properly in Windows 95/NT

Managed pre-press production activities

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Computer Science

Aviation

Computer Science