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I was fortunate in my first engineering position to do system design not simply circuit design. I remember working with MIT graduates who could design rings around my circuits but they never developed a systems view. On the design that won me the patent award I did a cost analysis for a new design just before I left the company ... |
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I figured that the first 100 units would cost less than $150 each. I got a call a few weeks later telling me that my figure was off by several hundred dollars. I took some time off and went back to review all the figures. The man who took over the project, an engineer with a Master's from MIT had cost the design out at over $600 per copy. Why the big discrepancy? I had gone to the company that designed the thin-film filters I was using. The owner explained the process to me. The filters were made in a vacuum furnace that was about 16î in diameter. The standard blank was 1î in diameter. I was working with a beam of light that was only .003î in diameter. We agreed that he could make all my filters using the smallest standard blanks 0.25î in diameter or about $35 each. The man who took over my project had chosen 1î blanks done no further research and that explained more than $150 per lens difference in the cost. I also knew that there was almost .002 volts of noise on all the wiring in the production environment. The design needed module whose output was the log or the ratio of the two inputs. When I talked to engineers of the module at Analog Devices we needed to define three things. First we needed to agree on what was zero and what was infinity. The module had to be at zero when one input was grounded and infinity when the other input was grounded. We also had to agree on how close to the theoretical curve the actual output had to be. Since there was going to be .002 volts of noise in the system we agreed that .002 volts from ground or the theoretical curve was okay and that 95% of the supply voltage was infinity. When the fancy engineer got to this specification he said it needed to be .005%. The change in specification made about a $200 increase in the cost of each module. |
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Engineering Advanced RandDMember of the Cycles for the Millions Committee that examined several computer architectures including massively parallel. Only large problems that are decomposable are applicable to massively parallel architectures. The skills to determine which problems are amenable to massively parallel architectures are not found in most mortals. To remove the problem solving issue from the gods my research examined the impact caused by a lack of tools, to assist in determining which problems are amenable to being solved by massively parallel architectures.
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Engineering Group LeaderEight team members. The Open Branch Platform was comprised of a UNIX (RISC - ULTRIX) server-general purpose computing environment. Responsible for creating system specifications and leading the team design of testing to ensure that end users could gain predictable and reliable access to applications running on DOS, WINDOWs, ULTRIX, and MVS over local and wide area networks.
Engineering Group LeaderEngineering Group Leader for the Open Branch Platform (OBP) consisting of twenty plus DOS/Windows workstations running business applications. The workstations were networked to a RISC/ULTRIX server that served applications and data. The server also was a gateway to an IBM mainframe for LU 6.2, 3270, and RJE for users at workstations.
Engineering Group LeaderEngineering Group Leader introduced the use of sampling to analyze client-server performance. Introduced SAS in the analysis of client-server performance data and SAS graphics for its presentation. Previous tool was Microsoft EXCEL.
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Principal EngineerDeveloped test plans, test designs, executed tests on VAX - VMS and RISC - ULTRIX (UNIX) network servers.
EngineerDeveloped the specifications and test plans for critical parts for display manufacturer.
EngineerDesigning, assembling and testing a bowling machine scorer, and other less exotic pieces of equipment.
EngineerDesigned total radiation and two color ratio pyrometers.
EngineerQC engineer for high reliability manufacturing operation that included NASA Apollo Guidance Computer, US Navy Poseidon Missile Guidance Computer, and other projects.
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TechnicalMacintosh/Wintel Hardware and Software Experience Provided troubleshooting and repair in heterogeneous Macintosh, NT, Windows, and UNIX environments.
TechnicalMacintosh/Wintel Hardware and Software Experience Start and ran a Macintosh based desktop publishing, audio and video studio which provided Desktop publishing services with Word, Nisus, PageMaker, FrameMaker, and Ready -Set - Go!. 2D graphics with Illustrator, Freehand, Persuasion, PowerPoint, and Fractal Design Painter. 3D graphics with Infini-D, MacroModel, and MiniCad+. Multimedia audio and video with Sound Tools, Pro Tools, Premier, Video Shop, Director, and After Effects. Used a variety of Operating systems and peripherals Macintosh II, IIci, SE/30, SE, DUO 230, Power Computing, and Wintel computers Macintosh O/S 6,7,8 and A/UX, Microsoft DOS, Windows, NT (workstation and server), LINUX, and OS2. Scanners, internal and external as well as removable and fixed hard drives, Postscript laser and ink jet Printers, HP printers. AppleTalk and TCP/IP networks. Hardware and software consulting and maintenance.
TechnicalTechnician, Electronics Production and Test: Assembling and testing emission spectrometers
TechnicalMonitored internet sites, firewalls, and websites, responded to alarms, contacted customers, logged onto routers, firewalls, and web hosts, troubleshot systems, effected repair or directed field service and telco personnel to correct the problem.
TechnicalNetworks consultant on Broadband Ethernet.
TechnicalNetworks consultant providing non-disclosure information on Ethernet before it was introduced.
TechnicalNetworks consultant to a major university on the problems associated with moving digital medical images.
TechnicalNetworks consultant to Fortune 10 Corporations on block mode (3270) terminal access to character based (VT100) applications.
TechnicalNetworks consultant to Fortune 10 Corporations on fault tolerant computing issues.
TechnicalNetworks Marketing Manager at for laboratory networking solutions.
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TechnicianTechnician, Electronics Depot Level Maintenance: Macintosh and Wintel systems.
TechnicianTroubleshoot and repair hardware and software in a networked heterogeneous Macintosh, NT, Windows, and UNIX environment.
Technician, ElectronicsMilitary - 4 (1 training, 3 practical) years in the USAF as a radar maintenance and Explosive Ordinance (Bomb) Disposal technician
Technician, Electronics ProductionAssembly of prototype synchro-to-digital converters
Technician, Network Operations CenterMonitor internet sites, respond to alarms, troubleshoot to determine whether problems are related to network, firewall or host, contact customers, field service and telco to repair the problem. |
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