DEGREE

Bachelor of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering; BSEE

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position as a Senior Product Design and Development Engineer where creativity, unique abilities, previous work experience, and education will be fully utilized.  In an atmosphere where employee empowerment and team work philosophy is a way of operation.

HIGHLIGHTS

·         Excellent communication skills; quickly establishes quality rapport with co-workers and customers.

·         Shows great interest and enthusiasm for learning new products and new technologies. 

·         Strong Christian work ethic and integrity.  Works extremely well as a self-starter individual or in a team environment; shows appropriate respect to all colleagues.

·         Complete product development experience from concept through full production.  Including hardware and software design for both embedded and Windows based products.

·         Experienced with a variety of software assemblers, compilers, locators, emulators and in-circuit development tools; including Microsoft Visual C++, Interdev, Visual Basic, and Borland tools.

·         Worked extensively with TCP/IP protocols and stacks.  Well experienced with Ethernet based technology and Intranet / Internet Web system designs.

·         Proficient in writing C and C++ software for both Windows based applications and 4 through 32 bit embedded micro-controller based applications.

·         Knowledge of MFC, Visual C++, Visual Basic, VenturCom RTX, Windows NT, MSDN tools, Borland C++, LonWorks, TCP/IP, Access, ADO, ODBC, SQL scripting and Web Development.

·         Database experience includes Microsoft Access and SQL, using ADO and ODBC interface.

·         Designed hardware and written software for over two dozen embedded control products, including Microchip PIC, Intel x86 and 8051, NEC V-Series, Atmel AVR, and Motorola 6805

SKILLS

Software

    C/C++

    MFC

    COM / DCOM

Hardware

    FPGA

    4/8/16 bit Micro-controllers

Embedded

    Paradigm Locate  & Debug

Environments

    Windows NT, Windows 2000

Tools

    Microsoft Visual Studio

    Borland IDE

Visual Basic

Active X

OOP

RISC

OrCad

SMX Real Time OS

VenturCom  RTX

Internet Information Server

MSDN

Basic

Assemble

Neuron C

Protel

Pads

Real Time Firmware

Windows CE

Source Safe / Clear Case

MS Office and Project

CONTRACT

BUSINESS

TASK Development Group, Inc.                                                                           Established 1993 Germantown, Wisconsin

  Owner / Senior Product Development Engineer

    Utilized previous work experience and customer contacts to build a turnkey design firm specializing in contract hardware and software development of custom embedded control systems.   Worked on establishing new clients, designing new products, and releasing PCB and BOM assembly information to local board and assembly houses.

    Responsible for customer contact, quoting, designing, assembly and managing sub-contracting of work to other free-lance engineers, as well as daily operations of the business.

Voith Fabrics, Inc.

Appleton, Wisconsin

  ScanTech & ScanTech II

     Developed a hand held product to capture and display moisture data from an operating paper machine felt.  Data is collected at 12 bits per scan at 512 scans per second and displayed on a VGA LCD screen.

Knowledge Labs, Corporation

Chicago, Illinois

  G.P.C., G.C.D. & G.C.M.

    Designed and produced several Echelon LON based generic I/O control boards to be used in HVAC systems. Systems included a keypad, display, RTC and removable control module with SRAM and FLASH capability.

SMT Engineering, LLC

Appleton, Wisconsin

  Various engineering design support for hardware and software projects.  

Simple Innovations, Inc.

Sussex, Wisconsin

  Engineering support for testing, documentation, and PCB layout.

FORMAL

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin - Platteville                                                              Graduated: May 1990

Platteville, Wisconsin                                                         

    Bachelor of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering: BSEE

         Professional studies in the areas of Digital Computer Design, Control Systems, and DSP.

University of Wisconsin Center – Waukesha                                                Graduated: May 1987

Waukesha, Wisconsin

    Associate of Science Degree, Math and Science

FURTHER

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Extension

Orlando, Florida

         Attended courses to learn the proper techniques for PCB layout and manufacturing with SMT and EMI concerns.

Quad/Tech Education Courses

Sussex, Wisconsin

         Completed employee courses in the areas of Managing Diversity, Effective Interviewing, and Working In Productive Teams.

Echelon LONWorks Technology Training

Chicago, Illinois

         Attended a specialized course to work hands on with LON technology and Neuron C programming.  This week long training provided intense coverage of LONWorks and the ability to design and program distributed network control systems using Echelon's Neuron chips.

Fox Valley Technical College

Appleton, Wisconsin

    Certificate in Management, AMA

         Completed courses in the management areas of Effective Team Building, and Understanding Human Behavior for Managers.

Fox Valley Technical College

Appleton, Wisconsin

         Expanded software knowledge by taking an Advanced C/C++ Language course.

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

ABB Automation, Inc. (Temporary Contract Position)                             July 2001 to January 2002 New Berlin, Wisconsin

  Senior Software Engineer

    Created and implemented COM and DCOM interface controls to allow ABB robots to report diagnostic and system status information to an SQL server database.  Also developed an object class to use MS-Message Queuing for the purpose of data transfer guarantee from Client to Server based Service. The information was then presented to the user through a web interface that utilized MS IIS, Visual Basic, Java, C# and C++.  Development was done on Windows 2000 OS with MS Visual Studio and .NET environments.

Autologik, Inc. (Temporary Contract Position)                                             May 1999 to April 2001

Hartland, Wisconsin

 Senior Control System Software Engineer

    Developed software for a high speed labeler and batch sortation machine.  The platform consisted of a Windows NT computer with three individual Profibus networks talking to both Siemens and Wago I/O modules and PLCs.  The software was developed under Microsoft Visual C++ and used VenturCom’s RTX subsystem to create a real time OS environment.  The HMI was written in Visual Basic and required several Active X controls to be written to interface with the other C++ real time tasks.

Engage Networks, Inc.                                                                            August 1997 to May 1999

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  Director of Engineering / Senior Product Design Engineer

    Coordinated high technology teams to develop and produce new products in the area of energy system monitors, using custom built Ethernet based embedded devices, embedded TCP/IP stacks, ASP web page development, SQL scripting and NT server tools.  Worked very closely with the sales and marketing to define product cycles and create new product specifications.

    Final product system was used to collected data from various energy meters over VPN Intranet / Internet and store it in SQL databases.  The end user could view and manipulate the data through ASP web pages using MS IIS running on the NT server.  At the device end, custom embedded hardware and software were created to convert TCP/IP communications to specific RS232 or RS485 serial protocols.

Quad/Tech, Inc. (A Quad/Graphics Company)                               January 1996 to February 1997

Sussex, Wisconsin

  Senior Design Engineer

    Created a large scale LED readout panel for offset printer control console using Intel 386EX processors base and high current serial shift source drivers.  Wrote the embedded software in C++ with the Borland Compiler and used Paradigm Debug/RT locator and debugger.  Also, developed a Visual Basic windows program to control the panel through serial protocol communications.

Pensar Corporation                                                                          January 1993 to January 1996

Appleton, Wisconsin

  Senior Project Engineer

    Designed and developed embedded microprocessor based hardware and software for production of new products.  Worked in close contact with customers, to assist in identifying and conceiving new product lines and/or modifications to existing products.  Interfaced closely with all departments; CAD, purchasing, manufacturing and production test.  Designed for UL, CSA, FCC, and VDE certification,

    Responsible for overseeing and completing project's entirety, from initial quote and customer contact, through hardware design, software coding, full functional debug, customer specification approval, and initial production runs.

    Completed projects are for a variety of applications, from consumer use to industrial, and required the knowledge of several micro-controller families and languages including: Echelon Neuron, NEC 78C10, Intel 80C51, Motorola 6805, NEC V25+ & V40, AMD x86, and Microchip PICs.

Technology Group Inc. (A PLEXUS Company)                                       June 1990 to January 1993

Neenah, Wisconsin

  Design/Test Engineer Team Leader

    Utilized micro-controllers and PC based equipment to create automated functional and environmental test equipment.  Designed PC/ISA interface cards and other hardware products to automatically simulate real world effects on production boards.

    Major software development to control PC interface cards, IEEE 488 rack mount equipment and other micro-controllers.  Software was primarily Turbo C based and written to be extremely user friendly and informative for use by non-technical personnel.

    Responsibilities included; quoting new products, organizing and managing hardware and software engineering teams, managing time allocation for both lab technicians and machine shop personnel, constant customer contact, and developing reliable hardware and software.

REFERENCES

Complete set of personnel and professional references are available upon request.