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Senior Design Engineer @ Invocon, Inc. • Provided HW & SW design and validation for embedded Avionics and Space products and Lithium Ion Smart Battery that include Microsemi FPGA VHDL coding, microcontrollers C/C++/assembly coding, and analog circuitry design. From February 2019 to August 2019 (7 months) Houston, Texas AreaSenior Field Application Engineer @ Marvell Semiconductor acquired Cavium...

Senior Design Engineer @ Invocon, Inc. • Provided HW & SW design and validation for embedded Avionics and Space products and Lithium Ion Smart Battery that include Microsemi FPGA VHDL coding, microcontrollers C/C++/assembly coding, and analog circuitry design. From February 2019 to August 2019 (7 months) Houston, Texas AreaSenior Field Application Engineer @ Marvell Semiconductor acquired Cavium • Provided hardware and software design support for high performance multi-cores ARM server and network processors, security processors, Ethernet switch silicon and smart Ethernet adapter cards.• Worked hand-in-hand with major server OEM on new ARM HPC system doing system bring-up, conducting performance benchmarks, and performing server rack installation, debug and node upgrade at end customer sites. • Troubleshooted system field failure for issues with BMC and UEFI firmware, CPLD Verilog code, power management circuits, DDR3/DDR4 memory, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, SATA, SPI, I2C, RS-232, and high speed SerDes interfaces. From January 2015 to January 2019 (4 years 1 month) Houston, Texas AreaPrincipal Applications Engineer @ Broadcom • Root caused and solved customer bootloader, Linux kernel, and XLP platform BSP/SDK related issues for systems that utilize Broadcom multi-cores MIPS network processors cryptographic engine, lookup engine, and peripheral I/O ports.• Planned, setup and ran network security performance benchmark with IXIA network protocol analyzer to characterize IPSec and OpenSSL throughput performance variation based on different network processors internal resource allocation. From July 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 7 months) Austin Area, TexasSystems Designer @ Evermore Systems • Designed Op-Amp and ADC converter circuits to interface to FillFactory LUPA high speed CMOS image sensor for a 500+ frame/sec video acquisition system.• Designed an 8 channels data acquisition and power supply system capable of providing up to 80 watts per channel.• Designed high speed evaluation board for Freescale cellular baseband chip. From October 2004 to August 2005 (11 months) Austin, Texas AreaField Application Engineer @ Synopsys • Supported Synopsys verification tools which include HDL, mixed-signal and SPICE simulator. Provided customer training, wrote application note, delivered technical presentation, and solved customer IC design simulation issue.• Designed and supported FPGAs based hardware emulation system to be used for rapid hardware prototyping, hardware/software co-simulation and simulation acceleration for IC design. Used Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA, IBM PowerPC Embedded processor, ModelSim HDL simulator, and generated Orcad schematic and Verilog code. From August 2001 to October 2004 (3 years 3 months) Austin, Texas AreaApplication Engineer @ Motorola Semiconductor • Project team leader for the design of in-circuit emulation systems and personality modules for new automotive microcontrollers that include performing PCB design and firmware development.• Troubleshoot and debugged high-speed evaluation boards for Motorola PowerPC microprocessor and PCI bridge chip. • Developed MS VB GUI test software and Perl diagnostic test scripts for the above projects. From March 1996 to April 1998 (2 years 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaContract Software Developer @ IBM • Developed client GUI with C/C++/System Object Module/Distributed System Object Module for network OS. From April 1995 to March 1996 (1 year) Austin, Texas AreaContract Embedded Software Developer @ Comarco Inc. • Wrote C & assembly code for data acquisition systems used to record electronics equipment performance during field test. From January 1995 to April 1995 (4 months) Fort Hood, TXEmbedded Software Engineer @ Tracor • Wrote C & X86 assembly code to control and communicate with frequency analyzer, frequency generator, A/D board, Digital I/O board, IEEE 488 port, RS-422/232 port and other peripherals for a RF jamming system.• Developed user interface and automatic routine using ‘C’ and script language to automate tasks such as software revision and build. Devised, implemented, and administered all aspects of Software Configuration Management (SCM).• Assisted with DSP development for RF monitor. Performed antenna test measurements and flight control system software test. Developed test cases and procedures for software formal qualification test. From May 1993 to October 1994 (1 year 6 months) Austin, Texas AreaEmbedded Systems Engineer @ Deep Imaging • Provide HW & SW design support for existing and next generation controlled-source electromagnetic imaging system that include Xilinx FPGA VHDL coding, building embedded Linux image for FPGA and microcontroller, PCB design with Altium, and high resolution ADC/DAC circuitry and AC/DC power supply design. From August 2019 to March 2020 (8 months) Houston, Texas AreaField Application Engineer-Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Freescale Semiconductor Inc. • Drove new product introduction and evaluation at major OEMs that include providing product training, hardware design and software development support, and management of customer experience.• Performed initial board/system bring-up and troubleshooting of system failure at customer sites using various lab equipment including network protocol analyzer, PCIe protocol logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, and oscilloscope for PowerPC network processors integrated with interfaces that include DDR3 DRAM, PCI Express, RapidIO, PCI/PCI-X, USB, SATA, 10G Ethernet, XAUI, I2C, SPI, SD, MMC, and UART.• Conducted board schematics, PCB layouts and software code review, and software debug tools training.• Designed PowerPC network processors evaluation board for silicon validation and application development. From August 2005 to July 2013 (8 years) San Jose, California, United StatesHardware Engineer @ Cisco • Designed automated pseudo-random ATM package generator and checker hardware to test and measure Cisco's central office DSLAM equipment throughput and bit error rate. Hardware is designed using Xilinx FPGA, Synplicity Synplify Pro, Synopsys FPGA Express and VCS, and Xilinx Tools. From January 2001 to August 2001 (8 months) Austin, Texas, United StatesEmbedded Systems Engineer @ North Shore Circuit Design • Designed low cost RF devices for wireless remote sensing and detection.• Designed low cost power measurement equipment for terrestrial and marine environment.• Wrote firmware for reference MP3 players that use Sigmatel DSP audio processor.• Designed ADSL wireless access point PCB running embedded Linux OS to route/bridge ADSL and wired/wireless Ethernet traffic using Motorola embedded processor, Alcatel ADSL chipset, and Lucent Wired/Wireless Ethernet devices.• Designed high-speed reference motherboard for AMD K6-II/III and Athlon microprocessor with various on-board peripherals such as HomePNA, Ethernet 10/100, and IEEE-1394 port.• Wrote C/assembly system monitor utility and and updated DOS compatible embedded OS for AMD motherboard.• Developed firmware including initialization, boot-up and diagnostic code for AMD integrated communication processor, Ethernet controller, and evaluation board. • Designed in-circuit emulation systems for Zilog Z8 IR microcontrollers that included board design and firmware coding. From April 1998 to January 2001 (2 years 10 months) Austin, Texas, United StatesIoT Senior Application Engineer @ Iridium Responsible for technical product introduction, sales and on-boarding of new and existing IoT customers. Support embedded development of Iridium technology and assisting customers in the configuration and adoption of newly finished IoT products. As a member of the sales engineering team, leverage experience in embedded hardware & software to provide technical support, develop applications and deliver field demonstrations in support of product sales.