TLDR Summary:
- Owned rigid and flexible PCB designs
- from early architecture and system definition
- through schematic generation, component selection, layout and bringup
- to design validation, debug and failure analysis.
- Experience with design for development and test, as well as high volume production design
- Extensive lab-work for signal characterization, subsystem validation, and FA debug
- Skills: Mixed Signal design, Schematic Capture, Layout, Debug, System Modeling
Electrical Systems Engineer, Unannounced
2022 - present
- Primary designer of system motherboard
- Owned SOC processor integration and validation
- Ethernet subsystem lead managing extensive debug effort including close controller and PHY vendor collaboration, digging deeply into PCIe and xBASE-T Ethernet protocols.
- Extensive lab experience leading system debug, validation and characterization efforts
Electrical Systems Engineer, Mac Studio (2022)
2020 - 2022
- Designed system’s flexible and rigid-flex PCBs including high-speed IO and interconnect
- Owned peripheral and IO board design
- Led IO subsystem characterization, validation and protocol compliance
- Extensive lab experience leading system debug, validation and characterization efforts
Electrical Systems Engineer, M1 iPad Pro (2020)
2020, May - Oct
- Developed a dynamic multi-cell system charging model in MatLab Simulink enabling simulation and design optimization for:
- Charging Circuitry
- Control Systems & Feedback Loops
- Firmware Optimization
- Validated and characterized system IO, charging and USB-C power delivery functionality
Electrical Systems Engineer, Special Projects
2019, Jan - Sept
- Led technology investigation of TI FPD-Link high-speed serial interface
- Designed test and dev boards using FPD-Link chipsets
- Interface characterization and analysis
- Summarized and presented merits of the technology for our use case to management
- Designed subsystem development boards, test infrastructure and data collection systems
Electrical Systems Engineer, Mac Pro (2019)
2018, Jan - Sept
- Crafted a custom ADC board with a DIMM profile and a dummy MLB using embedded strain gauges routed out the PCIe slots to measure static and dynamic strain profiles during system assembly, shipping, and other mechanical stressors.
- Designed system peripheral high-speed IO boards
- Developed interposer boards for early subsystem SW bringup on existing hardware
- Owned development boards for internal bringup activities