Founder and President of TinyCircuits, an open source electronics design and manufacturing company located in Akron, Ohio. Launched successful Kickstarter campaign for the TinyDuino in Sept 2012, raising over 1000% of our desired goal amount.

Senior Project Manager for a full service product development firm, specializing in electrical product design.Principal Software Engineer for MACTek Corp's industrial communication products using the HART protocol. Currently heavily involved in the development of a 4-20mA Loop powered WirelessHART Adapter, which serves as a bridge between wired-HART networks and a WirelessHART network. Served as MACTek's technical representative in the WirelessHART working group since 2005.

Senior Project Engineer for a full service product development firm, specializing in electrical product design.Significant Past Projects:Hardware and Firmware development for consumer based Air Treatment systems and Water Treatment systems, currently shipping in 100K+ qtys annually. 8-bit micro, RFID, real-time control.ATM Terminal software development. Main processor is a 32-bit softcore processor in an FPGA, and two secondary 8-bit processors (one for security and encryption, the second for mag card reading). Developed main user interface, LCD interfacing, printer and cash dispenser interfaces. Helped to develop all security mechanisms, 3DES encryption algorithms, conformance to PCI standards, and supported third part security testing and compliance effrot. Mixed C++ / C development. Distributed Temperature control system - consisted of a main terminal with QVGA display and user input and connected to up to 40 remote temperature control modules over a custom Modbus link. Developed firmware for both the main control terminal, and the temperature control modules. Temperature control consisted of a PID control loop & PID autotuning algorithm.

Hardware Design Engineer for a leading hardware / software firm, specializing in Microsoft Windows CE, PocketPC and embedded Linux designs using ARM processors. Designs completed on a very aggressive schedule with great success. Lead hardware design engineer on multiple cutting edge consumer products including design work on Microsoft PocketPC 2002/2003 PDAs, cellphones, web tablets, and multiple ARM processor development platforms. Most designs include PCMCIA / Compact Flash slots, USB 1.1 (host or client), SD/MMC slots, STN or TFT LCD displays, 802.11, Bluetooth, and very aggressive battery requirements (Lithium-Ion / NiCd). Sophisticated PCB designs using advanced techniques such as fine pitched BGAs (0.5 mm ball pitch), blind and buried vias, logic voltages down to 0.8 Volts, processor speeds up to 400 MHz, and bus speeds up to 133 MHz. Extensive experience with designs utilizing Intel StrongARM, Intel XScale, ARM9 and ARM7 processors. Most designs also utilize FPGAs, CPLDs, and microcontrollers (PIC, 8051). Participated in several Windows CE platform porting efforts, using Microsoft Platform Builder.

Served as a design engineer in support of U.S. intelligence operations abroad. Helped design and develop several projects using audio, video, specialized antenna design, RF design, low power circuit design, and embedded microcontrollers. Participated in several technical training courses involving practical antenna design and printed circuit board design and assembly.Security Clearance: Top Secret / SCI

Graduate internship. Helped develop a digital I/O ASIC for use in the Allen-Bradley family of I/O devices. This ASIC incorporated an 8051 core along with customized modules written in VHDL to interface with specialized Allen-Bradley backplanes and devices. The ASIC also included JTAG boundary scan and multiple discrete I/O ports, as well as incorporating standard I/O interfaces such as I2C, SPI, and RS-232. Served as the primary firmware engineer on the digital I/O ASIC project, developing bootloader ROM code in C and 8051 assembly language. Developed a library of I/O functions to provide a high-level software interface to the I/O components of the ASIC.Developed a Windows 9x and NT application using Visual C++ 6.0 to remotely access and update firmware of I/O products over RS-232, ControlNet, DeviceNet and Ethernet. This application also incorporated a feature to issue JTAG commands when connected via RS-232 and utilized RSA encryption (using Microsoft’s Crypto API) to securely store propriety firmware code.

Part-Time Network Engineer. Helped support the design and configuration of the Akron Public Schools computer networks across the entire district.Assisted in the migration of the system from an IBM 360 mainframe to a HP-UX Unix platform.Installation and support for the network infrastructure for 60+ schools and adminstrative buildings.

Cooperation Education assignment. Worked with Electrical, Computer and Mechanical Engineers. Learned advanced soldering techniques, board level debugging skills, and hardware/software design skills. Worked with x86 processors, National Semiconductor COP8 microcontrollers, and Motorola HC microcontrollers.