Jacob P. Boyce *th

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Colmar, PA *8915

267-***-**** (cell)

215-***-**** (Home)

Email: abnu2p@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Skills:

BSEE with extensive background in new product research and development and production (sustaining)

engineering. My experience includes hands-on engineering, troubleshooting production problems and

troubleshooting circuit problems. My experience also includes project management encompassing new

product specification and architecture development, competitive product evaluations, analog and digital

hardware development, embedded firmware for 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit processors. I have also supervised

EMC and RFI testing and have designed equipment that has passed such testing. I have had experience

with PC/Windows software development, product testing, manufacturing and customer support. Skills

include:

Embedded microcontroller hardware and firmware development for Microchip PIC, Intel,

Motorola/Freescale mc9s12a64, TI, Atmel and others.

Power electronics including DC/DC converters, switching regulators, AC/DC power supplies.

Data communications including RS-485, RS-232, RS-422, USB, GPIB, I2C, SPI, RF, ModBus,

CAN Bus, Devicenet, Profibus

Control electronics including PID, servo loops, fuzzy logic, digital FIR, digital IIR, etc.

Extensive design experience with sensor and analog signal conditioning electronics including

instrumentation amplifiers, differential amplifiers, analog filtering, FIR, IIR, etc.

Extensive experience with interfacing analog electronics to A/Ds and D/As.

Experience with interfacing to various types of displays, LCD, VFD.

Experience with PC/Windows data acquisition using Visual Basic, Visual C, Labview.

Experience writing application SW in Visual Basic for customer end use.

Experience with FDA cGMP and ISO 9000 engineering design controls.

Experience with Stage-Gate Engineering Development system.

Familiarity with IEEE Std. 1012-1986, IEC 61506, IEC 61508, ISO 17025, ISO 9000, ANSI/NCSL

Z540-1-94 and ANSI/NCSL Z540 - 2-97 standards, EN60601 medical directives, DO-254, DO-178.

Fluent with computer languages: C++, C#, C, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.Net, Labview, HTML,

Pascal, Fortran, Forth, 8051/8052 assembler, 68000 assembler, 80x86 assembler, TI 77C82

assembler, 6502 assembler, 68HC11 assembler, 6805 assembler, Microchip PIC assembler.

Professional Experience

Sr. Product Design Engineer, Firmware & Hardware Jan. 2006 to Present

Porter Instrument Company, Inc.

Hatfield, PA

Designed and built the electronics for a digital dental mixer for nitrous oxide analgesia applications.

I wrote the digital firmware for the digital dental mixer to meet the requirements of FDA Software Design Controls.

The digital mixer was designed to meet all of the EN60601-1 medical directives, UL testing and CE Mark testing and I supervised those tests

and the digital mixer passed all of those tests.

I also designed and built the test fixture to calibrate and test the digital dental mixer. The software for this test fixture was written in Visual

Basic.

Automated the company’s mass flow controller assembly line, saving the company $500k per year.

Was an integral team member in acquiring a competitors nitrous analgesia products and merging these products into our assembly line. This

included automating some of the testing to meet FDA cGMPs. This acquisition added 6 million dollars a year to the company’s sales.

Oct. 2004 to Jan. 2006

Sr. Product Engineer

Porter Instrument Company, Inc.

Hatfield, PA

Designed and built the electronics for a text based messaging device using a custom monopanel type keyboard and utilizing a vacuum

fluorescent display (VFD). This messaging device was used in dental offices to communicate from office to office. It also interfaced to personal

computers via an RS-485 serial link.

Designed and wrote the software, which involved writing in C and assembly language to interface to the keyboard and the VFD. There was

also an operating system that would allow the personal computer to store various user-defined settings such as buzzer loudness, VFD

brightness, stored doctors’ names, etc.

Designed and wrote a Visual Basic application to run on the personal computer in this system. Wrote software validation test protocols

conforming to ISO-9000 standards (IEEE Std. 1012-1986, IEC 61506, IEC 61508).

Designed and built a single tube automated volume tube system, a primary NIST standard for flow measurement, which was used to calibrate

industrial gas flow controllers. Designed and built the electronics, which involved designing the signal conditioning electronics to a pressure

sensing device, optical sensing devices and temperature sensing devices. This project also utilized analog to digital converters and digital to

analog converters. Designed and wrote the firmware, which involved writing in C and assembly language a real time operating system, which

responded to commands via a personal computer sent via a RS-232 serial link.

I also wrote the Visual Basic application program, which was the user interface and sent the various commands to run the system.

Wrote software validation test protocols conforming to ISO-9000 standards (IEEE Std. 1012-1986, IEC 61506, IEC 61508).

Designed the metrology system used to calibrate the volume tube conforming to ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-94 and ANSI/NCSL Z540 - 2-97

standards.

Wrote an application program in Visual Basic to perform some of the metrology tasks in an automated fashion.

Product Engineer Jan. 1997 to Oct. 2004

Porter Instrument Company, Inc.

Hatfield, PA

Designed the electronics and wrote the software for a 8051 based Automatic Gas Switching Manifold used for a nitrous oxide delivery system

for dental offices.

Designed and wrote the software to run the system, this involved writing a program in C and assembly language.

Wrote software validation test protocols conforming to ISO-9000 standards (IEEE Std. 1012-1986, IEC 61506, IEC 61508).

Was the lead software designer for a multi-unit gas flow controller interface used in the semi-conductor industry.

Was responsible the electronic design of the gas flow controller interface, which used COTS 8052 boards.

Was the lead project engineer and software designer for a multi-gas flow /pressure controller that was used as a main component in a gas

chromatograph.

Was responsible for redesigning the electronics.

Wrote software to interface to the gas flow/pressure controller.

Designed a test fixture to calibrate and test the gas flow/pressure controller.

Managed the initial production of these gas flow/pressure controllers until they could be transferred to production.

Project Engineer Jan. 1994 to Jan. 1997

Porter Instrument Company, Inc.

Hatfield, PA

Was the lead project manager for the software for two dental equipment sterilizers.

Designed and wrote the software for an embedded microprocessor design based pc board based on the Motorola 68000 family.

Wrote software validation test protocols conforming to ISO-9000 standards (IEEE Std. 1012-1986, IEC 61506, IEC 61508). Was responsible

for the electronics troubleshooting during the design phase.

Designed a test fixture to test the sterilizer p.c. board.

Designed the electronics and the software for a test fixture to test electronic solenoid valves in a production environment.

Wrote computer software in Quick Basic. Designed P.C. based electronics interface. Used COTS A/D, D/A boards to interface to P.C.

Mar. 1986 to Jan. 1994

Engineer

Porter Instrument Company, Inc.

Hatfield, PA

Designed the electronics and wrote the software for an office communication system used in dental offices. This design was an embedded

microprocessor system based on the Z-80 microprocessor.

Was responsible for redesigning the electronics.

Designed P.C. based test fixtures using COTS A/D, D/A boards. Minor software changes to add new features to office communication system.

Designed the electronics and wrote the software for a prototype nitrous oxide analgesia machine.

Designed the electronics of the system based on the Motorola 68000. Designed and wrote the software to run the system. Various production

troubleshooting responsibilities.

Control Systems Engineer Jan. 1984 to Mar. 1986

United States Robots

King of Prussia, PA

Was responsible for the system design of upgrades of existing and new designs of industrial robots. This consisted of writing new control

algorithms and running performance tests on the robots. The robot used the Motorola 68000 as the main controller. Each joint of the robot was

controlled by a 6502 microprocessor, which received data via an 8-bit bus. Was responsible for training application engineers on the use and

programming of the various industrial robots.

June 1983 to Jan. 1984

Electrical Engineer

DuPont Chemical Corp.

Wilmington, DE

Was responsible for the system design to develop an inductive motor test bed in which various parameters were measured while the

frequency to the motor was varied. Also involved in troubleshooting R&D test bed for the making of Kevlar yarn. Wrote software in Fortran to

graph various parameters from the data that was acquired.

Education

September 1978 to June 1983

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Professional Affiliations

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Further Education

FDA cGMP Seminar on Software Validation Guidelines

FDA cGMP Seminar on Harmonization of FDA and ISO-9000 Standards

ISO-9000 Training Seminars

FDA Seminar on Design Controls

Seminar on Designing to Minimize EMI/RFI

Visual Basic 5 Course

ISO-9000 Auditor Training

FDA cGMP Auditor Training

Microsoft Excel Course

Microsoft Word Course

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