Thomas Schumann

** ******** *****

San Ramon, CA 94583

925-***-**** or 925-***-****

ac1ydl@r.postjobfree.com

Goal

My goal is to work with an innovative, dynamic team of individuals in a diverse environment with a focus on customer satisfaction. The best way to protect future growth and prosperity is to listen to the needs of internal and external customers today. Customers, internal and external, are the best feedback for continuously improving product and service.

Experience

I have worked successfully in large and small groups, as an engineering director, in sales, in business and engineering development, directly with customers as a Field Applications Engineer and "behind the scenes" in the lab as a development engineer. I have development experience with micro-controllers from Motorola/Freescale, ARM, Intel, Siemens, Microchip, Dallas, National Semi, Hitachi, NEC and Oki processors. My programming experience is in C, PL/M, BASIC, Pascal, Prolog and assembly language for numerous processors and microcontrollers. I also have some experience with Python and Java. CAD experience includes printed circuit board schematic capture and layout (OrCAD, Altium, PCB123, MultiSim, etc.), programmable logic, and limited mechanical design (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).

Employment History

Jan 2015 – Present Director of Engineering – Adara Power, Inc.; San Jose, CA Duties: direct and act as a principal in the development of an innovative energy storage system (ESS) for residential solar systems. Developed from the ground up, the ESS product developed for JuiceBox/Adara Power was a finalist for green product of the year in 2016 and is deployed in twelve states nationwide. Mar 2010 – Jan 2015 Firmware Engineer – Texas Instruments, Inc.; Santa Clara, CA Duties: design, prototype and test battery management systems based on integrated circuits designed and developed at Texas Instruments. Responsible for circuit board design, firmware and software implementation, as well as training of system use, troubleshooting and aid to third party designers. Systems were deployed at major automotive manufacturers world-wide.

Mar 2008 –2010 Principal Engineer – Cool Earth Solar, Inc.; Livermore, CA Duties: design, prototype and test a Concentrated Photo-Voltaic solar energy collection system. System included a mixed Industrial Ethernet and RS-485 communications system, two axis motorized tracking system, water cooling system, air supply system and air pressure regulation system. System incorporated a distributed, multi-processor system based primarily on Microchip's PIC18F and PIC24FJ series processor families. Jan 2008 – Mar 2008 Contract Development Engineer – R0R3 Devices; Danville, CA Duties: complete a short firmware development project for Microchip PIC18F2510 processor for a soccer training aid prototype; firmware was written in assembly language and utilized a patent pending design.

Feb 2001 – Jan 2008 Telecom Specialist/CFAE - Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim Integrated Products; San Jose, CA

Duties: help equipment manufacturers design with the ICs provided by Dallas/Maxim, troubleshoot designs, gather customer feedback on IC features in order to create specification proposals for new IC designs, create application note content. Mar 1992 – Oct 2003 Consulting Engineer – Venice Design; San Ramon, CA (my own consulting business) Worked as a consulting/contract engineer interspersed with full time employment opportunities, primarily developing circuit boards and firmware for embedded systems. Started with the design of a control system for an industrial laser welding system at Martek Lasers in Livermore (assembly for PIC16C84), which was bought by Hobart Laser Products (where I then worked full time from Sep 1992 – Sep 1994). Continued as embedded system design engineer on weekends to support special customer design requests while working in distribution until 2003. A list of some of the projects completed during this period is listed in the Additional Consulting History section below. May 1997 - Jun 1998 Field Applications Engineer - Exis; San Jose, CA Duties: provide technical support to sales staff on customer calls as a direct factory representative for NEC, Vantis and a number of other manufacturers; give technical training to sales staff, and to end users in the selection and implementation of various devices (processors, FPGAs, CPLDs, memory, etc.) represented by Exis. Mar 1996 - May 1997 Technical Sales Manager - Future Electronics; San Jose, CA Duties: technical support for the development of new business for an electronic parts distributor; created and presented regular technical training sessions to sales and technical field engineering teams; supported various manufacturers (Microchip, Motorola, National Semiconductor, etc.).

Aug 1995 - Mar 1996 General Manager (transition) - InteLock Technologies, Inc.; Pleasanton, CA Duties: managed all aspects of daily activity for the Pleasanton facility of InteLock after a buy-out. Continued to manage the development team (electronics and firmware), but also oversaw the production and shipping departments.

Oct 1994 - Aug 1995 Designer - InteLock Technologies, Inc.; Pleasanton, CA Duties: specify, design and implement designs for electronic locks, smart-card based data management systems; also managed a small team of developers. Most firmware was implanted in assembly language for various Motorola 8-bit processors. Sep 1992 - Sep 1994 Systems Engineer - Hobart Laser Products, Inc.; Livermore, CA Duties: schematic capture, PCB layout, firmware design for industrial high power laser welding equipment and the associated motion control systems (CNC machine control and robotic arm control); I designed systems and circuits, programmed the system firmware and aided in the install of the finished equipment at end user sites (eg. Honda Motor Corp. in Marysville, OH); also created user documents (eg. operating manuals, etc.). Jun 1986 - Mar 1992 Engineer - Alcon Surgical, Inc.; San Leandro, CA Duties: design and implement electronic circuitry and firmware for eye surgery equipment, specifically the vitrectomy, gas/fluid exchange and electro-emulsification sub-systems; work included designing and implementing precision vacuum control systems, fast data acquisition, valve control, etc.; firmware was written in C and assembly to run under a real time operating system (VRTX) Sep 1984 - Jun 1986 Senior Electronic Technician - American Edwards Laboratories, Inc.; Hayward, CA Duties: build electronic prototypes of blood pressure monitoring devices; review schematics for errors and accuracy; design and build custom test fixtures for electronic circuit verification (pressure control systems, data acquisition, etc.) Dec 1983 - Mar 1984 Electronic Technician/Assembler - Shugart Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA Duties: verify proper assembly of disk drive assemblies, correct problems in assembly, test sub-unit functionality of disk drive sub-components Additional Consulting History

Mar 1997 - Oct 2003 Founding Member/Investor/Design Eng. - Venice Design, Inc.; San Ramon, CA Mar 1992 - Mar 1997 Thomas Schumann Consulting/Venice Design, LLC. Companies listed below: Arrgh Manufacturing; Novato, CA: 2001-2003

Various firmware development projects for industrial battery charger systems; C and assembly programming for Motorola/Freescale 8-bit processors and Atmel’s ATtiny and AT90 microcontrollers.

BridgePoint Systems; Alameda, CA: 1997-2003

Designed several commercial and industrial lock systems which interfaced to smart-card based access systems (also designed as part of the system) using a combination of C and assembly for the 68HC05JK3, ‘P1, ‘P6, ‘P6A; 68HC908GP32, PIC16F84, ‘F662 micro-controllers. I designed the system structure, PCBs, and firmware for all system elements. Analytical Scientific Instruments, Inc.; El Sobrante, CA: 2001-2002 Designed PCBs and wrote firmware for chromatography equipment. Code was written in C. I worked in conjunction with other circuit board designers (I designed mixed digital/analog PCBs, other designer worked on analog motor control circuit boards). This was a multiple processor system (PIC17C756 and PIC16F84).

Siemens Oncology; Concord, CA: 2001

System specification and firmware analysis was done for MRI (magnetic resonant imaging) equipment. Firmware was written in C. General Electric, Consumer Appliances Division; Michigan: 1999, 2000 Firmware coding for commercial washing machines was done in C both for NEC and Motorola (68HC908GP32) processors. Specifically, the coding was for a smart-card based control system to replace the coin acceptors previously implemented on the machines.

AccuFlo Technologies, Inc.; Pleasanton, CA: 2000-2001 Designed several prototype water flow meters. Projects were a cost analysis and feasibility experiment to show the possibility of implementing a flow meter on several processors, including Microchip’s PIC processors, NEC’s 78K series and Motorola/Freescale’s MC68xx series controllers. I designed all of the circuit boards (including layout) and the associated firmware. Terawave Communications; Hayward, CA: 2000, 2002

Wrote firmware for the prototypes of a Passive Optical Networking system. All firmware was written in C.

Telemac Cellular Corporation; Danville, CA: 1999

Designed the circuit boards and firmware for pre-paid cell phone programmers. System was based on an 8051 processor and a Microchip PIC processor and was written in a mix of C and assembly. Programmers were designed to network with each other and be used on an assembly line.

SCI International; San Jose, CA: 1998

Wrote firmware (VERY resource limited) for a variable sensitivity motion sensor system in optimized C for Microchip fs PIC16C54 microcontroller. New Wave Research; Sunnyvale, CA: 1995

Wrote code (in C for 8051 based processor) for optic fiber test system. Modern Media; San Francisco, CA: 1994

Wrote software for “Gus Goes to Cybertown” educational software for use on MAC and PC platforms.

Siemens, KWU; Erlangen, Germany: 1993, 1994

Designed and built circuit boards and associated firmware for a nuclear reactor steam tube repair device. System was based on the Siemens SAB80C517 microcontroller and written entirely in assembly language. Hobart Laser Products, Inc.; Livermore, CA: 1992

Built prototype circuits and wrote code for industrial laser welding system. Designed several CPLDs, circuit boards and firmware programs to control all elements of the laser welding system, including power, shutter, safety system, interface to CNC and robotics extensions, etc.; multiple PCB design and firmware (C for Siemens SAB80C517 series processors, assembly for PIC16C84, C for Dallas DS5000 and DS87C520.

Education

Attended numerous training seminars focusing on programming and circuit design offered by various corporations

(Motorola, Microchip, etc.) and University of California, Berkeley California State University, Hayward, CA

Pursued BS degree in computer science.

Chabot College, Hayward, CA

Preparatory courses for entry into the California State University system. Bay Valley Technical College, Santa Clara, CA

Received AS degree in Electronic Technology (1983). Attendance sponsored by corporate scholarship. Miscellaneous

Fluent in German.

Enjoy sports and outdoor activities.

Have been a contributing columnist to several corporate newsletters.

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