Roy H. Parker
Nashua, NH ***62
ab2exs@r.postjobfree.com
C: 603-***-****
H: 603-***-****
DIGITAL DESIGN CORE SKILLS
. Exceptional FPGA Design Skills using standard HDLs such as VHDL,
Verilog, and SystemC as well as Schematic Capture tools on
ASICs/FPGAs/CPLDs
. Sim/Place/Route tools: Modelsim, Xilinx ISE, Active-HDL, Diamond 2.0
. Synopsys- Primetime, Formality, Design Vision, Synplify-Pro, Actel
Designer
. Industry Standard Logic Devices - Xilinx, Altera, Actel, Lattice
including: Virtex-E, Virtex II PRO, Virtex-4, Virtex-5, Kintex7, and
MachXO2
TEAM SKILLS
. Project Engineer for teams of size three to twelve people - Omnify,
Microsoft Project
. Experienced establishing new FPGA designs/products and bringing them
into production
. Continuously chosen for projects for multidisciplinary teams and
offsite teams due to excellent communication skills
. Proven troubleshooting skills for integration teams
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Support Chief Technical Staff - FPGA Design - Raytheon, 2013 (Contract)
. Enhanced multiple FPGAs for newest Raytheon SATCOM Product Line Design
o Upgraded an FPGA Interface control for a new external DDS
o Completed a legacy FPGA Design with legacy tools to prevent
redesign of board
FPGA Design Engineer - DRS Technologies, 2012 (Contract)
. High Speed Data Link Block Design Consultant - Design and Instruction
Senior Electrical Engineer - DRS Technologies, 2009 - 2012
. FPGA Design Engineer for Direction Finding, Acquisition,
Communications Products Including Architecture, RTL Design,
Simulation, Synthesis, Place and Route
. Project Engineer for Acquisition Products Including Liason to PM,
Coordinating Product effort among all disciplines, Tracking
deliverables from ordering through assembly to final Inspection,
Running weekly status meetings, Product Obsolescence replacement,
Redline Documents, Waiver Grants, Vendor Communications, Entering
Change Notices into Database, Forecast resources, Review/update BOMs
. Added timestamp capability to existing FPGA design to match current
data flow.
. Created High Speed Data Link block to transfer data in 2 directions
around a ring of FPGAs to ensure every unit could talk to every other
unit using Aurora 8b10b cores
. Updated DSP cores for multichannel signal intercept/analysis design,
updated DDR2
Senior Electrical Engineer II - Raytheon, 2005 - 2009
. FPGA Design Engineer for Receiver/Exciter Department for Radar
Programs Including Architecture, RTL Development, Verification,
Synthesis, Timing Closure
. System on a board Design - Architect and Design Solutions on COTS
boards
. Design of Digital Beam Former complex data sample channel creation
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Senior Electrical Engineer II - Raytheon, 2005 - 2009 (Continued)
. Developed Narrow Band Down Converter FPGAs to control Data Flow
. Architected and Inserted an Electromagnetic Interference Notification
capability to existing RADAR system - 5 FPGA solution - no hardware
changes
. Upgraded legacy radar design from 6 boards to one mounted with a CPLD
FPGA Design Engineer - Hamilton - Sundstrand, 2005 (Contract)
. Ownership of Design/Ver. of FPGAs - Engine Control System of Joint
Strike Fighter.
. Dropped into a project in the middle of the schedule to bring closure
to project
. Came up to speed on customer's tools/processes for immediate impact to
meet deadlines
. Identified Test escapes and advised on proper design solution and
verification patch
. Lead Code Reviewer on 9 out of 11 FPGAs in development
ASIC Design Engineer- Seagate Technology, Inc., 2001 - 2004
. Block level RTL Development for Personal Storage Group of Disk
Controllers with 3-6 month cycle time of multi-million gate SOCs
. ASIC Group taped out 8 chips in one calendar year - SATA and PATA
versions
. Responsible for Architecture/Design/Verification, Gate-Level
Simulation, Debug, Place and Route, Design Reviews, Use of 3rd party
logic blocks
o Instruction Tightly Coupled Memory Cache for ARM microprocessor
. First Logic Block integrated into COSIM verification environment with
software group
. Buffer Cache Block for ST Uproc - 12 Line Read only Cache Controller,
Scalable
o Design changed to accommodate larger line limit with NO hit to
design schedule
ASIC Design Engineer- Infineon Technologies, Inc. 1999 - 2001
. Integration of customer's logic with native microcontroller for use in
Disk Drives
o SCAN Insertion - Fault Coverage Analysis - Testbench
Creation/Regression
o Timing Issue Identification and Timing closure - False path
Identification
New Products Development/Memory Test Engineer- Austin Semiconductor, Inc.
1997 -1999
. Facilitation of new products - conception to production -
Custom/Memory Test
o Part types include EEPROM, SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, and UVEPROM
. Consignment Die Verification of Memory for Military specs - program
stalled for 5 years
EDUCATION
MS - Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
Specialty: VLSI Design, 2 DSP classes
BS - Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Engineer-in-Training Certificate # 3380
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Roy H Parker, "Caution: Clock Crossings" Chip Design Magazine, A
Methodology for Crossing Clock Domains, June 2004
Other
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