As an Associate Electrical Engineer, I worked on the design, validation, and lifecycle extension of System-on-Module (SoM) products, gaining hands-on experience across wireless hardware, embedded systems, and PCB design. My role spanned hardware debugging, FCC certification preparation, and embedded Linux scripting, supporting both new product development and legacy system redesigns.
I contributed to the redesign of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring its continued viability in production by extending its lifecycle. I also played a key role in wireless hardware certification, writing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth chips for FCC intentional radiator testing. Through EMI troubleshooting, hardware verification, and production support, I built a strong foundation in embedded hardware development and electrical system design.
This role introduced me to full-product lifecycle development, from schematic entry and PCB layout review to manufacturing debugging and production test setup. It was a hands-on learning experience that strengthened my problem-solving, hardware validation, and embedded software development skills.
It was an honor working with so many talented individuals while Logic Product Development was in its hey day. Everyone who has moved on are now key leaders in many of the embedded start ups an industry leader within the Minneapolis Twin Cities.
• Responsible for the build and rework of all prototypes ahead of manufacturing runs.
• Supported System-on-Module (SoM) development, working on both new designs and redesigns to extend product lifecycles.
• Developed embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios, enabling FCC intentional radiator certification testing.
• Performed EMI troubleshooting, design verification tests, and component qualification to ensure hardware compliance and performance.
• Redesigned the PXA270 SoM, including schematic entry and PCB layout review, to extend the product’s viability.
• Verified USB, memory interfaces, and power supplies, using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and test equipment.
• Debugged production test failures at contract manufacturing sites, ensuring smooth product production and validation.
• Hand-soldered and reworked prototype PCBs, implementing circuit board modifications based on lead designer specifications.
• Embedded Development: Embedded Linux scripting
• Hardware Design & PCB Layout: Cadence Alegro : Schematic entry, PCB layout review
• Wireless Testing & Certification: Wi-Fi + Bluetooth configuration for FCC certification
• Debugging & Validation: Logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, EMI troubleshooting
• Manufacturing Support: Debugging production test failures, setting up test equipment
My work as an Associate Electrical Engineer contributed to extending product lifecycles, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing hardware verification processes.
Key Outcomes & Impact
• Successfully extended the lifecycle of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring continued production viability through hardware redesign and validation.
• Enabled FCC certification by developing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios for regulatory testing.
• Resolved EMI and design issues through thorough troubleshooting, hardware validation, and part qualification, improving product reliability.
• Optimized manufacturing test setups, reducing production issues by debugging hardware failures directly at the contract manufacture.
• Accelerated hardware verification, using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes to validate USB, memory, and power interfaces.
This role provided me with a strong technical foundation in embedded hardware design, wireless system validation, and production debugging, skills that have continued to influence my career along with providing me with first hand experiences with BOMs, ECO processes and scheduling production and testing of embedded systems.
As an Associate Electrical Engineer, I worked on the design, validation, and lifecycle extension of System-on-Module (SoM) products, gaining hands-on experience across wireless hardware, embedded systems, and PCB design. My role spanned hardware debugging, FCC certification preparation, and embedded Linux scripting, supporting both new product development and legacy system redesigns.
I contributed to the redesign of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring its continued viability in production by extending its lifecycle. I also played a key role in wireless hardware certification, writing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth chips for FCC intentional radiator testing. Through EMI troubleshooting, hardware verification, and production support, I built a strong foundation in embedded hardware development and electrical system design.
This role introduced me to full-product lifecycle development, from schematic entry and PCB layout review to manufacturing debugging and production test setup. It was a hands-on learning experience that strengthened my problem-solving, hardware validation, and embedded software development skills.
It was an honor working with so many talented individuals while Logic Product Development was in its hey day. Everyone who has moved on are now key leaders in many of the embedded start ups an industry leader within the Minneapolis Twin Cities.
• Responsible for the build and rework of all prototypes ahead of manufacturing runs.
• Supported System-on-Module (SoM) development, working on both new designs and redesigns to extend product lifecycles.
• Developed embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios, enabling FCC intentional radiator certification testing.
• Performed EMI troubleshooting, design verification tests, and component qualification to ensure hardware compliance and performance.
• Redesigned the PXA270 SoM, including schematic entry and PCB layout review, to extend the product’s viability.
• Verified USB, memory interfaces, and power supplies, using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and test equipment.
• Debugged production test failures at contract manufacturing sites, ensuring smooth product production and validation.
• Hand-soldered and reworked prototype PCBs, implementing circuit board modifications based on lead designer specifications.
My work as an Associate Electrical Engineer contributed to extending product lifecycles, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing hardware verification processes.
Key Outcomes & Impact
• Successfully extended the lifecycle of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring continued production viability through hardware redesign and validation.
• Enabled FCC certification by developing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios for regulatory testing.
• Resolved EMI and design issues through thorough troubleshooting, hardware validation, and part qualification, improving product reliability.
• Optimized manufacturing test setups, reducing production issues by debugging hardware failures directly at the contract manufacture.
• Accelerated hardware verification, using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes to validate USB, memory, and power interfaces.
This role provided me with a strong technical foundation in embedded hardware design, wireless system validation, and production debugging, skills that have continued to influence my career along with providing me with first hand experiences with BOMs, ECO processes and scheduling production and testing of embedded systems.
• Embedded Development: Embedded Linux scripting
• Hardware Design & PCB Layout: Cadence Alegro : Schematic entry, PCB layout review
• Wireless Testing & Certification: Wi-Fi + Bluetooth configuration for FCC certification
• Debugging & Validation: Logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, EMI troubleshooting
• Manufacturing Support: Debugging production test failures, setting up test equipment
As an Associate Electrical Engineer, I worked on the design, validation, and lifecycle extension of System-on-Module (SoM) products, gaining hands-on experience across wireless hardware, embedded systems, and PCB design. My role spanned hardware debugging, FCC certification preparation, and embedded Linux scripting, supporting both new product development and legacy system redesigns.
I contributed to the redesign of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring its continued viability in production by extending its lifecycle. I also played a key role in wireless hardware certification, writing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth chips for FCC intentional radiator testing. Through EMI troubleshooting, hardware verification, and production support, I built a strong foundation in embedded hardware development and electrical system design.
This role introduced me to full-product lifecycle development, from schematic entry and PCB layout review to manufacturing debugging and production test setup. It was a hands-on learning experience that strengthened my problem-solving, hardware validation, and embedded software development skills.
It was an honor working with so many talented individuals while Logic Product Development was in its hey day. Everyone who has moved on are now key leaders in many of the embedded start ups an industry leader within the Minneapolis Twin Cities.
• Responsible for the build and rework of all prototypes ahead of manufacturing runs.
• Supported System-on-Module (SoM) development, working on both new designs and redesigns to extend product lifecycles.
• Developed embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios, enabling FCC intentional radiator certification testing.
• Performed EMI troubleshooting, design verification tests, and component qualification to ensure hardware compliance and performance.
• Redesigned the PXA270 SoM, including schematic entry and PCB layout review, to extend the product’s viability.
• Verified USB, memory interfaces, and power supplies, using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and test equipment.
• Debugged production test failures at contract manufacturing sites, ensuring smooth product production and validation.
• Hand-soldered and reworked prototype PCBs, implementing circuit board modifications based on lead designer specifications.
My work as an Associate Electrical Engineer contributed to extending product lifecycles, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing hardware verification processes.
Key Outcomes & Impact
• Successfully extended the lifecycle of the PXA270 SoM, ensuring continued production viability through hardware redesign and validation.
• Enabled FCC certification by developing embedded Linux scripts to configure Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radios for regulatory testing.
• Resolved EMI and design issues through thorough troubleshooting, hardware validation, and part qualification, improving product reliability.
• Optimized manufacturing test setups, reducing production issues by debugging hardware failures directly at the contract manufacture.
• Accelerated hardware verification, using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes to validate USB, memory, and power interfaces.
This role provided me with a strong technical foundation in embedded hardware design, wireless system validation, and production debugging, skills that have continued to influence my career along with providing me with first hand experiences with BOMs, ECO processes and scheduling production and testing of embedded systems.
• Embedded Development: Embedded Linux scripting
• Hardware Design & PCB Layout: Cadence Alegro : Schematic entry, PCB layout review
• Wireless Testing & Certification: Wi-Fi + Bluetooth configuration for FCC certification
• Debugging & Validation: Logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, EMI troubleshooting
• Manufacturing Support: Debugging production test failures, setting up test equipment
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