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Principal Engineer (2013 – 2020)Consistently reliable Project Leader who led the hardware design and development of the VMS1100 advanced gateway product. Adept technical team leader who has led the project from design concept, prototype, production, release to manufacturing and finally continued as field support.Highly effective team communicator who worked closely with in-house and outside test teams during product verification and certifications (FCC). Interfaced directly with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, compliance, program management, and manufacturing. Detailed technical writer experienced with presenting design and phase reviews to the entire team.Broad design and test experience regarding internal buses such as PCIe, uart, I2C & SPI, as well as external interfaces such as USB, RS232, SATA, & Ethernet. Experience using LNAs, FEMs, and diplexers, for multi-antenna and multi-band capability for Bluetooth, RF4CE, and WiFi networks.Experience designing onboard dc-dc switcher subsystems to create the assortment of low voltage rails required in current digital designs. Proficiency in optimizing designs to meet evolving strict power management requirements. Scrutinized/approved alternate components when existing parts had supply issues or newer parts had cost advantages. Due to the responsiveness and agility of this effort, there were no manufacturing line downs.Staff Engineer (1994 – 2013)Responsible for Inband & OOB acquisition/performance optimizations of Annex-A/B for Cable/Terrestrial designs. Abundantly knowledgeable with legacy RF tuners and Full-Band capture design implementations.Copious hands on lab experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, logic analyzers, function generators, and pulse generators. Experienced in debugging and solving design problems in areas such as logic, signal conditioning, control loops, power, RF, acoustic, thermal, LED brightness/color, and noise.

Computer system integration and compatibility analysis for both portable and desktop computer lines.

SSI (a startup) developed a 386-based Fault Tolerant computer to be used as a LAN Server.

Worked on many computer hardware products using Intel microprocessor family.