Engineer Design

Robert Bartholomew

**** * ****** ** ** *** Austin, Texas 78727 512-***-**** (cellular)

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PROFILE:

Sr, Engineering Technician with strong knowledge of validations and testing of platform designs, excellent problem solving and

troubleshooting skills Self-directed and focused team player consistently praised for timely and thorough task completion.

Dedicated professional always seeking to improve personal efficiency and knowledge to enhance contribution to completed

project. Able to forge productive working relationships with all levels of the team to drive project to a prompt and accurate

conclusion with Strong oral and written Communications

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Failure analysis Tools: Oscilloscope. Logic Analyzers, spectrum/logic analyzers, HDT

• Software tools: ALTERA Quartus II or Xilinx, PCB Layout Board design using Mentor graphics, Or Cad, Cadence,

Allegro, Lab View.

• Isolate and diagnose problems on any of AMD industry leading products that include AMD Athlon 64 Family AMD

Opteron.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCIES:

• Operating Systems: Windows7,Windows enterprise Server 2008,Linux,VMWare,C Assembly Language

• Project Managed: software Tools: Agile; Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator Acrobat; AutoCAD, Cam350

• MS Office: – Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint)

• Validated Windows-base operating systems on AMD single dual and quad-core 32/64-bit Architect

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lifesize communication Divisions of Logitech, Austin, Texas Sr, Engineering Technician

Dec, 2010 Present Primary responsibilities:

• Member of small team responsible for first bring up and debug. Heavily involved in lab work, system test, and

board/debug. Verification, HD video conferencing products system Validations of ARM micro-processors &

DSPsVerification signal timing and signal integrity. audio/video codec’s, high definition cameras, IP phones, micpods

• Development, planning and execution of characterization and Validation of High Speed Single ended and differential

(LVDS) IOs including LVDS, PLLs and DLLs

• FPGA Test Case Development for Validation and Characterization of IOs in Isolation and System Level Applications.

Lab Coordination and support of various development groups in board /system validation and characterization. Validate

Pcie (Gen1 and Gen2 serial I/O for high speed serial interface,DDR2,3

• Circuit design analysis power integrity and system power measurements

• Experience with National Instrument’s Lab View Development

• Defining and developing lab measurement methods and analysis and test plans, including validation of tolerances,

form/fit/function, shock and vibration, elect safety, reliability, thermal generation

• Experience with Logic Controllers, embedded controllers FPGA’s Xilinx and Actel, Altera

• Familiarity with such as JTAG,i2C,SPI, Logic Analyzers, oscilloscopes

• Bring up trouble-shoot failing system down to board level to component at debugging software and hardware using

logic analyzers and digital oscilloscopes.

• High Speed Signal Integrity debug techniques (ex. Eye diagrams, etc)

• Signal Integrity concepts such as ISI,Jitter clocking, and bus & interconnect structures

• Linux operation systems,shell scripting knowledge Experiences

• EMI/EMC regulatory compliances

• Development of Assy Drawings for Product Prototype, EVT, and DVT Assembly

• Pads PCB, Or Cad, Cadence schematic capture hands on experience working with board designs an architectural

implementations – understand PCB layout and impedance requirements across multiple interfaces PCB/PCBA for

D FM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas

Networking and Computing Engineer Technicians

June 2010 to Nov 2010 Primary responsibilities:

• Validated and characterize assigned design, applications include analog,digital and logic systems

• Experiences with reference cards design and development systems for new ARM/DPS QorIQ P4080 processors

Robert Bartholomew

6001 W Parmer Ln St 370 Austin, Texas 78727 512-***-**** (cellular)

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Austin, Texas

Server / Workstation Platform Development- Associate Engineer

December 1999 to April 2009 Primary responsibilities:

• High speed System Design, Development and for power, cooling constrained required by Severs. this includes

understanding of the Architecture, system design parameters, thermal and mechanical constraints along with detailed

knowledge of all system functions

• Generated managed and coordinated new platform designs, develop concepts, designs assemblies and detail

drawings utilizing, AutoCAD with Illustrator, Acrobat, including bills of materials, Bom’s Ecn’s, and change lists for

revision control design support

• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, schematics and PCBA documentations and manipulation of Gerber files and

maintain information (redlines) regarding drawing changes to database

• Layout design faults, including PCB design rule violations layout and motherboard review PCA design layout, and

development AMD Server base reference design x86 32/64 based systems Opteron processors 2U/4U Density

• High speed busses PCI.PCIX, PCIe,SAS, SATA, USB busses

• Server hardware including, SCSI/RAID controller, NIC cards, memory modules

• Debug of Athlon processor based platforms. featuring a Hyper-transport HT1,HT2 bus, 32& 64-bit system with support

of up to 32 GB of DDR 2/3 memory

• Evaluating memory performance and characteristics across process, voltage and temperature

• High Speed Signal Integrity debug techniques (ex. Eye diagrams, etc)

• debug and bring-up boards high-power switching and linear power supply regulation and timing, power-up & shut-

down) analog design

• Solving and debugging high speed integrity problems, debugging I/O subsystems, CPU internal chipset team for

Platform systems using various diagnostic tools, function Generators Frequency counters, and power supplies

• Applications include analog, digital and logic systems. Include interface using oscilloscope of Models HP/Agilest

Tektronix scope, Future Plus high-speed logic analyzers that interface Hyper- transport, AGP, DDR (1, 2, and 3)

• PCI, PCI-X, PCI, SM Bus and LPC, USB High Speed bus. High-speed (up to 2.6 GHz)Digital Signal integrity rates

Slew reflections, glitches, etc

• Applying leading edge test equipment, Quad channels Tektronix Digital Series (DSP&DPO) oscilloscopes up to

16 GHZ 3d bandwidth and 50GSa sample rates with high speed differential & single end probes.

• firmware/BIOS, device drivers, and application software

• Participating in defining and/or owning test plan development and execution

• Performed measurements of board trace impedances using TDR methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, Texas

Hardware Development- Engineering Technician III

July 1984 to September 1998 Primary responsibilities:

• Motherboard Design AT/AT Intel chipset- based X86 first SLT/286 portable, mobile laptops

• Trouble-shoot failing system down to board level and also boards down to component. level

• PADS 2000 PCB Design/Layout/ schematic capture entry

EDUCATION:

Odessa College

Electronic Engineering Technology, Odessa Texas

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