Location: Reno, United States 
Member since: March 2012
Electron Volt Research and Development (Sole Proprietorship)
550 W. Plumb Ln, Ste B #254, Reno, NV 89509. Primarily involved in electronics design, component selection, PSPICE analysis, schematics, BOM, PCB layout, documentation, purchasing, fabrication, and test/validation of electronic products for clients. Specializing in designs to meet harsh industrial environmental requirements, manufacturability and testability targets, with the goal of high reliability and reasonable cost.
Sustainable Energy Solutions
620 S. 18th Street, Sparks, NV 89431. Embedded electronics development for a local renewable energy start-up company, including specifications development, electronics design, component selection, PSPICE analysis, signal integrity, schematics, BOM, PCB layout, documentation, purchasing, fabrication, test/validation, and firmware development.
Electron Volt Research and Development (Sole Proprietorship)
550 W. Plumb Ln, Ste B #254, Reno, NV 89509. Primarily involved in electronics design, component selection, PSPICE analysis, schematics, BOM, PCB layout, documentation, purchasing, fabrication, and test/validation of electronic products for clients. Specializing in designs to meet harsh industrial environmental requirements, manufacturability and testability targets, with the goal of high reliability and reasonable cost.
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512. Worked with DRI scientists on a wide variety of funded projects, in a wide variety of engineering roles, including proposal development, specifications development, systems engineering, electronics design, component selection, PSPICE analysis, PCB layout, documentation, purchasing, fabrication, test/validation, and software/firmware development. DRI scientists work on basic and applied research with project funding from government and private industry sources.
Intel Corporation
1900 Prairie City Road, Folsom, CA 95630. Part of a team developing Multi-Level Cell Flash Memory technology. Worked on CMOS semiconductor process improvements for Intel Corporation's original StrataFlash memory product, with emphasis on "showstopper" electrical issues caused by packaged induced stress. My work resulted in the implementation of a feasible solution for package induced stress that is used to this day.
Morrison-Knudsen Corporation
800 Park Boulevard, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83712. Electronics design, PCB layout, and other tasks related to the development of microcontroller based data acquisition products for use in passenger railcars.
Hewlett-Packard Corporation (via Zero Defects, Inc.)
615 East 43rd Street, Boise, ID 83714. Majority of time spent working at H.P.'s Printer Division Headquarters in Boise, helping engineers and technicians to build, troubleshoot, and document robotics for automated assembly and test lines. Fabricated bed-of-nails and other functional testers used during the production of H.P.'s LaserJet printers.
Quality Thermistor, Inc.
2108 Century Way, Boise, ID 83709. Electrical Engineer for this electronics component manufacturer. In charge of customer test data, maintaining equipment calibration, and keeping the company on the military Qualified Products List. Also developed several in-house projects.
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
University of Idaho
1993-1995
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
University of Idaho
1980-1987
Engineer-in-Training
Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors
Registered EIT in Idaho and California
Adaptive Neural Network Design Investigation using a Content Addressable Parallel Processor
University of Idaho
Digest of LACR (Laboratory for Advanced Communications Research)
Dasgupta-Huang Optimal Bounding Ellipsoid G[Z] Identification with Loop-in-System
University of Idaho
Digest of LACR (Laboratory for Advanced Communications Research)
