Professional Profile

Employed as a Hardware Design Engineer for the past 5 years specializing in both complex FPGA development and high-speed board level design. FPGA architectures include pipelined DSP processing and custom control units. High-speed digital designs include such interfaces as ADC, DAC, SDRAM, GigE, and SFPDP. Experienced in all phases of product development from conceptual to production which includes schematic capture, directing PCB layout, design verification, debug, and documentation. Previously employed as an electronic technician for 8 years specializing in support of multiple R&D projects for aerospace, DOD, and fiber optic communication.

Selected Strengths

• FPGA development

• VHDL programming

• Xilinx ISE

• Chipscope

• Altera Quartus

• ModelSim

• High speed PCB design including ADC, DAC, SDRAM, GigE, SFPDP/Fibre Channel, and cPCI interface

• SPICE modeling

• Power supply design

• Mentor Graphics DxDesigner

• Orcad Capture and Layout

• Hardware Design Specification Development

• Knowledge of cabling in accordance with military and NASA standards

• Basic proficiency in C programming

• Fiber optic design

• LabView

• Active secret clearance

Professional Experience

Global Technical Systems, St. Petersburg, FL 09/2005 – 1/2012

Hardware Engineer II

Achievements:

• Development of RADAR hardware for real-time capture and parallel DSP processing (Virtex 4 x3, ADC, GigE, SFPDP/Fibre Channel)

• Development of RADAR system control and synchronization hardware (Cyclone, DAC, UART)

• Development of RADAR waveform synthesizer hardware (Virtex 5, DAC, cPCI)

• Development of antenna pedestal axis control hardware (Cyclone, UART)

Responsibilities:

• Project management

• System Engineering

• Develop hardware requirements

• Analog and digital circuit design (schematic capture)

• PCB layout

• FPGA development

• VHDL programming including testbench development

• Design simulation and verification

• Hardware integration with software

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. 07/2004 – 07/2005

Electronic Technician

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Engineers in assembly and testing of prototype military electronic hardware

• Soldering and rework of fine pitch SMT parts

• Build cables and harnesses in accordance with military flight standards

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 07/2003 – 07/2004

Electronic Test Technician

Contributions:

• New Horizons deep space probe to Pluto

• STEREO satellite to Mercury

• Messenger satellites to the Sun

Responsibilities:

• Electrical, radiographic, and visual inspection of electronic parts to meet NASA standard of quality assurance

• Circuit design, layout, and fabrication of test beds

Extended years of experience – Details available upon request 05/1999 – 07/2003

Electronic Technician

Past Contributions:

• Hubble Space Telescope

• World record of longest unamplified fiber optic run across the Atlantic ocean

Past Responsibilities:

• Assisted test engineers in fabrication test beds for multiple applications

• Fiber optic splicing

• Troubleshooting

• Quality assurance

• Destructive electronic hardware testing and failure analysis

• Technical Documentation

Education

ITT Technical Institute, Tampa Bay, Florida 2007

Bachelor’s of Electronic and Communication Engineering Technology

Prince George’s Community College, Largo, Maryland 1999

Associates Degree of Electronic Engineering Technology

Clearances

U.S. Government Secret Clearance

References

References are available upon request.

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