Engineer Technical Support

Objective:

To obtain a challenging and responsible position in a reputable organization seeking an individual with initiative, dedication, and sound analytical abilities.

Possesses current US Government Secret clearance

Technical Abilities:

DSP Platforms: Motorola DSP56002 and DSP56303, Texas Instruments TMS320C30

FPGA Platforms: Xilinx VIRTEX-II, -E, -4, -6, and -7 and Spartan 6 FPGAs

Programming Language Experience: Fortran, C, Pascal, Assembly (Motorola and TI), and Visual Basic

Software Experience: MATLAB, SIMULINK, ModelSim, Xilinx ISE 9.2i, 13.2 and 14.2, Xilinx Vivado 2015.4 and 2016.4, MS/DOS, MS Office 2010 including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, LABVIEW, Visio and Windows 7, 10, NT, and XT

Board Layout Software Experience: PowerPCB Board Layout Tool

Schematic Capture Tools Experience: PowerLogic, ORCAD, ViewDraw, and Altium

Firmware Experience: Verilog HDL and VHDL

Professional Achievements:

As a supervisor, assigned tasks, de-conflicted priorities, performed conflict resolution, conducted interviews and performance reviews and approved timecards, vacations, security lab access, etc.,

Provided technical oversite, feedback, and direction for various projects.

Performed functional analysis, design trade studies, and interface definition studies to translate customer’s requirements into hardware and firmware specifications.

Developed system level, hardware and firmware requirements and wrote requirements specifications.

Wrote hardware and firmware design documentation.

Wrote test plans, performed the tests, and wrote test results for software, firmware and hardware.

Presented complex, technical information to customer.

Provided engineering and technical support of products.

Designed various boards for radar: designed the hardware that provides synchronization signals and beam steering for a Synthetic Aperture Radar and developed and tested the firmware for the FPGA placed on these boards.

Designed a GPS Receiver Board: designed a 12 channel GPS Receiver board with Xilinx FPGAs and developed and tested some of the associated firmware.

Designed a DSP Portable Processor using Motorola’s DSP56002 to be used by audiologist for clinical testing of DSP algorithms.

DPS Algorithm Development: Wrote DSP assembly and C code to perform audio compression, FFTs, frequency translation, FIR, LMS, and IIR filters, and signal delay and distortion.

Managed the MATLAB GPS Signal Simulator Toolbox: Updated and improved existing functions in the toolbox, wrote new functions, provided technical support to the toolbox customers, and provided information to new customers.

Schematic Development: Used PowerLogic, ORCAD, ViewDraw and Altium to draw schematics.

Firmware Development: Developed the firmware that provides beam steering signals and timing waveforms for the controlling of and receiving data from a Synthetic Aperture Radar. Developed the firmware that performs CCD sensor clocking, video data processing and memory access for a video processor chip evaluation board, a 1 Mega-pixel, 60 frames/sec camera, a Mega-pixel, 100 frames/sec camera and a 4 Mega-pixel Digital X-RAY camera using firmware schematics and VHDL. Wrote VHDL code for certain modules used in a GPS receiver.

Control System Development: Developed control laws for a Control Moment Gyro and then performed hardware-in-the-loop simulations to evaluate performance.

Designed various boards for CCD Cameras: Designed hardware to generate CCD sensor clocks and voltages. Designed circuitry to extract and digitize video data from a CCD sensor output.

Education:

Masters of Business Administration: Webster University (2015)

Emphasis in Management and Leadership

Masters of Engineering in Space Operations: University of Colorado (2003)

Emphasis in Dynamics and Controls of Aerospace Vehicles

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering: University of Colorado (1996)

Emphasis in Signal Processing and Controls

Employment:

Hardware Engineer: Harris Corporation (Sept, 2007 – Present)

Supervisor for hardware engineers and technicians.

Technical lead for projects to replace obsolete components in a radar transmitter maintenance test station and calibration/monitor station.

Technical lead for a trade study to replace legacy radar controller.

Developed firmware for a radar beam steer upgrade on a Virtex-7 FPGA platform.

Designed the hardware for a synchronization board and a beam steering board for a Synthetic Aperture Radar. This board contained a VIRTEX-II FPGA, Direct Digital Synthesizer components and a VME interface.

Developed the firmware for six boards that provide control, timing and communications for the radar using schematic capture and VHDL.

Deployed, debugged and tested hardware and firmware at site.

Product Design Engineer: Dalsa Corporation (March, 2002 – Sept 2007)

Designed and developed the firmware for a 1 Mega-pixel, 60 Frames/sec camera, a 1 Mega-pixel, 100 Frames/sec camera, a 4 Mega-pixel Digital X-RAY camera and a video processor chip evaluation board using schematic capture and VHDL.

Debugged hardware, embedded software and firmware for various cameras.

Managed the ordering of parts, board layout, and procurement of the boards for the 1 Mega-pixel, 60 Frames/sec camera.

Performed requirement development, functional analysis, design trade studies, documentation updates, test plans, and test reports for various camera projects.

Designed and debugged analog and digital hardware that generated CCD sensor clocks and voltages and extracted and digitized video data from the CCD sensor.

Digital Design Engineer: NavSys Corporation (April, 2001 – March, 2002)

Provided technical support, improvement, maintenance, and marketing of the MATLAB GPS Signal Simulation Toolbox as product manager.

Designed, developed and tested firmware for the Xilinx VIRTEX-II and VIRTEX-E FPGAs for various GPS products.

Designed hardware prototype boards for various projects.

DSP Design Engineer: Starkey Laboratories (May, 1996 – April, 2001)

Designed and developed DSP prototype boards to be used for clinical research. Developed DSP algorithms using Motorola’s DSP56002 and DSP56303 Digital Signal Processors.

Wrote Verilog HDL code to simulate different digital design implementations. Conducted clinical research on audio compression, noise distortion and time delay using DSPs.

Benchmarked competitor’s DSP products.

Communications Engineer: Loral Space and Range Systems (May, 1995 – August, 1995)

Wrote technical documentation explaining communication circuits, performed trouble shooting for communication circuits, and worked with fiber optic modems, switches, and multiplexers.

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