Bruce Bell
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PROFILE
Team-oriented Electrical Engineer with 35 years experience in designing,
developing and testing electronic products. Designed circuits using FPGAs,
primarily for PLL-based systems for telecom products - especially high
precision stratum 3E devices. Designed timing products utilizing a GPS
receiver as a high-accuracy timing source. Analog design experience with
oscillators such as TCXOs, VCOs, VCXOs and ovenized oscillators. Worked on
a system level managing design, manufacture and troubleshooting of air-to-
ground phones.
SKILLS
Visual
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Design Engineer - Connor Winfield Corporation; Aurora, IL
November 1997 to February 2014
Designed PLL-based modules for telecom applications such as stratum
(1,2,3,3E & 4) clocks. Designed test fixtures for those products and some
Visual Basic test software. Designed GPS-clocked high-stability timing
sources. Performed analog simulations. Created FPGA-based circuits using
schematic, VHDL and Verilog tools.
RF Systems Engineer - In-Flight Phone Corporation; Oakbrook Terrace, IL
October 1990 to July 1997
Managed the development of ground-to-air telephone systems and their
installation and verification. Performed system tests and troubleshooting.
Design Engineer - Connor Winfield Corporation; West Chicago, IL
November 1978 to November 1989
Designed OCXOs, TCXOs, VCXOs, VCOs, timers and other analog circuits.
Designed test systems for oscillators and wrote test software. Designed a
system to compensate oscillators over temperature (TCXOs). Designed a
digitally compensated oscillator (DCXO).
. Analog Design
. FPGA Design
. ORCAD Schematic Capture
. RF Design
. Live Audio Recording
SPICE Simulation
. Excel
. VHDL / Verilog
. Extensive Test Equipment Proficiency