Engineer Design

Thomas A. Tritthart Home: 209-***-****

PO Box *** Cell: 209-***-****

Email: ***@*********.***

Crows Landing, CA 95313

Objective: A challenging position as a Design Engineer/Project Manager/Applications

Engineer/Manager with a growing computer related company or

organization.

Hardware Experience:

Hosts: IBM PC, DEC, SUN, Data General.

Test equipment: Signal Generator, Logic Analyzers, Analog Oscilloscopes,

Digital Sampling Oscilloscopes, Time Domain Analyzers

Spectrum Analyzers and Jitter measurement systems.

EMI Analysis, Low and High frequency circuit design.

CPU/Microcontroller: 80x86, Z80, 6800, AMD 2901, NEC, Atmel AVR Tiny

and Mega.

PCB Design: Mentor Graphics PADS, Cadence Layout.

Software Experience:

Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 3x, 95, 98, 2000, XP

UNIX, VMS, AOS and AOS/VS

Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel. Visio and PowerPoint

LabView Certificates in Basics I and II

PADS 2007 Layout, DxDesigner

OrCad Layout, Schematic Capture

IMSI TurboCad

‘C’ and Assembly language programming

Revolution Application programming for Windows

Work Experience:

Low EMI, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA

Electrical Engineering Consultant 2008 to present

Responsible for the engineering, design and technical support issue for a Spread Spectrum

Oscillator based company. Hands on design of all products and manufacturing test equipment.

Developed test platforms, test parameters and product datasheets for more than 20 products.

Designed and launched company website.

Onanon, Inc. Milpitas, CA

Electrical Engineering Consultant 2008 to present

Designed LED drivers for low power low cost applications using switching and linear devices.

Contributed in the design of cable and connector components for various medical applications.

Medconx, Inc. /EMC Component Group Santa Clara, CA

Senior Electrical Design Engineer 2003 to 2008

Responsible for the electrical design of medical devices and associated test equipment. Designs

included the use of a wide variety of semiconductor devices including microcontrollers, real time

clocks and power control devices. Each device included electrical and firmware design, PCB

layout, test and final validation in compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14385 standards. Each

device required the design, assembly and validation of supporting test equipment for

manufacturing and field testing. Documentation included production level bill of materials,

assembly and test procedures. Designed servo systems for medical applications requiring

rotational positioning and sensing. Designed and provided technical support for line of SSCG

clock products.

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Cypress Semiconductor San Jose, CA

Senior Applications Engineer 2001 to 2003

APPLICATIONS ENGINEER responsible for support of Low EMI SSCG clock generators and

JDIMM memory products. Developed validation and test programs for integrated circuit products

using LabView programming platform. Developed several modules/VI’s and sub VI’s to perform

automated characterization testing and data logging of integrated circuits. This included control

and data acquisition using GPIB, Serial and Parallel Port devices. International Microcircuits

(IMI) merged with Cypress Semiconductor in February 2001.

International Microcircuits Inc. (IMI) Milpitas, CA

Marketing Applications Manager 1995 to 2001

1999 – 2001 MARKETING MANAGER, responsible for product marketing and applications of

Spread Spectrum Clock Generator products throughout Europe and US.

1995 – 1999 SR. TECHNICAL MARKETING ENGINEER, responsible for the development of

new Spread Spectrum Clock Generator (SSCG) product designs for IMI clock generators.

Experienced with PLL synthesizer design. New Product Development and Data Sheet

generation. Resolve customer/application problems. Bench test and characterization of

prototype devices. Designed and built application and customer evaluation boards. Developed

and presented many technical presentations to large volume computer and peripheral

manufacturers throughout USA, Europe and Pacific Rim.

Self Employed/Contract Fremont, CA

Hardware Design Engineer 1991 to 1995

Developed several single board control applications implemented with bit-slice and PC-based

hardware. Hardware designs were intended for use in Industrial and Machine control (CNC),

including machine program interfaces and data transports schemes. Designed servo systems

requiring rotational positioning and sensing systems used in CNC machine lathes and mills.

System Industries Milpitas, CA

Design Engineer 1981 to 1991

1989 - 1991 - MANAGER, CUSTOM PRODUCTS ENGINEERING for a computer disk and tape

subsystems manufacturing firm with manufacturing locations in Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland,

over 400 employees and annual sales of $80 million. Responsible for coordinating custom

product development and pricing with sales force, managing product design, building new

products in engineering lab, hiring and supervising engineers, managing projects. Designed

custom disk subsystems for company revenues of $1 million per month. Designed storage

subsystems for Boeing RCAS and Ford Aerospace.

Generated manufacturing test procedures.

1985 - 1989 - DIGITAL DESIGN ENGINEER IV. Designed custom disk and tape applications

including firmware design.

1981 - 1985 - DIGITAL DESIGN ENGINEER III. Responsible for hardware, firmware and

software support of current and new products.

Education: Foothill College Los Altos, CA

Electrical Engineering/Computer Science 1971-73

Merced College Merced, CA

Electrical Engineering/Computer Science 1969-71

U.S. Army Signal Corp. School Ft. Monmouth, NJ

Microwave Radio Repair 1966-67

Atwater High School, Diploma, 1962 – 66, Atwater, CA

References: References and salary history available on request.

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