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Welcome to my website that I put together to complement my resume. This site describes some of my engineering projects in greater detail. Thanks for visiting and please get in touch if you'd like to discuss a project - or just to say hello.

Sincerely, Rick - updated 3/21

Recent Experience:

Innovations in Optics, Inc. as a Engineering Manager.
- Rick managed an engineering design team of two direct employees and three contractors that developed DC/DC converters. These power supplies were implemented with power electronics topologies such as Buck, Buck-Boost and Cuk. An important skill that he learned on the job was to creating and managing the product specification. Associated with that, Rick developed a good sense of when advanced engineering firepower was required vs. a younger associate. Rick found a tremendous amount of vicarious joy in seeing his direct employees develop new skillsets and spend most of their time in the lab. Lightly regulated, the name of the game in this role was time-to-market and BOM costs. In addition to managing, Rick also contributed individually as Senior Embedded Systems Engineer by writing all the firmware for the control system. This topology was eventually accepted as the standard and used on all products company-wide. Click the "IOI projects" tab to see some of the boards he worked on.
Yaskawa Solectria Solar as an Embedded Software Design Engineer.
- A heavily regulated industry, Rick programmed DSPs that went into solar inverters. He wrote firmware that addressed the UL1998 (firmware in embedded systems) and UL1699B (arc fault protection) safety standards. One of the highlights of this role was to implement the discreet Fourier transform on a DSP in an arc fault detection algorithm. Click the "Yaskawa Projects" tab for more info.
Oregon State University as a MSEE student.
- Rick re-discovered his love for electrical engineering during his MSEE. He studied power electronics with his mentor Ted Brekken and enjoyed collaborating with the talented students at OSU. He enhanced his mathematical modeling and simulation skills but it was the embedded systems programming where he found himself staying up all night to complete his assignments. Please click Rick's "MSEE Projects" tab for more info on the projects he completed at Oregon State.