BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

9/96 to Present.  Consultant, Pringle Electronics Group

Projects have included  several 80386EX, 80C51, AVR, PIC, Motorola and Mitsubishi based  designs  for embedded/industrial control systems, analog and digital I/O including 16 bit delta/sigma A/D, PWM, telecom (CODECs, DSP, TDM), several complex PLD and FPGA designs, an extremely low power design for remote weather stations, and a full military/NASA design for the Space Station, data acquisition, remote data, wireless networks, gaming. Embedded software in C and assembly, Windows Applications in C++.

6/95 to 9/96.  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

Member of Technical Staff/Senior Process Engineer, Digital Media Systems/IMSD

Acted as senior engineering member and advisor to manufacturing engineering group.  Primary responsibilities included working as part of a large ASIC (500K + gates) design team, primarily adding design for testability (internal SCAN, etc.) and test vectors, working on a product manufacturing release team, and (from 1/96), working as lead diagnostics software developer for group.  Products are high end, UNIX based, graphics workstations and supercomputers based upon MIPS RISC architectures.

1/91 to 6/95.  Auburn Electronics Group, Auburn, CA/El Dorado Hills, CA

Chairman of Board/Director of Engineering 5/94 to 6/95, President/CEO 8/92 to 4/94, Vice President, Business Development and Chief Financial Officer 1/91 to 7/92.

Co-founder of research and development/consulting company.  Responsibilities included engineering (concept, product and circuit/chip level), corporate business and financial management, sales and marketing.

Company specialized in chip, board and product level design, printed circuit board design, EMI (including FCC) and manufacturability consulting.  Products developed include telecom, computers, embedded systems, motion control, video and consumer electronics.

1/90 to 1/91.  Synesis Corporation, Fremont, CA/Rocklin, CA

Director of Engineering, Rocklin Design Center

Founding position in startup company.  Primary responsibilities included management/direction of Rocklin design automation/engineering center and hands on design projects including microprocessor based medical products. Other duties included customer interfacing, corporate CAD/CAE and computer integrated manufacturing(CIM) planning, site CIM and test engineering.

2/88 to 1/90.  Unisys/Convergent, Roseville, CA

Senior Staff Engineer, Custom Products

Primary responsibilities included conceptual and circuit level design/ redesign of customer specific products, with emphasis on quick-turn, quality and manufacturability.  Many projects were PC/AT plug in cards for telecom applications.  Additional responsibilities included CAE planning, integration and interface development.  Other duties were software development, SMT and through hole printed circuit design, project management and participation in group's sales, marketing and planning.

2/87 to 2/88.  Simucad Corporation, Menlo Park, CA

Senior Applications Engineer

Duties included pre and post sales engineering support, technical and sales presentations, applications and interface software development, product enhancements, sales and some marketing work. Products were logic and circuit simulators for electronic CAE.

7/81 to 2/87.  Sacramento Army Depot(DOD), Sacramento, CA

Automated Systems Division, Systems Engineering Branch

Duties included test system design and integration, systems and project planning, instrumentation and interface design, software development, logic simulation, IC modeling, analog and digital test program development.  Design and management of IEEE-488 bus test system projects.

8/80 to 4/81.  Questar Electronic Design, Rancho Cordova, CA

Chief Engineer, Research and Development Department

Responsible for new product design and product improvement.  Design of low distortion power amplifiers, pre-amplifiers and power supplies. Responsible for production test systems and procedures.  Also served as production manager for three months in addition to engineering duties.

12/78 to 8/80.  Ramko Research, Inc. Rancho Cordova, CA

Engineer

Responsible for design and verification/test of broadcast audio amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, signal processing and routing systems and power supplies.  Advisor to production test and quality assurance for testing procedures and problems.  Design of printed circuit boards and mechanical packaging.

2/78 to 8/78.  Unimedia, Inc. Auburn, CA

Production Test

Duties included final test and diagnostics of high resolution video monitors for gaming and television broadcast industries.  Development of test procedures and specifications.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Outside activities have included Sierra College Center for Applied Competitive Technology(CACT) industry advisory committee (Chairman from ‘91 to ‘95),  member on Computer Integrated Electronics and CAD/Drafting  advisory committees, as well as TechPrep (high school and college) leadership committee.  Founding member of the Sierra Technical Alliance, a regional business consortium.  Also have consulted for a variety of companies.

EDUCATION:

A.S.E.T. (Electronics)  1975