Experience

Zeus Research and Technology, Inc.

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineer

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  • Support design, development, and integration of navigation systems and experimentation efforts for emerging defense systems.• Design hardware using Altium Designer for schematic entry, board stack-up, component placement, and routing.• Implement/debug Zynq 7 and Spartan 7 VHDL designs using Xilinx Vivado.• Write embedded application C code for Zynq 7 processing system using Xilinx Vitis.• Contribute toward embedding Xilinx Petalinux OS on Zynq 7 processing system.• Perform error propagation analyses of IMU systems using Microsoft Visual Studio & Qt Creator.



Adtran

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Principal Systems Design Engineer

  • Feb 2008 - Apr 2020

  • Managed system level solutions that encompassed SDN, SyncE, IEEE 1588v2, BITS timing, xPON, xDSL, vectoring, EoCu, EFM bonding, interface compatibility, voice, pseudowire, traffic management, quality of service, performance monitoring, OAM, and hardware and triple play service resiliency in chassis based and disaggregated hardware deployments.• Consulted with customers to develop business, residential, and wholesale backhaul solutions.• Assisted customers and internal teams with troubleshooting/analysis efforts and provided technical support for critical lab exercises.• Consulted with product management and owners when requests for information and product required technical deep dives and when new features required scoping and roadmapping.• Served as technical point of contact when business activities required coordination between onsite and offsite development teams, product management and owners, external customers, and technical documenters.• Awarded two US patents.

• Design Engineer, Product Development

  • Dec 1994 - Jan 2008

  • Led product development though conceptualization, feasibility studies, scheduling, software/hardware design, PCB layout, prototyping/debugging, compliance testing, acceptance testing, documentation, and release.• Wrote embedded software using assembly and C, designed hardware via Mentor/ViewLogic schematic capture, designed ASICs/FPGAs via schematic capture and VHDL, verified ASICs/FPGAs via ViewSim and ModelSim, and cost reduced existing products.• Co-designed two chassis based systems, which included controllers, power supplies, timing cards, M13 and STS-1 line cards, and T3 termination cards.• Performed design work on DDS termination cards, which included 200mW device powered from standard -48V twisted pair and MODEM that delivered 64 kbps data through load coils.• Specified design parameters for custom transformers, connectors, and analog/digital ASICs.• Managed design group’s FPGA projects.• Awarded two US patents.



Phoenix Microsystems

• Hardware Design Engineer

  • Jul 1991 - Dec 1994

  • Designed hardware and calibration/driver/data processing software for digital controllers of high speed peak detection circuits used in T1 and T3 pulse mask and time domain reflectometry applications• Designed hardware and provided software consultation for T1 drop and insert test set to manipulate DS0s and ESF/SLC96 datalinks.• Refactored T1/E1 jitter measurement and analog front end hardware to reduce cost and to add functionality.• Utilized PAL, EPLD, and FPGA hardware, as well as Viewlogic, XILINX, and Altera schematic and simulation software.• Performed cost and power reduction analyses and new product feasibility studies• Awarded US patent.



Teledyne Brown Engineering

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer

  • May 1989 - Jul 1991

  • Wrote six degree of freedom simulations to model motions of missiles, artillery shells, and tanks.• Wrote software to perform Monte Carlo, co-variance, and small error analyses on inertial guidance systems.• Determined gyroscope, accelerometer, and orientation/translation update requirements for inertial guidance systems.• Wrote software to simulate orbits of earth satellites, determining telemetry footprints and eclipsed views of sun. • Wrote six degree of freedom simulations to model motions of missiles, artillery shells, and tanks.• Wrote software to perform Monte Carlo, co-variance, and small error analyses on inertial guidance systems.• Determined gyroscope, accelerometer, and orientation/translation update requirements for inertial guidance systems.• Wrote software to simulate orbits of earth satellites, determining telemetry footprints and eclipsed views of sun.