OBJECTIVE:

• To contribute significantly to product development or technical writing work using my electrical engineering background and my technical writing and customer support experience to achieve success. I would like to locate a position in New Jersey or the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania area.

SUMMARY:

• Experienced R&D engineer, engineering project design documentation author, and customer user document writer. During my career, have contributed designs for microcontroller circuit boards, PC and networking products, cellular, Bluetooth, ATM switch, and office telephony products. Have written hardware and software requirements, specification documents, test plans, equipment user manuals, software GUI PC application user manuals, tutorials, and guides.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential (Somerville, NJ)

Technical writer, and circuit designer website developer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered leading - edge Confidential ® technology talks to IEEE engineers, programmers, and college students. Each seminar involves a research phase and preparation of drawings and PowerPoint slides. Prepared online “ Confidential Engineering Design Resource Library” for attendees. Designed PIC MCU-based Industrial Control and Monitoring Circuit. Used circuit as a seminar design example.
• Created and delivered “Product Development Methodologies for Success ” which explains how methodologies using Waterfall and Agile scheduling are followed as a means of ensuring that customer needs and expectations are met while ensuring that new products are finished on time and in budget. Created and delivered two other talks entitled “System Design and Enterprise Quality Management” and “System Design Using DSP Processor Hardware.” The latter provides an overview of DSP processor applications and the DSP IC marketplace, plus DSP architectures and guidelines for circuit board design. Designed schematics for a DSP/microcontroller circuit board and demonstrated a compiler to illustrate concepts Confidential Fairleigh Dickinson University. Created and delivered “SoC and GPU Architectures,” and “Product Development - IT Hardware and Software.”
• Gave talks to groups including the ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE Confidential a Computer Fair Confidential TCNJ University. Also the North Jersey IEEE Computer Chapter in Morristown, the Central NJ DSP Chapter in Bridgewater, and to a group of students on the DeVry University East Brunswick Campus. Also delivered talks Confidential a joint IEEE meeting on the Fairleigh Dickinson Bergen Campus and Confidential a Lehigh Valley PA Section meeting Confidential Lehigh University, a WVU senior project class, a WVU graduate student forum, the Rockford Illinois IEEE Section, and Confidential a Fort Wayne Indiana Section meeting with Perdue University students.
• Wrote 14 editions of a book on a non-technical subject. Four editions are color versions of my B&W book. The book was published through a major national publisher. Received five-star book reviews. Researched background source material extensively, outlined text, wrote copy, had numerous people review the books, and performed final editing. Added original photography and illustrations. Advertised with social media, on the internet, and in the Star-Ledger and other newspapers.

Confidential ( Hackettstown, NJ)

Responsibilities:

• Technical writer. Supported a sales bid for eight new compact radio and LAN products introduced the same month in mid-2009. Documentation helped the company win its first manufacturing contract for the new product line. Wrote user manuals, datasheets, and quick start guides and also edited engineering documentation to meet the schedule supporting the bid. Delivered more than 35 pieces of documentation on schedule while Confidential the company.
• Wrote user manuals for internet products used by law enforcement to monitor video shot by cameras from helicopters. Also microwave transmitter, receiver, and transceiver products. User manuals contained all information useful to help customers including installation, operating, and maintenance procedures, theory of operation, product specifications, firmware features, and circuit block diagrams. Described technical aspects of products, including streaming video using UDP/IP, LAN solutions, Web-based GUI’s, XML configuration file options, video interfaces, MPEG2 and MPEG4 circuits, COFDM modulators/demodulators, multi-channel microwave transmitter frequencies, multi-antenna diversity microwave receivers, and maximal-ratio combining circuits. (COFDM is a technology used in 4G-LTE Advanced cellular systems.)

Confidential ( Bridgewater, NJ )

Responsibilities:

• Documentation Engineer. Responsible for writing documentation for the Confidential DataFlex data acquisition system. Also, the System 2XXX and System 4XXX product line which includes PC data acquisition systems and software-defined radio receivers with GUI interfaces. Coordinated schedule with product developers and management. On-time delivery of more than 36 documents while Confidential Confidential supported successful product introductions. Authored user manuals, guides, field maintenance manuals, marketing literature, and other documentation. Described product features, theory of operation, installation, operating instructions, quick-start info, troubleshooting, plus APIs, and configuration file formats. Documented customer APIs for multi-channel software-defined radio and file format specifications for Confidential digital data recorders. Promoted for outstanding work in 2007.
• Designed test procedures for Confidential DSP plotting GUI for use with multi-channel data acquisition system. Also responsible for designing test plans and test procedures for the Confidential DRS Data Recording Switch, a four-channel digital video recording system with streaming video over LAN capabilities. Tests included system, temperature/altitude/humidity, and EMI/EMC. DRS documentation covered technologies including four windows file servers, dual 24 channel gigabit Ethernet switches, eight audio I/O channels, quad MPEG-4 encoder circuits, SATA and fiber channel HD interfaces, a Compact PCI backplane, and other circuits. Specified system control GUI for running test scripts. Designed test harness with eight cables, more than four hundred wires. First pass success with cable design.

Confidential (Easton, PA )

Responsibilities:

• Freelance Newspaper Writer. Researched and wrote articles for the Confidential . Covered municipal council, zoning, and planning board meetings, plus other civic events. Consistently met deadlines.

Confidential (Tamaqua, PA )

Responsibilities:

• Design Engineering Contractor for Manpower Professional. Designed 64-core MathStar DSP circuits for the VT-4000 Reconfigurable Computing Module using Cadence OrCAD. Wrote circuit board layout and manufacturing specifications for circuits. The VT-4000 was MathStar’s main customer IC evaluation board for a two-year period during which they went public. The VT-4000 is a 6U Compact PCI PCB. Designed DDR2 and PROM memory, JTAG interfaces, low voltage interfaces (LVDS plus LVTTL and LVCMOS), a Xilinx Development System Interface, and bypass capacitors. The board was used to run video, medical imaging, and radio software.

Confidential (Bethlehem, PA )

Responsibilities:

• Secretary of Publishing and Administrative Support. Responsible for writing ads, literature, and bulletins. (Part-time while attending Lehigh University).

Confidential ( Bridgewater, NJ )

Responsibilities:

• My system requirements technical writing aided the sale of the company to broadband innovator Tut Systems in early 2001, now part of Motorola, Inc. Co-designed the "VG4032 2-Gbps broadband service node” broadband switch and authored system requirements. The switch uses Internet Protocols (IP over ATM), fiber optic interfaces (SONET OC-3 and OC-12) and VDSL (VDSL over ATM) for delivery of internet and MPEG2 video services to clients. The product was the first switch of its kind (fiber to the basement) to provide video, internet access, and remote Ethernet LAN access for up to 240 rooms.
• Documented and contributed system requirements in technical areas including PowerPC-based hardware, Unix multiprocessing software, ATM switching and networking features for the delivery of MPEG2 digital video and LAN data, SONET fiber and VDSL interfaces with QoS prioritization, and system performance and reliability.
• Wrote software diagnostic requirements for power-up self-test and SNMP network management software. The system incorporates industry standards, including TCP/IP protocols, IP over ATM, SONET, 802.3, Ethernet over ATM, MPEG2 transport, MPLS, and DSL Forum recommendations. Served as software MR change control manager. Researched VoIP solutions for future system enhancement and wrote a feature description of VoIP solutions using Tut Systems VoIP firmware in ViaGate ViaWay Ethernet modems to allow standard telephones to be connected to the internet. ViaGate was purchased by Tut Systems Inc. in early 2000. Tut Systems is now part of Motorola Inc. I received a bonus for my work on the project Confidential ViaGate.

Confidential (Allentown, PA )

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing circuits and QA test software for the 2G (GSM) and 3G cell phone, cellular base station, and other wireless and DSP markets. Contributed 32-bit processor instruction caching scheme using compiler automation and hardware register address block mapping for deterministic execution of DSP code blocks. Designed evaluation and demo circuit boards using chipsets for cell phones, base station, and other wireless products. Used PADs to capture schematics. Tested and achieved FCC and CE agency compliance approvals. Consistently delivered products on schedule. I won an for outstanding product development team leadership in this role.
• In a wireless applications engineering role, provided customer technical support for 12 major industry accounts for processor PCB’s, compiler and hardware development software, and mixed-signal and digital IC chipsets. Resolved field quality issues escalated to engineering. Created testbed to reproduce a mixed-signal device problem. Identified root cause (IC internal ground floor noise causing period jitter in analog VCO portion of PLL) and proposed design changes to engineering staff. Received an for outstanding customer support and technical writing in this role.
• On another assignment, worked closely with a customer and wrote design specifications for the DSP1621, a modified mixed-signal baseband product for 2-way pagers. Specified custom ASIC interfaces required by the customer. My work resulted in a two-year design, two million dollar design and manufacturing contract for Lucent Microelectronics. Developed and taught a course on DSP I/O circuit programming in Lucent’s “Microelectronics University” employee program.

Confidential (Lincroft NJ )

Responsibilities:

• Specified and qualified OEM PC motherboards, disk drives, Intel “DVI” NTSC video encoder/decoders (the first single-board video capture solution for PC’s), SVGA video circuits, and other components. Wrote qualification test procedure documents defining acceptance test criteria for third-party OEM products. Authored motherboard diagnostic software requirements for customer software and test software used in manufacturing. Supported intro to manufacture of products. Achieved FCC and CE approval ratings for the Confidential &T 6300 WGS PC. The Confidential &T PC division was later sold to NCR.
• Product developer of Confidential &T Definity PBX (later Avaya Inc. product) including CPU, T3, ISDN-PRI fiber, ISDN-BRI, and other interfaces. for Definity PBX Outstanding Technical Contributions for custom ASIC memory controller technical specifications. Achieved FCC, CE, northern European, UL, and other compliance standards approval for numerous products. Developed Intel X86 CPU board and diagnostic test software for use in the Confidential &T Accunet X.25 packet-switched network. Worked closely with ATE engineers to develop factory tests.