Engineer Test

Location:

Santa Clara, CA

Posted:

November 23, 2013

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RAYMOND COUSTIER

**** ***** **., *** ****, CA. **117

408-***-**** HOME 408-***-**** CELL

*********@***.***

OBJECTIVE Test Engineer, Manufacturing Test Engineer, Technical Support

Engineer

SUMMARY Accomplished, results oriented. H/W Test Engineer with hands-on

experience in product design and development, Manufacturing Test design and

development, Design Verification Testing, EMI FCC, CISPR, Electromagnetic

compliance testing and emission reduction.

Major strengths in Digital, Analog and electro-mechanical product and test

fixture design, hardware bring up, debug and prototyping development,

Hardware testing. Experience in solving and finding practical solutions

that resolved defects in products during the development stage and problems

that surfaced after the product was in production.

Products worked on include:

Professional Broadcast Television production equipment including digital

and analog video tape recorders, Studio cameras, Video switchers, Video

Editor Controllers, Digital time base correctors, Standard definition and

HDTV serial digital computer systems, Video Disk reorders.

Consumer Audio Video equipment: Satellite and cable TV Set top boxes, Game

consoles, DVD players and recorders, Internet video streaming devices, TV

cameras.

Computer products: Unix work stations, Linux computers, Graphic cards,

Audio cards, TV video cards, Video scaler, Multiple monitor display

systems, Data commutation cards.

Specific skills include:

Expert knowledge general test equipment: Tektronix TDS, DPO, and analog

Oscilloscopes, FFT spectrum analyzers, RF spectrum analyzers, Network

analyzers, Vector impedance, Audio Precision audio measuring equipment,

Power supply dynamic loads, Power line voltage, frequency, and dropout

testers, ESD, Hipot testers, Shock Vibration tables, IR thermo imaging

cameras, Temperature and humidly cycling chambers, Altitude chambers.

Professional Broadcast video test equipment: Tektronix VM700, Tektronix

VM5000, HDTV and SDTV Serial digital video measurement (Eye pattern,

Jitter, Error rates), Vector scopes, TV waveform monitors, HDTV and SDTV

pattern generators.

Unix, Linux, Windows OS, MS Word, Excel, C/C++ Programming, Orcad schematic

capture.

EXPERIENCE

2013 TiVo Inc. Compliance Engineer

Inventor of the consumer Digital video recorder.

They currently design and manufacture TV set top box DVRs

. Performed ESD testing on TiVo products.

. Configured and set up TiVo products for EMC testing at off

site labs.

2012 Microsoft Corporation - Software Test Engineer

Mediaroom, TV set top box division.

. Performed RF, HDMI, Dolby Digital audio, and video testing

on TV set top boxes from many manufactures using Microsoft

Mediaroom software.

. Participated in HDMI Interoperability Plugfest for

Microsoft.

. Microsoft Mediaroom TV set top boxes receive HD program

content from high speed internet connection and satellite

RF feeds.

. Equipment used: Astro HDMI analyzer, Quantum Data HDMI

analyzer Stream Express and Rohde & Schwarz satellite RF

signal source.

. Developed functional test procedures for verifying the

affects of varying RF and noise levels Satellite TV set top

boxes.

. Wrote detailed bug reports.

2011 - 2012 TiVo Inc. Quality - Assurance Test Engineer

Inventor of the consumer Digital video recorder.

They currently design and manufacture TV set top box DVRs.

. Resident Audio, Video, RF, and Test Equipment expert for

the Certification test group.

. Developed procedures for MoCA hardware Certification

testing using Ixia Traffic generator and GHz RF spectrum

analyzer.

. Developed functional test procedures for verifying MoCA

software on TiVo DVRs.

. Developed functional test procedures for software testing

of Cable Card Labs program content copy protection system.

. Performed Macrovision, HDMI, Netflix, Cable Card Labs,

Dolby Digital Plus audio/video, Tuning Adapter and THX

Certification testing on TiVo DVRs. Equipment used:

Tektronix VM5000 Video analyzer, Astro HDMI analyzer, and

Audio Precision System 2 audio measurement set.

2007 - 2010 Rovi Corporation - Technical Support Engineer

Formerly known as Macrovision, Rovi creates and powers

technology for next generation digital media entertainment.

Originator of and supplier of copy protection of video content

technology for the entertainment industry.

. Tested and certified leading edge, PC notebooks, PC

desktops, PC graphics cards, and TV Set Top Box products

submitted by manufacturers from around the world to assure

that Macrovision analog video copy protection for optical

disc (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD), Satellite/Cable TV, and

internet video playback is properly implemented.

. Contributed to on-going improvement of testing processes

and procedural documentation.

. Performed software testing on Rovi Total Guide

. Provided training to customers

. Provided technical support to customers, domestic and

international

2004 - 2007 PrediWave Corp. - Senior Test Engineer

PrediWave Set up and built Head end systems for the

satellite and cable TV

providers. They also designed and produced

cable and satellite TV Set Top boxes.

. Designed manufacturing test fixtures.

. Developed and performed Design Verification testing on

Satellite and cable TV Set Top Boxes.

. Resolved EMI problems in products caused by excess

electronic radiation. Determined the root case of the

problem. Developed mechanical and electrical design

modifications to enable the products' compliance with FCC

and CISPR standards.

1994 - 2003 Silicon Graphics Inc. - MTS Manufacturing Senior Test Engineer

Silicon Graphics designed and produced high end Unix and

Linux computers

ranging from desk side workstations and servers

to large Super computers.

. Designed test equipment and wrote procedures and trouble

shooting guides for computer boards including audio, video

and graphics boards.

Contributed to the design of audio and video boards in

computers solving design problems and improving I/O

performance.

. Submitted patent application for elimination of mechanical

Iris in TV cameras using CCD shutter control.

. Developed and performed Design Verification Testing on

computer option boards including Vibration, Thermo imaging,

Environmental, ESD, and base line testing.