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Using my experience in the medical and communications industry to to help companies turn their ideas into commercial products.• Developed design strategies and provided regulatory guidance for a consumer medical device.• Created an engineering concept a new catheter product• Provided design services and regulatory guidance for a new optical recognition product

Huntsville, Al, Us

~ Responsible for development of embedded product portfolio ~• Led embedded development of the myHalo advanced personal emergency response system featuring real-time automatic fall detection, heart rate monitoring, activity detection, temperature sensing, and step tracking• Managed product development including coordination of industrial and mechanical design and outsourcing, hardware and software development, system architecture, automatic fall detection and motion processing algorithms, heart rate sensing and monitoring, transfer to production, continued product maintenance and feature enhancements• Lead inventor on pending patents in areas of remote health motoring and data telemetry, automatic fall detection, heart rate monitoring, activity and motion processing, and mobile monitoring among others• Provided engineering project management for medical product requiring FDA Class II listing• Responsible for engineering design and production outsourcing, cost analysis and scheduling, feasibility assessment, and developing product specifications based on internal and customer requirements. • Responsible for validating product specifications and selecting major technology including cellular and location technology, embedded sensors, and battery management and technology• Worked with an engineering design firm to reduce their design proposal 60% through a combination of price reduction and architecture refinement, while staying within marketing requirements and schedule. This proposal became the lowest development cost option.

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Responsible for integrating voice over IP quality monitoring to the iMarc CSU/DSU- a T1 termination device that provides channelized voice and IP data for small businesses.

Huntsville, Al, Us

Project leader for mixed-signal telecommunication equipment used primarily as backhaul solutions for wireless service providers migrating to higher bandwidth 3G service• Responsibilities include product concept development, product specification based on customer requirements, preliminary cost analysis, product design schedule, customer RFQ response, and project coordination between development groups such as mechanical, compliance, production, PCB layout, circuit design, embedded software development, product documentation, technical support• Performed microprocessor based hardware design, hardware debugging, embedded software development with real-time operating system, analog design, embedded C++, C, and assembly, programming, object oriented programming, hardware driver designs, VHDL Design for Xilinx FPGA• Major developments include DDS and Total Reach products for TA1500, T1 Pseudowire over Ethernet for MX2800, Maintenance of ISDN products, PowerQUICC based controller card for TA1500, Line card for Sonet Minimum Timing recovery from T1 for the MX2800, four-port remote craft port for MX2800

Masters, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering