Lectronix, Inc. &endash; Ann Arbor, MI

Lansing, Michigan based contract engineering and manufacturing firm serving the automotive, industrial sensing and control, data communications, and telecommunications industries.
 

Director, Ann Arbor Engineering Center

June 2002 - Present

TelGen Corporation &endash; Ann Arbor, MI

Lansing, Michigan based contract engineering and manufacturing firm serving the automotive, broadband data, and telecommunications industries.
 

Managing Director, Ann Arbor Engineering Center	Jan. 1999 - Feb. 2002
Senior Hardware Design Engineer	May 1998 - Jan. 1999

• Managed branch office consisting of hardware and software engineers and administrative staff.
• Served as primary customer technical interface.
• Designed and developed a DSP based audio processing system for automotive applications.
• Headed team to provide system software support for an Internet Access Device (IAD) System On a Chip (SoC) ASIC. Responsible for hardware / software partitioning, system software architecture design and development, and verification test development.
• Performed network processor ASIC prototyping using Verilog targeting FPGAs.
• Principle engineer in team that designed, implemented, and maintained a family of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for the Sprint ION converged voice and data telecommunications service targeting the residential and small / mid-size business gateway markets.
• Designed and implemented a VoIP telephone example application for the Agere Systems IP Phone chipset.
• Mentored junior engineers in embedded systems design and development.
• Designed a system controller for an ethernet based asset tracking / security system.
• Inventor or co-inventor on one awarded and two pending patent applications.

Integral Vision, Inc. &endash; Farmington Hills, MI

International supplier of machine vision based automatic inspection and gauging devices with primary focus on the optical disk industry.
 

Hardware Department Manager	Oct. 1996 - May 1998
Hardware Design Engineer	May 1993 - Oct. 1996

• Managed staff of hardware engineers and manufacturing technicians.
• Responsible for all hardware aspects of inspection systems including domestic and international compliance certification.
• Authored department policies and procedures leading to ISO-9000 certification.
• Designed a PC based high-speed digital image processing hardware implemented with FPGAs.
• Designed microprocessor based halogen lamp illumination controller / system integration monitor.
• Inventor or co-inventor on two awarded patents.

Owens-Brockway, Inc. &endash; Perrysburg, OH

Electronic Inspection Systems Division designs and maintains machine vision inspection systems for Owens-Brockwayís glass container manufacturing plants worldwide.
 

Engineering Intern

Mar. 1990 - Dec. 1992

• Designed and implemented networking connectivity for machine inspection equipment distributed in manufacturing lines plant-wide.
• Demonstrated to upper management that a central computer could handle the interface and control functions for multiple inspection machines, which was an enabling technology for their next generation of inspection equipment.
• Member of a team that converted image processing and machine control algorithms from Pascal to C.
• Assisted with debug and development of a multi-processor VME based image processing system.

Professional Engineer License	Mar. 1998
State of Michigan
Attended Training Seminars	1994 - 2001
Effective Project Management Time Management / Self Organization Failure Mode Effects and Analysis Protection of Intellectual Property ISO-9000 Various technical seminars
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering	Mar. 1993
University of Toledo &endash; Toledo, OH
Member IEEE	1988

Piano and keyboard performance; Amateur Radio; Public Service Volunteer; Downhill Skiing