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Hardware Manager• Led a team of hardware personnel to develop customer-premise PBX and telephone equipment for small to mid-sized businesses.• Worked with factory personnel in Malaysia on hardware, component and other technical issues.• Managed UL/ETL and FCC certification of all products, and UL Report and Factory compliance.• Supervised EOL component replacement and PCBA cost analysis.• Resolved a multitude of extended duration issues when moving factory from Malaysia to… Show more Hardware Manager• Led a team of hardware personnel to develop customer-premise PBX and telephone equipment for small to mid-sized businesses.• Worked with factory personnel in Malaysia on hardware, component and other technical issues.• Managed UL/ETL and FCC certification of all products, and UL Report and Factory compliance.• Supervised EOL component replacement and PCBA cost analysis.• Resolved a multitude of extended duration issues when moving factory from Malaysia to USA.Principal Hardware Engineer• Designed digital phones using a proprietary communication system; 10/100 and Gigabit IP phones; and PBX systems of varying sizes containing multiple FXO, FXS, T1/PRI and digital modules.• Designed peripherals using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, and touch.• Processed analog signals and digital I/O signals (TMS320C6421, MCF54452 and i.MX6D/DDR3L).• Handled schematic capture using Cadence OrCAD.• Programmed microcontrollers using C and C++ and perform VHDL programming of FPGA’s.• Oversaw power budgets and power supply designs, as well as AutoCAD mechanical designs and cable assembly designs.• Managed bills of material, selecting component and parts and estimating costs.• Analyzed Gerber layout and field failures.• Resolved audio issues (codecs, amplifiers, microphones, speakers and noise). Show less

Principal Hardware Engineer• Designed 11 PCBs to interface peripherals, convert SCSI formats, regulate 48 volt input power, control fan speeds, monitor temperatures and provide display panels for customers to access.• Developed a PC/104 card to monitor the computer for alarming conditions and interface to daemons.• Created a 500 watt, hot-swappable, distributed power supply.Principal Firmware Engineer• Developed multiple daemons in C for both Solaris and Linux… Show more Principal Hardware Engineer• Designed 11 PCBs to interface peripherals, convert SCSI formats, regulate 48 volt input power, control fan speeds, monitor temperatures and provide display panels for customers to access.• Developed a PC/104 card to monitor the computer for alarming conditions and interface to daemons.• Created a 500 watt, hot-swappable, distributed power supply.Principal Firmware Engineer• Developed multiple daemons in C for both Solaris and Linux platforms.Software Engineer• Integrated a proprietary video wavelet codec into Windows, Solaris and Linux multimedia players as well as into a proprietary Microsoft DirectShow Multimedia player, with the players’ streaming video from a server farm using a proprietary pluggable protocol that was implemented as a filter on the client end and a conductor on the server end.• Enabled data to be streamed more efficiently by monitoring the network, load-balancing servers and bursting data to memory or disk caches, all external to the players. Show less

Hardware Engineer• Top Secret Clearance.• Designed numerous digital and analog circuits for multi-layer circuit boards, integrating and testing circuits at board level, box level and system level.• Developed special test equipment for board and box level testing.Firmware Engineer• Created applications using the TMS320x, ADSP-21x, and special purpose DSPs.• Designed PCI 2.1 compliant test sets; Windows NT 4.0 device drivers using WinDK 2.5 from BlueWater Systems;… Show more Hardware Engineer• Top Secret Clearance.• Designed numerous digital and analog circuits for multi-layer circuit boards, integrating and testing circuits at board level, box level and system level.• Developed special test equipment for board and box level testing.Firmware Engineer• Created applications using the TMS320x, ADSP-21x, and special purpose DSPs.• Designed PCI 2.1 compliant test sets; Windows NT 4.0 device drivers using WinDK 2.5 from BlueWater Systems; full-featured user interface programs using Microsoft VC++ 5.0; and bidirectional PCI Bus Mastering (DMA) transfers to maximize PCI bandwidth.Systems Engineer• Developed methods to validate customer program specifications; a statistical analysis software package for compiling test performance data; and more than 50 Oracle reports, charts and graphs. Show less

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering