Engineer Design
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Ricky Hardy
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Career Objective
Full time position within a collaborative team where eight years of
electronics engineering and signal integrity experience will add value
Work Experience
Aware, Inc. Senior Hardware Engineer, Bedford, MA. 06/07-Present
-Designed board level hardware for DSL central office and hand held test
markets
-Maximized data rates of mixed signal boards by directing analog and
digital component placement and supervising layout
-Minimized cost of switch mode power supply and LiFePO4 battery charger
designs
-Electronic component selection to minimize cost, meet RoHS requirements,
and maximize reliability
-Interpreted EMI test results and developed design modifications to pass
EMI emission regulations
-Reduced time to market for electronic products by using UNIX shell scripts
to automate prototype testing and log prototype performance
-Designed embedded hardware using Freescale Microprocessors, Xilinx CPLDs/
FPGAs, and Infineon DSL chips
-Logic design using VHDL and Xilinx ISE targeted for Xilinx FPGAs and CPLDs
-Traveled internationally as a liaison to customers and debugged urgent
customer issues
Texas Instruments, Senior Applications Engineer, Houston, TX. 06/06-05/07
-Designed FPGA based verification circuit boards for Texas Instruments
DaVinci video processors
-Designed embedded hardware with board level support for verification of
PCI, SGMII, DDR2, FLASH, ASRAM, I2C/SPI EEPROMs and video port peripherals
-Analyzed board signal integrity to ensure totally functional circuit board
prototypes
-Managed design requirements from international engineering teams
-Ported VHDL register interface for Xilinx XC95288 CPLD to control
programmable power supplies and oscillators
-Managed project through completion with circuit board layout contractors
and component vendors
-Supported product datasheet composition
Center for Multimedia Communications, Assistant Technical and Executive
Director, Houston, TX. 04/05-06/06
-Managed design, schematic capture, layout, manufacturing, and assembly of
a variety of circuit board projects
-Coordination and enhancement of industrial relationships
-Research grant budgeting and allocated human and equipment resources
-Supported the composition of grant proposals to the National Science
Foundation
-Hired and supervised technical employees for the CMC research lab
-Managed CAD software deployment for CMC engineering labs
-Organized administrative and technical details for academic workshops
-Represented research projects domestically and internationally to increase
interest and research collaborations
Rice University Electrical Engineering Department, Lecturer, Houston, TX.
06/05-06/06
-Designed and taught senior electrical engineering design course covering
signal integrity and circuit board design using Xilinx Virtex II Pro and
Virtex 4 FPGAs
-Setup and maintained Cadence PCB software design flow and tutorials
-Fostered course interest, collaboration, and course support with corporate
affiliates
Center for Multimedia Communications, Research Engineer, Houston, TX. 12/02-
03/05
-Project design, schematic capture, and layout of Xilinx Virtex II and
Virtex II Pro FPGA based circuit boards
-Responsible for all aspects of projects from initial block diagrams to PCB
assembly
-Directed entry level designers with embedded hardware design projects
-Served as university technical liaison for Cadence PCB design tools
-Managed and maintained computing and lab equipment resources in one
research and one undergraduate student lab
Owl Consulting, Hardware Engineer, Houston, TX. 12/02-06/06
-Applied signal integrity knowledge to complete complex mixed signal board
designs based on Xilinx Virtex II FPGAs and Analog
-Completed board layout for laser spectroscopy gas composition detection
system
-Managed board manufacturing and assembly process with third party
contractors
Center for Multimedia Communication, Hardware Design Intern, Houston, TX.
5/02-8/02
-Designed a miniaturized 3D accelerometer sensor circuit board
-Conducted detailed range and throughput tests of embedded Bluetooth
hardware designs
-Prepared circuit board bill of materials and components for assembly
-Assisted in large scale circuit board component inventory and organization
effort
Compaq/HP, Hardware Design Intern, Houston, TX. 5/01-8/01
-Simulated SDRAM bus layout patterns using SPICE to determine the best
board trace topologies for maximum signal integrity
-Developed efficient automated simulation and reporting techniques
-Schematic entry for RAID controller cards using Cadence Capture
Programming Languages/Software Proficiencies
Mentor Graphics DxDesigner/PADs/Hyperlynx, Cadence Capture
CIS/Allegro/Specctra/SpectraQuest, Xilinx ISE, Xilinx System Generator,
Microsoft Suite, MATLAB, VHDL/Verilog, Assembly, C, TI Code Composer,
ModelSim
Education
Rice University, Houston, TX. Masters of Electrical Engineering, 12/2002
Rice University, Houston, TX. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 05/2001
Academic Publications
Manik Gadhiok, Ricky Hardy, Patrick Frantz, Hyeokho Choi, Joseph Cavallaro.
"An FPGA-Based Daughtercard for TI's C6000 Family of DSKs." International
Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE), June 2005.
Patrick Murphy, Patrick Frantz, Erik Welsh, Ricky Hardy, Tinoosh Mohsenin,
and Joseph Cavallaro. "VALID: Custom ASIC Verification and FPGA Education
Platform." International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education
(MSE) June 2003: 66-67.
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