As a Digital Electronics Design Engineer, I followed trends in the Digital Electronics Design Engineering industry in the Greater Salt Lake City area, researching supply and demand. I attended Professional Networking meetings and discussion groups.

Specific Title: Digital Electrical Engineer Consultant.Electrical Engineering. Management of LLC. Obtained & performed contracts.Consulted with companies such as Parvus Corporation. Researched parts. Designed and documented electronic products and network cables. Researched components for ruggedized network switch product & its cables. Specified fiber optic cables for Ethernet network switch product.Thermal and Vibration & Shock tested rugged computer and reported results.Ran EMC emissions scans & designed EMI filter for rugged Ethernet network switch. Created schematics & PCB layouts for accelerometer, position sensor, & similar products.I also was a proofreader of novels.

Specific Title: Partner # 22.Volunteered to act as an unpaid manager; designated "Partner # 22".Submitted and/or considered brainstormed ideas.Paid CPA's for business tax returns & amendments.Sent letters to all partners about amended tax returns.Informally advised Partner # 5 and kept her financial records.Strategic consulting, including business plan development.

Specific Job Title: C-Roll Senior Engineering Specialist, Electrical Flight Control Systems.The aircraft programs on which I worked included the following contributions.Individually and as a part of the team, my contributions enabled the Vibration Control Actuation System (VCAS) program to create successful products. For example:I researched and developed the digital clock circuit design on the motherboard used in the VCAS for the Sikorsky Seahawk helicopter.I also designed a "rigid-flex" VCAS circuit board, which eliminated difficult manual assembly steps.I also worked on Boeing Aircraft flight control projects as a Verification and Validation Team Engineer and as a Design Engineer. For example:I created a schematic for a power supply board slated for use on the new Boeing 787-8 motor control system. I performed electronic validation reviews on the Boeing 787-8 motor control system. I authored derived-requirement justifications for a new digital platform to be used on the Boeing 747-8.

Specific Job Title: C-Roll Senior Engineering Specialist, Electrical Flight Control Systems.I developed digital circuits for the “Command” control board that positioned the secondary flight control surfaces on the $22 million Hawker 4000 (Horizon) business jet. I faced several challenges that helped grow my engineering skills. For example, at Moog, I needed to design a way our flight control system could communicate with the other flight computers on the jet. To solve this, I designed a communication bus-master device, which I embedded into a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This design controls data messages throughout the Hawker aircraft. I then modified the VHDL code used in this device to fix bugs and to add functionality. The result was an exceptionally robust and reliable product that can be easily adapted to the different needs of the flap, spoiler, and stabilizer surfaces. The end products qualified for the highest level of FAA system approval. Thus my work resulted in a reliable flight-worthy FPGA-based communication system that along with the rest of the fight command system helped the Hawker 4000 get FAA type certification.My years at Moog helped hone many of my skills and aptitudes that are transferable from aircraft component design to other industries. For example, after I designed the bus-master, I gave a presentation that taught the concepts of my complex communication device to other engineers. This enabled them to perform the appropriate tests on my bus-master design. I made sure the device was completely documented so that later revisions if any could be more easily made. I was the go-to-person when manufacturing engineers needed help with the production of the product.I also created programming methods and scripts that loaded Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) with the logic that controls the aircraft, substantially reducing errors and training requirements; these scripts increased technician efficiency and accuracy by 40%.

Specific Title: Independent Design Contractor.Designed, tested, and documented electronic products. Researched components for a compact tilt angle detector product and designed its schematic and printed wiring board. Designed, documented, and tested cellular phone cables for 3-Com cellular modems. Managed the technical team for a mechanical micro-machining system.

Specific Title: Electronics Design Engineer.Designed, tested, and debugged modem product hardware. Customized branded products to customer specifications. Designed modems for Apple and Palm. Reviewed & corrected user manuals & design documents. Coordinated the release of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) projects on schedule. Consistently applied unique problem-solving and research capabilities to solve complex technical problems. For example:· Proposed innovative modem design changes to protect device memory from PC host corruption.· Designed the cellular interface of cellular modem for a Motorola phone. The product became a best seller.· Jointly designed Cable Identification strategy. Patent jointly-held on device for cell phone cable recognition.

Specific Title: Computer Hardware Design Engineer.Designed computer add-in cards to provide ETHERNET controller ports for Apple Macintosh computers. · Designed and successfully debugged new ETHERNET controller cards for Macintosh II computers with "NuBus" expansion slots. Transferred into production three different working variations. · Created and tested cost-reduced three-in-one ETHERNET cards for Macintosh SE computers.

Specific Title: Digital Design Engineer.Designed video computer boards. Designed upgrade kits. Generated cable schematics & drawings. Designed software-protection hardware keys. · Designed a host interface in a Personal Computer add-in card. Programmed Actel Field Programmable Gate Array chips to implement this interface for a powerful new video graphics generator. · Developed an enhanced video image capture circuit board.

Specific Title: Digital Hardware Design Engineer.Transformed prototype circuit definitions into production worthy products. · Sped up design of Wicat's first Motorola MC68020 computer and debugged its digital boards. · Designed special backplanes for high speed signals traveling between the CPU and memory.

Specific Title: Component Design Engineer.Designed production-worthy micro-controller integrated-circuits.