Lance Eftink Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

FPGA DesignPython ScriptingSystem Verilog

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

FPGA DesignPython ScriptingSystem Verilog

Olathe, Ks, Us

Fairfax, Va, Us

* Lead small teams of 6-10 Engineers for 6 to 12 months at a time* Lead a large team of 80+ Engineers for 1.5+ years* Planned and created schedules on projects* Developed metrics for tracking progress* Developed Microsoft Office plug-in’s in C# to automate some of the management tasks* Interfaced with Upper-management and the customer on a regular basis.* Coordinated with System Test, Systems, FPGA, and Hardware teams to ensure smooth transition of work between the teams.* Provided Technical Leadership and made decisions to keep the Software team moving forward

Fairfax, Va, Us

* Used Matlab/Simulink and C++ to create DSP models for System Analysis* Extracted/De-composed System level requirements from military standards documents* Created Design Documentation* Captured/Analyzed data from systems for troubleshooting* Helped in defining System Requirements for a next generation modem to be used in the Digital Modular Radio (DMR).* Domain Expert in UHF Satellite Communications* Participated in Military Standards working groups that defined the Integrated Waveform for UHF SATCOM

Fairfax, Va, Us

* Code in VHDL* Simulate in ModelSim* Test/Debug on hardware* Converted Schematic Capture design to VHDL to allow for better portability* Designed/Developed a demo application showing the Xilinx Partial Reconfiguration of an FPGA controlled through a PCIe interface

Fairfax, Va, Us

* De-composed System Requirements into software requirements* Created/Maintained Detailed Design Documents* Developed distributed processing applications using CORBA spanning over 6+ processors* Developed software interfaces to FPGA’s* Developed digital signal processing blocks on DSPs* Optimized software in Assembly Language* Developed Control Software to manage the digital signal processing and to interface with the Human Machine Interface (HMI)* Developed remote control interface through UDP/IP to allow software developed by the Government to control the waveform* Modified an existing UMTS stack to support a new form of a RAKE Receiver* Developed low level software drivers for VxWorks and Integrity RTOS’s* Unit tested software and integrated with hardware* Debugged issues in the lab and in the field (Hardware, Software, RF, etc.)* One of the key engineers responsible for getting the UHF SATCOM waveform through government certification at JITC.* Assigned to tasks that were behind schedule to get them back on track* Found, Analyzed, and Resolved performance bottlenecks

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., Computer Engineering