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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: |
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| Sierra College, Rocklin, CA |
A.S.E.T. (Electronics) 1975 |
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| California State University, Sacramento, CA | Electrical/Electronic Engineering 1980 to 1982 |
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