Worldwide Contract engineering and support specializing in product testing, firmware, using complete Mentor CAD toolset, (soon Altium tools) development tools for simulation, PCB design, FPGA, Verilog logic synthesis, embedded programming, and verification. Involved in product defect testing, product feasibility analysis, and patent infringement investigations (mostly advising hedge funds.) Currently provide product support including field and phone field support for specialized custom… Show more Worldwide Contract engineering and support specializing in product testing, firmware, using complete Mentor CAD toolset, (soon Altium tools) development tools for simulation, PCB design, FPGA, Verilog logic synthesis, embedded programming, and verification. Involved in product defect testing, product feasibility analysis, and patent infringement investigations (mostly advising hedge funds.) Currently provide product support including field and phone field support for specialized custom equipment for industrial control and training systems. I develop testing systems for product functional verification on site in china with remote operational control and reporting from anywhere/US thereby maintaining product quality of offshore manufacturing operations.If your your product is perfect, you're golden. If not, I can break it and help you fix it. Show less

Developed Hedge fund tools in risk management and quantitative trading models using .net and NinjaTrader: Currently working on skewed fat tail detector. New trading models developed in 2010 to adjust for decreasing volatility environment. Global automated trading platforms are fading market trends reducing index/ETF volatility. Fat tail distributions can now be seen emerging in specific equities as a ratio to weighted sector benchmark index.Finished new trading model for… Show more Developed Hedge fund tools in risk management and quantitative trading models using .net and NinjaTrader: Currently working on skewed fat tail detector. New trading models developed in 2010 to adjust for decreasing volatility environment. Global automated trading platforms are fading market trends reducing index/ETF volatility. Fat tail distributions can now be seen emerging in specific equities as a ratio to weighted sector benchmark index.Finished new trading model for skewed fat tail distribution detection to feed an adapted CAPM risk management tool based upon barrier option modeling. Show less

Simtek buyout meant a cooperative transition to do essentialy the same work as Simtek below, customer support, sales and technical collateral, development kit creation, and onsite visits. Differences included training at the Cypress "university", overseeing the transfer of sales, marketing, part numbers, errata, PCNs, and technical documentation to Cypress format and standards. Also, mentoring and training of the India Applications group in the legacy 0.25um and newer .013um products… Show more Simtek buyout meant a cooperative transition to do essentialy the same work as Simtek below, customer support, sales and technical collateral, development kit creation, and onsite visits. Differences included training at the Cypress "university", overseeing the transfer of sales, marketing, part numbers, errata, PCNs, and technical documentation to Cypress format and standards. Also, mentoring and training of the India Applications group in the legacy 0.25um and newer .013um products. Development of multiple MPU implementation of demonsration kits was ongoing. Show less

At a lean company, with a narrow product line, I had to establish self-sufficency learning SONOS memory technology at the chip and systems levels to cover all applications duties. I formed a knowledge base at chip, schematic, system, & lab level. Support and onsite troubleshooting resulted in designing boards and firmware to recreate, test, & correct customer issues. System interactions during brownout, power ramps rate are not simple to reconstuct but also essential to provide useable data… Show more At a lean company, with a narrow product line, I had to establish self-sufficency learning SONOS memory technology at the chip and systems levels to cover all applications duties. I formed a knowledge base at chip, schematic, system, & lab level. Support and onsite troubleshooting resulted in designing boards and firmware to recreate, test, & correct customer issues. System interactions during brownout, power ramps rate are not simple to reconstuct but also essential to provide useable data back to engineering, sales, marketing, quality departments, and customers. Salesforce.com CRM technical support brought web based operational transparency for all customer contact, field calls, and hands-on design reviews, etc. As go-to guy for marketing and sales with 10 city Asia & US seminar tours, sales training, articles, design-in guidelines, errata, application notes, website support, creative content creation, web presentations, this drove design wins. Worked systematically with customer, engineering and QA to root cause and correction. Added new archetecture for 0.13um development adding an MPU and a doubling of voltage on the capacitor that powers the STORE cycle. I designed (in verilog) an MPU archetecture for the 0.13um products providing cost estimates/chip area (0.38mm2). An MPU reducing TTM was critical. nvCell shrink suggested a search for a new programing sequence as huge test times are required to qualify retention/endurance. With a large sample parallel search was possible. Iterative approach could have killed the product. Worked on new product launch, datasheets, design conversions, & built custom HW/SW for RTC products Notable accomplishments: Saved Dell $10 Mil in two hours of product troubleshooting, fixed issue in F-16 fighter in 2 days, a $50 million dollar potential impact. Marketing articles and colaterial estimated by director to be worth over $80K in 2007-08 in "free advertising" and untold number of design wins created. (See below for links.) Show less

As subcontractor to DC Tung Inc, David and I partnered on engineering projects focusing on 1st pass success mostly providing development from schematic to final prototype using a series of PCB CAD tools, PCAD, ORCAD, PADS, VeriBest99, Specctra router, and Mentor Expedition PCB (push and shove autointeractive router). In early days, SW bugs required extensive programming skill to parse and correct CAD databases and write custom tools to compensate. Only then, was first pass success made… Show more As subcontractor to DC Tung Inc, David and I partnered on engineering projects focusing on 1st pass success mostly providing development from schematic to final prototype using a series of PCB CAD tools, PCAD, ORCAD, PADS, VeriBest99, Specctra router, and Mentor Expedition PCB (push and shove autointeractive router). In early days, SW bugs required extensive programming skill to parse and correct CAD databases and write custom tools to compensate. Only then, was first pass success made possible. Our niche was in our layout ability as experienced hardware design engineers driven to 100% mechanical and electrical integrity & connectivity with desins having high-speed signal integrity, FCC cerifications, ESD protection, mechanical drawing (full service), and low level analog performance. Many customers only knew our layouts worked, and never understood, nor cared, what went on behind the scene. Yet, we competed with the same delivery times as lower priced technicians. We also did fast turn small military prototype work from schematic, BOM, Layout, procurement, layout, fab, test, and assemblly in <3days with round-the-clock service. Full concept to production of turnkey new product developments, and emergency consulting for at-risk (or failing) development projects, provided more challenges. One Key accomplishment was Forte Neworks first product development whereby PCBsolutions provided design services from prototype to initial production of their groundbreaking network tester product. The startup, Forte Neworks Inc, in less than 2 years, was later sold to Fluke and created 6 very happy and hardworking multi-millionaires in the process. Show less

Built 386 motherboard, Chips and Tech chipset, Built 8 channel serial IO dual ported communications card.

Startup produced CAD database translation software in C converting from from OrCAD to ACCEL and a CAD tool to extract a netlist from a SMARTWORKS PCB database file and compare it to any 3rd party netlist. I did everything with the help of a few contractors, SW dev., test, manual, articles, marketing, sales, support, etc. I underestimated the TAM and many of the SMARTWORK sites were not active as PCB CAD was in an infant stage. My business knowledge and breadth increased substantially… Show more Startup produced CAD database translation software in C converting from from OrCAD to ACCEL and a CAD tool to extract a netlist from a SMARTWORKS PCB database file and compare it to any 3rd party netlist. I did everything with the help of a few contractors, SW dev., test, manual, articles, marketing, sales, support, etc. I underestimated the TAM and many of the SMARTWORK sites were not active as PCB CAD was in an infant stage. My business knowledge and breadth increased substantially. PCBconvert sold to ACCEL technologies. PCBtest product went EOL. Show less

Designed to test functional customer delivery: 10mips, 2D, 3x3 pixel video convolver (AI image filter); Dual ported video frame store. Used over 30 PAL state machine, 8 hardware multipliers, ECL, Valid Logic CAD, UNIX workstation. High speed designs with tight timing in those days.

Ground up, new product development (3yrs), Digital System Team Leader of 8 person team, System level HW/SW test integrator of SDR 1500 Diagnostic Ultrasound machine. Designer of 2/7 boards, dual port input buffer, frequency locked VCO digitizing & resampling input buffer (IOB) and the resampling output buffer with video DAC (VOB). I went from start to final production and tradeshow launch in Bordeaux, France. Fantastic opportunity! I saw my first born in utero with this machine. Design… Show more Ground up, new product development (3yrs), Digital System Team Leader of 8 person team, System level HW/SW test integrator of SDR 1500 Diagnostic Ultrasound machine. Designer of 2/7 boards, dual port input buffer, frequency locked VCO digitizing & resampling input buffer (IOB) and the resampling output buffer with video DAC (VOB). I went from start to final production and tradeshow launch in Bordeaux, France. Fantastic opportunity! I saw my first born in utero with this machine. Design Architecture and concept came from Europe, North American Phillips. Show less

Built custom memory tester for BIAX core memory, 6502 MPU, test hardware, software, manual, code documentation, and technical sale to British Military. Next I did product improvement, component qualifications and analog shot noise reduction for digital panel meter, DT's main product. Very small company was able to get lots of responsibility with flexible hours to complete my BSEE. I learned good deal of analog, digital, programming, systems, and technical sales here.

Troubleshot and repaired a radar comunications system to send frame pulse position control signals to drone (small planes) that fly banners as targets. Drones were being lost due to lost comunications and as a part of failsafe would be blown up midair to prevent ground accidents. 8051 MPU with faulty async, edge glitch style clocked FF's, metastability, and other adhoc, kludged,and a non-synchrounus nightmarish design made this project quite challenging and rewarding to an aspiring engineer… Show more Troubleshot and repaired a radar comunications system to send frame pulse position control signals to drone (small planes) that fly banners as targets. Drones were being lost due to lost comunications and as a part of failsafe would be blown up midair to prevent ground accidents. 8051 MPU with faulty async, edge glitch style clocked FF's, metastability, and other adhoc, kludged,and a non-synchrounus nightmarish design made this project quite challenging and rewarding to an aspiring engineer. The intel emulator took 90 minutes to load a program and taught me the importance of interation turn time. Bad tools can toruture you. This was my passion and got more than min. wage out of it. Diplomacy was key as the "design engineer" (math degree) had no training in digital logic and state machines. After that, I coded in fortran flight simulations for wargames. Show less