SENIOR FIRMWARE ENGINEER Resume Reno, NV - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Hardware design (analog circuits, digital circuits, schematic capture, simulation, PCB layout)
Embedded firmware development for ARM cores, RISC cores, embedded Linux, QNX Neutrino and bare metal
Desktop application software development
Programmable logic design and implementation
Embedded system development
Consumer product design, development, and manufacturing
Development and management of internal testing resources
Languages: C (very comfortable), C++ (comfortable), C# (comfortable), Java (comfortable), Korn Shell (comfortable), Perl (comfortable), VB (very comfortable), VHDL (comfortable)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR FIRMWARE ENGINEER

Confidential, Reno, NV

Responsibilities:

Systems embedded firmware development.
Primarily responsible for low - level driver development, boot loader development, Board Support Package (BSP), peripheral development, and programmable logic.
Embedded Linux, QNX Neutrino, and bare metal.
ARM9, ARM7, Cortex-A, and Cortex-M cores.
Work closely with hardware group to help create systems that have better hardware/firmware synergy.

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER

Confidential, Sparks, NV

Responsibilities:

Hardware design of company's proprietary products using schematic capture, simulation, PCB layout, and PCB 3D modeling.
Component selection, prototyping, board bring-up and debugging.
Embedded firmware development for low and high level security devices and door access systems.
Development of desktop application providing a user interface to a high security door access controller via Confidential .
Features include user code entry/editing, viewing/printing audit trail, configuration of the access controller, and backup/restore of the access controller.
Implementation of cipher key generation and encryption algorithms for file storage and Confidential data communications.
Capacitive touch sense circuitry design.

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER/OWNER

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA/Reno, NV

Responsibilities:

Hardware design of company’s proprietary products using schematic capture, simulation, and PCB layout.
Component selection, prototyping, board bring-up and debugging.
Embedded firmware development of all products which also included development of a proprietary operating system, top down recursive decent parser, language interpreter, and tokenizing algorithm.
Development of CPLDs, in both schematic and HDL, which are used to support the embedded processor in generating video and expanding I/O capabilities.
Development of desktop applications which provide support for the company’s product line. Some examples include image downloader for touch screen product line, image color converters for video product line, and various testing applications. Device communication protocols used are RS232 and Confidential .
Quality assurance testing of all products.

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

Hardware design of company’s proprietary products using schematic capture, simulation, and PCB layout.
Component selection, prototyping, board bring-up and debugging.
Part of design team responsible for development of company’s new proprietary automation communication protocol that utilizes a combination of power line and RF mesh communications.
Development of desktop application based automated test programs for quality assurance testing.
Oversaw manufacturing operations both domestically and internationally.
Setup and management of quality conformance and regulatory compliance laboratory.

SENIOR PRODUCT SAFETY ENGINEER

Confidential, Laguna Niguel, CA

Responsibilities:

Compliance engineering evaluations of consumer, commercial, and industrial products to national and international standards.
Setup and management of various internal test laboratories.
Development of desktop application quoting system that keeps a database of past quotes and uses that history to help generate new quotes based on the information entered by the user.
Team leader of engineering group.
Development of programs to help train new engineering and sales staff.