Over a decade of professional life I have tried to understand customer's requirements, feed back my understanding of their problems, and design solutions to meet their needs.  In that time I have worked as a test engineer, a design engineer (HW & SW), a systems architect, and a customer engineer.

My career started as an intern electronics engineer at IBM and advanced to a full-time position with Raytheon E-Systems.  At E-Systems I developed both digital signal processing hardware and software for intelligence/surveillance systems.  From E-Systems I moved to Nortel Networks where I worked both as a designer of cellular systems and as an advisor in a group providing regulatory/business solutions.

I have cultivated a broad skill set by accepting positions in both hardware and software development.  I am as comfortable designing digital logic (algorithmic logic and functional state machines using CAD or an HDL) as I am writing software to control it (application layer and some embedded).  This complementary design experience helps me to draw out ideas from the team and often bridge gaps between individual perspectives.

I am therefore seeking a position in a systems design (definition/architecture) group. I target this position with the understanding that I may be asked to complete design assignments before given an opportunity to lead the definition of the next-gen platform, and I am happy to apply my development skills (HW or SW) as appropriate.