Joern Henneberg Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Innovation and cutting-edge product development for Fortune 500 companiesProject EE team leadership responsibilities• provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to project EE team• represent EE team to PM, client as well as external partners and vendors• work with PM, discipline tech leads and client on requirements, product definition, system architecture and integration• formulate test requirements, plan and approach• execute on project development plan, performing as individual contributor

Greater Los Angeles Area

Management of a cross-functional Hardware Development Team• Team included EE, Layout, ME, and Lab Technician resources• Used selected Agile methods for day-to-day operations ••• weekly team planning using user stories, effort estimations and 'Scrumban' board ••• daily Scrums for transparency, road-block identification and risk management ••• demos and retrospectives at selected intervals and milestones• Team composition, individual growth and budget planning• Hiring process (candidate profile, pre-screening, interviews, final selection with team)• Authored internal technology white papers for strategy discussion and evaluation• Analysis of cost structure, identification of cost-down opportunities and methodsSuccessfully shipped Traktor Kontrol S8 and Traktor Kontrol D2• Hardware architecture and verification of assumptions• Definition of intra-board communication schemes and protocols• Schematic design and entry using Altium Designer• Firmware architecture and implementation on low-cost Microcontroller• Strategy definition for test automation during development stages using LabVIEW• Regulatory testing and hands-on debugging (EMI, ESD)• Driving towards project milestones in close co-operation with Program Manager• Finished goods BOM, cost estimations and cost management• Close co-operation with Asian CMs during development, pre- and mass production• ECN creation, review and approval• Maintenance of production-floor Audio Test Tool using LabVIEW

Greater Los Angeles Area

Development of a backplane digital audio communication card• Architecture and system integration definition• Schematic design and entry using PADS• Prototyping, bring-up and debugDevelopment of a Graphic Equalizer FPGA module• 31-band, 16 channel fixed-point design with 4-sample parameter smoothing• Architecture definition, up-front evaluation of performance and resource utilization• Implementation of core in VHDL• Implementation of self-checking testbench in Verilog• Simulation and functional verification using Actel Active-HDL Simulator• Real-time audio quality verification using AudioPrecision measurements on hardwarePrototyping of a PCI Express Soundcard FPGA system• Specification of system operation targeting Thunderbolt applications• FPGA architecture based on MicroBlaze System-on-Chip• Development of AXI and AXI-Lite FPGA cores• Development of MicroBlaze firmware• Prototyping using Xilinx SP605 development boardImproved FPGA development and verification workflow• Selected Aldec Active-HDL toolchain• Introduced usage of Assertions• Utilized Property Specification Language (PSL) in separate verification unitsImproved availability and accuracy of cost estimates in early development stages• selected Eng-DB-2• Handling of part and assembly quotes from CMs

Greater Los Angeles Area

Design, implementation and verification of FPGA systems• Implementation in both VHDL and Verilog• Verification using Modelsim, Icarus Verilog and C++ behavioral models• Implementation of audio processing and protocol modules••• multi-channel, 31-band GEQ core using extended floating-point precision••• multi-rate, multi-link I2S, I8S and TDM Receive / Transmit modules••• I2S sample rate integer-factor up- and downscaler cores••• UI Controller cores: LED Matrix PWM, Local Bus, Register SetResearch and analysis of emerging digital audio technologies• Active participation in IEEE and Industry Alliance working groups••• IEEE 1722-2001 and IEEE P1722.1• Architecture, implementation and analysis of Proof-of-Concept prototypes• Creation of White PapersDesign and development of Firmware and Software modules• DSP Algorithm and firmware development in C, C++ and Assembler• Controller firmware development in C/C++• Implementation of module unit tests

Vancouver, Canada Area

Development of Audio Hardware Products • Schematic design and entry • Layout review • Prototyping and testing • Firmware Development in C/C++Design, implementation and verification of FPGA systems • Implementation in VHDL and Verilog • Verification using open-source GHDL and Icarus Verilog • Implementation of various protocol modules (I2S, I8S, TDIF, SPI)Development of Intellectual Property • Digital Audio Streaming System-on-Chip based on Gigabit Ethernet • System-on-Chip design leveraging OpenRISC soft-processor

Hamburg Area, Germany

Development of Embedded Systems • Schematic design, entry and Layout • Prototype bring-up and testing • Implementation of protocols for data transmission / communication • Firmware development in C/C++Design, implementation and verification of FPGA systems • Design implementation in VHDL • Design verification with GHDL • Development of a Video Scaler using a 2-dimensional Cubic Spline digital filterAnalysis of in-production Microprocessor Systems for cost and performance optimizatio

Msee, Telecommunications, Digital Transmitting Techniques

Bsee, Electrical Engineering