Tony Martins

*** ******* ****** ? Ronkonkoma ? NY ? 11779-4906 ? 631-***-**** ?

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SUMMARY

. Experienced, dedicated and detail-oriented project manager, R&D and

design engineer of embedded devices in the biomedical, analytical,

instrumentation and process control fields.

. Skilled at developing new products based on either simple concepts or an

existing product and assisting marketing departments in the development

of new products, improving original designs.

. Experienced in planning, organizing and controlling all the project's

tasks and activities from concept to completion.

. Excellent communication skills and fluent in several foreign languages:

Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian.

. Developed training materials and made presentations to sales personnel

and prospective customers.

. Skilled at providing technical support to sales, marketing and service

departments, as well as to existing customers.

. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Outlook, Excel,

Access, Visio, Power Point, Project, OneNote.

. Solid background in hardware and software, and hands-on experience, among

others, with:

8051, ST, Microchip, Zilog micros Digital, analog circuits Orcad,

AutoCad 2D, SolidWorks

Keil, Silicon Labs, ST, Zilog IDE suites ICEs, JTAG bus, DS

oscilloscopes DataQ, LabView

EXPERIENCE

AVERY BIOMEDICAL DEVICES, INC., Commack, NY

2005 - 2010

Senior Design Engineer of the world-leading manufacturer of EU- and FDA-

approved breathing pacemakers and other medical devices. Responsible for

the projects of all new medical devices.

. Designed a totally new pacemaker with much higher levels of redundancy

and safety (three microcontrollers working in tandem), more compact (size

reduced by half), much lighter (weight reduced 4 times), with much longer

battery life (extended at least 8 times), and many other improvements to

the existing device.

. Designed hardware of the device and of the test fixture, custom display

and all mechanical packaging, created software and parameter structures,

wrote timing diagrams for the critical functions, specified all

components, wrote the BOM, contacted and selected vendors, etc.

. Wrote documentation for CE Mark and FDA 510(k) submissions - Product

Requirements Specification, Hardware Design Specification, Software

Requirements Specification, Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessment and

Mitigation. Product to be compliant with ISO 13485 requirements.

. Trained doctors, therapists and family members on how to use and adjust

the pacemaker. Present in the operating room during surgeries not only in

the US but mainly in foreign countries, observing and advising surgeons,

and testing the diaphragmatic response of the patient to confirm proper

implantation and functioning of the devices.

. Inventor of US Patent Application No. 12/528,001 titled "Master/Slave

fault configuration with fault recovery."

. Gave support to sales and service departments talking directly to non-

English-speaking doctors and patients.

THE DOBELLE INSTITUTE, Commack, NY

2002 - 2005

Project Manager of the institute (sister company of Avery Biomedical

Devices) focused solely on R&D, design, manufacture and sale of visual

prostheses for the blind implanted in the visual cortex, in the back of the

brain. This pioneering research was applied to a group of 16 blind patients

from different countries. Of these patients, 15 could see (limited vision)

and some of them could easily walk alone in parks, on sidewalks, etc.

. Managed daily operations of the institute, observed the implantation

surgeries in the operating room, did patient follow-up, gave technical

support to implanted patients.

. Tested the phosphenes and mapped the visual cortex of all 16 patients,

and trained them on how to best use the prosthesis and how to walk in

normal environments, i.e., home, hallways, sidewalks, parks, etc., being

the only person in the world who as ever tested and trained totally blind

patients to use a visual prosthesis.

. Responsible for R&D, conceiving, and developing new prostheses, electrode

arrays, video decoders and neurostimulators much safer, lighter (weight

reduced 8 times), more compact (volume reduced 15 times), with lower

power consumption (reduced 18 times), and greatly extending their battery

life (increased at least 6 times.)

. Responsible for the successful transfer of the entire Artificial Vision

project (including patent, scientific materials, etc.) to Stony Brook

University in May 1, 2006 after Dr. Dobelle died in October 2004.

. Wrote several scientific papers regarding artificial vision: one paper,

published in Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Second

Edition, Springer, and entitled "Impaired vision: Visual prosthesis"; the

others being reviewed by the co-authors.

MARTINS RESEARCH COMPANY, Ronkonkoma / East Elmhurst, NY

1987 - 1991 and 1992 - 2002

Principal of a consulting company responsible for the complete project

design and development of microprocessor-based devices, assisting companies

in launching new products in the fields of diagnostic, process, mechanical,

water and chemical analysis instrumentation, medical and consumer goods.

Examples: a hand-held photometer to measure concentration of metals and

chemicals dissolved in water or wastewater, and a hospital patient monitor

calibration system to simulate the heart rate, blood pressure and

respiration waveforms, and body temperature.

. Reviewed proposals, suggested modifications, implemented new features,

proposed new marketing strategies, and designed devices from concept to

final stages based either on technical specifications or general ideas.

. Designed the hardware and the mechanical packaging, wrote the software,

tested all the functions, selected all components, contacted vendors,

prepared BOMs and all electronics schematics and mechanical drawings.

. Wrote instruction manuals, test procedures and prepared production

drawings and other materials.

. Trained technicians on the new instruments, how the circuits work and how

to troubleshoot them.

. Gave presentations to engineering, sales and marketing personnel as well

as to prospective customers.

SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Bohemia, N Y

1991 - 1992

Product Development Group Software Engineer II of the world-leading

manufacturer of hand-held laser barcode scanners and data collection

terminals.

. Specialized in 8051 microcontrollers. Wrote software for the LS 8562 hand-

held barcode scanner using PL/M and Assembly languages to perform special

functions, and for the LS 8100 cordless barcode scanner to perform data

compression, improving storage capacity by 50% in numeric-only barcode

symbols (UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, Codabar, Code 11, MSI, I 2 of 5,

and D 2 of 5.) Also wrote code for decoders with 80196 microcontrollers

using C and Assembly languages for a multifunction decoder to link

barcode scanners, magnetic card readers and serial interface devices

(digital scales, for example) to computers or terminals using a keyboard

wedge interface.

. Performed integration testing of the scanners connected to data

terminals, cash registers, computers, and others.

. Worked with the Sales and Applications Departments and visited customers

to demonstrate new equipment.

. Implemented in FoxPro a test database with a capacity of up to one

million records used for quality testing of the company's scanners, to

test new algorithms, or to evaluate compatibility with scanners of other

companies.

. Did reverse engineering studies and comparative analyses requested by the

Marketing Department to evaluate equipment from other companies and test

compatibility with Symbol scanners. One of these studies was considered

by the VP of Marketing as the best, most complete and most elucidative

analysis ever made in the company.

FLUID DATA, INC., Merrick, N Y

1985 -

1987

Project engineer responsible for most instruments and computerized systems

of a leading manufacturer of process control systems and refinery analyzers

for the gas and oil industries.

. Designed microprocessor-based analytical instruments and modified others

according to the customers' special requirements, using STD bus systems

with 8085/8088 microcontrollers and software written in Assembly

language.

. Responsible for modifications, setup and testing of refinery analyzers

such as multi-point distillation analyzers, colorimeters, viscosity

analyzers, aniline analyzers, gas calorimeters and auto-calibration

controllers.

. Proposed and developed a new standard for a computer system consisting of

a single 3U Eurocard platform, common boards, common software and common

development tools, flexible enough to be used in all future instruments,

drastically reducing R&D time and cost. System to be used in both the US

and the UK companies.

. Set up and serviced refinery analyzers in the field, visited customers

and gave talks on new equipment.

EDUCATION

MS in Electrical Engineering, Porto University, Portugal

Workshops on C++, DSP, Real-Time Structured Analysis and Design, Technical

Writing, Introduction to Patents and Inventions, Introduction to ISO-9000

Quality Standards, OrCAD PCB Editor, LabView, Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3,

Silicon Labs 8051 microcontrollers, Actel FPGAs, and others.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Portuguese, French and Spanish: fluent in reading, writing and speaking;

Italian: fluent reading and understanding, some speaking.

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