EXPERIENCE

Owner/Electrical Engineer – Asgardian Consulting (Cedar Park, Tx) Dec. 2017 – Present

Owner of electrical engineering design consulting company.

• Thunderbolt 3 based external hard drive enclosures for consumer industry
• Gamma ray detection tool for oil and gas exploration
• High temperature motor drive for oil and gas exploration
• Radio modem interface boards for industrial control and sensing
• High voltage resistivity circuit board node design for civil engineering application
• High speed display board for health care industry (USB3, DisplayPort, USB Type-C)
• Various test circuit boards and test fixture designs
• LabView test software

 

Engineering Manager – Other World Computing (Austin, Tx)  (Sep 2015 – Dec 2017)

Led development of Thunderbolt attached external storage devices.

• Brought up and managed first engineering department in company
• Thunderbolt 2 & 3 high speed circuit board and product design
• Circuit design, schematic entry, and high speed PCB layout with Altium Designer
• USB 3.0 (USB 3.1 Gen 1), PCIe, SATA, USB Type-C, Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3
• Managed all aspects of development from concept to full volume production
• Got to market with first in house design of product (design, certification, pilot run, volume production)
• Designed Thunderbolt 3 M.2 PCIe SSD device for a Plugfest in under 5 weeks, with first prototype fully functional

 

Hardware Design Engineer – FirstView Consultants (Austin, Tx)   (Fed 2015 – Sep 2015)

Circuit design, schematic entry, and board layout for i.MX6 (ARM) based embedded single board computers.

• Direct customer interface and design document generation
• Circuit design, Schematic entry, and PCB Layout
• BOM maintenance and generation
• Board bring up and testing, board modification, fine pitch soldering and rework
• Switching power supply design
• Thermal analysis of embedded SBC
• Circuit, Schematic, and Layout review of 3rd party designs

Hardware Engineer Manager – Tolteq Group LLC (Cedar Park, Tx)   (Feb 2010 – Feb 2015)

Developed and sustained Measurement while Drilling (MWD) tools. I had multiple titles including Electrical Engineer, Electrical Engineering Lead, Electrical Engineering Manager, and System Architect.

• Circuit design, schematic entry, and board layout using Altium Designer
• Designed analog, digital, switching power supplies, microcontroller based, and high voltage circuits
• Implemented and coordinated circuit design, layout, and IPC standards for entire company
• Project management for development of Measurement While Drilling (MWD) tools
• Developed circuit designs and construction techniques to mitigate damage from high shock and vibration
• High temperature design (175°C)
• BOM creation and maintenance
• Develop procedures and maintain outside CM circuit board construction and cable harness
• Test fixture design
• Labview testing VI development
• Production and repair support
• Implemented company ECN and engineering control processes
• Wrote internal ERP procedures

Head Engineer – Otis Instruments  (Bryan, Tx)   (Jan. 2007 – Dec. 2009)

• Oversaw all product development
• Schematic entry and PCB layout
• Circuit design; analog, digital, and linear/switching power supply
• Gas sensor interface; electrochemical, inferred, and catalytic bead / pellistor
• PCB prototype assembly and test
• Production documentation; assembly, testing, and quality assurance procedures
• Class I Div 1 and ATEX Zone 1 explosion proof standards compliance design
• Legacy product maintenance
• Wireless product development; 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ISM band
• Oversaw all IT tasks
• Oversaw new ERP implementation
• Oversaw EN 13980 company implementation; based off of  ISO 9001

Project Engineer – Texas Digital Systems  (College Station)   (Aug. 2001 – Jan. 2007)

• Project management
• Schematic entry and PCB layout
• Circuit design; analog, digital, and linear/switching power supply
• Production documentation; assembly, testing, and quality assurance procedures
• Bill of materials creation
• UL standards compliance design and RoHS compliance design
• Legacy product maintenance
• Microsoft XP Embedded design

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), May 2001
Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

TECHNICAL TOOLS AND SKILLS

Software

• Altium Designer (schematic entry, PCB layout, revision control)
• Orcad (lite experience years ago, schematic entry only)
• AutoCad 2004 LT
• MS Project, Confluence, JIRA
• MS Office / LibreOffice
• WordPress
• Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/7/8, Windows XP Embedded, Mac OS X
• LabVIEW
• C (very lite experience years ago, open source project and embedded)
• assembly (very lite experience years ago, 8051)

Hardware

• soldering (surface mount, through hole)
• DMM, oscilloscope, TDR (limited use)
• logic analyzers, power supplies, DAQs
• environmental chambers, vibration tables
• accelerometers and ADCs

Technologies Familiar With

• Circuit Board build process, DFM
• ARM (Freescale i.MX6)
• Microcontrollers; 8051, PIC18, PIC24, dsPIC, STM32
• UART, 232, 485, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, SD, HDMI, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth
• 4-20mA current loop
• ADCs
• Accelerometers
• Electrochemical, inferred, and catalytic bead / pellistor gas sensors
• Switch mode power supplies (buck, boost, tapped inductor, flyback, etc..); low and high voltage (1.6kV)
• PMT (Photo Multiplier Tube) interface
• USB, PCIe, SATA, M.2, Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB PD