Engineer Project

KEVIN KENNEDY

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Madison, AL 35758 256-***-**** (Cell)

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OBJECTIVE

* Senior electrical design engineer

WORK EXPERIENCE

* 2009-Present Volunteer Madison/Limestone AL

Limestone VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster),

St. Vincent DePaul social outreach, and

St. Joseph the worker job networking club.

* 2005-2009 Continental Corporation Huntsville AL

* Most recent performance rating was MSE (85-95 percentile) as Senior Staff Engineer.

* Hardware lead for Continental production program awarded "#1 supplier" by customer BMW four consecutive months for a high end multimedia system. Significantly exceeded stretch targets for scrap reduction and 0km failure analysis turnaround time.

* Completed Automotive design for a high end AM/FM/TMC/DAB tuner project, and an EMC improvement project for a low cost radio design.

* Completed Automotive designs for three separate "OnStar" type cell phone and GPS subsystems.

* 1995-2005 Wegener Communications Norcross, GA

* Awarded 2 U.S. patents and Wegener stock options for my role as Lead Hardware Engineer for the Conditional Access System and three generations of IRDs (Integrated Receiver Decoders).

* System engineer for a complex satellite broadcast encryption system using commercial off the shelf PCs, MPEG2 compression engines, and RF transmitters along with custom Wegener multiplexers, receivers, and software. Successfully integrated, demonstrated, and deployed conditional access system to allow the customer control of the programming at each broadcast affiliate and cable head end, and protect its programming from unauthorized viewing.

* Successfully completed several embedded system designs, including multi-processor designs using the Freescale Coldfire, the Philips 80C51XA, the ST10, and the NEC V850, plus DSPs including the AD Blackfin and the TI 320C203, as well as dedicated MPEG processing chip solutions.

* Designed programmable logic for a MPEG2 Digital Video Compression product which included 5 Lattice CPLDs and 1 Xilinx FPGA. Provided aftermarket upgrade features thru dozens of successful programmable logic designs using parts from Lattice, Altera, and Xilinx CLPD and FPGA families.

* 1984-1994 Harris Corporation (ASD, HSSC, ISD) Melbourne, FL

* Received the "Outstanding Individual Achievement Award" on the HSSC NASA FEP project for successful schedule compression efforts.

* Member of large CORE team to upgrade entire NASA space shuttle and space station test system. This required both “big picture” system comprehension and detailed subsystem specification in order to successfully integrate, demonstrate, and deliver a superior maintainable product.

* Designed a 4Mb/s PCM downlink frame synchronizer consisting of a correlator, an Altera EPLD, and dual port RAM.

* Designed a three card set of double height VMEbus boards for a 1Mb/s 1553 type Manchester encoder/decoder using 3 Xilinx FPGAs for the VME interface and NASA I/O formats.

* Project Engineer on the GASD "Production Program of the Year", a $15M production program which was completed ahead of schedule and approximately 33% under budget.

* Specified, designed, and integrated an upgrade to the DSP satellite hardware to increase processing bandwidth in response to countermeasures. System included 17 custom gate arrays across 9 processing units. Designed 3K gate custom ASIC using rad-hard LSI Logic family to support a space based IR sensor data processor. The gate array also includes a custom microcontroller with a test PROM.

* Integration and Test team leader for a Hi-Rel, rad-hard, Class S program.

CORE COMPETANCIES

* Detail oriented with deep system knowledge leading to many successful integration projects.

* Experienced technical task leader with current CAPM certification and PMP PDUs complete.

* Proficient in CAE design tools, including schematic capture and PCB layout. Also experienced in graphical, AHDL, ABEL, and VHDL design and simulation, plus assembly, FORTRAN, C and C++ programming languages.

* Experienced with Microsoft office tools, SAP, and Lotus notes.

* Familiar with standard debug and verification equipment including Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, and Spectrum Analyzers. Also experienced with specialized automotive, audio, video, and data test equipment such as CAN, MOST, Ethernet, BERT, SERDES, and VM700 analyzers.

CREDENTIALS

* Passport Current

* Security Clearance Secret (no longer active)

EDUCATION

* M.S.Eng.Mgmt. Florida Institute of Technology

* B.S.E.E. Mississippi State University

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