Engineer Design

Benjamin Kamen

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Web: http://www.benjammin.net

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Synopsis:

Highly adaptive self-taught Engineer/Analyst with over 25 years of

computer/electronics engineering experience. Knowledge covers a wide range of

concepts at levels of complexity ranging from circuit level electronics design

to computer systems to large scale networks enabling the ability to view

situations from a multitude of perspectives.

Culminating from all this previous experience, I've learned to architect, plan,

provision, implement and maintain complex systems which helped bring success to

the companies I've worked for through either the realization of substantial

savings in operating costs or through the systems requiring little maintenance

or repair.

As an excellent self starter typically needing no guidance/supervision, my

roles of employment since 1992 have been reporting directly to senior

management/staff.

Past employments included supervisory and instructional roles as I have also

managed project groups as well as trained employees through seminars, training

sessions and one-on-one assistance bringing better productivity through

employees which have a better understanding of the company's product, their

environment and the technology in it.

The roles that typically utilize this experience best are small companies or start-ups

where a single person must wear multiple hats. Because I come with most of my own

lab equipment obtained from my years of consulting or carrying on my hobbies at home,

I can now offer my services as a more complete solution than most others in the market.

Skills Summary Inventions: US Patent: (Issued: 2002-05-21) - Telephony signal transmission over a data communications network...US Patent: (Issued: 2001-10-23) - Re-routing telephony communications traffic through a private branch exchange... Scientific Papers/Publishings:

Larkin, R.P. and Kamen, B. Migration at low height over the mountainous areas of Vermont, USA. National Wind Coordinating Committee, San Antonio, TX, November 2006.

Larkin, R.P. and Kamen, B. Feasibility of using WSR-88D Radar Data to Characterize Bird Migration in the Mountainous Lanscape of Vermont, USA. INHS Technical Report 2007 (31), Issued 18 May 2007. Multi-Channel Coherent Wildlife Radio-tag Receiver and Direction Finder

(US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Steven J. Franke and George W. Swenson, Jr. - Co-Principal Investigators

Todd Borrowman, Research Assistant

Benjamin Kamen, Engineering Assistant General Electronics: (Test & Measurement)

Audio Analyzers: HP (331A, 334, 8903B), Tektronix, Audio Precision (System One)Curve Tracers: Tektronix DMM/VOM: Digital/Analog - Fluke, HP, Simpson, B&K Precision, Tandy, etc...Freq Counters: HP(5314, 5452), Tektronix, Optoelectronics LCR Meters: Agilent, Leader, Tandy, B&K PrecisionLogic Analyzers: HP/Agilent (HP1660CS, MSO6000's)Oscilliscopes: Digital/Analog - HP/Agilent(1701, 1740, 546xx's, MSO6000's), TekTronix(465, 565, 2215, 2467, TDS220's) and more.. Power Supplies: Tektronix, Leader, Others. RF Signal Generators: HP, Boonton, Motorola RF Modulation Meters: Boonton 82ADSpectrum Analyzers: HP(8920, 8590A, 8591A), Tektronix TDR/OTDR: HP, CATV Vaccuum Tube: TVB-2 Misc: Electronic Loads, SWR Meters, Antenna Analyzers, etc...PCB Design/Layout: Pulsonix, PADS, Protel, others Specialty RF: X-Band Tracking/Stationary Radar Restoration, Operation and Maintenance Enterprise WF-100 (WindFinder - from EEC) Tracking Radar Computer Technologies: Operating Systems: (Alphabetical Order)

AIX (IBM) UnixAtari TOS (Atari 8-bit & ST series)Commodore 64 & AmigaMS & IBM DOSLinux (Fedora, RedHat, YellowDog, Ubuntu) OS/2Sun Solaris/SunOS Unix (Sparc & x86)Windows (1-3, 3.11(WFW), 9x, NT 3.51-4.0 (plus TermServ),

Win2000 WkStn/Server (w/TermServ) ), WinXP

(Apps Used: MS Office, Exchange, Outlook... you name it.)

Hardware Platforms: Intel x86, Dec Alpha, Motorola

680x0 & PowerPC (Mac & IBM RS/6000), Sparc/Ultra-Sparc (Sun), 6502, 6800.

Embedded MicroControllers: Microchip PIC 16/18/24/30-33/32 Series (Hardware and Firmware Design using CCS PIC-C and Microchip C18/C30/C32), ARM (Samsung, Intel), ATmel AVR, Motorola 6805, Parallax Stamps I & II

Languages: C, TCL/TK, Perl, VHDL, Verilog, Basic, Assembler (for 6502 & MicroChip), Unix Shells(ksh,bash)

Networking: TCP/IP, IPX, PPP, NetBIOS/NetBeui, 10/Fast/Gigabit Ethernet using both Copper and

Single/Multi-mode Fiber (and some Token Ring), 802.11 (w/WEP, AUTH and more), IPsec,

VPN Tunnels

Services: NFS, NIS, DNS, TFTP/FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMB, DHCP/BOOTP, NTP, RADIUS, RSYNC, SMTP w/AUTH & STARTTLS,

VoIP, Legato Networker, Veritas Products, WebSense and more.

Hardware:

L2/L3 Switches(Routers): Extreme Networks (Summit) and

Cisco (16xx,17xx,25xx,26xx,45xx,72xx Routers / Catalyst 1900,2900,3500,4000,5000 Switches) L2 Switches: 3Com, SMC, Linksys and others Packet Sniffers: Shomiti, GN NetTest, Niksun, Ethereal, Unix (tcpdump) Packet Generator/Analyzers: Ixia Firewalls: Netscreen, Cisco (PIX), LinkSys, Netgear and others..

Cisco Certifications: Cisco IP Telephony (Call Manager 3.x - VoIP)

Email/Anti-SPAM: Norton SMTP Gateways, Sendmail (UNIX), SPAMassassin, MIMEdefang

VPN, IPsec (Netscreen/Unix/Windows) Telecommunications Technology: Resources: POTS, T1/E1 (ISDN-PRI/BRI, Robbed Bit

Signalling - E&M Wink/Immediate Start, FrameRelay, ETS300, DASS2 and more

T3

Hardware:

Adtran Switched Products(Atlas800/800+ & Atlas550, L128T)Ascend MAX/Pipeline products (Max1800, Max4000 & 6000 series, MaxTNT)W&G and TTC T-BERT AnalyzersGordon Kapes, Inc. Series 920 & 930 PFT/SimulatorsOther various CSU/TSU/DSU product lines (Adtran, ADC/Kentrox)

PBX's:

Mitel SX-200Light (5 yrs) supporting ~185 lines/~150 users.Lucent Definity G3SI(light exposure) supporting Multi-T1/E1 Test EnvironmentNortel Meridian Series(light exposure) consulting customers on Trunk ConfigLucent 5ESS Series(light exposure) consulting customers on Trunk Config Other Skills of Interest: Private Pilot and Aircraft Owner Electronics Hobbyist (Schematic/PCB Design, Layout, fabrication, etc Designing & Operating personal Internet Domain/WebServer/MailServer Brief Employment History Summary

Consulting Engineer - Jun. 2005 to Present

- Nov. 2005 to Present

Desc:Consulting Embedded Hardware/Firmware Design Engineer

HI-I, LLC- Feb. 2010 to Present

Desc:Hardware, Firmware Design w/Product Prototyping

- Feb. 2002 to Present

Desc:I.T./Networking Consultant

- Jun. 2006 to present

Desc:Hardware Design Engineer in various capacities to and departments

- Feb. 2010 to Mar. 2011

Desc:Hardware Design Engineer

- Feb. 2010 to Sep. 2010

Desc:Embedded Firmware Engineer

NCAR/UCAR - Mar. 2006 to Nov. 2009

Desc:Consulting Hardware/Embedded Firmware Engineer

- Feb. 2010 to Present

Desc:SCH/PCB layout, Product Prototyping (Assembly, CNC)

- Jun. 2008 to Present

Desc:Consulting Design Engineer

Assembly Alternatives, Inc.- May. 2011 to Jun. 2011

Desc:Hardware Redesign (w/SCH/PCB Layout)

- May. 2008 to Sep. 2010

Desc:SCH/PCB layout, Product Prototyping (Assembly, Firmware, Testing)

- Aug. 2005 to Jan. 2006

Desc:Consulting Hardware Design and IT Engineer

Innotech, Inc. - Nov. 2005 to Jan. 2006 and Jan. 2006 to Jul. 2006

Desc:Consulting Hardware Design Engineer

- Jul. 2006 to Oct. 2007

Desc:Consulting Hardware/Embedded Systems Design Engineer

Velaport, LLC.- Jun. 2010 to Aug. 2010

Desc:Hardware Design Engineer- Jun. 2003 to Oct. 2009

Job Desc:Hardware Design Engineer

Consultant- Mar. 2002 to Jun. 2003

Job Desc: Information Systems/Networking/Electronics/Telecommunications Consultant

Resource Communications, Inc.- Apr. 2001 to Mar. 2002

Job Desc: Technical Director and Networking/Telecommunications Consultant

Open Port Technology, Inc.- Feb. 1995 to Feb. 2001

Job Desc:Final Position: Technical Director

Previous Positions: Manager of LAN, Hardware R&D, In-House/On-Site Customer Support and Member of the

Advanced Technology Group.

- Dec. 1992 to Feb. 1995

Job Desc:R&D Lab Technician,

Network Administrator and Computer Support Technician

- Aug. 1989 to Oct. 1992

Job Desc: Electronics Repair Technician

Post-Newsweek Cable - 1985 to Aug. 1989

Job Desc: Electronics Repair Technician / Lineman

Computerland of Northbrook - Apr. 1986 to Dec. 1987

Job Desc: Computer Service Technician / On-site Consultant

Video Technology, Inc. - Oct. 1985 to Mar. 1986

Job Desc: Electronics Repair Technician

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