Engineer Design

Tri Dao

**********@*****.***

Primary Phone: 714-***-****

Secondary Phone: 408-***-****

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SUMMARY

A position as Technical Support Engineer providing the opportunity to make a

strong contribution to organizational goals through continued development of

professional skills and implementation of information solutions in direct support of

business objectives.

• Demonstrated capacity of increasing responsibility in design, systems

analysis and project management.

• Identify system reliability testing gap and develop new tests to capture

reliability failure modes before system/component field deployment

• Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts,

including requirements definition, testing, troubleshooting and support.

• Work together with engineering teams to define reliability improvement

projects & development tools

• Primary interface with teams to understand ongoing field issues and

proactively communicate these issues to the design team and manage the

solution for customer service & support

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EXPERIENCE

Oct 03 - current: Cadence Design System, Inc

Position: Sr. Field Service Engineer

- Support customers and Field Engineer in resolving hardware related problems,

- Troubleshooting, installing, and servicing scientific instruments, (Emulator

systems, Super- Computer, Data system, etc)

- Support customer sites to debug system, failure analysis to root cause and

preventive maintenance and repairs, including customer network server setup

- Maintain the field service database, software & hardware verification

- Engineering review and customer feedback

- Root cause analysis of production issues and implementation of production

strategies to correct the problem. ECO’s etc

- Keep track of parts that sent out and returned in other to expedite the RMA

process,

- Design verification on Cadence Design System products PalladiumI,

PalladiumII, PalladiumIII, Xtreem FPGA, Aries, Pegasus (PXP system) server

and Speed Bridge, SSD, SAS, PCIe

- UNIX, Linux host work station operation & installed Simulation Accerlation

cards, Fiber channel cards, network router, DHCP router, etc. for Linux, Sun, IBM

host server to communication with Emulator System,

- Multiple hosts setup & install for emulator server for use & running with

customer design

- Basic verilog & VHDL code programming

Dec 01 - Sep 03: Alpha Technology Company.

Position: Design Engineer.

- Thermistor sensors for medical system design & layout,

- Temperature thermistor probes design,

- Thermistor sensors design,

- Thermistor housing design,

- RTD sensor design,

- Humidity, Airflow, Temperature Sensing,

- Precision Thermistor,

- Custom Probe Design,

- RTD, Thermocouple, Thermistor bridge circuit design with using the ADC

controller,

- Strong background in the mechanical structure of plastics and / or rubber for

sensor housing,

- In board-level design,

- AD/DA converter,

- Low-pass high-pass filter, OP amplifier,

- Constant current/voltage circuit,

- Current/ voltage regulator,

- PCB board circuit design,

- Evaluation board design,

- Debug and troubleshooting,

- C language,

Dec 99 - Nov 01 Quickturn Design System

Position: Field Service Engineer

- Responsible for coordinating daily Field Service activities and technical issues

ensuring that problems are being deal with in the time manner. More specifically

as below:

- Support customers and Field Engineer in resolving hardware related problems,

- Support customer sites to debug system, and preventive maintenance and

repairs,

- Maintain the field service database,

- Keep track of parts that sent out and returned in other to expedite the RMA

process,

- Design verification on Quickturn products Mercury/Mercury Plus, Multi-Bay,

System Realizer, Cobalt/Cobalt Ultra, Radium, Palladium and Speed Bridge,

- UNIX station operation & installed DAS cards, Fiber channel cards for Sun

Blade 1000 and IBM RS 6000 for host server to communication with Emulator

System,

Oct. 98-Nov 99 Burr-Brown Semiconductor Company

Position: Analog Design Engineer of Audio Design Group, R&D Division

- Designed analog circuits for Projects PCM3500 & PCM 3502 chip modem

56kb,

- Designed analog circuits for Project PCM1801 chip stereo A/D converter,

- Analog circuit design & layout,

- Re-new & development IC circuit & layout,

- Evaluation & test circuit design,

April 97-Sept 98 GEC Plessey in United Kingdom

Position: Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

- Designed and layout analog circuits for Projects 0.35u CMOS,

- Worked as Test Engineer Manufacturing Process Management,

- Using C Language to development Program for Function Tester,

- Testing on Tool & IC Board troubles,

Technical Proficiencies

1. Platforms: UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX), Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux

(Red Hat, Suse, Yellow Dog), Sun SPARC, Mac OS, VM/370, OS2 Warp.

2. Networking: TCP/IP, Novell, ISO/OSI, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, Secure ID,

PGP

3. Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, C, C++, Basic, HTML, PHP

Special Skills:

- Multilingual: Fluent in Japanese, English and Vietnamese (speaking and

writing)

- Quick learner, creative and motivated,

- A team member and work well with people,

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EDUCATION

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree

- April 93- 97 B.S degree in Electrical Engineering at Sophia University in Japan

- June 87- 91 Saigon Institute of Technology University

Awards Received:

- Sophia University Scholarship (1993-96)

- Asia 21-Century Scholarship (1993-96)

- Education Work Scholarship (1995-96)

- System Design & verification award (Q1 2010)

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