Robin B. Moore

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San Jose, CA 95140

408-***-**** (h); 408-***-**** (m)

abi8mz@r.postjobfree.com

CORE COMPETENCIES

. Skilled Department / Project leader with a variety of experience:

Desktop PC's, portable Hand held devices, Laptop PC's, Digital

Cameras, Networked storage, and Industrial X-Ray systems.

. Strong architectural, analog and digital designer and trouble-shooter

with several patents, technology evaluation, root-cause analysis,

attention to details and RF / general troubleshooting experience.

. Expertise and experience in off-shore Project and vendor management

throughout Asia.

EXPERIENCE

MediaTek USA, Inc (Formerly NuCore Technology, Inc) San Jose, CA.

10/06 to 4/09

. Responsible for all board, PC and package designs and supervision,

simulation of new designs using Hyperlynx and Spice, and all systems

issues on new ASIC and MCM developments. Worked with 6-8 layer, SMT,

very dense, impedance controlled PCBs w/ buried microvias and 5 mil

traces.

. Led team of engineers and was responsible for design and development

of reference boards for customers and in-house software development

use. Debugged customer designs, designed FPGA emulation and

validation boards, brought up ASIC prototypes, and consulted on

systems issues as part of the project core teams.

. Responsible for system aspects of a new DBE ASIC in conjunction with

MTK Engineers.

. Accomplished significant architectural work on LiIon battery issues,

charging through USB and the overall power structure in the ASIC to

minimize BOM costs.

. Responsible for supervision of Engineering lab, move of lab to new

building, test equipment, reference board and unit testing activities,

reports and analysis to management, and app-note development for

customers.

Title: Sr. Dept. Manager - Hardware Systems - US Digital Camera

Division.

Tadpole Computer, Inc, Cupertino, CA (A General Dynamics Company)

5/05 to 10/06

. Responsible for major changes to the design of the Bullfrog I portable

server which included implementation of three GB Ethernet ports, a

synchronous serial port, an external video input video and LVDS video

output.

. Developed redesign and feature additions to the Comet-12 thin-client,

involving DDR RAM's, Multiple LVDS video outputs, additional USB and

various improvements.

. Consulted on redesigns of Viper laptop and Bullfrog II portable

servers, and was involved in architectural work on Meteor - an AMD

au1550 based high performance thin client.

. Worked with both OrCad Capture and Mentor Design Capture to capture

schematics and create library parts, and worked extensively with the

CAD designers to implement the PCB's and release to manufacturing.

Title: Sr. Engineering Manager

Bio-Imaging Research, Inc., Lincolnshire, IL 07/02 - 05/03

(Left due to family health problems)

. Responsible for managing numerous programs, a $2.1M budget, and

approximately 23 engineers, managers and technicians. Products

encompassed Robotic stages with fine motion motor controls, flat panel

and custom linear detectors and CCD's for imaging, and proprietary

software for image reconstruction and analysis..

. Managed multiple, concurrent projects through weekly cross-functional

status meetings and frequent reviews.

. Achieved CE Certification for systems shipping to Europe.

. Initiated Pre-Contract planning meetings to budget costs, assign

resources, and set schedules.

. Implemented MS Project plans to schedule programs and identify work

loading conflicts.

. Identified need for an ISO-9001 overall quality system, supervised a

GAP analysis, and initiated implementation.

. Implemented PDM software and an ISO-compliant digital documentation

system.

. Reorganized manufacturing operations, and increased overall margins by

10-30%.

Title: Director Manufacturing and Quality

Palm, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 10/98 - 07/02

. Led the Electrical Sustaining Engineering Dept while in a fast-paced

startup environment - recruited staff, managed projects, defined and

implemented policies and processes, set up labs, and trained

personnel.

o Tracked field failure rates, identified problem areas, and

tracked customer complaints to present to upper management,

producing increased customer satisfaction, reduced response

times, and fewer field returns.

. Improved overall development process by working with Engineering,

Quality, Manufacturing, Software, Product Design and Marketing to

establish metrics and phase gating conditions and monitor

improvements.

. Involved with hands-on new board bring-up and debug, failure analysis,

repairs, sensitivity, selectivity and coverage testing, RF component

testing, and worked closely with designers to improve the designs and

analyze failures.

. Worked with various RF technologies - Packet Radio, Blue Tooth and

802.11b - and participated in design meetings, met with vendors and

CM's.

Title: Manager of Electrical Engineering - Sustaining

NetFrame / Micron, Milpitas, CA 05/97 - 05/98

(company was purchased by Micron and then closed)

. Completed the 9008 project, a 4-way SMP Pentium Pro networked super-

server with RAID disk arrays, interleaved EDO and ECC RAM, wide/fast

SCSI, 100 base-t Ethernet.

. Project lead for Puma, a 8-12-way ccNUMA SMP server with 100base-T

Networking.

Title: Manager Hardware Engineering

Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA 08/84 - 03/97

. As Design and Program Lead for the 6400 series, successfully delivered

three computers all based on similar boards with varying packages and

processor speeds. Met all schedule, cost, and quality goals and

provided over $600M to Apple's revenues.

o Developed architecture, supervised ASIC / board development and

bring up, negotiated with vendors, set up program budgets, and

hired team members. Responsible for overall design/development

and performance, schedules, budgets, compatibility, and cross-

functional team including software, hardware, marketing, product

design, quality, and manufacturing.

o Involved in MPC603e architectural development and promoted PCI

interface as industry-standard I/O slot.

. As Design lead for the Color Classic and LC-520/550, a midstream

switch of display technology was required when the LCS display

exhibited cost and performance problems. Evaluated the technologies

and proposed an alternative approach, which had lower costs both in

development and production. Managed hardware team through entire

development process and additionally produced the Mac LC-520 as

fallout from the alternative process.

. Made numerous trips to various Asian countries to qualify vendors,

review production, and negotiate contracts.

. As Design Lead of the Macintosh LC Apple //e option card, designed the

first successful emulation product and achieved a very high level of

compatibility and performance with an ASIC design and software.

. Led hardware design team completing work on Apple IIGS through EVT,

DVT, PVT, and release to production. Solved Apple //e compatibility

problem by designing and patenting new NTSC-emulating RGB method and

graphics modes with linear bit-mapped multi-palette display

architecture. Designed and patented FPI ASIC to control the processor,

memory and I/O. Publicly credited by Apple for achievements on

program.

Title: Program Manager - Entry-level Power PC's, Engineer/Manager - &

various Program and Dept. mgmt. positions

A.B. Dick Company, Inc., Manchester, NH

. Responsible for entire design and microcode, system architecture,

design concepts and detailed product specifications for 16-bit bit

slice processor used in A.B. Dick's shared logic Word Processing

system.

. Led a design/development group involved in development of full-page

WYSIWYG word processors / office computer systems and token-passing-

loop local-area network development.

Title: Manager Microprocessor Development, Manager Hardware

Engineering

EDUCATION & TRAINING

. MBA, San Jose State University, 1992; GPA: 4.0 - First in Class

. BSEE, University of Massachusetts, Lowell w/ Physics minor and grad.

courses

. Besser Applied RF Techniques course, 2001

. Mentor Hyperlynx 2-day training course, 2007.

. Cisco 5-day course - Introduction to Networking Fundamentals - 2005

. 3-Day course - Introduction to Verilog

. 5-Day PMI Project Management refresher course

MISC. ACHIEVEMENTS / HONORS

. Member of the Board of Directors - Bio-Imaging Research, Inc. for

three years.

. Three patents awarded for work on computer architecture and graphic

displays.

. Lew Rollins Award for Learning Leadership from SJSU for performance in

MBA program.

. Numerous articles published in Byte and other computer magazines

. Received Amature Extra class Radio license AF6QC in May 2009.

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