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Austin, Tx

Senior Electrical Engineer Bose Automotive - designed audio hardware for use in automotive sound applications.

Austin, Texas

Precision Workstation Architecture - Advanced development in support of Dell's Precision Workstation product line. Included development of docking stations and advanced technology for use in Precision Workstation laptops and desktop PC's.

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for customer support and generation of marketing collateral materials for Inview Technology Compressive Sensing SWIR camera product line.• Authored, Marketing Requirements Documents, Data Sheets, User Manuals, Quick Start Guides and Application Notes. • Performed competitive analysis and generated detailed feature comparison charts.• Performed technical research and provided guidance to engineering teams on implementing specific product features and functions.• Performed hardware and software product testing and characterization, and provided feedback to design teams.• Assisted customers with issues and answering technical support questions.

Austin Texas

Systems Engineer/System Architect for consumer audio products.• Responsible for the definition and architecture of several low power audio codec’s for the consumer audio market including PC’s, tablets, and handsets.• Collaborate with customers, Marketing, and Design Engineering teams to define system and performance requirements, feature set, and architecture definition for complex IC designs involving digital audio ADC/DAC’s and audio Digital Signal Processing (DSP).• Defined multiple audio products taking into consideration customers' requirements, process technologies, packaging options, design/system constraints, application use cases, and trades-offs • Communicated ideas and specifications to technical audiences (internal and external customers).• Performed technical research and provided guidance to design engineering teams on implementing specific product features and functions.• Authored, reviewed, and updated design specifications, marketing requirements documents and data sheets. • Participated in architecture reviews, IC-level design reviews, and board-level design reviews with design engineering, applications, validation, and product test engineers.• Performed thorough competitive analysis and authored detailed feature comparison charts.

Austin Texas

Systems Engineer/Applications Engineer supporting Class D amplifier products.

Austin Texas

Primary technical support specialist for Freescale's automotive customers using Freescale's i.MX514 and i.MX516 ARM Cortex A8 based Multimedia Application Processors ( i.MX) for automotive vehicle infotainment systems. Designed i.MX51x based custom vehicle infotainment system hardware for Tier 1 automotive customers. Support customer designs and troubleshooting. Review customer schematics and PCB layouts. Generate product data sheets and application notes. Provide input to design team on future ARM Applicaton Processor product definition and feature set.Sr. Applications Engineer supporting of Freescale's Class-D Audio solution. Designed a 6-Channel (120W 8 ohm, 200W 4 ohm) audio amplifier reference design using the Freescale DSP56374/371 Dolby Digital/DTS audio DSP and Freescale's FSA95601 Class-D PWM modulator with closed-loop feedback, and discrete power stages. Design of a 250W boost converter (+12V to +48V) for automotive Class-D audio amplifier. Design and PCB layout guidance for low EMI Class-D audio designs. Power amplifer testing and measurements using Audio Precision audio test equipment. Orcad Schematic generation. Created application notes, User Guides, and data sheets.

Austin, Texas

Responsible for the support of various Class-D digital audio power amplifier modules and Class-D Amplifier Modulator integrated circuits that are OEM’d into the consumer and professional audio markets. Tasks inlcude designing customer evaluation boards and reference designs, retrofitting existing customer designs, troubleshooting customer designs, data sheet and application note creation, customer schematic and PCB layout reviews, audio amplifier performance measuring and analysis, performed loudspeaker measurements and generated custom loudspeaker equalization and frequency response corrections for customer designs. Power amplifier testing and measurements using Audio Precision audio test equipment. Linear power supply design for powered class-D subwoofer. Designed various DC-DC converters for automotive class-d amplifers.Developed reference designs for powered loudspeakers and subwoofers.

Austin Texas

Cicada Semiconductor - Now Vitesse - Manager of Applications group supporting Gigibit Ethernet PHY's. Managed the design of evaluation boards, engineering bring-up/silicon validation boards, reviews of customer design, data sheet and application note creation, and provided input to new designs.

Austin Texas

Director Systems Engineering, Embedded Processor Division - Oct 1997 - Oct 2001Responsible for creating design specifications, defining system architecture, and managing the development of hardware emulation platforms and functional verification/validation of ARM9 based System On a Chip (SOC) integrated circuits for use in embedded applications.Director Mixed-Signal Design - Hardware Systems Manager- Audio System Architect - July 1992-Oct 1997Managed teams developing integrated circuits for the PC-Audio industry including defining system architecture, design of emulation platforms, and driving the validation process to production release.• Successfully redefined architecture and cost target for the CS4235/CS4239 audio controller resulting in significant sales to the company.• Lead architect and project manager for the CS4232/CS4236B/37B/38B series of ISA bus audio controllers. This resulted in shipping over 20 million units worldwide.• Took the initiative to create design specifications when none existed previously.• Defined I.C. architecture and managed overall product development• Worked with cross functional teams, marketing, design, applications, software, and test to define product feature set and manage product development in a timely and thorough manner.• Pioneered the use of FPGA based hardware emulation platforms within the company to improve time to market and reduce the number of revisions to obtain production level silicon.• Designed I.C. Bring-up and Validation hardware, and customer evaluation boards • Created Verilog simulations and test benches to verify designs.• Participated in PCMCIA organization ZV-port committee to define the audio interface standard. Through my efforts on this committee the Cirrus audio DAC became the standard audio device for this standard which translated into sales of millions of units for the company.

Various Locations

Hardware design engineer responsible for the definition, design, and development of varioustypes of board level hardware for use in video acquisition, video display, image processing andmachine vision applications.• Designed various video capture/video-in-a-window/video overlay boards that were sold incomputer retail stores for the IBM-PC.• Developed VGA graphics daughter card for use with video capture boards• Designed TV-Tuner and Video Encoder plug in cards for IBM-PC.• Designed PC-Vision frame grabber and FG-100 programmable real-time video imageprocessing boards for IBM-PC's.• Designed video acquisition and display hardware for VME Bus, Q-Bus, and ISA bussystems.• Developed assembly code based test and diagnostic software.• Designed high-resolution (1280x1024) graphic display hardware for use in SunMicrosystems workstations.• Worked closely with outside vendors on PCB layout, supporting manufacturing and test,designing for high volume manufacturing, and FCC class B certification.• Authored theory of operation guides and other types of product supporting documentation.