Resume

Analog Manufacturing Design Engineer 2/2008 – Present

Keithley Instruments, Solon, OH

• Redesign legacy products for cost reduction, obsolescence issues 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, Cadence HDL Entry, EAGLE, MATLAB, C++, VHDL, Synplify DSP, Xilinx System Generator, Simulink, JMP, VBA, Microsoft Office.

Technology Specialties: Analog circuits, including: analog control loops, analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters, op amp selection and usage, datasheet analysis.

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