Embedded systems engineer with six years of product development experience. Expertise in software design, documentation and development, product test design, manufacturing interfacing, field trial support, debugging, and troubleshooting.
THE AIS GROUP, INC., San Francisco, CA 2006-present
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer
Developed networked on-board digital weighing devices for trucking and heavy industry use.
- Managed all aspects of software and hardware engineering from prototype stage to field trials
- Collaborated with manufacturers, suppliers, partner companies, and regulatory agencies to build and test first-generation product
- Produced competitive analysis reports, budgets, and project schedules for investors
- Established documentation, defect tracking, and software release procedures
- Identified, documented, and scheduled fixes for over 200 software and hardware defects
- Refined device specifications in response to industry demands and end-user feedback
- Prepared for product certification by government bodies (NIST, OIML): researched certification criteria, performed in-house testing, and developed custom test procedures in consultation with regulatory officials
TREMOLO PHOTO, Chicago, IL 2004-2007
Photographer and Web Designer
Founder and sole proprietor of web services company specializing in scanning, post-production, web design, digital photography, and color correction.
- Developed custom software tools to reduce digital image processing time by 44%
- Led business to profit within one year
MOTOROLA, INC., Arlington Heights, IL 2000-2003
Senior Software Engineer, Base Transceiver Station Center of Excellence
Developed firmware for cellular network radios. Recognized as functional area expert in radio calibration and real-time transmitter power control.
Horizon II Macro Platform
- Designed, documented, implemented, and tested radio calibration and closed-loop transmitter power control firmware on new platform while meeting critical project deadlines
- Reduced radio calibration time by 15% through test optimization, increasing factory output
- Increased factory first-time yield from 17% to 60% and improved factory productivity by debugging software, firmware, and hardware
- Resolved factory and customer issues that surfaced during pilot and launch of Horizon II Macro platform, increasing customer satisfaction and network availability
- Debugged prototype transceivers for GSM base stations to meet deliverables deadlines
EDGE Platform
- Implemented transceiver calibration firmware using new software design and new hardware platform, projected to expand product line globally and increase revenue
- Collaborated with overseas factory test engineers to establish cross-platform calibration procedures, increasing factory throughput
- Developed power amplifier calibration software to lower replacement costs and reduce end-user downtime
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI 1996-1999
Research Assistant (1999)
Developed algorithms and software for voice verification research project.
- Created software to differentiate between voiced and unvoiced speech and to extract individual pitch periods, increasing security through voice recognition
- Ported application from MATLAB to C, reducing computation time from 600 seconds to 15 seconds
Graduate Student Instructor (1999)
Assisted team of professors in signal processing and technical writing course.
- Presented lectures and demonstrations of signal processing concepts
- Evaluated oral presentations and graded written reports to meet deadlines
Research Assistant (1996-1999)
Constructed and developed software for two major high-energy physics experiments.
- Ported software for laser and infrared alignment systems for construction of Muon Spectrometer, a component of ATLAS particle collision detector at CERN
- Developed two fiber-optic tests for Central Preshower Detector component of D0 Collision detector at Fermilab, identifying bad fibers before and after assembly