Firmware Engineer

Kyung Kim

**** ****** **** *, ********, MN*****

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

Cell: 763-***-****

Summary:

Strong interest in control systems and extensive experience in programming on embedded microcontroller. Strong analytical skills and broad skill set in development of firmware, hardware and software. Strive to take a lead on projects developing product from concept to market and involve in all levels of development cycle.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Firmware/Electrical Engineer

HID Global Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN (April 2004 - Present)

Designed and developed ID card printers with different image transfer technology (Direct to card, Reverse transfer, Inkjet, and Laser)

Responsible for project management, concept, design and implementation of hardware, firmware, software design, testing, documentation, manual creation, ECO’s, production support, quality. Experience in emissions testing, radiation, and EM susceptibility.

Key projects and achievements

Development of firmware platform on Cortex-M3, FreeRTOS, Eclipse IDE with open source tool chain

Wrote low-level firmware drivers: DMA, I2C, SPI, USB, EEPROM and Flash.

Integrated touch screen display using Freescale Kinetis MCU (ARM Cortex-M0+) and MQX RTOS.

Completed System platform upgrade to new architecture using Altera SoftCore technology NIOS II and eCos RTOS.

Built prototype from development kit for proof of concept for OLED display

Maintained existing platform using PowerPC and Nucleus RTOS.

Designed hardware and firmware for color sensing and magnetic encoding.

Managed full development cycle with 1 year average concept to market time.

Improved printing image quality and speed.

implemented changes for custom product opportunities.

Reduced cost in both new and existing products

Test Engineer

Fargo Electronics, Eden Prairie, MN (May 2003 - April 2004)

Designed test fixtures and functional testers for electronic components and board level test

• Identified cause of electronic component failures and provide feasible solutions

• Wrote and implement test plans

• Created scripting to automate testing

• Wrote EOL validation/verification software and designed hardware of system test equipment for quality assurance

• Wrote firmware for unit testing and mechanical motor torque test.

Engineering support technician

Medtronic, Brooklyn Center, MN (February 2002 - May 2003)

Supported test engineers

• Programmed Test Data Acquisition system using LabVIEW and generating test results

• Performed Aging, Cycling, and electrical testing of defibrillator capacitors

Measurement Instrumentation Specialist

Rosemount Inc, Chanhassen, MN (April 1999 - February 2002)

Built customized industrial sensors

• Performed Custom build remote sensor assemblies according to customer’s specification

• Performed computer controlled sensor calibration and testing of final build

Highlights of qualification

Expertise in various programming languages as: Assembly, C, C++, C#, VB, Java

Real-time embedded systems software design, architecture, development, and implementation

Interface development for various peripheral devices

Analog and digital circuit integration and troubleshooting

Have experience for RTOS includes: eCos, Nucleus, MQX

Have experience for Processor includes: ARM (Cortex-M), PowerPC, NIOS II

Have experience for Microcontroller includes: HC12, Kinetis

Have experience for Development environments includes: Wind River Workbench, Eclipse,

CodeWarrior, IAR, Keiland Visual Studio.

Have Experience with software life-cycle phases: requirements analysis,

design, implementation, integration, and maintenance.

Object-oriented software design and development (UML and Visio).

Extensive experience with CVS repositories (Surround and Mercurial)

Network experience includes TCP/IP and wireless protocols.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, 2003

Institute of Technology in University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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