Robert A. Email & Phone Number

Carrollton, TX, US

• Developed high performance, code-size optimized, firmware, written in C, for TI's TPS659XX family of USB Type-C Power Delivery embedded controllers, used by the top OEMs and ODMs in the consumer electronics space
• Built and maintained the family of Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools, in Python and Angular / TypeScript, used by customers for configuring the TPS659XX firmware to work for their custom application
• Architected and crafted the full-stack (Python, Git, Jenkins, HSM… Show more
• Architected and crafted the full-stack (Python, Git, Jenkins, HSM, Authentication) DevOps CI/CD setup used to guarantee continuously deployable, tested, high quality firmware releases to customers
• Created the industry standard VESA DisplayPort Alternate Mode VIF Generator, written in Python, for use with test equipment correlation, proper test coverage for certification, and at VESA Plugtest events Show less

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Managed a diverse team of developers in the US and Philippines to build a new state of the art, real time data system, for controlling silicon manufacturing and test data at a global scale, across TI's FAB and A/T.
• Led the team in the full-stack development of this system: Java / Oracle DB (backend), Proprietary Closed-Source Distributed File System, IoT / MQTT (field sensors for data generation), and Electron (JavaScript) and.
• Work presented… Show more
• Work presented at Semicon West Test Vision Symposium 2019 Show less

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Designed, architected, and lead development on the next-generation test framework (C++), emphasizing higher performance, higher precision, and the ability to test and operate with higher power analog products.
• Led a team of top technical talent worldwide (Silicon Valley, Tucson, Freising (Germany), Shanghai (China), and Dallas) in the development and execution of the work
• Invented and patented a novel Integrated Circuit Spike Check Apparatus and Method, as US Patent #11,639,960

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Invented and established a fully automated process of creating test solutions for the ETS-88 (Teradyne ATE), for both new products and legacy conversions
• Created a novel, 'high-level', test program development framework in C++, enabling test engineers at TI to achieve 'near-zero' test cost, and enabling abstract test program development, at a hardware agnostic level
• Built a legacy test program transpiler, in Perl, that automatically read in legacy test programs, written in a variety… Show more
• Built a legacy test program transpiler, in Perl, that automatically read in legacy test programs, written in a variety of low level languages (Assembly, Vendor-Created Languages), parsed their test content to a.
• Patented the full process and technology stack as US Patent #10,481,206 Show less

Dallas, Texas, United States

Developed complete test solutions to migrate several families of TI's Standard Linear and Logic (SLL) devices from vintage, legacy test equipment, to modern multi-site enabled Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering