RESUME
CARL A. ANGOTTI
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 739-5046
carl@angotti.com
Website: http://www.angotti.com
OBJECTIVE
Contract/Consulting as a Senior Engineer in electronics hardware design; Project Engineer or Project Leader.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Successfully completed 25 projects in the last ten years. Broad based and extensive experience in electronic design focused on systems concept, analysis, design, and troubleshooting. Board-level design includes both analog and digital circuits. Frequently solve and troubleshoot projects that contain serious time and technical constraints.
SKILLS
Systems Design
· Generate systems concepts, analyses and specifications for industrial measurement, instrumentation, telecommunications, consumer, computers, medical devices and automatic functional testers.
Circuit Design Board Level Implementations
· Analog: Design wide BW, low noise, amps, signal filters, A to D and D to A converters, and transducer signal interfaces. Solve signal integrity problems. Analyze problems in mixed analog and digital circuits. Resolve electrical noise and circuit instability problems.
· Microprocessor System and Interface Electronics: Design circuits using Atmel AVR, PIC, Intel and Motorola families of microprocessors and embedded microcontrollers. Design DSP circuits from TI and Analog Devices. Generate embedded control code.
· Digital: Design digital logic circuits for telecommunications, including fiber optic and RF. Design FPGAs and numerous bus interfaces. Perform critical timing analyses.
Tools: Orcad, PADS-PCB, SPICE, ICAPS, Advanced Excel, MS Project
Programming Languages: Recent knowledge of Actel Tools and Altera MaxPlus, using Altera AHDL and experience with Verilog HDL. Working knowledge of Assembly, C, Basic, HTML and specialized proprietary processor languages
EDUCATION
MSEE, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
BSEE, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
MBA, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Angotti Product Development, Sunnyvale, CA (www.angotti.com)
Independent consultant and sub-contractor for more than 20 years focused on rapid product development
SELECT LIST OF ANGOTTI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
2004/06
· FyreStorm, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA - Design Analog portion of IC R&D Tester.
· S&C Electric Company, Alameda, CA - Systems and Timing Analysis Troubleshooting for Embedded Controller Cards.
· Abbott Diabetes Care (TheraSense), Alameda, CA - Designed a special purpose tester for diabetes devices.
2002/03
· Modular Process Technology, San Jose, CA - Designed a special purpose, FPGA based PCB that interaced with special drivers.
· Radia Communications, Sunnyvale, CA - Designed a start to finish daughter board circuit for a special purpose ARM processor. Used Altera FPGA on expansion interface card. Quick turnaround project.
· Ultratech Stepper, San Jose, CA (Sub-Contract) - Designed board level embedded controller using Atmel AVR controller. Included firmware code and DC motion servo with encoder feedback. Quick turnaround project.
· Alexa Medical Delivery, Palo Alto, CA - Designed board level special purpose analog firing circuit that used a battery and was low cost. Included system definition.
2001
· Lightbit Corp., Sunnyvale, CA (formerly IOA Corp.) - Designed board level circuit - High speed, low noise, fiber optic circuit amplifiers used in proprietary wide band optical amplifier (EDFA).
· Vina Technologies, Fremont, CA - Served as project manager and start to finish board level design engineer. Designed specialized daughter tester card for telecommunications system that used 16 TI DSPs and an Altera FPGA. Led two-person team.
· Tality (formerly Cadence Design Systems and Diablo Research) - Project Engineer and Design Engineer - Motherboard for broadband optical communications system. Led five person team and performed numerous design functions.
2000 - 2001
· Spirent Communications, Sunnyvale, CA (formerly Zarak Systems) - Designed system block circuits of a Telco high performance system tester - Used multiple Mortorola processors and Analog Devices DSPs. Created system specifications and circuit allocations with power, performance and cost estimates.
1993 - 2000
· Maxtor Corp. (formerly Quantum Corp.) - Project Manager, Hardware - Developed unique consumer hard disk storage product. Coordinated remote teams worldwide. Planned, tracked and held weekly meetings, and conducted design reviews to keep project on track.
· EFIG.COM, Inc- Chip level design - Designed special purpose interface Altera FPGA for new audio product using AHDL. Circuit controlled audio characteristics.
· Siliscape, Inc - Board level design - Designed LCD Multiplex and LED Drivers for a backlit miniature battery driven display.
· Go Digital Telecommunications - Tested, analyzed, and redesigned failed circuits for ADSL telephone product.
· Affymetrix, Inc. - Project Manager/Board Level Design - Designed special purpose electronic valve driver using Motorola controller IC. Miniaturized design digitally driven via a central computer.
· Hewlett-Packard, Netserver Div. - Analyzed and designed hard drive "Hot Insertion" circuitry. Utilized SPICE Modeling and breadboard tests to verify design.
· Diablo Research Co, LLC - Project Engineer/Board Level Design and Test - Designed a bridged Motorola IBM PC-like motherboard for a satellite communications system. Used PCI Bridge ICs.
· L & I Research, Inc. - Designed and analyzed block level system plus did controller circuit design - Design was lithium Iion battery conditioner that included Intel 8051 embedded controller and numerous analog interface circuits.
· H3D Entertainment, Inc. - Board level prototype design - Designed low power, high volume consumer product. Circuit was 3D entertainment viewing optical demodulator.
· Monitek Technologies, Inc. - Systems and board level design - Designed and redesigned MPU based turbidity measurement system. Utilized Motorola 6800 embedded controller and special purpose A to D converter cards. Multiple cost reductions and circuit improvements.
PRIOR EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Hewlett-Packard (Agilent), San Jose, CA, Opto-electronics Division, Customer Engineer
Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA, Design Engineer, Engineering Manager for Avionics Systems
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
TUG Consulting Resources Group, Core Team Member
PATCA (Professional and Technical Consultants Assoc.) VP and Board Member 2002
IEEE Engineering Management Society, Chair, 2003
IEEE Consultants' Network Silicon Valley, Chair 2002
PMI (Project Management Institute), Member
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