Experience

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  Sencore

  • Sioux Falls, South Dakota

  • Test Engineer

    • Sep 2007 - Oct 2017
    • Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    Perform manual prototype validation and verification testing on equipment for broadcast video distribution (Modular Receiver-Decoders, Transcoder, Satellite Modulator, RF Probe, Stream Player, Video over IP). Prototype hardware and especially software builds were tested for feedback to the product development engineers by checking the user experience, product performance and stability in user and signal interfaces (RF, ASI, MPEG over IP, digital video and audio, web page, front panel, SNMP) against the product specifications, before release testing. Bug reporting in JIRA. In the last 2 years the software team and test engineers used Agile development methods.

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  Irdeto

  • Hoofddorp, the Netherlands

  • Electronic Development Engineer, PCB Designer, Software Tester

    • Nov 1993 - Feb 2003
    • Hoofddorp, the Netherlands

    1993 -1997: Development of a next-generation low cost set top box for consumer cable reception of scrambled analog PAL TV signals, mainly developing the RF input/output and demodulation circuitry, audio and video circuits and a simple power supply, for the lowest material cost available.1995 - 2003: Schematic and PCB layout design with PCAD, including maintenance of the parts libraries, for multiple 1- to 4-layer (PCI) boards in consumer and professional products.2000 - 2003: Test software interface integration in DVB satellite STBs, including maintenance of test lab equipment (stream player, smart card database, satellite modulator, scrambler).

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  Broadcast Television Systems (BTS)

  • Breda, the Netherlands

  • Electronic Development Engineer

    • May 1989 - Aug 1993
    • Breda, the Netherlands

    Grass Valley is the current owner of this broadcast camera design and manufacturing facility. At the time of my employment it was BTS (Broadcast Television Systems), a joint venture of Philips and Bosch. See Wikipedia for a page about the company's history and products. Development of analog circuitry for the transmission system of a studio camera (LDK9), and later also the voice communication and audio input circuitry and transmission system of the first analog HDTV camera (LDK9000).