Jay Francis Email & Phone Number

Merrimack, NH, US

• Do you have a hard, firm, or soft ware project that needs some help?Have an idea and want to transform your napkin sketch into something real?I have over 20 years experience working for start-ups, small companies, big.
• Hard, firm, and soft ware design for commercial companies, inventors, makers, and researchers.
• Rapidly and cost-effectively create prototypes to bring ideas to life.
• Experience, resources, and contacts to take prototypes to production.

Bedford, New Hampshire

• Perform laboratory tests to measure athletes' fitness levels.
• Work directly with triathletes, cyclists, and runners to meet performance and fitness goals.
• Certified coach for USA Triathlon, Cycling, and Track & Field.

• Hardware and firmware design for multiple garden weeding robot prototypes.
• Involved with start-up business activities.

• Developed solutions for endurance athletes and coaches.
• Worked directly with triathletes, cyclists, and runners to meet performance and fitness goals.
• Performed laboratory tests to measure athletes' fitness levels.
• Classroom and skills clinic instructor for cycling and triathlon.
• Certified coach for USA Triathlon, Cycling, and Track & Field.

• Designed power and control electronics for an outdoor mobile robot.
• Debugged FCC compliance issues and made design improvements to existing mobile robots.
• Worked with the production department to comply with the RoHS directive.

• Led hardware development team for release of Optical-Electrical-Optical grooming switch.
• Designed multiple Optical-Electrical-Optical switch and management cards.
• Designed processor cores used across many product lines.
• Wrote test scripts for component, board, and system level testing.

• Designed network interface controllers.

• Designed electronic sub-assemblies for use in mobile robots.
• Designed unique circuits for robotic toy prototypes.
• Responsible for complete electronics prototype development cycle including design, schematic entry, PCB design, material procurement, SMT assembly, and testing.

• Designed control and sensing electronics for document and photo ID capture peripherals.
• Designed test assemblies and wrote diagnostic software for production use.
• Interacted with manufacturers, suppliers, and production personnel to bring designs from prototype through production.
• Managed one full time senior technician and two part time university students.

• Performed board level design to convert an FPGA based prototype to an ASIC based product.
• Designed network adapters for personal computers.

• Designed test suites and worked with network equipment vendors to resolve functional and interoperability problems.
• Integrated new communication technologies into existing communications networks.

Continuing Education In Chinese

Advanced Chinese I, II, III Intermediate Chinese I, II Elementary Chinese II

Continuing Education In Chinese

Elementary Mandarin Language/Culture I

Ms, Exercise Science

Published Research: Francis JT, Quinn TJ, Amann M, LaRoche DP. Defining Intensity Domains from the End Power of a 3-min All-out Cycling.

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Marching Band