Education
Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), #19797, registered in the State of Washington, 1981
MSEE - University of Washington, 1980
BSEE - University of Washington, 1974
Continuing Education Courses and Engineering Seminars
Expertise
I first help develop product requirements and write detailed hardware and firmware design specifications. From there I design electrical circuitry, act as a resource helping others with their designs, design and develop firmware, and perform worst-case hardware power, loading, and timing analyses. Hardware and software integration, testing, and verification. Working with multiple disciplines to help each Team successfully accomplish our projects quickly and cost effectively.
My own personal electrical designs incorporate FPGAs, microprocessors, and microcontrollers including ARM. I designed with radiation hardened FPGAs, plus discrete digital and analog circuitry to monitor and control power and thrusters on a number of flying satellites. I integrate wireless and hardwired communications, laser drivers, fiber optics, and infrared communications. Also Medical, Military, Industrial, Commercial and Research design experience. Designing with MEMS sensors. Substantial experience designing and testing VHDL firmware for my FPGA hardware designs. Embedded C software designs. All with simulation, emulation, hands-on debugging and detailed documentation.
Employment History
3/2016 - Present Sound Metrics Corporation, Bellevue, Washington
www.soundmetrics.com
Principal Hardware Design Engineer working on exciting high definition underwater ultrasound imaging systems. Involves worst-case design and analyses of power supplies, microcontroller, microprocessor, Ethernet, CAN bus, HomePlug, analog measurement circuitry, and other communications circuitry. Using Altium Designer and PCB Library Pro for schematic capture and some board layout. Using LTSpice, TINA TI, and other tools to analyze and simulate designs.
2/2015 – 3/2016 OutBack Power, Arlington, Washington
www.outbackpower.com
Principal Hardware Engineer performing digital designs and design analyses involving microprocessors, microcontrollers and FPGAs; analog active and passive filters, and analog measurements; switching and linear power supply designs. Design and analysis of FPGA embedded firmware in VHDL. Schematic capture plus PCB layout using Altium Designer and PCB Library Pro. My designs and design analyses meet worst-case power, loading and timing requirements. Digital emulations and analog simulations (LTSpice and other tools), plus system integration and hands-on debugging.
8/13 – 2/2015 Kymeta Corporation, Redmond, Washington
www.kymetacorp.com
Senior Electrical Engineer in an exciting startup company developing a ‘communications industry changing’ flat panel metamaterial antenna.
8/11 – 8/13 Spectrum Controls, Inc., Bellevue, Washington
www.spectrumcontrols.com
Principal Hardware Design Engineer responsible for the design and analyses of very high precision voltage, current and resistance measurement products, as well as a highly flexible communications product. Involves defining and designing hardware, embedded VHDL firmware, discrete analog and digital circuitry, incorporating FPGAs, CPLDs, ARM Cortex-M3 and i.MX27L microcontrollers.
4/08 – 8/11 B.E. Meyers & Co., Inc., Redmond, Washington
www.bemeyers.com
Senior Design Engineer responsible for the design and analyses of FPGAs, microprocessors, microcontrollers, discrete digital, analog, laser drive and motor drive circuitry used in laser, optical, and surveillance products supporting our Military and Police. Unique switching power supply designs and laser systems, linear/LDO power supply designs, photodiode feedback circuitry, and low power, battery operated systems. Also involved in the definition of a specialized communications protocol. Suggested and investigated the incorporation of components for use in the development of a line of products. Worked with various Microchip PIC and ARM Cortex-M3 processors.
7/89 – 4/08 Andrews & Associates Engineering, Inc., Lynnwood, Washington
www.aae-inc.com
Self-employed as a hardware and embedded firmware Design Consulting Engineer. Also acted as a Project Manager and General Contractor coordinating the efforts of other professionals in the Mechanical Design, Components, Board Layout, Fabrication, Assembly, EMI/RFI, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering fields. Designed and developed new products from concept to finished, tested and certified items, ready to ship. Value engineered existing products. Performed worst-case AC and DC power, loading and timing analyses. Designed radiation hardened Space, Military, Medical, Research, and Commercial products.
9/88 – 6/89 Tone Commander Systems, Inc., Redmond, Washington
Senior Design Engineer incorporating present technologies into the company's telecommunications products. Included designs with programmable logic and several microprocessors. Performed worst-case power, loading, and timing analyses.
10/84 – 9/88 John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Everett, Washington
Project Manager and Senior Design Engineer for a support product. Coordinated the efforts of other disciplines and performed the entire digital design and its testing. Test Software Engineer on another product, writing test software and test cases. Also, Software Engineer writing some of that product's commercial code. Later assigned as the product's Lead Digital Designer through to its release. Assisted Manufacturing in establishing analog and digital test methods. Experienced with fiber optics.
10/83 – 10/84 Azurdata, Inc., Redmond, Washington (the company was sold in 10/84)
Project Engineer working on several major products. Performed worst-case design analyses of microprocessor based, battery powered equipment. Reviewed product software.
2/81 – 9/83 Data I/O Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Project Engineer for digital trouble shooting products. Assigned as temporary Group Leader for the Test and Measurement Systems group. Project Engineer for a prom programmer. Also responsible for value engineering another programmer.
6/74 – 2/81 The Boeing Company, Renton, Washington
Senior Design Engineer, Quality Control Research and Development. Researched, designed and developed specialized test equipment used to ensure the integrity of various Boeing products. Much of the equipment was microprocessor based; battery powered, involved substantial firmware development, and included analog signal conditioning circuitry. Also experienced in eddy current and ultrasound.
Engineering Design and Debug Tool Experience
Hardware Tools – Design experience with the following schematic capture tools: Altium Designer, OrCAD CIS, Cadence's Concept, ViewLogic's ViewDraw / Dx Designer, Veribest, and MicroSim. I have made extensive use of a variety of oscilloscopes, meters, counters, oscillators, logic analyzers, serial analyzers, microprocessor emulators, JTAG, Boundary Scan, … . Now laying out PCBs with Altium Designer.
Software Tools – Design experience with a wide range of cross-compilers and assemblers. I use the Altera, Xilinx, and Microsemi (Actel) FPGA design tool suites, as well as Synplicity’s Synplify VHDL compiler for FPGA designs. Also perform digital and analog designs with discrete digital logic and programmable logic using the VHDL language. Use various digital simulation tools, timing analysis tools (Timing Designer Pro), VHDL test bench generation (BugHunter Pro / WaveFormer Pro), and the ModelSim simulation tool. Considerable experience with LTSpice. Perform PCB layout using Altium Designer.
A Few Accomplishments
- While at the John Fluke Manufacturing Company I became proficient with the UNIX Operating System and programming in the C language. Also attended a number of technical and management courses.
- In conjunction with the Rehabilitation Research Department of University Hospital, Seattle, Washington, I designed and built a patient monitoring system as part of my Master's thesis in Electrical Engineering.
- US Patent, #4,050,294, "Apparatus and Method of Measuring Surface Roughness," issued September 27, 1979.
Additional information and references available upon request
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