mattb1

Twelve years experience in progressive positions as a high-tech hardware/product design engineer.

Successfully brought 30 new digital communication products (100+ SKUs) to market.

Experience across the full development cycle:
- Product definition
- System architecture
- Component selection
- Circuit design
- Schematic capture
- PCB layout
- Bring up, testing and design verification
- System integration
- Debugging and troubleshooting
- NPI engineering and design optimization
- Manufacturing support

Consistently delivered designs to enable truly world beating products such as a wireless motion sensor 55% smaller and 80 Watt block up-converter 60% smaller than their closest competitors, and first to market Thunderbolt 3 machine vision camera.

Major design experience with:
- Digital design up to 40 Gbps
- RF design up to 2.4 GHz
- Ethernet up to 10 Gbps
- USB-C
- Wi-Fi
- Thunderbolt 3
- Zigbee
- IOT
- FPGAs
- Ultra low power (uA) devices
- Image sensors and many other sensors
- Power Supplies
- Signal integrity issues and impedance-controlled design
- Design for EMC to ultra strict MIL-461 standard
- FCC, CE and US military certifications
- Satellite communication systems and products
- SMT and manual assembly and rework
- Automated test design
- Advanced test equipment

Proven ability to lead projects to successful conclusion, build rapport and drive communication amongst diverse stakeholders, and author first-class formal technical documents.