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San Jose, California, United States

SurfaceInk provides full-system product design and development services to Fortune 500 companies and startups in the Consumer Electronics market segment; from initial product strategy, design, and prototyping to detailed hardware, software and audio engineering, and production ramp.

Sunnyvale, CA

Developing the Orah 4i, the first all-in-one VR camera designed to simplify the real-time production of full spherical 360 video.

Mountain View, CA

Mountain View, CA

Responsible for the design and resource management of a biometric enabled display Smartcard. Primary objective was to design a low cost ISO form-factor card integrating secure authentication using fingerprints for payment, identification and physical/logical access markets.Successfully redesigned existing ARM7 platform to use new fingerprint sensors and.

Responsible for the redesign of previous generation of package tracking device to improve design performance and component costs while minimizing software, product and manufacturing changes and complexity. Redesigned existing ARM Cortex-M3 platform to include more integrated sub-systems; such as Power Management IC, environmental sensors, WiFi/Bluetooth.

Responsible for the design and development of a next generation hardware platform for use in a gunshot detection sensor capable of detecting impulsive sounds and providing real time audio analysis. Led design of an ARM Cortex-A8 platform for processing over 1000 512-point FFTs/s, leading to an increase of over 50% from previous platform. Architect complete.

Responsible for the development and system integration of a low cost, highly functional consumer smart phone. Provided detailed design of digital portions of the system and assisted with the integration of various functional blocks into the overall system. Led and assisted team with analysis and tradeoffs of various design aspects; including.

Responsible for the research, design and development of high volume, low cost high-tech infant and toddler toys. Successfully transitioned over 20 products to Far East contract manufacturing. Represented electrical engineering throughout the entire product life cycle process. Drafted numerous design and CAD documents both personally and in collaboration.

Assisted in the design and development of a Bluetooth Access Point for the Enterprise market. Responsible for the integration of the digital base band portions of the design as well as the building and testing of prototypes. Worked with on-shore contract manufacturing to transition product into manufacturing including; test development, purchasing/vendor.

Began by working with the senior engineering teams to evaluate, build, test and document new digital and RF designs. Transitioned quickly into the digital design lead for a LAN-to-Endpoint transceiver conversion project. Assisted in the transfer of new design to manufacturing using an extensive PLC framework and highly integrated ERP/MRP system.