Engineer Design

RANDY HIAM

Murphy, TX 972-***-**** *********@*******.***

Summary

Electrical Engineer with a strong understanding of hardware/software interfacing. Extensive experience in

computer, embedded, and general hardware/software/system specification, design, implementation,

testing, maintenance, and documentation. Primarily digital, some analog circuit design experience, plus

software design experience.

Experience - Ability to recognize the implications of various project and individual design

decisions on long-term quality, reliability, and maintainability of the product.

Track Record - Proven record of profitable, high quality, low maintenance, cost effective,

software-friendly designs.

Knowledge - Excellent grasp of design approaches and trade-offs required to generate optimum

product output vs. cost, functionality, and usability considerations.

Versatility - Dual hardware/software development background resulting in optimal programming

interfaces. Experienced in all phases of product development from concept through

production/maintenance.

Documentation - Accomplished technical writer with experience in generating specifications,

user manuals, engineering change documents, and other types of documentation.

Recent Experience

Alcatel-Lucent, Plano, Texas 1985-2008

International company providing a broad range of voice, data, and video communication products and

services to end-users worldwide.

Electrical Design Engineer, Sr. Design Engineer, Staff Design Engineer, (Team Lead)

Developed and maintained diverse circuits and systems including printed circuit board (PCB), shelf,

and frame level designs.

• Generated over $500 million revenue from circuit board designs.

• Designed system enhancements that doubled, then tripled port density per frame.

• Circuit design using discrete & integrated semiconductors & components, including FPGA,

PLD, CPU, DSP, memory, ASIC, Op Amp, and other digital & analog devices. Development

& documentation tools included Microsoft Office, InterLeaf, Mentor Graphics (BoardStation,

HDL Designer, ModelSim), Actel, Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, & others, eg, PADS & ORCAD.

• CPU/memory, I/O, Gb Ethernet, Gb Fibre Channel, RS-232/RS-422, T1/E1, voice echo

cancellation, & miscellaneous PCB designs using surface mount & thru-hole technology.

• Designed, developed, & unit tested multi-layer circuit boards.

• Documented circuit board, subsystem, and system hardware components, primarily at the

circuit board level, via revision-controlled engineering documents.

• Maintained hardware designs via engineering change orders (ECOs) for design

enhancements & corrections.

• Worked with Test Engineering department to develop production test fixtures & software.

• Researched, tracked, & solved obsolescence & RoHS issues for hardware components.

• Reviewed & approved hardware related documents for the Technical Publications

Department. Reviewed Marketing documents.

• Member of various product, process, and quality improvement teams. Occasional

management assignments, as needed, with 5 - 7 subordinates.

Additional Experience

Computer Automation, Inc., Richardson, Texas

Minicomputer manufacturer with products generally embedded into their customers' equipment.

Design Engineer

Designed processor, memory, and I/O printed circuit boards. Developed and maintained CPU

instruction set microcode. Wrote test software for hardware design verification.

Manager - Small Computer Development Department

Managed Hardware Development, Software Development, Document Control, and support staff

totaling approximately 15 employees.

F&M Systems Company, Inc., Dallas, Texas

Electronic systems division of Fishbach and Moore, Inc. (international electrical and mechanical

contractor).

Senior Systems Programmer

Software systems and subsystems design, implementation, and maintenance for a diverse range of

products, including energy management equipment, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data

Acquisition) systems, and other microprocessor and minicomputer based electronic systems - mainly

Assembly Language based.

Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, Texas

Commercial, military, and geophysical research products. Integrated circuit design/manufacturing.

Design Engineer

Circuit board designs related to helicopter and airport surface detection radar systems, including

electromechanical interface and power supply design. Wrote mini-computer software for

topographical analysis system. Radar theory of operations manual (and other) technical writing.

DOD Secret security clearance (inactive).

Education

BSEE, University of Alabama

• Dean’s List (5 semesters) • Pi Mu Epsilon (Math Honorary)

• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary) • IEEE Treasurer

• Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering • 3.45 GPA

Honorary)

Activities

Men’s Senior Baseball League – active player on local league and world series (all-star) baseball

teams; 1 world championship & several world series playoff appearances.

Bowling – participant in various local, regional, and national amateur and professional bowling

tournaments, plus local leagues.

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