Engineering Intern Designer
Resume:
Owen
Taggart
Sr. Hardware
Designer
Owen Taggart
Etobicoke, ON
M8V 4B4, Canada
*.*.*******@*****.***
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Summary Electronic hardware and RF designer with over 10 years of electronics experience, specialising in Internet of Things (IoT) projects. ㅡ
Experience MMB Networks / Senior Hardware Designer JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT, TORONTO, ON
● Achieved FCC & CE certification of MMB’s new OpenThread Border Router
● Senior member of a team including 2 Hardware Designers and 1 co-op student
● Took 2 radio modules and 2 carrier boards from idea to prototype in 4 months
● Participated in pre-sale project timeline and BOM cost estimation activities
● Reduced a PCB layout’s area by 33% in 1 respin with no loss of performance
● Now supervising development of MMB Networks’ electronic part database MMB Networks / Hardware Designer
SEPTEMBER 2017 - DECEMBER 2021, TORONTO, ON
● Achieved FCC/IC certification of 4 new radio products & CE certification of 1
● Brought a new project from idea to fully tested sample delivery in just 6 weeks
● Reduced the monthly lab equipment rental budget by over 60%
● Selected and installed a new wireless test system for the hardware lab
● Supervised, trained, and mentored 6 co-op students as part of a co-op program Skyworks Solutions Inc. / Applications Engineer
JANUARY 2015 - AUGUST 2017, OTTAWA, ON
● Provided customer design support for 15+ RF products (Zigbee, BLE, BT, LoRa)
● Completed same-day schematic and layout review of customer PCB designs
● Travelled to customer sites to aid in design and troubleshooting of PCBs
● Identified and corrected RF interference in a crystal oscillator circuit Skyworks Solutions Inc. / Engineering Intern
JANUARY 2014 - JANUARY 2015, OTTAWA, ON
● Full performance characterization of 3 new RFIC products (PA/LNA/FEM)
● Retuned a 900 MHz power amplifier module for operation at 1440 MHz
● Corrected a critical wire bond variation in an RF power amplifier design ㅡ
Education McMaster University / M.A.Sc., Engineering Physics MAY 2011 - MAY 2013, HAMILTON, ON
● 2-year research degree studying the mechanical properties of silicon thin films
● Improved coating growth rate by a factor of 3 and adhesion by a factor of 6
● Identified and repaired a board level fault in a temperature control system
● Operated and maintained chemical vapour deposition (CVD) equipment
● Worked as a teaching assistant supervising undergraduate electronics projects McMaster University / B.Eng., Engineering Physics
SEPTEMBER 2006 - APRIL 2011
● Course material includes solid-state physics and hands-on electronic design
● Responsible for complete electronic & software design of a balancing robot
● Fabricated a working silicon solar cell starting from a bare wafer
● Graduated Summa Cum Laude (GPA 9.8/12)
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Skills Electronic Design
ENVISIONING, SPECIFYING, AND DEVELOPING COMPLEX ELECTRONIC PROJECTS
● Block diagram development (draw.io, Google Draw) - 5 years
● Schematic/PCB design (Altium Designer, OrCAD, Eagle CAD) - 10 years
● RF and SPICE simulation (LTSpice, Keysight Genesys & ADS) - 10 years
● Electronic component selection and ordering - 10 years
● Contract manufacturer support (EQs, panel review, etc.) - 5 years Electrical Test and Measurement
PLANNING AND EXECUTING TEST AND TROUBLESHOOTING OF ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS
● Test plan development - 5 years
● Board level fault tracing & troubleshooting - 10 years
● SMT rework including QFN chips and 01005 passives - 8 years
● RF test tools (spectrum/network analyzer, wireless tester, NFA) - 8 years
● Radio certification testing (CE, FCC/IC) - 8 years
● Python and VISA test automation - 4 years
Project Tracking and Documentation
MAINTAINING CLEAR AND CONCISE COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTING WORK
● Atlassian JIRA and Confluence - 5 years
● Product lifecycle management (PLM) tools (Autodesk Fusion, Agile) - 5 years
● Product manual and datasheet development - 5 years
● Zoom, Slack - 5 years
● Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Outlook - 16 years
● Google Docs, Sheets, Slides - 5 years
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