PCB Designer

GERALD LEE STARKEY

South Jordan, Utah 801-***-**** ***********@*******.***

SUMMARY

Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer with expertise in designing various types of pc boards.

Organized with excellent communication skills, that has worked independently under general

supervision of engineering department. Responsible for all aspects of PCB design department. Strengths include developing dense analog and high speed digital boards with complex design requirements.

• Principal designer for Trinix Router System the top revenue-producing product.

• Self-taught UNIX and developed scripts to automate documentation process.

• Instituted a feedback procedure for board fabricators and assembly houses to document

issues during processes, which reduced board proto cycles.

Other Relevant Skills

15 years using Cadence Concept/Allegro

Understanding of basic electronic principals

Ability to create and update schematics

Library creation – schematic components and pcb footprints

Knowledge of constraints – ability to determine and enter in pcb layout

Impedance control, Differential pairs, Timing issues

Matched lengths, DDR layout, clocks

OrCad experience

Autocad experience

RF Design Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ball Aerospace, Broomfield,Colorado 2015

Printed Circuit Board Designer

Design of prototype & feasibility study boards, power supply and control boards.

Autocad 2014 for fabrication and assembly drawings

Orcad schematic capture

RF board design

GerbTool - gerber verification

Abbott Laboratories, Irving, Texas 2013 – 2014

Printed Circuit Board Designer

Design of control panels, controller and IO boards, using Cadence Concept and Allegro

Version 16.6

Grass Valley, Salt Lake City, Utah 1980 - 2012 Formally known as Thompson / Phillips / Bosch

Sr. Printed Circuit Board Designer (1980 – 2012)

Designed all PC boards in Salt Lake City facility since 2000. Designated contact for PC board fabricators handling details, questions and special instructions. Created all drawings and files necessary for fabrication and assembly of PC boards. Designed in inches or metric. Worked with engineers to create schematics and mechanical designers to make changes as necessary in the design cycle.

Design of multiple types of pc boards i.e.:

Power supplies

Two layer front panels

Single and double-sided assemblies

Mixed technology - surface mount and thru hole

10 - 28 layer low and high speed backplanes

4 – 12 layer audio and video I/O boards

18 layer boards with analog and high speed digital design - multiple 1500 pin bgas and ddr

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Design experience with module and sub-blocks

Analog and High Speed digital layout - 3gbt rates

Audio and video designs

DFM usage in component placement

DFX import and export

LANGUAGES

Spanish

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

General Studies, Electronics technology

Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, Calif.

General Studies

Relocation : I am willing to relocate at my own expense.

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