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Westminster, Colorado

Westminster, Colorado

Boulder, Co

Liaison between software teams, SoC hardware design teams, and customers for MDM9x15, 9x25, 9x35, 9x45, and 9x55. Responsibilities included:- Evaluating new hardware features for software impact- Driving new hardware designs to meet customer goals (MDM9x45 and MDM9x55)- Presenting new chip architecture reviews to all software teams- Reviewing and approving chip High Level Designs- Presenting new hardware features to customersSoC software architect for intra-chip… Show more Liaison between software teams, SoC hardware design teams, and customers for MDM9x15, 9x25, 9x35, 9x45, and 9x55. Responsibilities included:- Evaluating new hardware features for software impact- Driving new hardware designs to meet customer goals (MDM9x45 and MDM9x55)- Presenting new chip architecture reviews to all software teams- Reviewing and approving chip High Level Designs- Presenting new hardware features to customersSoC software architect for intra-chip interconnects and buses.- Producing stable, backwards compatible interfaces through focus on roadmap development, protocol standardization and deprecation.- Meeting market demands by developing new low-power, low-footprint and low-level hardware.- Achieving Qualcomm’s best interest through carefully managing complex inter-team interactions between buses software team, security team, hardware architecture, other software architects, end user software teams and external major customer.Worked with a team to standardize the hardware-software interface documentation and development across all common infrastructure hardware areas.- Developed and implemented standardized design document formats- Developed review process to approve new designs and updated designs- Goal was to allow decoupling of software driver from the configuration data from the hardware design Show less

Boulder, Co

Designed and implemented software driver to manage on chip interconnect hardware arbitration to maintain required performance while minimizing power impact- Lead effort to redesign the hardware to decouple the performance requests from the current hardware state improving response time and decreasing power while increasing performance.- Granted several patents on arbitration designs- Worked with hardware team to standardize the hardware-software interface across chip families-… Show more Designed and implemented software driver to manage on chip interconnect hardware arbitration to maintain required performance while minimizing power impact- Lead effort to redesign the hardware to decouple the performance requests from the current hardware state improving response time and decreasing power while increasing performance.- Granted several patents on arbitration designs- Worked with hardware team to standardize the hardware-software interface across chip families- Architected software redesign to use standardized interface, decoupling software driver from the hardware implementation - Reduced software development time on subsequent chips from 2.5 months to 3 weeks including testing - Built in automated test suite that runs off target prior to hardware availability and on target Show less

Boulder, Co

Various projects- Globalstar - Modem test code - Modem driver software - 3 patents awarded- Systems Engineer - Wrote section for WCDMA specification to add Markov test call support to WCDMA- 1x Modem Software - Designed and implemented driver to support CDMA paging timeline and GPS searcher interoperability- Boot SW - Implemented primary boot loader for MDM8200 and MDM8900 - Designed and implemented code to boot from SPI devices

Master’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

MSEE Studying Digital Communications Theory and Control Systems Theory

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering