Project Manager Software Engineer

Newell S. Jensen

******.******@*****.*** (email)

206-***-**** (cell)

www.gempillar.com (blog)

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering

University of Washington, 2010

- Specialization in EM and RF circuits - (3.7 GPA)

B.S. Applied Math, Physics Minor (3.4 GPA)

University of California, Davis. 2007

Experience with circuit design schematic layout, simulation, PCB

board layout, C/C++ embedded and applications programming, and FPGA

programming using Verilog.

Languages and Dev Tools (yrs)

-- Linux/Unix (5 yrs), Python (5), C/C++ (4), C# (2), .NET (2), SQL (2),

MySQL (2), PyGTK (1), Django (1), Verilog (2), Matlab (2), Octave (2),

SPICE (2), ... --

Work Experience

2/10-3/10 Circuit Design Consultant - Maveric Automation LLC

Consulted on the design of an industrial control box. Schematic capture

and design was focused on input and output protection circuits to help the

circuit withstand large voltage and current swings.

1/09-1/10 Research Assistant (employee) - University of Washington

Electrical Engineering Department

Conducted OFDM underwater acoustic modem research. Hardware platform

consisted of an Intel mini-ITX motherboard coupled with Avnet Memec's

Spartan-II 200 PCI development kit and P160 Analog Module daughterboard.

Coded in Verilog, simulated with Icarus Verilog and GTKWave, and configured

the FPGA on PCI development board using Xilinx's ISE software. PCI IP core

was taken from the open source project OpenCores. Wrote a Linux PCI device

driver. Was able to get two nodes talking to each other acoustically via

OFDM using GNU Radio software.

PHY layer RFID research on tag collision resolution. Constructed

experimental setup for current and future students. Experimental setup

consists of GNU Radio, USRP board, RFID antennas, and RFID tags. Wrote

several iterations of Python/C++ signal processing code to analyze

interfering Gen 2 RFID tag responses to see if we could extract useful

information on number of tags that collided.

5/08-9/08 Student Developer, Google Inc. - Google Summer of Code Program

Worked on the open source gEDA project designing and developing a graphical

user interface program deemed the "gEDA Project Manager", which helps

integrate all the various EDA tools into one coherent application. 3,000+

lines of Python code (to date) and developed on a Linux platform.

6/07-9/08 Software Engineer - Ventyx Energy

Software engineer in a large, globally distributed team to provide package

software solutions for analytics and decision support, energy trading, risk

management, power generation optimization and market integration for the

energy industry. Worked on the Planning and Risk portfolio. Planning and

Risk is a single solution that allows electric utilities, generation

companies, retailers, and trading organizations to consistently analyze and

review all their existing and potential assets within one tool.

Developed new graphical user interfaces, tools, algorithms, fixed bugs, and

helped with the implementation of customer requests. Majority of

development consisted of C# and SQL with .NET and SQL Server.

3/06-6/07 Programmer - University of California, Davis

Physics Department

Programmed applications for data gathered from the Texas Echelon Cross

Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES). Code was written in IDL on a Linux platform.

TEXES is designed for high spectral resolution in the mid-infrared (5-25

?m).

Research Experience

8/05-3/06 Undergraduate Researcher - University of California, Davis

Physics Department

Conducted synthesis and characterization of novel materials.

Crystal growth was accomplished utilizing flux methods and solid state

synthetic techniques.

Measurement of magnetic and transport properties of the crystals were

performed with a SQUID Magnetometer and Physical Properties Measurement

System.

1/03-5/03 Undergraduate Research Project - Santa Rosa Junior College

Physics Department

Designed and built a Tesla Coil from scratch that produces artificial

lightning. Tesla Coils are high voltage circuits and this design project

was for an undergraduate Physics course.

Presentations

3/06 Physical Properties of EuIn2P2 and EuGa2P2, Meeting of the American

Physical Society (APS), Baltimore MD

5/03 Tesla Coil Presentation, Day Under the Oaks

Santa Rosa Junior College

Publications

Flux Growth and Structure of two Compounds with the EuIn2P2 Structure Type,

Ain2P2 (A = Ca and Sr), and a New Structure Type, BaIn2P2

Japheth F. Rauscher, Cathie L. Condron, Tanya Beault, Susan M.

Kauzlarich, Newell Jensen, Peter Klavins, Samuel MaQuilon, Zachary Fisk

and Marilyn M. Olmstead

Acta Crystallographica Section C, 2009, Volume 65, Part 10 i69-i73

Magnetism and Negative Magnetoresistance of Two Magnetically Ordering, Rare

Earth-Containing Zintl phases with a New Structure Type: EuGa2Pn2 (Pn = P,

As)

Andrea M. Goforth, H kon Hope, Cathie L. Condron, Susan M. Kauzlarich

Newell Jensen, Peter Klavins, Sam Maquilon and Zachary Fisk

Chemistry and Materials, 2009, 21 (19), pp 4480-4489

Scholarships

Nelson Scholarship, UC Davis, 2006-2007

Frank P. Doyle Scholarship, Santa Rosa Junior College, 2001-2004

Spence Flournoy Memorial Scholarship, Santa Rosa Junior College, 2005

Engineering Transfer Scholarship, Santa Rosa Junior College, 2005

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