Experience

Cirque Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer

  • Nov 2010 - Present

  Key member of Mixed-Signal ASIC team developing touch interface control ASICs. Mentored less experienced design engineers by teaching good design practices. Most circuits were designed on a 130nm process and utilized low voltage design techniques.• Specified requirements, designed and simulated switched capacitor Sigma-Delta Converter.• Designed various ADCs and DACs ranging from 6-bits to 12-bits in accuracy.• Designed low offset amplifiers using correlated double sampling (CDS) and auto-zero techniques.• Led top-level simulations with behavior models in Verilog, Verilog-AMS, and Verilog-A.• Designed several novel low-power programmable Current Conveyors.• Designed several Low-Dropout Voltage Regulators (LDOs) of various sizes.• Designed a low-power current DAC.• Designed various block level circuits including bandgap references, amplifiers, comparators, buffers, and oscillators.• Managed Layout Engineers on all designed circuits.• Assisted with all aspects of product release to market from product definition to release to production.• Created plan and budget to create and purchase computer network to run Cadence suite of tools.• Installed and managed computer network, both software and hardware, to run Cadence suite of tools.



Lumenis

• Israel
• Medical Device
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Electrical Engineer

  • Nov 2008 - Oct 2010

  Sole Electrical Engineer with wide ranging responsibilities from production floor testing of electronics to research and development of new products and improvement of existing products for ophthalmic medical laser equipment.• Integrated electronics for several ophthalmic laser systems.• Modified firmware and FPGA code to increase performance and functionality of older systems.• Sought and integrated new procedures to cut costs and increase production throughput.• Overhauled the existing testing procedure for new and existing PCBs.• Designed and laid out multiple PCBs for test fixtures and product obsolescence issues.• Lead implementation of new EMC policy.• Debugged field failures, found root cause issues and fixed long term problems.• Member of the Continuous Improvement Team.• Assisted with the implementation of a new ESD policy.



S5 Wireless

• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analog IC Designer

  • Aug 2006 - Oct 2008

  Team member/leader working for a startup on mixed signal RF transmitter integrated circuits. Team lead for analog portion of transmitters. Helped establish culture for success by setting up design review and documentation processes flows.• Designed various low offset, automatic trim, manually trimmed, and adjustable gain baseband filters for direct conversion RF chain transmitter.• Designed a quadrature mixer for QPSK modulation.• Designed analog to digital converters (ADC) as well as digital to analog converters (DAC).• Designed bandgap reference and regulator circuits.• Designed various purpose buffers, op amps, filters, comparators, and current sources.• Setup and oversaw process for automatic nightly regressions testing.• Wrote ocean scripts for batch testing.• Made verilog-A and verilog-AMS models for mixed signal top level simulations.• Ran and analyzed DRC, LVS, and RCX/QRC results of post layout simulations.• Responsible for debugging, testing, and characterizing analog portions of IC.• Setup and interfaced with various companies to establish prototype work flows.• Interim IC team lead.



Kidde Aerospace

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analog IC Designer

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2006

  Analog Design EngineerManaged and maintained the Fenwall Safety System line of controllers for safety systems in various aircraft. Designed new analog and mixed signal controllers to work with Fenwall Safety Systems eutectic continuous fire detectors in new aircraft.• Using analog circuitry, designed an environmental control system overheat detection controller for the Boeing 787.• Updated various mixed signal and analog control units to meet modern requirements.• Worked on site with customers to help resolve problematic installations.• Responsible for planning and testing of hardware to meet stringent aerospace requirements.• Served on the Kidde Aerospace Continuous Improvement Team (CIT) to help cut costs, improve reliability, enhance yields, and get a greater throughput on the manufacturing floor.• Worked with Manufacturing Engineers to support old products that had new technical issues.



Texas Instruments

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analog IC Designer

  • Mar 2000 - Jun 2005

  Analog IC Design EngineerProject Manager and designer that led a team of engineers, technicians, planners, marketers, and transitioners for timely and efficient product release. Managed all aspects of project, from product inception to market release.• Designed family of current shunt amplifiers using CMOS technology.• Designed several families of high precision operational amplifiers using bipolar technology.• Worked with CAD engineers to ensure layout was suitable for high precision accuracy. • Responsible for LVS and DRC analysis and results.• Characterized and verified first silicon and micro probed silicon when necessary.• Used and interpreted various failure analysis techniques to determine root cause problems.• Managed product reliability and quality processes.• Collaborated with packaging engineers to meet product performance requirements.• Monitored manufacturing work in process operations by interfacing with fab and assembly teams.



Zilog

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Engineer

  • Jan 1998 - Mar 2000

  • Designed mixed signal stand alone OTP programmer to offload high cost ATEs.• Managed test floor computer network operations.• Achieved substantial costs savings by changing testing methodologies that reduced test times.• Used root cause analysis methodologies to determine and eliminate yield failures.• Achieved cost reductions as leader of OTP Test Project Team that introduced lean process methodologies.• Improved performance levels by training newly hired engineers.• Evaluated integrity of new production test equipment.• ISO 14000 Site Committee Member that functioned as department representative.