Michael R. Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Kent, WA, US

• Designed precision analog circuits for instrumentation suite for BE-3U engine controller.
• Defined, reviewed, updated, negotiated requirements for block upgrade of the controller with outside groups, chief engineers, and functional managers.
• Designed novel high accuracy analog circuits for a variety of instrumentation used to measure pressure, temperature, positions, shaft speed, and discretes for harsh environments including radiation, EMI (+lightning.
• Conducted and anchored worst case circuit analysis using a variety of techniques where applicable to predict performance of instrumentation interfaces.
• Designed custom automated test equipment hardware (including custom analog simulator cards) and software for functional testing during risk reduction test campaigns.
• Ran several risk reduction EMI test campaigns, including debugging and designing in fixes for susceptibility and emissions issues.

Kent, WA, US

• Rotated between business units every four months in the Electronics and Electrical Systems track
• Hardware design including trade study, schematic design, layout, unit testing, and integration testing for several radiation & fault tolerant avionics boxes.
• Debugged complex PCBAs and systems with processors, FPGAs, sensor interfaces and actuators.
• EMC testing per MIL-STD-461 and DO-160 for unit qualification including data review and analysis into mitigations.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• Michigan Electric Racing is a student design team that competes in the annual Formula SAE Electric competitions. Our team designs, builds, and tests a half-scale formula-style race car to compete in areas of endurance.
• Designed schematics and pcbs for isolated gate driver circuitry, flyback converters, isolated analog sensing, rotary position sensing, etc.
• Modeled IPM machines, salient current regulators, power electronic losses, and discrete controls in Simulink
• Reduced inverter cost from $7000 to $2000 while maintaining system requirements
• Wrote embedded software for real time control using PowerPC (dual core e200z4) and ARM Cortex-M4 processorsAdditional work:
• Designed current regulator for constant current and pulse testing of lithium-ion cells

• Developed Simulink Stateflow application for ASIL-D embedded systems with PowerPC processors to expand a DC H-Bridge product's functionality to support generic pulse width modulation.
• Conducted worst case analysis on and verified via test the H-Bridge’s efficiency, thermal resistance, and gate driver dead time requirements across rated temperature range.
• Designed daughter card PCB layout for high-speed memory interfaces for electronic control units

Cincinnati, OH, US

• Member of Etegent's Mechanical Systems group, working on modeling for controls systems, FPGA based data acquisition units, and sensor development.
• Tuned BLDC inverter current regulator for high acceleration and precision motion control projects.
• Created a two-port models for inverters used in high bandwidth motion control projects
• Created a proprietary binary file structure for lab acquisition systems to improve metadata content

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Michigan Hybrid Racing is a design team that competes in the annual Formula Hybrid SAE competition. Our team designs, builds, and races a half scale, parallel hybrid formula racing car to compete in areas of endurance.
• Designed, constructed, and tested HV PCB's in Altium and EagleCAD
• Conducted trade studies for custom motor controller development.
• Manufactured 120V, 36S1P battery pack along with thermistor and cell tap wiring harness.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Education record