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

Systems Engineering and Business Development for Fabless semiconductor startup developing mixed signal ASIC's for lithium-ion battery management applications. Market research, followed by customer requirements development, leading to product specifications. Created IC, embedded firmware, and windows application specifications, circuit and embedded firmware examples, tests, qualification, etc. Worked with key domestic and international customers to implement battery management designs in notebook PC and power tools markets. Extensive experience with customers in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, EU, and USA. PowerPrecise was enthusiastically acquired by Texas Instruments in October, 2007.

Principal, Consulting Engineer, Founder/Owner at small 4 engineer company specializing in embedded systems based product development. Hardware designer, embedded firmware and software developer. Projects: Development of handheld data terminals, bar-code scanners, handwriting recognition devices and applications, small digitizers for handwritten input, handheld computers, "smart" sports/training equipment, colorimeters, power quality monitoring, refinery operations automation, shipboard command & control (US Navy), expert witness in embedded systems and handwriting recognition actions.

Engineering Director for small multi-disciplinary team (hardware engineering, industrial design, firmware, manufacturing and test) developing Notebook PC, Laptop, Tablet, and PDA. In-house development of transparent digitizer-over-screen technology. Management of outside vendors for industrial design, plastic molding, glass coating, specialized diode fabrication, PCB fab, EMI shielding.Handwriting recognition applications development.

Development of Data-Over-Voice (DSL) modem technology including modem front end, analog filters, dynamic equalization, data & clock recovery, (direct) spread-spectrum modulator/demod and error correction. Firmware to implement LAPB/LAPD protocols in HDLC. System testing in Roswell, GA.

Team management, ATE & Functional Test, Custom test systems, robotics, manufacturing systems, design-for-test, computer network installation