Design Engineer Customer Support

SAM DEUS

*****@*******.*** cell: 415-***-****

May, 2022 SUMMARY

Previously retired board/product design engineer and project leader looking to use the skill-set and experience to be a productive contractor/employee again. Developed excellent ability and personality working with manufacturing and engineering groups, OEM/CM vendors, marketing, industrial designers and customer support. Substantial experience on problem solving, testing products and technical knowledge working for startup companies and to perform variety of tasks simultaneously with limited resources in a fast-paced environment. Skills / Experience:

Extensive engineering experience covering research, new product definition, product design and development, prototype build and testing, pilot runs and product release.

Expert in designing, developing, modifying PCB designs and evaluating electronic parts, components for integrated circuitry in electronic equipment and other hardware systems.

Substantial project management experience building products with major CM vendors over Far East.

Excellent knowledge using OrCAD schematic capture and PADS tools, proficient in using Xilinx, Quick-Logic and Lattice schematic capture tools for FPGA/CPLD designs.

Expert in designing table top triple-play Cable box and VoIP communication devices (MTA’s).

Proficient in using Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point and Adobe Acrobat.

Substantial experience in component search, negotiations and purchasing materials.

Well experienced in problem solving and building testers for designed products.

Excellent knowledge in designing battery charger circuits for smart batteries with Li-Ion, Ni-Mh and Lead Acid batteries for the triple play tabletop box circuits used in cable industry market.

Experienced in writing engineering specifications and reports for projects.

Experienced in customer support and troubleshooting problems over the phone.

Experienced in plastic molding, acceptance guidelines and QA procedures of industrial design.

Experienced in putting products through UL and FCC standards.

Experienced in board level design process - schematic entry, simulations and PCB layout.

Experienced in working with small group of firmware engineers, product consultants and manufacturing.

Excellent knowledge in designing and building communication boards for computer devices.

Excellent knowledge in designing audio band analog circuits, digital filters, A/D and D/A converters.

Excellent knowledge of communication interfaces and protocols (i.e. EIA-232, SPI, I2C, USB)

Excellent understanding of PCB designs, layout rules for assembly process and manufacturability.

Managed the RF based product design and tested RF circuits used in Wireless Local Loop systems.

Personally, designed over twenty different consumer and industrial products currently in the market.

Proficient knowledge in embedded system design using Freescale MPC8545, ARM processors, Gigabit PHYs, NPUs, MCUs, DSPs and many other generic 8bit processors (8051, PIC, PSOC and others).

An individual contributor with ability to work independently, as well as with a team.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

I am available for contract or part-time work in Bay Area, CA where I can help or assist on-going projects. Sam Deus

SAM DEUS

*****@*******.*** cell: 415-***-****

EXPERIENCED HARDWARE DESGINER/PROJECT LEADER

Previously retired Hardware Designer/Leader with in-depth knowledge of consumer product design and industrial products. Key expertise in hardware design projects, mechanical and industrial packaging of data communication products. Extensive experience designing over twenty different consumer and industrial products that have generated millions of dollars in revenue. Offer ability to manage projects, to track and to be an individual contributor to large spectrum of hardware design projects. Group Coordinator/Leader & Soccer Referee 2014- Present Coordinating over 60 soccer games in Palo Alto and playing with over 60 group 4 times a week. Consultant, Burlingame, CA 2015 -2015

Hardware Design Consultant for Voice over gateways for Rgate-Systems Elder Care, Burlingame, CA 2009 - 2013

Providing a hospice care to elder parent and sibling at home. Innomedia Inc., San Jose, CA 1999 - 2009

Project Engineer/Designer of VoIP Products for Voice Services

Designed and created Innomedia’s most profit generating revenue product lines currently on the market brought 20 plus million dollars in revenue over the years. Grandfathered the base H/W design is still in use on the market after ten years.

Primary hardware architect/designer and project leader of five-man (S/W & H/W) engineering team that designed PRI Dual Mode Enterprise Gateway for Broadband and completed the project from conception to production in 6 months meeting critical company goal and customer deadline, which generated millions of dollars in revenue as well as securing engineering NRE over half a million dollars. Diva Communications Inc., Oakland/Berkeley, CA 1994 -1999 Project Leader Subscriber Unit Development for Wireless Local Loop Systems

Managed, designed and developed Single Line Subscriber Unit (SLSU) product for wireless local loop systems from concept through manufacturing that was deployed in Xinjiang province of China that was first revenue generating product for the company.

Installed Diva WLL (Wireless Local Loop) System leading three man engineering team in Aksana - Kazakhstan in 21 days under very difficult circumstances and met the deadline of presidential palace and parliament building inauguration and generated over half a million dollars in revenue for the sale.

Managed and directed OEM suppliers (Funai and Kokusai) to manufacture of SLSU products in Japan. NEC America Inc., Data Communication Systems Division, San Jose, CA 1984 - 1994 Senior Design Engineer/Manager of H/W and F/W Development

Created and managed an engineering group that designed and maintained company's award winning and revenue producing flagship V.32bis modem for many years that sold to major Bell companies.

Created and designed detailed FPGA chip for the development of 56K DSU/CSU.

Conceived, designed and developed custom ASIC chip (V.14) SYNC/ASYNC converter which was integrated network managed high-speed synchronous modem products. Prior employments involved as

Senior Design Engineer/Team Leader/Project Leader at Atari and Multisonics Inc., CA 1973 - 1984

The project engineer responsible for design and development of “Pole Position” Arcade Game and several other games in USA that was a huge success generating over $70 million dollar in revenue for Atari in two- year period and received individual bonus for the accomplishments.

The design engineer responsible for design and development of low and highspeed modems and traffic controllers installed in many cities in California and abroad. EDUCATION B.S.E.E. 1970 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

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