Design Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Brian Pratt
www.brianhpratt.net abqc8s@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
May. 2002 present Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
o PhD Computer Engineering April 2011
o Research Emphasis: Reliable Digital Communications on FPGAs
o Dissertation: Analysis and Mitigation of SEU-induced Noise in FPGA-based
DSP Systems
o Graduate GPA: 3.95
- Reconfigurable Computing - Digital Communications
- Fault-tolerant Computing - Error-Control Coding
- Computer Architecture - High level Synthesis
- Computer Arithmetic - Stochastic Processes
o BS Computer Engineering April 2005
o Graduated Magna Cum Laude with 3.92 GPA
- Digital and Analog Circuit Design - Real-Time Operating Systems
- TCP/IP Networking - Computer System Architecture
- Signals and Systems - Software Engineering
Aug. 1998 Dec. 1999 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
o Three semesters with 4.0 GPA
o General Education, Advanced Math, Physics, and Computer Science
EXPERIENCE
Dec. 2011 present FPGA Design Engineer at L-3 Communications, Salt Lake City, UT
- Part of the Advanced Communications and Modem Group
- Developing FPGA-based communications components and systems
April 2004 April 2005, Research Assistant at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Aug. 2005 present - Research radiation effects and mitigation strategies on FPGAs in space systems
- Design digital circuits using VHDL and JHDL (A Java-Based HDL)
- Present various research papers concerning FPGA reliability
May 2005 Aug. 2005 Technical Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
- Researched FPGA reliability and radiation-induced error mitigation
- Developed test fixtures and VHDL modules
- Conducted practical reliability tests at proton accelerator
SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Technical Skills
o Programming in C, C++, Java, Objective-C and Matlab
o Hardware design in VHDL and Verilog
o HW synthesis/simulation with Xilinx XST and EDK, Synplicity, ModelSim
o Scripting with make, bash, csh, sed, etc.
o Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OSX
Foreign Language
o Spanish Two years of church service as a missionary in Spain (2000-2002)
Interests
o Reconfigurable Computing, Embedded Systems, Digital Communications
o Member IEEE Student Chapter, Tau Beta Pi
REFERENCES
Michael Wirthlin Brent Nelson
Brigham Young University Brigham Young University
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