Jeffrey Doar Email & Phone Number

Castaic, California, Us

Help people realize their dreams of adventures on their motorcycles by working with my local BMW Motorcycle dealers to get new and repeat GS style motorcycle customers to sign up for RawHyde Training and tours.

Taking time off, writing a book (KDP), affilate marketing, marathon training, adventuring.Summit Kilimanjaro March 1, 2015Seattle to Portland bicycle ride, July 2015Lassen Peak Summit, August 6, 2015San Jose Rock n Roll Half Marathon, September 26, 2015

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Electric Motorcycle display/user interface development. Using Altium Designer for Schematic capture, PCB layout, and PCBA BOM design and development.LCD transflective display, LED specification, selection. Test and debug.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Hardware Design Engineer, Display TeamLead Display Engineer for New Kindle Paperwhite product (summer 2013) Authored product performance and cosmetic specifications for Kindle full display stack: E-Paper Display (EPD), Cypress Touch panel, PMMA front light. Design, Develop, Produce flex circuits for EPD front lighting. LED selection, performance measurement. Managed touch panel design/development and production/test with touch IC vendor. EPD optical performance evaluations, contrast ratio, reflectivity, luminance, color, uniformity. Product documents, BOM entry, and change orders using Agile PLM. Extensive travel to manufacturing sites in support of product development builds.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Navigation Interface Devices GroupSenior Systems Applications Engineer, Navigation Interface DivisionAuthoring and execution of system characterization test plans for new Touch Screen Controller IC’s. Touch IC Analog front end prototype design and bring up for use with Xilinx development kits. Mutual capacitance pattern/cell simulations using ADS Momentum. Using MatLab and Excel for test automation, data analysis and results reports. Customer requirements/specifications review and analysis.

Cupertino, California, Us

Senior Engineer/ScientistApple Inc. Input Devices Engineering Team April 1999 ~ March 2009Cupertino, California• Responsible for Human Input Device electrical designs, characterizations, and qualifications.• Schematic capture, Bill of Materials management, PCB layout design/review.• Prototype bring-up and debugging, functional verification, signal characterization.• Firmware development and code review. Cypress M8 µC Assembly Language programming.• Integration of digital and analog electronics with USB and Bluetooth embedded controllers.• Deep knowledge of embedded control applications, laser & optical navigation sensors, capacitive touch sensing, mechanical switch encoding and device firmware.• Authoring of Engineering Requirements Specifications (ERS) and invention disclosures.• Also worked with outside design partners/suppliers to develop and document designs.• International travel to supplier R&D centers and manufacturing sites for prototype build support.• Incorporate change requests from test groups that qualify the product; Reliability, EMC, SQA, and Safety.• Responsible for transitioning product to manufacturing. Production EE BOM sustaining engineering.• Intimate knowledge of primary cell battery operated Bluetooth applications. • Bluetooth device power consumption estimation and measurement.• Bluetooth RF hardware performance characterization & optimization, using R&S CBT, Anritsu MT8850.• Projects include the Apple Mighty Mouse (USB), Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse (Bluetooth), Apple Wireless Keyboard (Bluetooth), Apple Keyboard/Hub (USB 2.0).

Cupertino, California, Us

Senior Reliability & Test Engineer Apple Computer, Inc. Reliability Engineering March 1994 ~ April 1999 • Development and execution of product reliability test plans and procedures.• Environmental tests, Temperature and Humidity, Shock & Vibrations, Electrical Schmoo Test, Life Test.• Communication of test results to product teams, test report authoring.• Test fixtures and test automation design and development. • Management of design consultants, test technicians and college interns.• Projects included Apple iMac, Apple 20th Anniversary Mac, Set Top Box, Apple USB keyboards & mice. • Execution of new product & sustaining product qualifications for Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) products.• Assisted Macintosh CPU teams with qualifications of new ADB host controllers.• Promoted to Sr. Engineer, December '94.Design Assurance Lead EngineerApple Computer, Inc. Input Products Team Oct. 1990 ~ March 1994• Responsible for overall quality and reliability of Apple Input Products.• Hired and managed a team; test software engineer, test technician, college interns and various consultants.• Developed input device test methods, software and electro-mechanical test fixtures.• Analyzed and resolved Input Product field issues. • Developed and used an automated ADB protocol verification tester.

• Technical customer support for memory module products. • Product Technical presentations to customers.• Authoring of technical product brochures for memory products.• Domestic and international travel in support of marketing/sales campaigns.• Analysis and resolution of customer issues.• Extensive communications with the engineering team in Japan.

• Design and specification of automated control systems in the coffee roasting processes.• Human Interface panel design, automatic and manual back-up control panels. • Implemented touch screen control of batch roasting process.• Cost/benefit and ROI analysis of new equipment installations using Lotus 123.• PLC programming, TI Ladder Logic, Pascal, Basic on IBM PC.

• Design and implementation of production test fixture for electronic lock-box product.• Interfaced test fixture to IBM-PC plug in card.• Wrote production test program in IBM Basic.

• Human Interface panel design for F14, F15, F18 Radar power supply module production test stations.• Authoring and implementing test procedures, test programs for Aircraft Radar module production.• Radar Signal Processor modules test adaptor design and fabrication management.• Z80 Assembly Language, ATLAS, Fortran, HP-RTE programming.• Production Test Support, debugging to the component level.• D.O.D. Secret Clearance approved.