DANTON LEONARD
137 Canal Street
P.O.Box 729
Canal Street, Canal Point, FL 33438
(561)924-3540
E-mail: [email protected]
OBJECTIVE To obtain an upward-growth position which enhances my
experience.
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 6/82
Smart Products Design, Control Systems
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 6/82
Digital Systems & Design
EXPERIENCE
8/03-current Aspen Homes Construction, Inc., Boynton Beach, FL
Gate House Attendant: Provide Security,
prevent intrusions,
list/control entries, give directions, assist residents.
12/99-current Leonard Farms, Canal Point, FL
Farm Manager: Start, plant, and maintain farms on three
parcels in two counties. Surveying, irrigation,
maintaining, farm duties.
4/00-4/02 Amoco, Royal Palm Beach, FL
Customer Service Associate: Handled Register, cash handling,
assisting customers, inventory, stocking, layout, special
requests.
5/92-12/99 KMart, Redwood City, CA
Toy Department Manager: Handled Register, cash
handling, assisting customers, ordering, inventory,
stocking, layout, special requests. Managed 1-3
assistants in stocking and straightening.
8/96-12/99 Rite Aid, Redwood City, CA
Customer Service Associate: Handled Register,
assisting customers, Maintenance, inventory,
stocking, layout, pricing.
5/97-2/98 Webchat Communications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Internet Monitor: Monitored Internet chat, graphics,
homepages, files and other data for compliance with
laws and standards.
8/93-1/95 Mrs. Fields Cookies, Palo Alto, CA
Customer Service Associate:
Register, cash handling, Baking cookies, Serving,
making deposits, training new employees.
9/96 - 11/99 ToyLand Internet Magazine, Redwood City, CA
Managing Publisher
Started and Published Trade Magazines on the Internet.
Provided new advertising venue for advertising
customers.
Writing, graphics, and publishing of three magazine
issues every two weeks
Promoted Web Site globally, including beginning
ToyLand Korean Website
Established unique place and product in market.
6/87 - 9/96 Danton Does Datasheets, Redwood City, CA 94063
Manager, Technical Documentation
Provided technical writing/publishing services for a wide range of companies:
Surveillance and Cellular Communications
RISC Processors
IBM-PC Add-on Boards
10/84 - 5/87 VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA
Mgr., Technical Documentation & Sr. Applications Engineer
Provided technical support for sales effort by in CAD
Software and Standard Products
Enhanced look and readability of CAD software
documentation.
Revised testing of storage controller IC, won
multi-milliondollar design-in with
major customer.
Revised specifications of DRAM controller, to provide
realistic specs for testing and manufacturing.
Published numerous datasheets on (and supported) broad
range of standard products, including
Microprocessors, peripherals, memory controllers,
memories, and ALUs.
10/84 - 1/86 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Adjunct Instructor
Began a new set of courses in Storage Controller Design,
which had not been taught before at SCU:
EECS 473 - Flexible Disk Drive Controller Design
EECS 474 - Winchester Disk Drive Controller Design
EECS 475 - Optical Disk Drive Controller Design
1/84 - 9/84 Entrepo, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Sr. Applications Engineer
Technical Marketing support of tape drive systems. Wrote,
edited, and published Datasheets and
technical applications notes for technical marketing.
Formed Specification Task Force, defined
specifications in time to manufacture product.
Managed design of tradeshow demonstrations,
cover artwork for sales literature.
6/82 - 1/84 SEEQ Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA
Marketing Applications Engineer
Technical Marketing Support of EEROM, EPROM, and
Processor IC products.
Designed, built, and programmed Single-board
computers as test beds for memories, wrote
and published application notes
regarding these designs.
Debugged customers' designs, won design-ins.
Analyzed product problems to determine
requirements for Product Engineering.
SKILLS
Assembler Programming:
486,386,286,8086,Z80,Z8601, 68701,GMCM
High-level languages: C, PASCAL, HTML
Desktop publishing: Interleaf, PageMaker
Circuit debug/test equipment: In-circuit
emulator, development system, oscilloscope,
waveform generator, DVM, EPROM Programmer
Networks and Controllers design & network debug):
Internet, Ethernet, Serial, SCSI, DECnet
Internet Interface Programs: Navigator, Communicator,
WinZip, Gopher, Internet Explorer
HONORS
Corporate Awards (2) - VLSI Technology, Inc.
Marketing Award - SEEQ Technology, Inc.
National Merit Scholar - Sun Co.
General Motors Scholarship - General Motors Corporation
Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Award (top 5%
of Engineering Senior Class) - Stanford University
References available upon request.