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Durham, Nc, Us

Camarillo, Ca, Us

• Designed 6.78MHz (ISM band) wireless charging system for sports products capable of generating position information for data analytics. • Designed family of highly efficient 40W wireless charging systems.• Supported all prior Semtech wireless power transfer reference designs.• Provided wireless power design support for Semtech customers.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

• Designed an RF injection test fixture with delay-matched channels for MRI compatibility testing of neurostimulators.• Simplified software development with design of USB powered portable test equipment.• Solved ongoing spurious failures of products during qualification testing related to ground loops and legacy software bugs.• Provided consulting services to purchasing, quality, qualification and mechanical design groups.• Investigated field failures and generated corrective action reports.• Led the CAD transition to Altium including Vault creation and population of standardized component libraries.• Taught advanced LTSpice circuit simulation, Altium CAD, PCB layout and in-house rapid PCB prototyping to the EE group and CAD department.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

• Provided rapid and detailed technical support and design services to customers in the oil & gas, medical, military, commercial, data storage and aerospace markets throughout North Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. • Provided technical assistance to Field Sales Engineers during sales calls including superior component and design recommendations in the areas of power conversion, Power Over Ethernet, digital power management, data conversion, signal chain, circuit protection and timing.• Designed and customized demonstration boards to meet specific customer requirements.• Reviewed, revised and simulated complex customer designs and circuit board layouts which incorporated Linear Technology components. • Conducted LTSpice and Digital Power Management seminars at customer sites and industry exhibitions.• Provided new part recommendations and business cases to their respective design centers.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Provided design and consulting services to a variety of Tier 1 companies and ODMs.• Completed a variety of timely, low cost, custom designs of isolated off-line battery chargers, non-isolated converter modules, electronic fuse protection, Power over Ethernet and USB chargers.• Conducted customer specific qualification testing of newly designed and unreleased integrated dc/dc converters.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Completed design of a 12V, 2700W Blade Server Rectifier utilizing an interleaved, digitally controlled, two-phase PFC boost converter while achieving power density of 25W/in.3 and efficiencies of over 94%.• Provided manufacturing support to Flextronic’s manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China.

Us

• Designed and qualified its flagship product – a custom, 1U, 650W, off-line ac/dc rectifier which was immediately adopted by INTEL as a standard for all Blade servers.• Developed several higher power followup designs ranging from 750W to 2700W.• Provided technical oversight of an India based project team.• Managed a design team which consisted of three electrical engineers, one mechanical engineer and two draftsmen during a 2500W development project.• Assumed program management and design responsibility after the late delivery of a flawed 750W off-line rectifier and backplane from the India design center. Completed a successful redesign and layout within one week.• Co-developed an integrated magnetic structure for power factor correction which received a patent.

Galway, Ie

• Design team leader during numerous custom power products ranging from commercial PC power supplies and notebook computer adapters to custom, high-power ac/dc rectifiers, cellular base station and central office dc/dc converters with multiple outputs.• Responsible for conducting both internal and external design reviews and providing technical oversight for design teams within the Custom Power R&D Department.• Responsible for initial designs and material quotes for the High-Power Group in the Switching Power Supply (SPS) department. • Designed and delivered a custom, multiple output, off-line rectifier to Sun Microsystems in the shortest amount of time in business unit history and which met all requirements. This project’s success resulted in the lifting of their business hold on all other products supplied to Sun Microsystems and the successful negotiation of further business. • Developed a novel dc/dc switching topology which converted an existing ac/dc product’s mechanical assembly into one for use with central office power. This resulted in one patent.• Led the effort to adopt lower cost components from China in other departments.• Developed the first notebook adapters and PC power supplies in a newly formed business unit. • Developed the first, single stage, power-factor correcting ac/dc rectifier using the SEPIC topology at a 300W level.

M.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering