• Designing consumer products with microcontrollers, DC-DC converters, battery chargers, LED drivers, PIR sensors, MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers, GPS modules, Bluetooth modules, motors, LEDs, light pipes, and capacitive proximity and touch sensors.• Selecting and sourcing components, evaluating for suitability, availability and cost.• Completing system designs with schematics, PCB layouts, bill of materials (BOM), and firmware.• Designing, building and testing mechanical and electrical prototypes.• Coordinating with clients and engineers via Skype, screen-sharing, and email.• Creating documentation -- block diagrams, schematics, PCB artwork, fab and assembly drawings.• Designing and building web sites.• Setting up and programming PLCs, pneumatic actuators, robotic arms.

Corporate Research and Development (2001-2008)Worked with an R&D team to design a completely new industrial bareboard tester.• Designed digital and analog circuitry and power supplies for 25 different boards with an FPGA, CPLDs, DACs, comparators, and optocouplers interfacing to over 80 sensors, encoders, motors, and valves, and to over 10,000 test points to take continuity and high-voltage isolation measurements.• Designed 16 PCB layouts and 4 flex circuits, creating Gerber files and fabrication and assembly drawings. Collaborated with PCB layout vendors for 5 other boards.• Improved pneumatics and PLC code. Created machine self-alignment capability.• Created detailed trouble-shooting, repairing, and upgrading procedures, including photographs, and provided support for field service technicians. Traveled to customer and manufacturing sites in the U.S. and Asia to do training, repairs, and upgrades.• Documented all wiring and pneumatics on 14 pages of D-size drawings in Visio.• Wrote Excel VBA software for customers to view interactive production results graphs.• Created VBA code in Excel to drive hardware through a NI-DAQ board, to analyze and characterize boards and assist in locating manufacturing defects and field failures.Test Equipment Division (1999-2001)Supported and improved an existing industrial bareboard tester.• Found and fixed bugs in existing microcode for a custom 2901 bit-slice processor.• Designed electronics and wrote embedded firmware for improved field serviceability, and for machine self-test and self-calibration.• Directed PCB layout of critical high voltage, high impedance measurement circuits, setting requirements and reviewing Gerber files for accuracy and compliance.• Designed a functional tester for custom high voltage measurement boards.• Designed and built electronic tools for field service – circuit design, PCB layout, firmware.

• Designed analog and digital circuits with microcontrollers, comparators, LEDs, RS-422, RS-232. • Did schematic entry and PCB layout, and wrote firmware.• Designed and set up PC-based manufacturing testers and wrote test software.

• Designed PCBs and flex circuits for laptop replacement hard drive kits.

• Designed consumer products for pet industry using microcontrollers, keypads, LCD displays, thermistors, and triacs, and wrote embedded software to control solenoids, heating elements, and fans. Built and tested mechanical and electrical prototypes and designed PCBs.• Wrote reporting and data conversion software for manufacturing, and forecasting software for sales.

• Designed gate arrays in disk drive digital servos -- logic design, schematic entry, simulation, test generation, hardware verification, and documentation.• Focused on designing with Quality, Manufacturability, Testability, and Serviceability.• Performed extensive failure analysis, designed improved manufacturing tests.• Received Outstanding Technical Achievement award for hardware and software design of PC-based tester used in manufacturing, failure analysis, and in the field at customer installations.• Traveled in the U.S. and Germany to test products and add software features.