Sr. Field Applications Engineer
Resume:
Jeff Sondermeyer
PO Box *****
Mill Creek, WA ***82
****.***********@*****.***
ACHIEVEMENTS
2012: Led team of 8 engineers bringing Edge platform to market on time starting with a single less-than-functional prototype to full-scale production in less than 6 months
2009: 9% processor growth in down economy when most sales associates were negative 30%
2006 and 2007: “Go for the Gold” winner for achieving 289% of target sales. Voted by managers best processor FAE in North America
2005: Inventor of Patent 6,868,162 “Method and apparatus for automatic volume control in an audio system”
2003: Won grand price “Golden Boot” sales award for superior performance in North America to include all-expense paid trip to Fiji
2000: Wrote white paper for AES tradeshow “Noise Sensing Using a Variation of the nLMS Adaptive Filter with Auto Calibration”
1999: Designer of "Deltafex" rack-mount processor ranked #1 in The Music and Sound Retailer. NAMM awarded the "Best New Effects Processor of 1996"
1995: Designer of "Tubefex" which received NAMM’s "Most Innovative Effects Processor of 1995" which was featured on the front cover of Recording Magazine, November 1995
1993: Meritorious Service Award for distinguished actions during gulf war
OBJECTIVE
Secure a highly visible position where field applications and customer-oriented engineering is essential for driving sales, growth and revenue
EXPERIENCE
2011 to SYMETRIX INCORPORATED
2012 MountLake Terrace, WA
Director of Engineering
I managed an engineering team consisting of 2 DSP firmware engineers, 2 software/hardware testers and 2 software application developers. I also managed multiple 3rd parties to include Tek Systems, DSP Algorithms, Vocal Technologies, Audinate, Infinetix and MIKET. I was responsible for bringing the Edge platform to market on schedule with additional features beyond scope of project. I helped to design and debug the Dante/Audinate
networked audio card and main platform consisting of three processors with multiple cards: Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA, 21489 Sharc and BF536 Blackfin DSPs. Responsible for researching, testing, sourcing and modifying new technologies: VOIP card, Acoustic Echo Canceller (AEC), developing an AEC setup wizard as well as ARM A8/A9 qualification for new product development. Responsible for all EMC/EMI compliance testing and fixes.
2000 to ANALOG DEVICES INCORPORATED
2011 Bellevue, WA
Senior Processor FAE, Emerging market specialist in portable audio, MEMS and processors
Responsible for day to day customer problem solving in 6 territories: Vancouver, Calgary, Seattle, Spokane, Portland, and Salt Lake. Prepared and presented customer-specific product overviews to include technical seminars and multi-day DSP-101 workshops. Have written 7 application notes and was published in Analog Dialogue in 2001. Consistently outperformed all other North American territories in DSP sales and growth. I earned the reputation for quickly assimilating new knowledge and solving complex problems in the field. I became the first field expert on the Blackfin DSP earning the reputation as the “go to” for FAE’s nationwide. Based on customer feedback, defined several innovative DSP/MCU peripherals which were designed into new Sharc, and Blackfin DSPs. Lead FAE for high profile accounts such as Microsoft, Intel, Fluke, Datalogic and Biamp winning high volume key design opportunities. I am very experienced with JTAG and boundary scan devices. I was also the touch sensor specialist for products utilizing CDC (capacitor to digital converter) designing analog sensor front-ends. I have done a lot of mixed signal and analog design to include multiplexing/de-multiplexing, opamp filtering, low-noise microphone preamps/LNAs, single-ended or differential industrial opamps (INAMP), VGAs/PGAs, high performance/high dynamic range ADC/DAC layout, LDO, switched mode power, I/O protection and interface, clocking, video encode/decode, discrete design (diodes, capacitors, transistors, FETs, logic, etc.), ISM band RF transceivers with Cortex M3 core, MEMS – accelerometers, gyroscopes, and microphones.
1997 to MACKIE DESIGNS INCORPORATED
2000 Woodinville, WA
Project Manager and Digital Design Engineer
I was the team leader/project manager and digital/analog designer for DX8.2 an 8-input, 2-channel fully digital industrial mixer. I managed a team of nine engineers and co-developed a custom switch-mode power supply. Digital lead for 16-channel, 24-bit audio link over inexpensive CAT5 cable which revolutionized Mackie's audio protocol establishing a new standard of inter-product communication. I designed and implemented audio effects algorithms using Analog Devices DSPs including: Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Phaser, Gated/Reverse Reverb, Pitch Shifter, Flanger, and Rotary Speaker. I was the sole designer of the first cost-effective digital alternative to existing mechanical spring reverb systems trademarked as EMAC.
1993 to PEAVEY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
1997 Meridian, MS
Digital Design Engineer
I designed hardware and software for audio effects rack units utilizing two DSPs from Motorola and Texas Instruments. Designed all UI and wrote simple embedded operating systems in Intel assembler and C. I managed all phases of product development from birth to end of life including concept, cost analysis, hardware/software analog and digital design selection and implementation, schematic/layout, as well as addressing all manufacturing issues in real-time and providing dealer and service training. Analog design to include motor control (H-bridge), FET Potentiometer, Tube-preamp, and high voltage mixed with low voltage digital. Designed nine successful products in five years where six products exceeded projected sales goals.
1988 to UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
1993 Colorado Springs, CO
Deputy Crew Commander, Missile Warning Center, selectively-manned position
Training Officer/Flight Commander for two high profile satellite launches
EDUCATION
B.S., Mississippi State University, May 1987
Major: Electrical Engineering with emphasis in digital design
Minor: Math
Honors: Awarded 4-year Air Force Scholarship
M.S., University of Colorado, December 1993
Major: Electrical Engineering with emphasis in DSP
GPA: 3.83/4.0
SKILLS
C, Assembly (Sharc, Blackfin, ARM), ARM7, ARM9, Cortex Mx, Sharc, Altera, Xilinx (schematic entry), Linux. Tools: IAR, Keil, VisualDSP, Matlab/Simulink/Realtime workshop, PADs Logic, Perforce, Microsoft Project. Technologies: Audinate Brooklyn II Ethernet over Cat6, AVB, Ethernet, USB2.0
LEADERSHIP
Directed day to day executive level meetings at tier 1 companies
Mission team leader, 3 trips to Malawi, Africa
Founder and lead guide, BroMan Expeditions
Project Director, recording studio designed and built in Malawi, Africa
Director of Men’s Ministry
HOBBIES
Church sound engineer, acting/drama, snow and water skiing, mountaineering, road/mountain biking, running, scuba diving
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