Adrien Haage

Expert Electrical Engineer

Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

About

Turn visionary ideas into products through innovation and collaboration. • Technical lead for the design of audio electronics for the Apple Mac products • Architecture, hardware and firmware design • Over ten years of experience in a wide range of industries and cultural environments • Solid team player with great emotional intelligence

Experience

  • Expert Electrical Engineer at Logitech

  • Embedded Systems Manager at 1Drop Diagnostics

  • Audio Electrical Engineer at Apple

    World leader designer, developer and provider of consumer electronics, computer software and online services. • Defined ground-breaking architecture for the audio subsystem, used on all the ARM-based Mac computers — in a stealthy, startup-like environment. • Technical lead on Mac products for the Audio Electrical Engineering team. • Spearheaded new audio architectures across multiple products. • Led complex troubleshooting to solve hardware, software and silicon bugs. • Drove silicon innovation with vendors to push the boundaries of audio performance. • Influenced other teams to achieve top results in a fast-paced and high pressure environment. • Monitored and advised contributors to drive excellence, meet schedules and unify decisions. • Designed custom instrumentation and demo platforms to conduct audio technology research. • Specified and managed high-volume testing with overseas manufacturer to achieve consistent top quality.

  • Electronics Engineer at Wisdom Audio

    Award-winning manufacturer of high-end loudspeakers using planar-magnetic technology. • Redesigned a range of power amplifiers, reducing the electrical costs by 55% while improving their quality. • Designed an automated test bench and contracted a vendor to achieve high quality and reliability. • In charge of CE product marking through TÜV lab. • Subjective listening of speaker prototypes, amplifiers, and advanced calibration of multichannel systems. • Technical coordinator of a $500k / 60+kW theater project acclaimed “best demo” at CEDIA Expo 2013. • Designed a prototype of headphones that combine innovative transducer technologies. • Designed a collection of troubleshooting reference guides and created a field failure database.

  • Electronics Engineer at TESA S.A.

    Global leader in the metrology industry and measurement systems innovation. • Designed a fast and reliable calibration algorithm for the Micro-Hite 3D Coordinate Measuring Machine. • Designed firmware in C using Keil RTX Real-Time Operating System on an ARM9 microcontroller. • Modified the hardware architecture of the Micro-Hite 3D controller to improve sensors accuracy. • Further improved the Micro-Hite 3D product by solving software bugs.