Dwayne Yount
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Thomas Le
I had the pleasure of working with Dwayne for more than 12 years at BD Biosciences. We, together as an electrical engineering team, designed several data acquisition electronic subsystems for multiple BDB flow cytometry instruments. During his time at BDB, Dwayne made significant contributions to the success of the company. He is the co-inventor of a pattern as well as other publications related to flow cytometry. He was the author of a number of next generation's architectural proposals and he was the technical lead of many new product development projects. He designed mix-signal and high-speed PCBs and wrote low-level DSP codes to execute real-time tasks, floating point calculations and other complex DSP algorithms. He taught electronics at BD’s flow cytometry training classes and mentored other engineers. He also mentored and sponsored a team of UCSD electronic and software engineering students for their senior projects. Dwayne was the most experienced electrical engineer in our EE group. His vast technical knowledge of software, embedded firmware, DSP, digital and analog circuits related to cytometer image processing, cell analysis and sorting architectures, made him an extremely high valued engineer at BDB San Jose. He is also very easy to work with and always willing to help others. I highly recommend Dwayne to any prospective employer.
Thomas Le
I had the pleasure of working with Dwayne for more than 12 years at BD Biosciences. We, together as an electrical engineering team, designed several data acquisition electronic subsystems for multiple BDB flow cytometry instruments. During his time at BDB, Dwayne made significant contributions to the success of the company. He is the co-inventor of a pattern as well as other publications related to flow cytometry. He was the author of a number of next generation's architectural proposals and he was the technical lead of many new product development projects. He designed mix-signal and high-speed PCBs and wrote low-level DSP codes to execute real-time tasks, floating point calculations and other complex DSP algorithms. He taught electronics at BD’s flow cytometry training classes and mentored other engineers. He also mentored and sponsored a team of UCSD electronic and software engineering students for their senior projects. Dwayne was the most experienced electrical engineer in our EE group. His vast technical knowledge of software, embedded firmware, DSP, digital and analog circuits related to cytometer image processing, cell analysis and sorting architectures, made him an extremely high valued engineer at BDB San Jose. He is also very easy to work with and always willing to help others. I highly recommend Dwayne to any prospective employer.
Thomas Le
I had the pleasure of working with Dwayne for more than 12 years at BD Biosciences. We, together as an electrical engineering team, designed several data acquisition electronic subsystems for multiple BDB flow cytometry instruments. During his time at BDB, Dwayne made significant contributions to the success of the company. He is the co-inventor of a pattern as well as other publications related to flow cytometry. He was the author of a number of next generation's architectural proposals and he was the technical lead of many new product development projects. He designed mix-signal and high-speed PCBs and wrote low-level DSP codes to execute real-time tasks, floating point calculations and other complex DSP algorithms. He taught electronics at BD’s flow cytometry training classes and mentored other engineers. He also mentored and sponsored a team of UCSD electronic and software engineering students for their senior projects. Dwayne was the most experienced electrical engineer in our EE group. His vast technical knowledge of software, embedded firmware, DSP, digital and analog circuits related to cytometer image processing, cell analysis and sorting architectures, made him an extremely high valued engineer at BDB San Jose. He is also very easy to work with and always willing to help others. I highly recommend Dwayne to any prospective employer.
Thomas Le
I had the pleasure of working with Dwayne for more than 12 years at BD Biosciences. We, together as an electrical engineering team, designed several data acquisition electronic subsystems for multiple BDB flow cytometry instruments. During his time at BDB, Dwayne made significant contributions to the success of the company. He is the co-inventor of a pattern as well as other publications related to flow cytometry. He was the author of a number of next generation's architectural proposals and he was the technical lead of many new product development projects. He designed mix-signal and high-speed PCBs and wrote low-level DSP codes to execute real-time tasks, floating point calculations and other complex DSP algorithms. He taught electronics at BD’s flow cytometry training classes and mentored other engineers. He also mentored and sponsored a team of UCSD electronic and software engineering students for their senior projects. Dwayne was the most experienced electrical engineer in our EE group. His vast technical knowledge of software, embedded firmware, DSP, digital and analog circuits related to cytometer image processing, cell analysis and sorting architectures, made him an extremely high valued engineer at BDB San Jose. He is also very easy to work with and always willing to help others. I highly recommend Dwayne to any prospective employer.
Experience
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Nodexus Inc.
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United States
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Biotechnology
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr Staff Elec Engr
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Apr 2022 - Present
Design electronic subsystems for a biotech micro-fluidic company to help commercialize technology solutions to make cutting-edge workflows in gene editing, cancer biology, and agriculture more universally accessible. Design electronic subsystems for a biotech micro-fluidic company to help commercialize technology solutions to make cutting-edge workflows in gene editing, cancer biology, and agriculture more universally accessible.
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Sr. Staff Elec. Engr
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Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Electronics subsystem architect and designer of microfluidic-based single cell enriching, sorting and analysis platforms for life science research and clinical applications, such as cell line development, cancer diagnostics, cancer immunotherapy, and single cell genomics. Electronics subsystem architect and designer of microfluidic-based single cell enriching, sorting and analysis platforms for life science research and clinical applications, such as cell line development, cancer diagnostics, cancer immunotherapy, and single cell genomics.
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BD Biosciences
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Staff Electrical Engineer
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1998 - 2017
Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, 2012 - 2017 Electronics designer for cell sorters. Wrote firmware and hardware specifications for department to meet ISO 9001 and FDA requirements. 4 direct reporting engineers. • Designed 4 port USB-C hub, real-time digital signal processor (DSP) firmware for index cell sorting, and SBC backplane. • Electronics subsystem lead for new cell analyzer and cytometer including lasers, fluid dynamics, analog and digital electronics, PSoC, and a single board computer. Staff Electrical Engineer, 2004 – 2012 Canto II • Team leader, successfully developed and released to manufacturing a new low-cost cytometer cell measurement instrument and electronics, saving $8,000 per unit over previous instrument. Senior Engineer, 1998 – 2004 Aria • Coded a three-DSP parallel cluster connected to five additional DSP’s via link ports for a cell sorting application with 32-bit floating processor including drivers, operating system, diagnostics, and applications. • Electronic system architect for first patented digital Cytometer and cell sorter, including a patent application for automatic laser delay calibration method. • Designed common logic PLD for microcontroller boot loader, firmware and flash programmer utilities to upgrade via serial port. Additionally : RAE Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA - Senior Electronic Engineer Electronic designs and architecture for a startup manufacturing battery powered portable toxic gas sensor products. Managed new products, delivered in short development cycles. Honeywell, process control systems – Senior electrical design engineer Digital and analog electronic designs for process control systems. Show less
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Education
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San Jose State University
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San Jose City College
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De Anza College
Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician
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