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ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC EXPERTISE: * Cost reduction analysis * Circuit design and analysis * Defective Products * Design reviews * Electrical safety * Electrical systems * Electromagnetic Compliance Testing/Analysis - UL, CE, CSA, FCC & IEC * Electronic manufacturing * EMF & EMI shielding * ESD - Electrostatic discharge * Failure analysis * Fire cause and origin * FMEA - Failure mode & effect analysis * Grounding * HALT - Highly accelerated life testing * HAST - Highly accelerated stress testing * High speed data networks * Industrial automation and control * Integrated circuits * IP Infringement * Lightning/surge protection and analysis * Microcontrollers * Microelectronics * Microprocessors * Noise analysis * Nondestructive testing * Patent Infringement analysis * Photoelectric sensors * Position sensors * Power electronics * Power modules * Power transistors * Printed circuit boards * Product teardowns * Product compliance & safety * Programmable logic controllers * Product liability * Reliability testing * Reverse Engineering * Semiconductors * Sensors * Telecom and data communications * Thermal analysis * Thermal and humidity testing * Transistors

2002 to

(Undisclosed)

President - Principal Investigative Engineer

Expert's Firm provides Electrical and Electronic Forensic and Investigative Engineering Services, Patent Infringement Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Product Teardowns, Design Engineering, Failure Analysis, and Expert Witness Services for Attorneys, Insurance Companies and Industry. Issues addressed include all aspects of the product or system under review or investigation, including design, fabrication, production, operation, failure analysis, reverse engineering, environmental conditions, agency compliance, safety, and product testing of electrical and electronic systems, products and devices as well as computer systems, hardware and software.

2002 to 2005

CipherOptics, Raleigh, NC

Senior Design Engineer

Project/Design Engineer for a Gigabit Ethernet data encryption hardware project for CipherOptics next generation Internet security product offering. Responsibilities include hardware design/debug, printed circuit board design, and product verification. Cadence Concept 15.2 CAD was used for design. Additional responsibilities included JTAG test development and generation of manufacturing test sets using Corellis JTAG software tools. Note: Additional information describing the job responsibilities is classified.

1998 to 2005

Inovia/IEC Telecom

Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC

Principal Engineer

Designed and implemented universal high speed Gigabit ATM switch fabrics for Inovia's DSLAM product line. Responsibilities included hardware design/debug, printed circuit board design, and product verification. Also responsible for IEC 61000-4 EMC/EMI/RFI standards, compliance and testing. Responsible for product support for manufacturing and field service operations. Provided failure and reliability analysis for product failures in the field.

1997 to 1997

IBM Corporation

Research Triangle Park, NC

Staff Engineer

Consulting Engineer for a PCMCIA 25 MBit ATM adapter card. Responsibilities included hardware design of a XILINX integrated circuit PCMCIA/ISA arbitration controller. Responsible for IEC 61000-4 EMC/EMI/RFI standards, compliance and testing of the adapter card.

1995 to 1997

AMP Inc.,

Connectware - Morrisville, NC (Company disolved)

Senior Design/Development Engineer

Project/Design Engineer for an ATM-LAN (OC3, Ethernet and Token Ring) Bridge/Router device. Responsibilities included hardware design/debug, PCB design, and product verification. Responsible for IEC 61000-4 EMC/EMI/RFI standards, compliance and testing. Responsible for product support for manufacturing and field service operations. Provided failure and reliability analysis for product failures in the field.

1989 to 1995

Square D Company

Knightdale, NC

Senior Design/Development Engineer

Industrial Computer-Programmable Logic Controllers Division, 1992 - 1995 Responsible for hardware design of an Intel 80C152 microprocessor based remote Programmable Logic Controller. Responsibilities included all phases of hardware design, test, and PCB design. This product received Control Engineering magazine's 1993 Editor's Choice Award for best distributed I/O product. Designed an AC/DC (120 VAC/24V DC) 10 Watt switch mode (Buck converter) power supply. Responsible for IEC 1000-4 EMC/EMI/RFI standards, compliance, and testing on newly developed Industrial Programmable Logic Controller Products. Team member of the Square D EMC/EMI/RFI Standards Committee and the Square D Component/Supplier Qualification Committee.

Photoelectric Sensors Division, 1989 - 1991

Project/Design Engineer for analog/digital ASIC design and implementation for Industrial photoelectric proximity sensors. Designed and developed three high performance photoelectric Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Responsibilities included all phases of design, test and final product manufacturing. Team member of the Square D Corporate ASIC Strategic Implementation Group.

1987 to 1988

Exide Electronics Corporation

Raleigh, NC

Senior Product/Quality Engineer

Provided Product/Quality Engineering for Uninterruptable Power Source Systems (UPS), Emergency Lighting Systems, and Motive Power Battery Charger Products. Responsibilities included system design modifications, PCB redesign and resolution of field failures and reliability issues.

1980 to 1986

GE Corporation

Research Triangle Park, NC

Senior Integrated Circuit Design Engineer

Team member of the Microprocessor and ASIC Design and Development Group. Designed various Integrated circuits including an Arithmetic Logic Unit, Dual Port RAM ASIC, Medical Data Processing ASIC and a Control ASIC for a 120 Volt experimental light bulb. Responsibilities included all phases of Integrated Circuit design and fabrication. Provided technical support and design assistance for strategic customer accounts (domestic and foreign) and internal tactical application engineers.

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