SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Experienced technologist with proven track record of successful technology and new product development. Over 20 years of experience in IC, system, and process design. Possesses the ability to discuss technical concepts with customers, sales, marketing, labs, technologists, and management in a manner in which all parties understand and can take action. Experience working with customers to define system solutions and developing the ICs for those applications. Eleven patents issued.
SKILLS AND SPECIAL ABILITIES
Mixed-Signal and RF Circuit Design
• Designed more than one hundred high-speed analog and digital integrated circuits with nearly 100% first-pass success.
• Designs included RF amplifiers, mixers, filters, sensing circuits, Clock and Data Recovery (CDR), Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes), PLLs, and VCOs.
Characterization
• Characterized most designs personally on the bench. Built test setups, purchased equipment, designed evaluation and production test boards.
• Exceptional ability to troubleshoot ICs, software, and test setups. Measurements included phase noise, jitter, timing margins, eye diagrams for pseudo-random input data, adherence to specifications including Sonet and Ethernet.
Software
• Skilled in UNIX/Linux, Windows, Cadence, Mentor, C++, Java, Perl, Python, HTML, XML, Shell scripting, Artificial Intelligence.
• Experienced in programming embedded controllers in Assembly Language and C.
Product Definition
• Skilled at high frequency, mixed-mode system design.
• Worked with customers to define their systems and provide the integrated circuits required for those solutions.
Business Case Feasibility
• Business plan development and associated due diligence, product definition, resource analysis, and project planning.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Systems/Applications Engineer
Sand 9, Inc. – Cambridge, MA 2013 - Present
• Work with customers to develop piezoelectric MEMS timing solutions for mobile, infrastructure, and IOT applications
• System design of temperature compensation and clock sharing architectures for MEMS timing applications
• Evaluation of piezoelectric MEMS resonators.
Wholearth Energy, Inc. – Santa Clara, CA 2009 - 2012
• Responsible for financial analysis and technical design of solar energy projects.
• Designed solar arrays, simulated production, and specified components.
• Analyzed and designed financial architecture for investors.
Engineering Consultant
Letcher, SD 2001 – 2009
• Designed, built, and tested several small wind-turbine prototypes.
• Built several prototypes of grid-tied inverters and power converters for solar and wind systems.
• Designed control system for a commercial geothermal HVAC system.
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Motorola/ON Semiconductor – Mesa/Chandler/Tempe/Phoenix, AZ; Toulouse, France; Cupertino, CA 1986 – 2001
Cupertino, CA 2000-2001
• Responsible for all aspects of creating a development center: hired employees, built CAD system, chose CAD tool platform, chose process foundry, developed relationships with suppliers, partners, and customers.
• Built and led a design team of 21 engineers in system and circuit design of optical networking IC’s.
• Trained IC designers in high-speed mixed-s...
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