Mike Vandenberg Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Technical support for SR&ED claimants. Technical project write-ups for CRA.

Mississauga

• Product development of rugged Android based Mobile Computers
• Overseeing multidisciplinary teams to ensure customer requirements and business goals are being met
• New product development encorporating Agile and Product Lifecycle Management processes
• Product requirements, risk assessment and test strategy management.
• Ensuring customer facing performance attributes are being addressed during product development
• Identification, tracking and mitigation of hardware and software non-conformance

Mississauga

• Design of 3-phase Absense of Voltage Tester (AVT) for panel safety
• Design of 3-phase industrial ground fault detection systems
• Design of 3-phase programmable voltage supplies and current drives
• Automated tester control software written in Python for National Instruments DLL
• Design to UL requirements: withstand voltages, transients,, creepage, clearance etc.

• An innovative Electronics Design Engineer with extensive experience working in development environments ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies focusing on new product design. Significant contributions.
• Electronics Design Engineer with solid footing in hardware and firmware.
• Embedded Systems Development expert with exceptional skills in instrumentation and control.
• Bare metal, FreeRTOS, embedded (C/C++) on multiple platforms: ARM, Microchip, Atmel, TI. Development systems: Keil-ARM, Microchip MPLABX, Atmel Studio, GCC.
• I2C, UART, SPI, USB, Ethernet, TCP/IP hardware interfacing and protocols. Schematic capture and PCB layout with Altium and Orcad. LTSpice simulation.
• GSM/LTE and WiFi communication module integration.

Toronto, ON

• Hardware and embedded firmware development for high volume (+1M/yr) production testers.
• Hardware and embedded firmware development for commercial dispenser equipment.
• PIC and Atmel 8-bit processors in products. PIC32MX processors in testers. FreeRTOS multitasking platform, C/C++. Microchip MPLAB/MPLABX IDE. Atmel Studio IDE.
• PIR, photodiode, DC fluid dispensing motor. LEDs, light pipes, LCD displays, beepers, PE cells, super-capacitor
• LTSpice simulation. RS232, RS485 H/W and F/W drivers. Low current measurement. Battery powered low energy design.
• Schematic capture and PCB design using Altium Designer

Toronto, Canada Area

• Development of Power Distribution Transformer meters for power utilities (patent).
• Embedded firmware development for residential power meters. Power line communications.
• Embedded firmware to allow these meters to measure, store and communicate grid node status over the cellular network. 32-bit ARM M$ (LPC4078), Keil uVision, FreeRTOS, C/C++. Rogowski coil current measurement..
• GSM/LTE modem integration. ADE7880 poly-phase revenue grade metering.
• Development and production calibration/commissioning applications in JAVA. Windows and Linux OS. C#, Visual Studio for back end DNP protocol decoding.
• Designed custom EBOM system in Java with OBDC to MSAccess database.

• Electronic design of intrusion security control panels for residential and commercial markets.
• Highly cost sensitive design.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for product volumes in excess of 300,000 units annually.
• DFM for off-line 50W switching power supply. Redesigned for global compliance.
• Sealed lead Acid (SLA) battery charging and telephony circuitry.
• Speakerphone accessory development (patent).

Mississauga

• HARDWARE ENGINEER
• Designed hardware for low powered, low cost courier terminal with integral barcode scanner and LF radio. Docking cradle for above with optional modem.
• Warehousing applications of RFID tag technologies (various patents).
• Embedded firmware development for TI MSP430 series processor using GCC ‘C’ compiler.
• Designed LF wireless hardware and courier applications in PalmOS for Handspring based courier terminal. Support software in C++ and JAVA.
• Custom VB/MSACCESS applications to support delivery system and box/customer maintenance.