Engineer Project Manager

William ‘Bill’ Reams

bill.reams @ comcast.net

303-***-**** {home} 512-***-**** {cell}

Achievement oriented professional with advanced degree and over 20 years of engineering experience

in various high tech industries. Demonstrated performance in design of leading edge technology as

well as project and personnel management. Knowledgeable of digital and analog circuitry, computer

equipment, and control systems. Accomplished at conducting engineering and quality control testing

to ensure equipment and systems meet standards.

Hardware / Circuit Design

Group Management

Project Management

Technical Communication

Recognized for analytical and problem solving skills. Persistent, accurate, and thorough. Very

effective in group and project management including planning, scheduling, staffing, and budgets.

Proficient in technical writing and communications. Quick learner and early contributor in

challenging and changing environments.

EchoStar Technologies 9/2007 – Present

Englewood, Colorado

Senior Engineer in the hardware architecture group.

Evaluated various technologies for a new remote control that needed to support “mouse like” user

interface navigation and control. Architected remote control and related set top box architecture and

wrote extensive specifications for the remote control, set top box, and a new communication protocol.

Provided technical tracking of the remote control development and set top box implementations.

Multiple patent applications (15 joint and sole to date) related to remote controls and set top box

features.

Updated and maintained previous internal company specifications for system chips, secure flash, RF

transceivers and similar subsystems. Evaluated new technologies for possible inclusion in future set

top boxes including digital watermarking and volume leveling. Worked licensing agreements for

various technologies. Promoted the use of a defect tracking tool for use by development engineering.

Newisys, a Sanmina-SCI Company 3/2005 – 7/2007

Austin, Texas

Senior Hardware Engineer for a company that designed and built servers for leading OEMs.

Lead electronics designer for a customer driven 1U dual socket Opteron server. Design implementation included

Hypertransport, PCIe, USB, SATA and DDR2 technologies. Ground breaking design as the chip set had never been

used at Newisys. In addition, the customer requirement included a BMC chip that was new to market. Responsible

for bring-up, debug, EVT, and DVT of the board and related systems. On schedule delivery of prototypes to the

customer under a very aggressive schedule. Additionally, the program was delivered to production on schedule with

no electronic defects.

Designed and successfully delivered to production a small NAS router (Newisys NA-1400). The box contains a

backplane capable of accepting 4 SATA drives and a router board based around an Intel XScale processor.

Crossroads System 1/2001 – 2/2005

Austin, Texas

Senior Hardware Engineer for a company that was the industry leader in storage area network controllers/routers.

Key contributor for four routing platforms; lead engineer for three of those platforms. Designed circuits including the

main routing board (motherboard) of two modular routers, protocol boards, and embedded routers. Responsible for

the embedded router designs that made up over 75% of Crossroads’ revenue for 2004-5. Successful board designs

included PCI and PCI-X buses, MIPS and PowerPC CPUs, single data rate and DDR memory.

Protocols successfully implemented include 4Gb/sec and 2Gb/sec Fibre Channel; U320, U160 and HVD SCSI as

well as Ethernet. Successfully implemented new technologies at Crossroads including hot plug, modular routers,

I2C, JTAG testing, CompactFlash and security features.

Provided leadership in improving product quality including design and test margining, DVT, DFM and DFT. Wrote

numerous internal documents related to design and testing activities. Wrote customer technical documents.

Supervised numerous PCBA layouts with external vendors.

TEAM Development 8/1999 – 1/2001

Austin, Texas

Hardware Engineering Manager / Senior Hardware Engineer for a company that performed engineering on a

contract basis. Managed a group of engineers including assigning projects, tasks, budgets and schedules. Performed

evaluation and review of designs prior to delivery to the client. Designed circuits including a several microcontroller

in-circuit simulators, an emulator, power supplies, a stepper motor controller, a valve controller and test fixtures. The

in-circuit simulators and emulators were designed as development tools for new, unreleased microcontrollers for a

large corporation. Implemented engineering policies and procedures.

Applied Materials 5/1995 – 8/1999

Austin, Texas

Senior Engineer for the Automated Technology Division.

Project manager and lead engineer for several projects. Evaluated and analyzed sensors for wafer mapping and

wafer-on-blade detection leading to two patent applications. Designed circuits including a wafer mapping system,

DI/O PCBA, Stepper Motor Control PCBA, several backplanes, and several interlock boards. Evaluated new and

existing designs for legacy equipment and new platforms.

Created, designed, and tested a new cable set and wiring interface backplane for the 200mm CENTURA platform.

The new cable set improved EMC/EMI performance, allowed the controller to be placed farther from the mainframe,

and reduced cost.

200mm CENTURA electrical design engineering authority (corporate wide sign off of all electronics related ECOs).

Assisted in creating the architecture for future 300mm machine controls including implementing cPCI and

DeviceNet. Managed outsourcing of system controller design for 300mm machines.

SPARTA, Inc. 9/1993 – 3/1995

Huntsville, AL

Staff Engineer for multimillion dollar contractor providing engineering services to agencies of the Department of

Defense and Department of Energy. Repaired, reverse engineered, and analyzed foreign command, control,

communications, and computer equipment. Reported pertinent information to allow understanding of systems

exploited. Authored several classified reports.

Radian Corporation 6/1985 – 8/1993

Austin, TX

Held series of progressively more important engineering positions for company that provided engineering services.

Important projects include hardware development/ testing and signals analysis.

Designed and constructed circuit to perform high speed Analog-to-Digital (A/D) conversion. Interfaced A/D

converter to Digital Signal Processor (DSP) board in computer. Supervised software development for the A/D and

DSP combination. System greatly improved signals analysis efficiency. System sold to government agencies.

Studied and documented the characteristics of radar, communications, and data link signals. Analyzed the signals,

using both analog and digital techniques, to determine characteristics such as modulation schemes, duty cycles, RF

drift, system algorithms, signal format, and pulse shape. Authored and co-authored numerous classified reports.

Project director for several such efforts.

Designed and tested a digital capture circuit for a high speed, VME based spectrum analyzer. Used the circuit to

evaluate the high speed analyzer for the customer. Information provided was used by the customer in making a large

purchasing decision.

Studied the antenna radiation pattern of an over-the-horizon radar system. Studied and analyzed the various radio

wave propagation and signal physics factors affecting the antenna performance. Wrote a computer simulation to

model the antenna in detail.

Designed, constructed, and tested built-in test equipment and an operator console for an Air Force test range radar.

Additionally, trained operators for the equipment. Wrote the operations and maintenance manuals. Was project

director for this effort.

Designed, constructed, and tested Built-In Test Equipment rack and an operator console for a U.S. Army mobile test

radar. Designed and tested digital and analog circuitry within the radar system. Additionally, wrote software to

emulate the main processor for checkout of the operator console.

Evaluated a variety of sensors for a system security task. Sensors studie d include electro-optic sensors, magnetic

reed switches, Hall effect sensors, and others.

Education

M.S.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1985.

B.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1984

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