system engineering, marketing, test development, project management

STEPHEN THUDIUM

********@***.*** San Diego, CA 619-***-****

SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER

MPEG Protocols ~ Digital Communication ~ Video Compression ~ Linux ~MatLab ~ Television IBM Rational, Lifecycle Management Software ~ Embedded Engineering ~ Internet Protocols

C, Java, RTOS, VxWorks, SNMP, UML/preparing for sysML cert. ~ Diverse Test Measurement

Over 20 years experience developing and integrating cable and satellite television equipment, digital satellite radio receivers, and airborne radar jammers. Areas of expertise include: MPEG, digital video, software, digital communications, IP networks, with robust across the board experience. Demonstrated success developing high complexity products and building teamwork. Strong communication skills, both oral and written. Proven innovator and cross-functional team leader with extensive process and systems engineering skills in commercial, consumer and the defense industry (DOD).

EXPERIENCE

MOTOROLA, San Diego, CA 1997-2013

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Responsible for system architecture design, feature & interface design and specification, requirement management, system integration and test planning, extensive hands-on testing, user documentation. Provided generalist support to design teams and other system teams. Digital video/audio broadcast, satellite broadcast, standards development.

Developed a new methodology for creating system level test plans and procedures and wrote many of the plans and procedures myself. The plans and procedures were delivered on time.

Created and developed individual specifications for multiple model variants and versions and applied principles of systems engineering to these specifications. I led the systems engineering group in automating much of the documentation generation process.

Identified common requirements between thirteen different satellite receiver models and thus minimized design time and risk by allowing design re-use.

Prepared new system specifications for new satellite receiver models including specifications whenever new, customer-requested features were added. Utilized a methodology to first identify “top-level features” and then add “sub-requirements” that more completely described each top-level feature. As a result, the design engineers and test engineers more readily understood the product objectives. The test engineers were also able to derive test cases that mapped directly to the top-level features.

Developed new communication messages and modified existing messages to support newly added customer requested features to multiple, complex subsystems. The new/modified messages were well defined and the supporting documentation was thorough and complete. As much as possible, the messages were designed to be compatible with the existing hardware and software.

Collaborated with the system test team by executing – unsupervised – hands-on tests in the laboratory. This helped the system test team meet their schedule for several products.

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Key member of team to dispose of bugs, including making decisions as to whether or not a particular bug needed to be resolved in the current product version or in a subsequent product version. Modified specifications to “work-around” the bug and assisted in debugging in the lab.

GENERAL INSTRUMENT (Acquired by Motorola), San Diego, CA 1993-1997

Manager of System Integration & Test (SI&T)

Responsible for Managed system integration and test team for testing new MPEG products including video and audio compression/decompression, satellite transmission, and subscriber management.

Functioned as Chief test architect.

Introduced a new test plan format that increased the focus on test objectives, in addition to the test procedures. This new emphasis forced the test designer to focus upfront on the “what” (objective) he was trying to test so that he was better prepared to develop the “how” (procedure) he was to test. This reduced the time needed to prepare test plans and better prepared the tester for what he had to test.

Hired, trained, and supervised 16 new engineers. The test team was on-line when the product came into the laboratory.

Managed the design and building of a new $3M lab. Instead of the usual ad-hoc, do-it-as-you-go-along method that most design/test teams use to build their laboratory, this lab was designed, upfront, with the “big-picture” view of test objectives and was focused to test and integrate multiple product models and their versions.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego – Extension:

Embedded Engineering Certificate

Object Oriented Design Certificate

Java Certificate

C/C++ Certificate

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois

M.S.E.E., Communication & Information Theory, CDMA

Thesis: Minimum Distance Decoding of Convolutional Self-Orthogonal Codes

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chicago, Illinois

B.S., Electrical Engineering

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