Engineer Design

Jeff Golden

Senior Electrical/Electronics Engineer, Systems Engineer, Engineering

Manager and Program Manager

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Holland, MI 49424 Mobile: 616-***-****

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I am a seasoned, highly qualified and extremely versatile technical

professional equipped with extensive, multi-faceted experience and

knowledge. Being equally comfortable and effective in a wide variety of

roles, I offer my interest, experience and capabilities with a foremost

objective of providing both immediate and long term high-value

contribution toward continuing and future growth success of your

enterprise. Realization of objectives will be achieved by sagacious

application of abilities in disciplines including strategic innovation and

business planning, complex system, component and circuit level design

engineering, engineering management, product design engineering, product

development engineering, program management and associated

business/operations administration.

Key Accomplishments / Indicative Results

. Improved strategic innovation/new product development operations

effectiveness by 15 %

. Directed global new product development process audit preparations

resulting in first attempt pass

. Defined and implemented improved project team execution process and

supporting document suite

. Successfully lead, motivated and maintained high engineering team

morale amid especially challenging times

. Successfully program managed and lead the design of Bluetooth

technology product integration

. Successfully program managed and lead the design of Audio Control

Protocol (ACP) network

. Successfully lead the design, development and launch preparations for

the first OEM hands-free telephone

. Successfully served as principal investigator and achieved high marks

for Department of Defense Independent Research and Development (IRAD)

project

Strengths Summary

Matrix Organization Effectiveness Intellectual Property Strategy & Portfolio

Management

Product & Systems Engineering Innovation Practitioner/Process (5+ Patents

Granted)

Analog & RF Hardware Design Strategic Technology/Trends Tracking &

Business Linkage

RF, Wireless & Antenna Systems Engineering Process Improvement &

Engineering Administration

Embedded Systems Design, RTOS, HW/SW Innovation / Ideation / New Product

Integration Development

Trade Analysis / Decision Making Business & Product Planning / New Product

Line Ventures

Large Program/Project Management & Major/Global Budget Planning &

Leadership Administration

Standards Body Leadership & Involvement High-Performance Technical/Engineering Team

Building

Academic Resource Utilization Resource Planning, Direct/Outsource

Resource Balancing

Operations Analysis, Reporting & Product Lifecycle and Value Chain Variables

Improvements Awareness

Jeff Golden

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gold Coast Technology Partners LLC - Holland, MI

2009 - Present

MANAGING PARTNER

Founder and Managing Partner of business providing clients comprehensive

electrical/electronic engineering, technical and product business

development related consulting services.

ITT Technical Institute - Wyoming, MI

Adjunct Instructor - School of Electronics Technology

[Part Time] Dec 2009 -

Present

Johnson Controls Inc. Automotive Experience (Electronics), Holland, MI

2002 - 2008

GLOBAL PHASE 0/NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MANAGER (2007 - 2008)

Subject matter expert providing leadership and support for global Phase 0,

Advanced and New Product Development operations for the entire electronics

product portfolio. Implemented and managed annual budgets of $12M+,

analyzed operational performance measures/metrics and created executive

leadership reports and improvement action recommendations/plans.

Collaborated regularly with Product Line Directors, Chief Engineers and

Division Controllers ensuring optimal Return on Investment was achieved.

Directed and conducted research of new, emerging and evolving technology

resulting in improvements to strategic plans, tactical plans, product

roadmaps and intellectual property positions. Provided significant

contributions to the successful design and implementation of an improved

Intellectual Property strategy and associated process.

Attained innovation process improvement initiative implementation team lead

role in response to electronics division enterprise wide employee survey.

Provided team organizational/logistics, data analysis/findings reporting

and action planning support.

Represented JCI interests in the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA)

organization. Provided technical contribution toward the specification and

deployment of Dedicated Short Range Communication System (DSRC) technology.

ADVANCED ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING MANAGER (2002 - 2007)

Provided leadership and day to day management of the North American

Advanced Electronics Engineering Group holding responsibility for

sustaining, differentiating and breakthrough innovation for the entire

electronics product portfolio (per above). Developed and managed a top

echelon technical staff (hardware, software and ideation engineers)

averaging 7 direct reports with peak of 10 throughout tenure in role. Also

developed and managed outside support resources including engineering

services firms and universities. Duties further included technical problem

solving activities, extended team building/collaboration with industrial

design and marketing teams, general management of all projects and

associated work products, and financial management/accountability and

monthly leadership reporting for the associated $5M - $9M annual budgets.

Manager role steadily and naturally expanded to support tactical planning,

strategic planning, product planning, intellectual property planning and

associated actions and initiatives execution.

JCI Purview Summary:

Product purview includes embedded telematics (32 bit embedded system with

voice/speech UI), hands-free telephony modules, instrument clusters,

displays (including multi-modal UI equipped), rear seat entertainment

units, electronic compass, navigation, HomeLink, wireless keyfob, battery

management systems, interior lighting/switches and seat controllers.

Technology purview includes Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, USB, RFID, FireWire,

Skinplex, Intellon, Zigbee, Z-Wave, GPS, inertial sensor, CAN bus, natural

language speech recognition, voice recognition, consumer electronics device

connectivity and characteristics integration, active/passive sensor,

camera, touch/proximity screen control, haptic controls, embedded

processors (SH4), embedded RTOS (QNX) and general hardware (analog,

digital, power supplies, interface).

Design/Disciplines purview includes tactical outsourcing, project and

program management, research driven product line expansion investigation,

embedded systems design and development process/tools, product

interaction/user experience design (working closely with internal and

outside subject matter experts), hardware/software integration, DFMEA,

SFMEA, 8-D, prototype/demonstration properties fabrication,

prototype/demonstration properties functional test and verification,

financial management, consumer/industry research, ideation activities,

competitive benchmarking, process development, product planning, product

marketing support, people/resource management, salary planning, career

planning/coaching and performance assessment.

Jeff Golden

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Visteon Automotive Systems - Allen Park, MI

1989 - 2002

Previously Ford Motor Company Electronics Division - Dearborn, MI

TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL - RF and WIRELESS SYSTEMS (1999 - 2002)

Attained role as Bluetooth technology subject matter expert. Lead the

circuit and system level design and integration of Bluetooth

technology/functionality into various end products. Implemented trade

analysis to effect best solutions to meet cost, timing and performance

requirements. Designed double DIN radio bezel integrated/embedded dipole

Bluetooth antenna utilizing antenna test range measurements and analytic

methods. Represented Visteon interests globally in the Bluetooth Special

Interest Group by serving as Task Group Chairperson, Automotive Expert

Group - RF/EMC. Provided technical and leadership contributions toward the

specification and deployment of Bluetooth in the automotive domain.

Lead architecture design, circuit/component level and system level design

of highly complex communications and radio platform/module consisting of

antenna system, broadcast radio tuners, wireless transceivers (CDMA, GSM,

Bluetooth), GPS receiver, digital signal processors (fixed point 16 and 24

bit), embedded microcontroller (32 bit PowerPC, OMAP), communication

networks (ACP, MOST), analog/high-power audio signal reproduction and

amplification, Real-Time Operating System (PSOS), and associated

DSP/Operating software requirements management.

Served on cross product line technical review board providing

advice/mentoring to design teams.

SENIOR ELECTRONICS HARDWARE DESIGN and SYSTEMS ENGINEER (1996 - 1999)

Lead architecture design, circuit/component level and system level design

of in-vehicle computing and entertainment platform. Performed design

analysis and trade analysis to arrive at optimal design configurations

relative to performance, cost and timing requirements. Trade analysis input

variables included current product technology reusability, primary

microcontroller alternatives, EMC risk (frequency

plan/coexistence/desensitization/saturation, radiated, conducted), thermal

management, package volume, HMI/UI considerations and RTOS compatibility

(driver availability, abstraction layer complexity, etc.).

Attained role as MOST network subject matter expert. Designed and

fabricated (schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout using PROTEL tool

suite) initial MOST network bench prototype modules for in-house systems

and software development purposes.

Attained role as GPS technology and chip/circuit level solutions subject

matter expert. Lead early technology integration investigations including

candidate chip set performance/availability and antenna options performance

and constraints analysis.

AUDIO SYSTEMS ENGINEER / ARCHITECT and COMPONENT INTERFACE DESIGN ENGINEER

(1992 - 1996)

Lead system architecture design and component external interface designs

for all audio system upper level assemblies deployed and interconnected in

various configurations/permutations to provide OEM audio system end-item

options. Circuit/Component level designs included worst case circuit

analyses and comprehensive system level influenced simulation methods

utilizing the SABER simulation tool suite. Collaborated regularly with

audio technical specialists to establish and verify optimal specifications

for interface circuit performance/design.

Lead system design and physical layer design for Ford/Visteon Audio Control

Protocol (ACP) network. Utilized worst case analysis, system level

influenced simulation methods and empirical (lab and in-vehicle)

test/measurement throughout the development effort. Provided technical

support for software/protocol development including message/baud frame

timing skew analysis.

Represented Visteon interests in the ITS Data Bus (IDB) Forum - Chair Task

Group 3 (Low Impedance Stereo Audio Bus). Provided technical and leadership

contributions toward the development and specification of IDB.

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS and COMPONENT DESIGN ENGINEER (1989 - 1992)

Successfully lead the product design and production readiness aspects of

the first OEM (Ford Motor) regular production, vehicle embedded, voice

recognition controllable, fully audio system integrated, hands-free

cellular telephone system (1991 Model Year introduction). Lead the

circuit/component level specification and design of the audio system

interface for audio and switching control signals. Collaborated regularly

with audio component engineers and cellular phone module supplier to ensure

optimal interface performance was achieved. Utilized empirical/jury methods

and Speech Transmission Index measurements to configure audio system

parameters for optimal acoustic/hands-free performance.

Jeff Golden

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Visteon Automotive Systems (Continued)

Visteon Purview Summary:

Product purview includes design, development and deployment of Cellular/PCS

equipped embedded telematics (32 bit embedded system with voice/speech UI),

hands-free telephony modules, AM/FM radios, SDARS/Digital radios, GPS

equipped navigation radios, distributed audio systems/components, audio

amplifiers, rear seat entertainment units and embedded

computational/display modules.

Technology purview includes Bluetooth, broadcast radio (analog AM/FM, IBOC

[HD Radio], DAB [Eureka 147]), Cellular/PCS (analog, CDMA, GSM), Software

Radio, GPS, inertial sensor, vehicle networks (ACP, J1750, ITS), voice

recognition, signal processing (analog, digital), embedded processors

(PowerPC, OMAP), embedded RTOS (PSOS), Digital Signal Processors (Philips

fixed point, MADRE), and general hardware (analog, digital, power supplies,

interface).

Design/Disciplines purview includes embedded systems design and development

process/tools, hardware/software integration test and verification,

prototype/demonstration properties fabrication, wireless systems

engineering (link budget, architecture trade-offs, system level coexistence

analysis of Bluetooth and other ISM band transmitters in close proximity to

Satellite Digital Audio Radio Systems and GPS receivers, etc.),

Cellular/PCS and GPS chip set/module technology specification, performance

characterization/evaluation, integration, and field test/prove out,

Software Radio technology and associated signal processing, radio

architecture, and implementation analysis/development, RF design, analog

design, design for EMC, schematic capture and PCB layout (Orcad, Protel),

simulation tools (SABER, MATLAB, EEsof), DFMEA, SFMEA, 8-D, audio test and

measurement, acoustic test and measurement (acoustic echo cancellation,

microphone noise reduction, speech transmission index, jury evaluation,

vehicle audio system equalization, audio system performance), antenna test

and measurement, field test and measurement, project management and trade

analysis.

General Dynamics Land Systems Division - Sterling Heights MI

1986 - 1989

TESTABILITY ENGINEER - RELIABILITY and MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING

Executed formal testability analysis, embedded diagnostic development, and

implementation of military standard 2165 on various analog, digital,

electro-optic (FLIR), C3I, Mil Std 1553B and VHSIC technology based

electronic systems associated with M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank

development. Served as Principal Investigator for "Superconductor

Applications" Department of Defense (DOD) sponsored Independent Research

and Development project. Achieved high final report marks from DOD

evaluators.

FORMAL EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Science (1991), Electrical Engineering, Wayne State University,

Detroit, MI Major:

Communications and Circuits / Minor: Electrical Power Systems and

Distribution

Bachelor of Science (1986), Electrical Engineering, Lawrence Technological

University, Southfield, MI

Fundamentals of Engineering/Engineer In Training (FE/EIT) Certificate

(1986), State of Michigan

Short Courses/Seminars completed include Introduction to Six Sigma,

Introduction to Quality Engineering, Kepner-Trego Problem Solving &

Decision Making, Situational Leadership, Interviewing and Selection

Skills, Continuous Improvement Discussion Process and numerous others

(technical and leadership/non-technical).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and STANDARDS BODIES INVOLVEMENT SUMMARY

Present:

. Member IEEE:

o Power & Energy Society

o Antennas and Propagation Society

o Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

Past:

. Academic advisory board member, Computer Science and Engineering

Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn

. Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA) - Member (Dedicated Short

Range Communications Focus)

. Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) - Chair Automotive Expert Group

- RF/EMC

. ITS Data Bus (IDB) Forum - Chair Task Group 3 - Low Impedance Stereo

Audio Bus (LISA Bus)

. Software Defined Radio Forum (SDRF) - Member Air Interface Working

Group

. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) - Member Subcommittee TR-

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