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Multi-disciplined designer seeks technically challenging role in hardware/firmware development organization. Position would afford opportunity to draw on 17-years 3 years as employee of/14 years as consultant to of Simpson West Labs/Vincent Technologies development experience.

My forte is embedded control applications specializing in the numerous proliferations of the Intel MCS-51 8051-core Family of microcontrollers .

My traditional role as principal architect for both the digital design and firmware on past projects, has fostered a good appreciation for recognizing/identifying the potential hardware/firmware tradeoffs in an architecture being considered, resulting in a more-coherent design and a shorter product development cycle.

I work equally well independently, or as a member of a team and very much enjoy being exposed to new knowledge opportunities and sharing my experience/knowledge with others.

• PROGRAMMING
  Applications programming in C and BASIC, real-time Assembler-level firmware coding for embedded control applications, and the generation of microcode in custom bit-slice architectures.

• DIGITAL HARDWARE DESIGN
  Digital design with an emphasis on built-in diagnostics, and maintenance considerations unit test, and system integration experience. Specialized in microcontroller-based designs whose applications have included embedded control for automated test equipment ATE , communications controllers, diagnostic equipment, and fault insertion/simulation platforms for automated regression testing.

• DATA COMMUNICATIONS
  Experience with various synchronous/asynchronous communications interfaces and protocols, and a familiarity with the use of the associated test and design verification equipment protocol analyzers, T1 test sets, etc.

• DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS
  Familiar with UNIX and DOS Operating Systems/utilities and experienced with development tools including In-Circuit Emulators, Schematic Capture and Simulation Systems Intel ICE-5100, MetaLink Ice Master, ORCAD, SCHEMA, Altera MAX+PLUS, AT&T Schema .

• SUPERVISION AND TRAINING
  Supervised Field Service computer repair and calibration group, and prepared and conducted classes at National Technical Support Training facility.

• CUSTOMER SUPPORT AND INTERFACE
  Experience with on-site remedial and preventative maintenance at customer facilities, and component level troubleshooting on entire systems.

• Employed as tools developer/ cell team member with LDRM Group which provided the planning, design, installation and maintenance of the various proliferation s of AMPS/TDMA/CDMA cell site configurations for Whippany-based system test, system integration, soft development, and current engineering organizations .

• Defined requirements/specifications, designed digital hardware, wrote firmware and PC-based application program for a Go/No Go vector file -driven automated test facility for the GPITS-III Buffer Board. 150+ much-needed boards were qualified diagnosed/repaired with the design at an effective yield of 99 .

• Defined requirements/specifications, designed digital hardware, wrote firmware and worked closely with outside vendor to produce the cost-reduced and feature-enhanced functional alternative to the Keithley Metrobyte System. These efforts alone resulted in a to-date savings of 350K for the company.

• Defined requirements/specifications, designed digital hardware, wrote firmware and worked closely with outside vendor to produce the Universal Controller UACB1 Board . Although originally designed for the RF Interface Units RFIU , the UACB1 has proven itself to be a highly versatile design both in terms of performance and reliability , and has been successfully deployed in other platforms LiveLab , Mini LiveLab , and the automated RF Switch Matrix for the IOTA project.

• Defined requirements/specifications, designed digital hardware and worked closely with outside vendor to produce electrically controlled A/B Switch to provide automated alarm facility for the Lucent Network Wireless Systems Business Unit s NWSBU TDMA Series-II System Test organization. These efforts resulted in the significant reduction of the regression testing process.

• Was recognized point of contact for questions/problems regarding the electrical interfaces for the various development tools, the Attenuation Control System ACS , the automated alarm tool and the remote load/boot facility. Was often consulted on in-field support and field trial issues.

• Responsible for the digital design and firmware for the Receiver RX1PACK and Transmitter TX8PACK circuit packs for the CHEZ project.

• Responsible for the digital design and firmware for the Optical Control Unit OCU for the Universal Fiber Microcell project.

• Defined, coded and tested special firmware load utilizing the serial interface of the BCF1 for the introduction of the LMT product at the Vehicular Technologies Conference VTC Show .

• Defined, coded and tested UN365 Alarm board firmware.

• Designed ATE Automated Test Equipment hardware and firmware for factory test platform which significantly reduced the time to test production versions of the UN365 Alarm board.

• Defined, coded and tested BCF1/BFBX firmware, providing the LMT maintenance features for the Series-II, Universal, ETACS and JTACS variations of the MICROCELL project.

• Worked closely with Hardware/Software/Integration and Test developers to facilitate the migration of the LMT product through each phase of the development process provided test scripts and plans to hardware integration and factory test engineers, worked closely with software developers during integration phase, visited factory to observe testing procedures and provide quidance, etc.

• Provided technical support, firmware and automated test equipment for the 6 GHz, MICROCELL project.

• Defined, coded and tested both a NTT and NEC version of System Controller firmware for the Japanese Common Amplifier Project.

• Performed unit testing and developed an automated communications test facility for the System Controller for JCA.

• Coded PC-based parallel port-driven interface utility to support the unit testing of programmable synthesizers on the BCR1 board.

• System test/troubleshoot/repair of GBI and SGM circuit packs for CSP project.

• Design/capture of Side-A of AT&T Advanced GIPPE circuit pack for LHX projects.

• Design of SEM-E prototype board for projects pending.

• Design capture, programming, and distribution of Altera MAX EPLD devices using Altera MAX+PLUS development system.

• Wrote C application program which provided a "step and repeat" facility for "Gerber" formatted printed circuit design files.

• Coded assembler language maintenance monitor Intel 80C152 Microcontroller which provided a monitoring and control facility for unit testing efforts for the TG3 Timing Generator - Stratum 3 circuit pack.

• Coded assembler language maintenance monitor Intel 8752 Microcontroller which provided the mechanism/interface for testing design via a serial protocol.

• Unit Testing of TG3 circuit pack.

• Support of models program.

• General administration of component and equipment repair/rework requisitioning.

• Designed test fixture to support interface testing of Group Bus Interface GBI , Static Global Memory SGM , Switch Modules and Switch Controller SEM-E modules with a Tektronix DAS9200.

• Designed stand-alone test fixtures which allowed test personnel to observe and troubleshoot, and establish a general sanity of their designs.

• Wrote C application and DOS batch programs that automated the process by which output file of simulation tools would be ported, filtered and processed into DAS9200 compatible format for subsequent application to device under test. Coded programs that performed the reverse process, allowing vectors captured from a device under test to be interrogated in a UNIX/Sun Workstation environment.

• Performed system administrative functions and provided technical assistance for the DAS9200 system and related test fixtures.

• Coded an assembler language maintenance monitor Intel 8752 Microcontroller that was incorporated in product application load" which provided an embedded diagnostic facility on the GBI SEM-E.

• Designed test fixture and supported models program for the ISDN TRU development program.

• Developed C coded test/performance assessment monitor that provided control and observability over internal registers and resources of the ISDN TRU design.

• Designed a hardware aid and resident software Zilog Z-80 that converted simulation tool-generated output files into bit streams of input vectors, and collected output vectors from a device/model under test.

• Designed a PC-based controller board which generated and extracted user defined ISDN data frames from serial bit streams.

• Developed hardware/software tools to assess performance of suspect cost-reduced VLSI ASIC new FAD chip . Tools were instrumental in finding/characterizing the nature of the failing devices.

• Designed test fixture and supported models program for the Low Bit Rate Voice TCU program.

• Developed a C coded test/performance assessment monitor that provided control and observability over the internal registers and resources of the LBRV TCU.

• Integrated systems and coded application programs which provided for the generation of user defined bit streams serving as design/model input, and designed hardware which captured design/model output for user interrogation.

• Performed system test and integration of Feature Package D for the SLC-96 Series 5 Digital Loop Carrier System.

• FOA First Office Application support for Feature Package D Orlando, Florida .

• Design/Layout/Troubleshooting/Integration of microprocessor based industrial process controllers for in-house deployment. Worked with a small but talented engineering group designing monitoring/control units for pharmaceutical applications.

• Established, trained and supervised the Computer Repair Department.

• Researched, prepared and conducted classes for in-house and field personnel on minicomputer and microprocessor-based data acquisition and collation systems.

• Investigated and resolved chronic or persistent system problems and suggested modifications for an enhanced product performance.

• Wrote application programs to facilitate customer tracking/billing and work order/material tracking.

• Employed as Senior Customer Service Engineer, was provided extensive data communications training on IBM compatible front end processors and remote data concentrators.

• Responsible for the on-site maintenance of the communications equipment at an AT&T Complex in Piscataway, NJ.

• Company filed Chapter 11 and my employment was terminated.

• Employed as Senior Hardware Engineer, typical responsibilities included the preventive and unscheduled maintenance on six GE/Honeywell 437 dual processor systems, front end processors, peripherals and related communications gear.

• Instructed new employees on hardware maintenance concepts and troubleshooting techniques.

• Attended the Data General Training Facility for the Nova III maintenance courses.

• Configured, qualified, troubleshot and repaired the automated laboratory systems prior to customer delivery.

• Employed as Senior Field Service Engineer, typical responsibilities included the preventive and remedial servicing at customer facilities on mainframes and associated peripherals, administrating the technical library, maintenance log and parts depot.

09/68 - 06/72 Don Bosco Technical H.S. Totowa, N.J.
College Preparatory and Electronic Technology

10/72 - 11/74 Metropolitan Technical Institute Fairfax, N.J.
Electronic Technology and Digital Design

11/74 - Present
Approximately 5000 classroom hours of specialized education at corporate, vendor, and in-house training facilities for hardware/software design/support and maintenance.

Furnished upon request.

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