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Experience

  • Engineering Manager

    • Successfully took several DC/DC converters into production

      • Concept

      • Specs

      • Design/simulation

      • Prototype

      • Revs

      • Production

      • Sustaining

    • Specification management

    • Firmware revision control system

  • Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

    • Firmware

    • PCB Design and Layout

    • Thermal Design

    • Testing

    • Control System Design

  • Industry contacts

    • Design

    • Layout

    • Manufacturing

    • Mentors:

      • Executive/CEO

      • Engineering Management

      • Operations

      • Sales

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Education

  • BSEE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1998

  • MSEE, Oregon State University, 2012

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Skills

  • Digital Design

    • FPGA Programming with Verilog

    • Microcontroller and DSP Programming with C

  • Embedded Firmware 

    • PI Controllers

    • CAN bus

    • Discrete Fourier Transform

    • IIR filtering

    • ADC Sampling

    • Modbus RTU

    • Ethernet

    • USB

    • RS485

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Technologies

  • DC/DC Converters

    • SMPS
    • Buck, Buck-Boost
    • Sepic
    • Cuk
    • Linear Regulators

  • Inverters

  • Sensor Boards

  • Embedded Systems

  • Power Electronics Drivers

    • Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Algorithms

    • IGBT and MOSFET

    • Native Gate Driver Development

    • Analog Interface Circuits

  • Thermal Control - HW and FW

    • Thermistors

    • ICs

    • Fan control

    • Thermo-electric cooling

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Software/Tools

  • Languages

    • C

    • Verilog

    • Matlab

    • Python

    • Linux

    • RTOS

  • Vendor Trainings

    • Altium Essentials

    • TI Sysbios

    • TI DSP Programming

  • Development Tools

    • AVR Studio - Atmel/Microchip microcontroller IDE

    • Altium Designer - PCB schematics and layout

    • Quartus II IDE - Altera FPGA Verilog

    • Linux GCC Tools - Atmel microcontroller

    • Keil uVision3 - Analog Devices 8051 IDE

    • MPLAB - Microchip IDE

    • Code Composer Studio - Texas Instruments IDE

    • Spyder - Python IDE

Ricks Portrait from IOI.jpg

Where the header picture was taken in 2011 at Oregon State, this photo was taken in 2020 while working at Innovations in Optics.

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