Carmel, Indiana, United States
Broad range of experience in TV and STB product development: analog and digital ASIC designs to board level application designs; signals ranging from baseband to 3 GHz; designer to project coordinator to manufacturing liaison to engineering manager. Primarily hardware, but experience with firmware assembly code, C/C++ drivers, and extensive experince in lab automation software. Specialties: Current: MoCA digital home networking and analog front-end multiplexer. Previous: Analog and Digital demodulators and application circuits.
Satellite STB hardware R&D - Board level design of MoCA based digital home networking and baseband to 3 GHz multiplexer for satellite and terrestrial TV feeds, MoCA modem, multiswitch control signals, and LNB power.
Customer technical support for DTV demodulator ICs including: development of hardware reference designs, and maintenace and improvements of firmware, drivers, and customer evaluation software. Assist with DSP algroithm verification on FPGA platforms, Support marketing and sales, R&D, product managment, and operations.
RF development coordinator for digital-cable-ready DTV products.
Managed the Indianapolis RF skill center (2 Principal, 6 Senior, & 2 Members of Eng. staff, plus 2 technicians) supporting Broadband Access Products, TV, and other BUs.
Signal Systems engineer conducting a survey on video encoding/decoding formats in Thomson and competitor DVDs/TVs.
Advanced TV Architecture - Codeveloped the DSP for: (1) a color correction circuit for an LCOS display imager; and (2) a sample-rate-converter for a "picture-in-picture" signal processor; including VHDL coding and verification with a multiple FPGA emulator board.
Coordinate all aspects of high-end television product line development, including packaging strategy, performance goals, test strategy, development schedule, and lab/factory builds.