Engineer Management

STEVEN BAKER

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SUMMARY

Motivated software and hardware engineer with 25 years experience

architecting and developing diagnostic applications for a wide range of

embedded products. Strong background in Linux embedded C/C++ device driver

development used for board bring up, hardware verifications, system

integration, and manufacturing testing. Strong technical and managerial

skills used to construct productive and motivated diagnostic team and

manage all portions of a project.

SKILLS

Management Technical

. Project Management . C++/C, Assembly, TI DSP

. Team Development . Object Oriented Analysis & Design

. Planning Management . U-BOOT, Linux, OSE

. Career Development . Linux, Windows

. PPC 85xx, TI, IntelX86

. SONET/SDH/PDH, Ethernet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ciena Corporation, Acton, MA 2005-2009

Lead diagnostics engineer of the development team on Ciena's CN5060 multi-

service Carrier Ethernet platform, CN4200 Layer 2 Ethernet switch, and

Ciena's next generation 3.6 Terabit converged switch product. Responsible

for all levels of diagnostic development such as requirements definition,

coding, integration and manufacturing testing.

Principal Engineer/Diagnostics Manager

. Created an object oriented design which was adopted as a common

development platform which greatly reduced the development time for

hardware diagnostics.

. Ported and debugged the EZchip driver shared between diagnostics and

operational software.

. Architected a complete suite of diagnostics targeted specifically for

the data fabric.

. Authored a myriad of manufacturing and design verification tests to

full exercise the functionality provided by the EZchip driver.

. Developed diagnostics test utilities utilized in board bring up,

hardware verification, and manufacturing testing.

. Designed and developed a Linux application and kernel modules used for

board bring up and functional DVT.

. Developed schedules and managed development activities to a very

aggressive development and integration plan. Through very active

management and sound technical decisions, was able to lead team to

exceed challenging schedule objectives by several weeks.

. Developed, documented, and successfully implemented a new diagnostic

strategy and architecture. Architecture, core components, and

philosophies were adopted and deploy on a large multi-site project.

SmartLink Radio Networks, Billerica, MA 2004-2005

Principal Diagnostics Developer

Technical Lead of diagnostics development SmartLink I-Switch designed for

central switching of critical infrastructure communications. Defined

diagnostics requirements, created a diagnostic executive, evaluated and set

up cross tools and debugging environment tools, built boot ROM.

. Authored a Diagnostics Architectural Specification outlining the role

and deliverables by the diagnostics including Boot ROM, Hardware

Verification Diagnostics, Manufacturing Diagnostics, and System

Test/Calibration.

. Built and debugged Diagnostic Executive on Artesyn cPCI board Katana

with a PPC 750FX. Diagnostic application was a standalone application

built with u-boot tools and launched from U-Boot.

Seranoa Networks, Boxborough, MA (Contracting) 2004-2004

Senior Diagnostics Developer

Designed and developed manufacturing diagnostics for the IPeX IP-aware

layer-2 switches.

. Identified hardware problem in CPLD by writing diagnostics to test the

interrupts on the system SFP's.

. Identified hardware deficiencies hindering data flow rate on I2C

interfaces.

. Worked with hardware designers to identify problem with Broadcom

switch.

Lucent Technologies, Westford, MA (Contracting) 2004-2004

Senior Diagnostics Engineer

Designed, developed, and debugged offline diagnostics software for the

Lucent CBX-3500 ATM switch which included control plane debug of protection

card, hardware verification of Lattice Orso device, and diagnostics to

verify all high speed links.

Photonex Corporation, Maynard, MA 2000-2003

Senior Diagnostics Engineer

Developed diagnostic software used to verify initialization and

optimization, alarm management, and performance monitoring for OC48/192 and

Digital Mux/Demux modules.

. Wrote and debugged drivers for OC48/OC192 and MUX/DEMUX cards which

included Agere Quad OC48/OC192 SONET Framers and 10 Gig AMCC FEC

devices (Niagra and Rubicon). .

. Developed an embedded application used to optimize data transmission

during system validation, application was instrumental in system test.

. Collaborated with Hardware Team to produce complete board bring,

traffic setup, and performance monitoring used for hardware

verification, manufacturing, and system level integration

. Delivered comprehensive logging utilities that would monitor and log

PMON data to a remote server using TFTP.

. Designed Auto Turn-Up and Threshold Monitor Routine feedback algorithm

used to optimize receiver.

Cascade/Ascend/Lucent Technologies, Westford, MA 1996-2000

Senior Diagnostics Engineer

Designed, developed, and tested offline diagnostics for the GX 550, CBX-

500, and BSTDX-9000 ATM and Frame Relay switches.

. Lead diagnostic engineer for the Channelized DS3 card and the 12 Port

E1/T1 Card for the BSTDX-9000 Frame Relay switches. These diagnostics

include DMA pattern tests; register tests, BERT diagnostics and pseudo

traffic tests.

. Developed diagnostic scripts for automated fault insertion to

adequately test diagnostic coverage, hangs and meltdowns. .

. Isolated with special memory pattern testing SRAM decay failures of in

Customer (IGS) cards.

Raytheon Company, Andover, MA 1985-1996

Diagnostic and Test Engineer

Designed and developed diagnostic software for the PATRIOT missile system.

Tested and trouble shot digital and RF sub-assemblies.

. Converted PATRIOT Weapons Control Computers diagnostic software

packages from JOVIAL to ADA

. Captained the Sub System Test area quality team identifying quality

issues, instituting and monitoring corrective action, which lead to

the generation and reporting of results to upper management

. Updated and debugged an automated test suite for the verification of

the Digital module test station

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

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