Jason Higgins Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

Kitchener, ON, CA

Acquired by Rockwell Automation in October 2023.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

As the first manager in the company, I worked to transform an the engineering group into a cohesive, focused, and highly effective team that collectively delivered industry-leading underwater laser scanning and imaging systems for subsea mapping, surveying, and inspection. I grew the team from a small number of individuals to a collaborative entity of.

Mountain View, California, US

While helping Kaleidescape enhance the home cinema experience, I was responsible for: the management of platform software and electronics engineering resources, including the communication of requirements and direction; the building and strengthening of individuals and the organization; the ownership of the design and implementation of significant product.

Waterloo, ON, CA

While maintaining my responsibilities as Manager, Systems Engineering, my role expanded to include a broader range of accountability across the engineering team, including deliverables related to virtualized platforms and vendor negotiations.

Waterloo, ON, CA

• While maintaining my responsibilities as Manager, Platform Engineering, my role expanded to include accountability for and involvement with:
• the hardware team that was designing and verifying ATCA media processing boards
• EMC and safety compliance for North America, Europe, and Latin America
• third party hardware/software qualification
• the manufacturing team, including all manufacturing deliverables

Waterloo, ON, CA

• Whie maintaining my responsibilities as Senior Designer, my role expanded to include management of the growing platform software team. This included:
• project planning to achieve product development goals, specifically: requirements, design, testplan, schedule estimates, weekly tracking/reporting/updates, milestones, resource allocation/scheduling/dependencies, issue.
• coaching, development, training, goal planning, annual performance reviews, hiring
• developing budgets relevant to team deliverables

Waterloo, ON, CA

Beginning as a team of one, worked as an individual contributor in the early days of the company to help define, design and implement the highly available platform software for Avvasi’s Xperium carrier-grade multi-blade chassis, which is used for mobile video network monitoring and optimization.

Milpitas, CA, US

Worked as an individual contributor and informal technical leader on many aspects of the ASIC design process (ASIC design and RTL implementation, software-based modelling, synthesis, simulations, verification, timing analysis, bring-up).

San Jose, CA, US

Completed architecture design, implementation, and testing of a MIPS-based subsystem for multimillion-gate SoC ASIC design. Created detailed C/C++ models of advanced video processing functions and polyphase filters. Completed legacy test porting and debugging of various external IP components.

Master Of Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Computer Engineering