FPGA DesignPython ScriptingSystem Verilog

FPGA DesignPython ScriptingSystem Verilog

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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