Arno van Hoek

Senior Hardware Engineer within Product development at Axis Communications

Halmstad, Halland County, Sweden

About

Results-driven and innovative engineer with a passion for tackling complex challenges. Proven ability to think outside the box and find creative solutions. With a divers educational and professional back ground spanning multiple countries (NL, UK, SE, DE),

Experience

  • Axis Communications (6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Electrical Engineer
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos
      Present

    • Member Interface Group
      Nov 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

    • Nov 2021 - Present · 5 yrs
      Present

      In this role I support internal group that specializes in protocols and interface used throughout the company. We give guidance and expertise that need it throughout the company. Within this role I also became a member of the MIPI Alliance.

    • Lead HW engineer at Product development R&D
      May 2021 - Apr 2024 · 3 yrs

      After being a team member, I became a lead engineer. This additional responsibility means leading hardware projects with usually 2-3 hardware engineers to develop a product. As a lead engineer, I am the primary point of communication and the person responsible between project managers and other engineering disciplines, such as mechanics, software and production engineers. In this role, In this role one is close to the electronics and tackles higher and complex system issues.

    • Master Thesis Student
      Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 · 7 mos

      Next to being an Lead Engineer in the fall of 2023 I did corporate cost optimization project. The title of this project was “cross competence cost optimization for repetitive used Electronics parts”. Within this thesis different insight towards cost saving within Axis where detect and applied.

    • Electronics Engineer Research Development
      Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      As a HW engineer team member I am responsible for designing and testing a camera. This teams usually consist of 2-3 members. Within this team I was responsible for doing part of the schematics and later also the corresponding HW verification testing. These tests consist of a high Frequency Image data signals 500Mhz to 1 GHz, Power verifications. But also, pre-compliance measurements for external certification like ESD, Burst, Conducted emissions & Radiated emissions.

  • Master Thesis Student “Detection of human Micro-shivering through the means of a 77 GHz radar“ at Halmstad University
    Feb 2019 - Jun 2019 · 5 mos

    • In this Master Thesis our goal was the development of a system for “Detection of human Micro-shivering through the means of a 77 GHz radar “. This involved building a test setup for measuring and simulating human skin vibration down to the micrometre range. The setup was built with a 77GHz radar module.

  • R&D Intern at Philips Aquaculture at Philips Lighting
    Feb 2018 - Jul 2018 · 6 mos

  • Studentdriver at Mobilitservices Netherlands B.V.
    Sep 2017 - Jul 2018 · 11 mos

  • Fundraiser at Direct Result
    Sep 2017 - Jan 2018 · 5 mos