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Gary Grantland

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Hartselle, AL 35640

Summary

Experience includes over thirty years of product design and development for both commercial and military electronic products. Extensive background in both analog and digital circuit design and microcomputer/microprocessor hardware development. Three years direct supervisory experience of 20+ electronic design engineers and technicians. Extensive development experience with Microchip, Motorola, Hitachi, Philips, Texas Instrument, and Intel Microcontrollers, broad development experience with low power analog devices, acoustic development, FPGAs, and CPLDs. Experience in PCB layout using Orcad/Allegro, Altium/Protel. Currently hold secret clearance. EXPERIENCE

June 27, 2016 Electronics Engineer, Part Time

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Sept. 27, 2018

Yulista Aviation, Inc.

6310 Discovery Drive

Responsible for engineering support, product development, electronic circuit design, and PCB documentation. Develop schematic, BOM, PCB layout, Gerber files, and assembly documentation utilizing Altium Designer 17. Resolved BOM obsolescence issues and Gerber/FAB drawing anomalies.

Aug. 11, 2008

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Sept. 17, 2015

June 3, 2002

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August 8, 2008

Senior Electrical Engineer, Product Development

Tyonek Manufacturing Group

229 Palmer Road, Madison, AL 35758

Senior electrical engineer, responsible for test equipment hardware development required for product evaluation, approval, and environmental test screening. Test equipment utilized National Instruments equipment and custom interface equipment developed for testing UH-60 Left Hand and Right Hand Relay Panels environmental test screening, OH-58D Remote Rocket Assembly Interface CCA acceptance test, OH-58D and OH-58F Armament Electronic Unit acceptance and environmental test screening, OH-58D Multi-Function Keyboard sub assembly acceptance test, and OH-58D Sensor Rate Gyro acceptance and environmental test screening. Senior Engineer, Product Development

Integrated Power Technologies

Huntsville, Alabama.

Lead engineer, responsible for the hardware development of a generator controller for commercial vehicles which provided monitoring of battery and generator current, ground fault detection, battery pack and pre-charge voltage, temperature and throttle control. Hardware development of a cell monitor for lithium battery pack which provides cell voltage and temperature via RS-485 to BMS. Developed battery management system hardware providing power and communications via CAN and RS-485. Hardware development of application module providing dual CAN controllers, USB host controller and UART interface. Lead engineer in the development of a Battery Management System and Common Module for military hybrid electric M113 to interface and monitor the state of charge of batteries; temperature sensing, battery balancing, and established a preliminary interface designed for the various system interfaces. Responsibilities include power management and distribution as well as electronic sensing and control.

Hardware development of a modular wearable computer for controlling and monitoring UAV’s for the US Marine Corps. Provided charge controller for lithium battery pack, DC-DC converters for powering transmitter, receiver, computer, and LCD monitor. Implemented NTSC video to MPEG4 via USB. Provided RS-232, USB, and Ethernet user interfaces. G. Grantland, Page 2

Designed a three-phase 30KW power distribution unit for US Marine Corps. Unit Operations Center.

Redesigned AM-6716A PA Amplifier providing a direct fit, form, and functional replacement of original unit developed in the late 70’s for the US Air Force. Provided 3-D drawing package with new electronics and updated specifications. Redesigned Trackball assembly 340843 for Situational Display Console for the US Air Force.

1998 Engineer, Product Development

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May 31, 2002

Qvex, Inc.

Madison, Alabama.

Responsibilities include development of coin recognition and discriminating equipment for European and domestic markets. This included development of custom mixed signal ASIC to reduce parts and assembly cost by 70%. Designed British Telecom payphone controller to replace 30,000 obsolete units adding remote firmware and revenue management. These products are based on Microchip and Mitsubishi flash microcontrollers, Xilinx flash based CPLD’s, and Qvex custom ASIC. Based on the performance of the scanway developed for British Telecom Qvex was awarded a $5.8M production contract.

1990 Engineer, Product Development

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1998

Quadrum Telecommunications, Inc.

Huntsville, Alabama.

Responsible for the electronic hardware development of public paystations for Mexico, Greece, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and the United States. Development of these products was based on a common platform and uses Hitachi 325, 329, and 338 16-bit microcomputer architecture. This platform provides coin, credit card, and prepay card operation as well as multi-lingual voice, visual display prompts and data-over-voice communications. In addition, responsible for electronic design of coin scanner and escrow unit, regulated and deregulated markets.

1997 Engineer

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1998

Phase IV

Huntsville, Alabama.

Part Time Responsible for high speed microcomputer hardware system development. Utilize Philips P51 extended architecture microcontroller, Intel 128K x 16 boot block flash, Xilinx 7nS CPLD, Hitachi 64k x 16 static RAM, and Intel 82527 CAN controller. 1987

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1990

Electronic Design Engineer

Palco Telecom, Inc.

Huntsville, Alabama.

Responsibilities included design and support of existing products, technical support to paystation customers, and hardware development of the 20E electronic key pad for the 120B paystation (developed to improve the reliability over older electromechanical technology it replaced). Also, responsible for the hardware development of the 120C and 120E paystations

(phones with PC programmable coin box accounting, remote diagnostics, speed calling, base rate programming, local and secondary call timer, and free call options). Developed 2 electronic coin trigger switch assemblies, eliminated 11 of 12 moving parts in the existing technology, and eliminated 6 adjustments. Five patents were issued to Palco Telecom for circuits developed for these products.

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1970

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1987

GTE Communications Systems, Inc.

Huntsville Alabama

Over 17 years with GTE Communications Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electronics. Year and responsibility breakdown are listed below. 1985

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1987

Member of Technical Staff

Responsibilities include product design and development of all speakerphone products and development and hardware redesign of a microcomputer-based electronic key telephone system. Duties included planning and projection for time tables, manpower, and resources to develop 4 new speakerphone products. Created performance specifications and test requirements. Designed analog and digital circuits with proper interface to meet microcomputer-based instrument requirements. Supervised PCB layout, prototype build, test and evaluation. Performance enhancement over existing products, reduced assembly time, simplified testing, and reduced cost approximately 20%. Spearheaded feature enhancements and cost reduction of Micro-Exchange electronic key telephone station. Developed architecture, selected microcomputer, and designed analog and digital hardware. Reduced RF emissions to meet Class B requirements, reduced the number of IC's from 19 to 10, and reduced cost by 16% for an annualized savings of approximately $1,200,000. 1982

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1985

Electronic Design Supervisor

Responsible for the direct supervision of 10 to 23 electronic design engineers and technicians. Assigned objectives, reviewed subordinate performance, and budgeted and allocated resources. Controlled approximately $425,000 of a $3.4 million R&D budget. Researched available CAD equipment and purchased system for PCB layout and documentation. Improved PCB layout efficiency by 65% and reduced annual manpower requirements by 5,000 hours. Directed development of a multiprocessor electronic key telephone system that produced an annual sales of approximately $10,000,000 with a 36% margin. Supervised development of 3 residential telephone products which included development of two custom integrated circuits and development of a cordless telephone with 1.7 MHz and 49 MHz full duplex RF link. 1970

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1982

Member Technical Staff

Was responsible for analog and digital hardware and microcomputer hardware and software development for communication products. Leader of a design team that cost reduced the Flip Phone II resulting in annual savings of approximately $800,000. Designed Flip Phone III which was evaluated by Consumer Report and rated #1 for quality out of 10 models tested. Redesigned 2 speakerphones using 2 custom integrated circuits resulting in an annual savings of approximately $1,500,000.

PATENTS: Fourteen U.S. patents issued during employment at GTE, Palco Telecom, and Qvex. PUBLICATIONS: Published 2 technical articles - both front cover in Ham Radio Magazine and GTE Technical Journal

MILITARY

SERVICE:

Four years active service U. S. Army Security Agency, 1966-1969. Honorable discharge, Top Secret Clearance.

EDUCATION: Terminal Intercept Equipment Repair, U. S. Army Security Agency, 1966 Home Entertainment Electronics, DeVry Institute of Technology, 2 years correspondence Microcomputer/Microprocessor, GTE Investment Management; Clemson University Technical Writing, The University of Alabama

Management Skills for Engineers, Vanderbilt University Result-Oriented Management, GTE

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