Engineering Skills

• Technical advisor: Explain technology to customer, marketing and sales, management.
• Specification: draft MRD/PRD and objective specification that solves the problem.
• System architect: End to End topology, principle components, standard selection, etc.
• Interface design: proprietary definitions of protocols, data types, physical layers, etc.
• Build/Buy, outsource decisions: define tasks and schedule that match project context.
• Algorithm design: design the processes which will execute problem solutions.
• Simulation: prototyping on a computer to improve performance, reduce schedule.
• Hardware design: PCB level design, schematics and BOM through product release.
• Digital design: low power through extreme speed, simple through high performance.
• Analog design: audio, video, PLL, power supply, filters, oscillators, (some) RF, etc.
• Programmable logic: PLD through FPGA logic design, capture, simulation, debug.
• Firmware: real time (interrupt driven) microcontroller C or ASM code development.
• ASIC specification: architect, define functionality and performance, (some) design.
• Communications: Standard compliant and proprietary signaling (RS232 to 100BaseT).
• Design review: conduct meaningful no holds barred assessment of design quality.
• System integration: bringing system elements together and making them work.
• Documentation: generation of documents to support released designs.
• Compliance and Manufacturing support: EMC testing, test procedures, Q&A support.