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Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Provide Manufacturing test solutions for all products including off-site CM testing; develop portable automated test stations and test suites on PC based stations. Train and advise Engineering personnel in best known methods, DFM and design development. Work with CM's to setup manufacturing test line and resolve quality issues. Designed wrote and tested.

Accomplishments:Ample/Mindspeed Redhawk/10gig Eagle/1gig Mac driver/diagnosticsMPC8548/E500 core, code developmentSuccessful bring up of hardware and integration of vxWorks Board Support Package with Diagnostic Executive on Freescale MPC8548 based switching module.GNU build enviorment for MPC8548Broadcom PHY bcm8012, bcm5466sr driver/diagnosticsInterfaces.

Accomplishments:Developed the diagnostics test suite for a Xeon platform utilizing the broadcom chip set, (BCM5690 and BCM5670/5671) and the Intel 82546 GIG MAC/PHY.Supported test suite development of the SiByte BCM1250 platform. Wrote diagnostic document set for all platforms, including Module Flow charts from power up to pass to OS.

Accomplishments:Developed Ucode tx/rx Ethernet packets through the IXP1200 Uengines.Developed Diagnostics/Drivers for IXF440 and IXF1002 for IXP1200 based system.

Accomplishments:Developed Diagnostics for MPC850 based system controller.Developed the drives and the diagnostics for the BCM5318 Ethernet switch.Developed the drives for the SPI interface to the BCM5318.Developed the IXP2400 driver to media interface PM5332, PM7390 (OC12

Accomplishments:Developed initialization and boot code for IXP1200 VxWorks OS based products, some ue ucode.Developed the drives and the diagnostics for the Fast Ethernet interface.Responsible for all aspects of the diagnostic code for the IO module of current product.Developed initialization and boot code and ported our diagnostic dispatcher onto 750fx.

Accomplishments:Member of Nortel's BFR design team.Responsible for Diagnostic development for the Gigabit Ethernet blade.Wrote drivers and high level diagnostics for the SEEQ Gigabit Ethernet ControllerDeveloped enhancements to Nortel proprietary RSP network processor code for the Gigabit Module.Worked with the ASIC design group on next generation.

Accomplishments:Developed Diagnostic for a 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch.Wrote high-level specification for diagnostic tests.Wrote boot code/diagnostics Motorola MC68360 based system cards in assembler and C languageWrote various drivers for Ethernet, Serial Communication Controller, etc.Worked with the ASIC design group during development of a Switch fabric.

Accomplishments:Lead diagnostic engineer responsible for the design of the test suite, formulate test plan, develop schedule of implementation and assign tasks to junior engineers, for a 12/14 port Motorola 68en302 based Fast Ethernet switch module.Designed and wrote embedded system initialization, boot diagnostics and configured rom monitor for a Motorola.

Accomplishments:Wrote diagnostics for a M68332 based Token Ring mutli-station access unit wiring concentrator. Programmed TI token ring chip set to transmit packet around ring.Responsibility for ongoing support and maintenance of the hub management-agent diagnostic code.Wrote code to increase coverage, and resolved code bugs.Supported design of DECHUB 900.

Accomplishments:Project Engineering Technician in the Midrange Power and Packaging Advanced Development group.Member of design team developing a 20kw UPS system, major focus was a 4kw inverter. Responsible for the design of the backplane interconnect module within this 20kw UPS system. Breadboarding, debugging and optimizing design, controlling.

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