I am a senior level hardware engineer with eleven years of board and logic design experience with cutting edge technologies in the computer, telecom, and defense industries.

After I graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, United Defense recruited me to do integration work on the fire support team version of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Following two year's working on military vehicles, I moved to the telecom environment, first with Stanford Telecom and then Lucent Technologies.

My position as Senior Hardware Engineer at Lucent formed a strong platform of technical and team achievements. There, I was a key engineer in designing embedded processor cores for multiservice switches. I designed complex circuits using top of the line processors, bridge components, high speed memory, and other devices. I was closely involved in the entire board design cycle, from architecting and schematic creation to layout and prototype debug. I also coded Verilog and wrote Perl scripts.

After a move from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, I found my way to a start up called InfiniCon Systems, joining on as Staff Hardware Engineer. InfiniCon was one of three major vendors of InfiniBand switches used in high performance computing, and they were finally getting some serious traction in the market. Our small hardware team had plenty of work to do, completing work on the Infinio5000 and what was to become the Silverstorm 9024 and 9000 family of switches, and I played a key role in the success of our InfiniBand products. I leveraged my earlier embedded processor experience through the design of hardware management infrastructures on several line cards; I delved deeper into IB as well as Ethernet, PCI, and I2C; I even dabbled in analog power design.

After rebranding into SilverStorm Technologies, our company was acquired by QLogic Corporation. This brought additional challenges: not only did we have to keep up with our hardware engineering projects, but we also had to work on corporate integration. One such activity was the merger of our Arena PLM (product lifecycle management) data into the corporate Agile database. As the KOP lead for this exercise, I managed the transition, coordinating resources, testing, performing troubleshooting, preparing data for migration, and interfacing to offsite QLogic and Agile team members. This gave me in depth understanding of change control management issues spanning Engineering and Operations.

I'm presently working on our next generation 12800 product line, the QLogic IB Director class system. I was a key contributor in the product requirements stage, and I architected the management infrastructure to be used by the hardware throughout the system. As of this writing, I have one line card in the prototype stage of development, and another preparing to go out for its first build. In addition to my technical endeavors, I continue to facilitate communications and quality within the hardware team and organization by providing detailed review of hardware designs and errata resolutions as well as oversight of KOP engineering change order activity.

Every project I've worked on has reinforced the importance of good communication skills. As a senior engineer, I'm continually exchanging information and building commitment from team members. Fostering team work is one of my favorite parts of any job, whether I'm investigating a hardware issue, hunting for components to meet a tight schedule, or directing and training technicians. But my interests go beyond engineering, because I also love writing. I'm currently working on my first novel and I moderate a monthly peer critique group in Doylestown.

I'm a natural at organizing and multi-tasking, and I believe that the key to creating high quality, efficient, long term solutions is balancing attention to detail with understanding the big picture.