Systems Engineering Manager
Systems Engineer, Battery Management Systems• Expert in Battery Management Systems for Li-ion, and lead-acid applications used in automotive, grid storage, NBPC, and small portable device markets• Business Development & Systems Engineering Manager for BMS IC in HEV/EV, NBPC• International key customer development & support at Decision-Maker and engineering levels for OEM & Tier-1’s in USA, EU, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India • Integrated Circuit (IC) design Systems Engineer – customer review, architecture, block partitioning, Multi-Chip Module (MCM) partitioning, SoC definition, process & package selection, ESD, communications arch. & protocol design, signal filtering, circuit design, specification development, reference designs, FMEDA, Functional Safety, Built-In Self-Test (BIST), production test planning, system testing & characterization, device-level failure analysis (FA), feature spin management• Support systems – Evaluation module design, create demo embedded firmware, GUI software design• Documentation development / technical writing – formal specifications for publication, application notes, training guides, EVM guides, training videos• Multi-discipline team leader – hardware, software (WinGUI), firmware, technicians• Analog & digital design – complex mixed signal systems & circuits• Working knowledge of EDLC capacitor systems, fuel cell management• Automotive best practices – design for ISO26262, EMI, BCI, AEC-Q100• Training – to FAE's, IC designers, distributors and customers• Accomplished public speaker, 12 conference presentations / papers since 2007, 2 short videos• Member: IEEE, SAE• Member IEEE Li-ion Battery Safety Committee, wrote BMS portion of IEEE Std. IEEE-1625-08• Member (former) ISO26262 Committee ISO/SAE TC22/SC3/WG16 USTAG Functional Safety • Nuts & bolts – PC & Mac, MS Office, Visio, Project, Altium, Mentor, TI-TINA (sim), TurboCAD, AutoCAD, various assemblers, C & C++ compilers, Photoshop, Lightroom