I am a Staff Safety and Systems Engineer and a Certified Functional Safety Professional. Some of my previous work is high-end and high-volume mil-aero and automotive electronics design and analysis and programming and management in the field of IT.  Right now, I’m making fully autonomous trucks safe.  I am also interested in signal processing, optics, multi-spectral imaging, materials science, 3D printing, “big data”, computer vision, machine learning, home automation, and simplifying complicated things.

When I’m not spending my free time enjoying life with my wife and daughters, I spend the rest of my time tweaking my Home-Assistant.io installation.  I also play bass guitar, bend Arduinos and esp8266s to my will, and buy too many things from Sparkfun and Adafruit.

Led FLIR's automotive safety hardware design with an emphasis on SWaP-C and design for assembly/manufacturing.

Hardware Lead: FLIR ADK, Neutrino LC, Linear Cryocooler Controller

Market segments for projects worked on

• automotive

• mil-aero

• high volume commercial

• maritime

• security

Technologies I've worked with

• Power over Coax (GMSL/FPDLink)

• High speed video busses (MIPI CSI-2 D-Phy)

• Memory Devices (RPC DRAM, NOR Flash)

• Logic Devices (Lattice, Altera, MicroSemi)

• GaN-based DC/AC Inverter Design with Full Bridge

• Video pipeline (low noise DAC, high speed ADC)

• Gimbal stabilization (three-axis gyro, three-axis accelerometer stabilization)

• Digital communication busses (I2C, SPI)

• Boundary scan testing with JTAG (Corelis ScanExpress)

• Uncooled infrared cameras

• Cooled infrared cameras

Products I've worked on

• FLIR Lepton

• FLIR Muon

• FLIR M400

• FLIR M400XR

• FLIROne, 3rd Generation

• FLIR ADK

• Mil-Aero Cooled products

• FLIR Neutrino LC

Most recent experience

• Hardware Safety Analysis (FMEA/FMEDA) in Ansys Medini Analyze

• Signal Integrity simulation of multi-medium high speed interconnect using Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx

• Simulation of power plane impedance using Ansys SIWave

• Hardware requirements management using Jama

• BOM management using Arena

• Power over Coax Serializer PCB in 1" square (GMSL/FPDLink)

• Mixed domain PCB design

• ECAD/MCAD integration: 3D modeling of flex with bends in Allegro 17.4

• Homebrewed Buck/Boost topology 50W DC/AC Inverter

Tools used

• OrCAD/Allegro 17.4 (new designs)

• DxDesigner/PADS 9.5 (legacy designs)

• LTSpice

• Ansys SIWave

• Mentor Graphics SIWave

• medini Analyze

• Jama

• Arena

I managed a development team during a time period in 2007 where the company tripled revenue in one year.  I had 4 direct reports that worked with me and as a team we tackled issues including data translation, data warehousing, financial and operational reporting, and server maintenance.

Programming/DBA

• Supported and modified custom Data Warehousing application used by field associates to track sales and margin

• Planned and oversaw migration of intranet portal from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007.

• Created dashboard and subscription reporting for corporate support teams to track daily and weekly helpdesk KPIs using SQL Reporting Services

• Upgraded major databases from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005, boosting server and application performance by 30%

Management

• Managed application development team of 4.

• Hosted weekly multi-department Data Integrity meetings to refine cross-department processes and improve data consistency

• Project Lead for Reporting during ERP selection review process

• Company representative for out-of-state vendor private beta program - gave feedback to vendor on behalf of company and trained Executive team on software use