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Principle Electrical / Computer Engineer with experience in Hardware design and Embedded Software.BSEE and MSCE (C++, TCP/IP, FET design, Computer Arch, VLSI, Security, RTOS, VHDL, Design For Test) Embedded Software and Hardware Designer.Currently focused on Test System Design: - AC to human safe DC subsystem, up to 40KW utilizing 480VAC to 380VDC and 48VDC distribution to lower level DC rail generation and grounding, with a good understanding of NRTL requirements. - Controls subsystem, controller and communications. - Chilled water control and distribution and heat exchangers, as well as air cooled systems. - PCB design requirements, layout, plating, construction, and manufacturing. - Picosecond level timing requirements. - Algorithmic pattern generation and fault detection requirements. - ASIC and FPGA specifications. - Board level power supply specifications, nanoamp level parametric design and control, FV/FI/MV/MI design and calibration. - Ergonomic and automation interfacing. - System production support fixtures and assembly testing and fully automate system programming, test, calibration, thermal verification, and factory acceptance burn-in testing. - Transition in house designed systems to full scale Contract Manufacturing.Areas of experience: - Schematic Design based on customer requirements. - Parametrics expert utilizing AD5560 and AD5522. - Visualization using JMP. - DMM (Keithley DMM7510 7.5 digit, 3706, others) and SMU (Keithley 2602, 2460) and programmable high current loads, control via ethernet, to fully automate production system calibration adjust and verification, and calibration report generation. - Xilinx soft processors such as uBlaze. Control Xilinx IP cores such as SPI, I2C, ADC, DAC, multiplexers.... - Cypress ezUSB 8051 based, FX3 microcontroller and programming of device. - Xilinx Zynq ARM processor and IP Core - PC104, ComExpress TYPE2, 6, and 7, control of FPGA via PCIe. - Bitbang many variants of SPI and I2C. Multi-slave, clock stretching, round trip, DFT. - C & C++, on Embedded Linux, compilers gcc/g++, make, and gdb. - Automated production programming of processor and FPGA non-volatile, and board identification. - 17025 & 16949 deep understanding, calculating system requirements as TUR>4 @ K=2 (2sigma). - Design of production calibration systems, to account for sense line losses, main IR losses, ground sense, and characterize in requirements specifications. - Writing and defining Customer system requirements, ratification and customer signoff.

Listed skills include Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, Debugging, Testing, and 12 others.