Engineer Electrical

James A. Langley III - Electrical Engineer

Experienced engineer, designer, planner, problem solver, mentor. I make

things work and keep them working.

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Houston TX 77040

Mobile Phone: 832-***-****

E-mail: *********@****.*** or ***.*******.**@*****.***

cORE COMPETENCIES

. Project Management Experience (20+years)

. Team Management (20+ years)

. Management of manufacturing (20+ years)

. Management of support engineering (20+ years)

. Design of custom devices in FPGAs and ASICs (7 years)

. Digital design of computer systems (30+ years)

. Digital design of instrumentation and controls, telemetry, and

interfaces (30+ years)

. Systems design, add-in boards, and low-level software support (20+

years)

. Development experience with several bus architectures

. DSP system design

. Competency in Windows and Linux based machines and Office tools

. Quick and decisive problem-solving in field situations while

maintaining high production levels

. Driving new products from concept through design and prototype and

into production

. Sustaining engineering, customer support, and documentation

. Committed mentor for peers and organizations

. Adapting new technologies to existing product and customer needs

. Schematic Capture and PCB layout

. Safety analysis and procedures

Technical Highlights

. Verilog, VHDL, VCS, Signalscan, VIEWLogic, Altera Max Plus II, and

Xilinx Foundation

. PCI, PCI-X, VME, SCSI design

. Assembly language for TI, Freescale, and Intel processors

. TI and Analog Devices DSP design experience

. Digital Systems Design

. Storage Interface design

. ISO 9000 Compliance Auditor

. MS DOS, Win3.1, Win 95, Win98, Win NT, Win2000,Win XP, Win 7, UNIX,

and VMS operating systems

. OrCAD, P-CAD, Altium, and Accel Schematic capture software and PCB

Layout and PCBA

. National Instruments boards with LabView

. Integrated GPS systems

. Patents:

o US 7,460434 B2 (2008)

o US 7,518,948 B2 (2009)

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

Geokinetics - Petroleum GeoServices (PGS) 2003-2014

Senior Engineer

. Designed and developed Seismic Instrumentation.

. Supervised teams working on PCB Designs and assemblies

. Supervision of vendors and contractors providing custom hardware for

vessel instrumentation.

. Technical management of project to design battery powered nodal

system.

. Responsible for system testing in lab and field environments.

. Reduced cost and improved crew efficiency by designing field tools and

qualifying off the shelf solutions.

. Established vibration test stations using third party hardware,

Matlab, and National Instruments software and components.

. Developed environmental test stations used to qualify materials and

components for field use.

. Developed test instruments for in-house instrument verification

. Tested and qualified Symmetricom/Microsemi Chip scale atomic clocks.

. Selected components and systems used for development and prototyping.

. Technical evaluation and testing of vendor components.

. Development of Accelerated Life Testing programs.

Hewlett Packard (Formerly Compaq Computer Corp) 2000 to 2003

Electrical Engineer V

. Verilog design of custom components in support of ProLiant Server

product line.

. Verified support and documentation.

. Designed and supported systems for PCI/PCI-X.

. Provided tech support for partners in PCI/PCI-X Golden Master program

supporting a PCI\PCI-X Megacell, generating a separate revenue stream.

. Acted as the Subject Matter Expert on design methodologies, enabling

seasoned colleagues to get answers to technical questions and progress

in their projects.

. Selected for team that designed a new PCI-X Mode 2 Megacell, which was

positioned as defining the industry standard for Mode 2 PCI-X.

. ASIC design and verification programs.

Sercel (Originally Syntron, Inc.) 1994 - 2000

Staff Engineer

. Designed DSP data acquisition systems and communications equipment for

instrumentation systems.

. Supported existing VME product line. Design of custom devices using

VHDL.

. Provided Sustaining Engineering as part of customer support.

. Re-designed system board to deal with component obsolescence and kept

production on line. Supervised PCB layout, and checked completed

assemblies.

. Designed new advanced data acquisition system to maintain company's

recognized technological leadership.

Previous Experience:

Digicon Geophysical Corp.

Senior Engineer

. Manufactured shipboard computer and electronics systems for the

company's fleet of research vessels.

. Managed procurement, production, quality control and installation.

. Assigned to complete the design of the DSS 240 Data Recording system.

. Oversaw the production of prototypes, and finally the production of

the system.

. Responsible for the sustaining engineering needs of the system

. Dealt with component obsolescence, field service needs, and new

feature design and integration, including design prototyping, testing,

fieldwork, and writing service manuals.

. Designed and produced hardware and software upgrades to shipboard

systems to meet new contract requirements.

. Met expanding market demands by designing VME and Versa-Bus computer

systems.

. Designed and produced telemetry processors, tape, and plotter control

hardware.

. Reduced costs and met special marketing requirements by designing

controls using PC-based systems.

. Designed and produced microprocessor-based SCSI interface for use with

IBM 3480 compatible, cartridge tape drives including development

software, driving software, and system diagnostics.

. Designed remote graphics terminal using Heritage 9360 Graphic CRT

card, and designed custom library of routines for driving software to

reduce remote display costs.

Quantum Electronics Corp.

Chief Engineer

. Designed and supported instruments used for geophysical recording.

. Supported manufacturing of recording systems used for marine, shallow

water, and land use.

. Introduced manufacturing process controls to reduce time and cost of

manufactured systems.

. Supported the manufacturing of field correlators for Vibroseise

operations.

. Created custom designs to support unique customer needs.

Digicon Geophysical Corp.

Engineer

. Designed and supported instruments used for geophysical recording.

. Sourced control and support systems.

EDUCATION

. University of Houston, BS, Electrical Engineering

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