Sr. Hardware Eng.
Resume:
Benjamin H. Rodda
Boston, MA 02124
617-***-**** (cell) E-Mail: ******@*****.***
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Designer for following products:
• Chassis-based Ethernet Routing Switch
o 1.440 Terabit Switch Cluster Architecture
o Variety of optical speeds, wavelengths and fiber styles.
• Metro Area Network Optical System
o Multiple unit system capable of transporting multiple T1’s and Ethernet across fiber.
o OC-12 speeds from CO box to ADM
o Physical layer switching of 10/100 Mbps Ethernet at CPE unit.
• Handspring Bluetooth data transfer plug-in module and base station.
o Data and file transfer from PC to Handspring PDA.
o Implemented File Transfer Profile and Object Push Profile.
o Fully internal antenna and transparent wireless functionality.
• Multi-service ATM switch
o ATM-enabled core services
o Implemented Real Time Cell Flow.
• OC-3 and OC-12 SONET multiplexer (FLM 150 and FLM 600)
o Variety of tributary interfaces.
o Full grooming to STS-1 as well as VT1.5 grooming tributaries.
• POS and Cell phones
o Integrated cell phone and Debit/credit POS terminal.
o Handheld wireless devices and connecting wireless hubs.
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Technical Competencies:
• Applications: Data IO, Pspice, Smartbits, Windows, Unix, Solaris, OraCad, Pointman,
• Networks: ATM, IP(10/100/10000bT), Frame Relay, SONET
• Hardware Design: Micro Controllers/processors, Memory, SAR, Framers, Mappers, M1.3 Mux/Demux, Bluetooth, Optical Interfaces; PHY/MACs, PoE
• RF/Handheld devices: Tri-band antennas, RF shielding, 802.11G wireless components/NICs, Lithium batteries, LCD screens
Work History:
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September 2007 – Present
Nortel Networks- (Left due to layoff after bankruptcy)
Sr. Sustaining Engineer CDN/Enterprise Product lines
Managed multidisciplinary teams for both cost reduction activities as well as large scale customer issues.
Qualification of components both for both cost reduction and NPI.
Root Cause Analysis of product issues down to the component level.
Creation of documentation for tracking qualification and approval processes for all of Nortel.
Extensive work in cost reduction on existing products producing over 1 million USD in annualized savings.
January 2007 – September 2007
Waysystems Inc. – (Left due to contract expiring)
Contractor: Sustaining Engineering Laboratory Manager
Lab maintenance and inventory management and managing lab staff.
Creation and execution of test plans for both sustaining and QA..
Working with test labs test and modify devices to pass FCC, UL and other regulatory testing.
Troubleshooting antenna design problems.
Isolating and addressing RF issues with device designs.
Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis of existing products.
September 2004 – December 2006
Globalspec Inc.
Content Engineer
Provided domain expertise for electronic components and industrial networking equipment.
Created and maintained product taxonomies internal and external to the company.
Worked to create a world wide engineering community that is growing at exponential rates.
Worked closely with marketing to create new products and to further leverage existing products.
Provided technical leadership and guidance to sales, production and customer care.
November 2001-April 2004
Waitron Systems- (Stopped development due to lack of funding)
Founder/Sr. Design Engineer
Designed wireless ordering system for use in casual dinning environments.
Prototyped handheld POS touch screen ordering terminal using 802.11G Ethernet or Bluetooth..
Met with Angel investors to pitch for funds.
Produced costed BoMs for both prototypes and production models.
March 2001-November 2001
Verilink Corporation- (Left due to layoff when Boston office closed)
Sr. Design Engineer
Team leader for proprietary FPGA architecture design and implementation.
Design Team lead for CPE and corresponding optical interface on CO unit.
Designed backplane architecture for handling 40Gbps of Ethernet traffic and 3.1Gbps of T1/E1 traffic.
Designed CPE to ADM architecture for aggregating T1s and Gigabit Ethernet
Worked with software team to define system wide alarms, interrupts, and configurations.
Generated block diagrams, original costed BOMs, power consumption budgets, and dollar cost estimates.
December 2000 - February 2001
Centennial Technologies- (Left due to layoff after acquisition)
Design Engineer
Head of Bluetooth development
Responsible for design from concept to working product.
Designed 3 systems based on different vendor chipsets.
Performed first articling and cost/part availability analysis from available parts.
April 2000 - November 2000
Fujitsu Nexion/ Fujitsu Network Communications- (Left after layoff when office closed)
Hardware Sustain Eng. II/ Design Engineer II
Schematic capture work on redesigns.
DVT, CVT, and RCA of manufactured boards.
Signature approval of all new parts to be added to approved vendor list.
Wrote ECO’s, DCN’s, inventory disposition, and other technical paperwork.
Responsible for replacing EOL parts on all projects with minimal rework and added cost savings.
Designed TDM module for use in Frame Relay and DS-3 tributary cards.
July 1998 - February 2000
Newbridge Networks Inc.- ((Left due to layoff after acquisition)
Hardware Sustaining Engineer I
DVT, CVT and RCA for customer problems.
Wrote ECO’s, DRN’s, SRN’s and other technical paperwork.
Leading Sustaining Engineer for Ungerman Bass legacy devices.
Schematic capture work on redesigns for updated functionality.
Replication of customer problems and then testing against known good data to isolate problem, create plan of action to correct in the short turn and to work with the designers to fix problem in next spin.
Education:
Bachelors of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)
Wentworth Institute of Technology. Boston MA
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