Resume

Analog Manufacturing Design Engineer 2/2008 - Present

Keithley Instruments, Solon, OH

• Redesign legacy products for cost reduction and more reliable operation, including board layout, component selection, bench level testing, design reviews and product support over the life of the new product.
  • Build new projects on low-cost, high performance FPGAs to interface with existing protocols. Wrote new VHDL code to optimize pin placement, logic utilization and timing requirements.
  • Modify existing C-code on legacy processor to migrate to new platform processor.
• Perform rigorous error budgeting to project long term temperature and time drift of products. Used in setting or verifying final specifications of new and newly redesigned products.
• Maintain legacy product lines including day to day manufacturing issues.
• Initiate cost savings initiatives to maintain or improve margins on products.

Dry Etch Process Engineer 6/2006 - 2/2008

Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Austin, TX

• Control processes to maintain high process capability in a fast paced, high output environment.
• Monitor dry etch processes for leading edge Flash technologies.
• Research and resolve issues relating to chip yield and device reliability.
• Optimize equipment parameters for maximum throughput.
• Setup processes for new facility using reference data, requiring extreme attention to detail.
• Train and mentor new members in flash technology and plasma physics.

DSP Engineer Co-op 5/2005 - 5/2006

Bird Electronic Corporation, Solon, OH

• Created designs for FPGA architectures to use in RF signal measurement.
• Analyzed spectral output data and used multiple time domains to manipulate data to find desired signals.
• Created new VHDL files and manipulated vendor supplied files for Xilinx Virtex4 FPGAs.
• Developed designs using CIC filters, FIR filters, data buffers, DFT, block RAM, FFT, state machine.
• Performed rigorous testing of software platforms to ensure robust operation.
• Optimized proprietary algorithms designed by predecessor.
• Designed new algorithms for multi-rate systems using high level concepts learned from academic texts and industry white papers.
• Tested hardware configuration and debugged software reading directly from onboard memory and using logic analyzer.

Electrical Engineer Co-op 1/2004 - 5/2005

Audiopack Technology, Garfield Heights, OH

• Troubleshot analog audio amplifiers, primarily constructed with surface mount technology components.
• Designed reliability tests for firefighter, military equipment and other life saving devices.
• Initiated project proposals for improvements and cost savings in manufacturing.
• Researched new technologies to implement in a Heads Up Display (HUD) product for firefighters.
• Initiated new documentation to help future co-ops and full time employees, such as a standardized testing procedure and a new employee manual.

Education

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 8/2001 - 5/2006

Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering.

Software Skills: TopSPICE, LTSpice, MATLAB, C++, VHDL, Synplify DSP, Xilinx System Generator, Simulink, JMP, VBA, Microsoft Office.

Other Skills: Soldering, use of circuit lab bench equipment (including digital and analog oscilloscopes, function generators, digital multimeters, electrometers, source measure units and nanovoltmeters)