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Various Companies

Business consulting, Insights, and analytics roles  with various companies over the years

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Sam AI

Imaginefest

* Produced mitigation reports from RMA analysis using high-speed mixed signal scopes, network analyzers, and power analyzers
* Recommended and deployed specialized automotive test instrumentation
* Developed new manufacturing and test processes to boost efficiency and reliability
* Troubleshot manufacturing and supply chain issues to improve performance and resiliency
* Mentored junior and mid-level engineers; interviewed and onboarded new hires
* Led PCB design reviews and recommendations (Altium)
* Optimized BOMs by reducing part count and sourcing alternates

Engineering Consultant

Noctrix Health, Inc.

* Advanced next-generation therapeutic wearables at Noctrix Health by adding new features and debugging firmware for customer and clinician reliability
* Developed with Zephyr RTOS, C, C++, BLE, YAML, Go, and Python
* Ensured compliance with medical device standards (ISO 13485, IEC 60601-1, IEC 60601-1-2)
* Streamlined development through project management, version control, and bug tracking (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket

Senior Firmware Engineer - Wearable Medical Device

Venture Backed Stealth Startup

* Circuit & PCB design, schematic capture, firmware, and cloud integration
* Designed low-cost, low-power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tag, scaled to 50K units/week
* Experience with Cellular (Cat1, APIs) and LoRa connectivity
* Battery expertise: LMC, LFP, LCO, LTO, NiMH chemistries
* Analog & digital circuit design
* BOM creation, management, sourcing & supply chain resilience
* Industrial, outdoor & automotive-grade designs and components
* Mentoring, training, hiring & onboarding engineers

Principle Firmware / Hardware Engineer - Asset Tracking (IoT)

Self-employed

Successfully crowdfunded through crowdsupply.com 

* Designed 1" cube robot **Skoobot**, controlled via Android app
* Created charger/programmer/logger companion board
* Circuit design, schematics, PCB layout, firmware, Autodesk 360
* Built custom body, wheels & motor mounts (laser cut & 3D printed)
* Hand-assembled prototypes (solder paste, tweezers, reflow in modified oven)
* Integrated **BLE, ToF sensor, ambient light sensor, microphone, buzzer**
* Developed Android app for speed/direction control, obstacle avoidance & sound commands

Skoobot - 1" cube robot designed to support social development of Autistic children 

Nanoport.io

Designed a daughterboard for a custom mobile phone to demonstrate Nanoport's technology. This included the innovative Haptic vibrating tachammer, a led circle for pattern creation, and sensors to detect human body electric and magnetic fields.

Principle Firmware / Hardware Engineer - Vibrating Haptic Device

Xtrava

Wearable ECG device. For signal processing, I used MATLAB, then C++, for the DFT, Clustering, and SVD algorithms. I created the backend using compiled MATLAB and REST API's.

Senior Firmware/Software Engineer  - Wearable Medical Device

OCZ Technology

Wrote firmware for many of OCZs consumer SSD drives.

OCZ was acquired by Western Digital

Firmware Engineer - SATA SSD Solid State Drives

Marvell Semiconductor

Wrote firmware for Marvell's custom integrated circuits for their SSD reference IC designs. I developed a Linux-based automated test framework for the micro-flush algorithm. The system included a C++ Qt GUI application, leveraged the SG driver for issuing ATA commands, utilized asynchronous writes to maximize load, and integrated a serial-port–controlled power supply to perform power cut tests.

My first job was at Xerox in Rochester, NY. At the time, Xerox had sold $150 million in copier leases to Citicorp and needed a system to manage the payment administration. Rather than use their existing mainframe or mini-computers, they brought me on directly from university to develop a PC-based solution. I sourced a 9-track tape reader with a PCIE interface to import billing data from the mainframe and built a 50-PC Novell network for the operators, plus an additional 5 PCs for the control team. I selected a procedural SQL database for data management and used the C programming language for file translations and calculation logic. Over the next three years, Xerox’s lease portfolio grew to nearly $1 billion.

At my most recent startup, we needed to rapidly scale an asset-tracking system for the fleet of a Fortune 500 company. The tracker had to be ultra-low-cost, low-power, built from off-the-shelf components, and resilient to supply chain disruptions. I selected a widely available wireless module whose voltage range matched the battery, allowing us to eliminate power conditioning circuitry and reduce costs. I designed a custom circuit for the manufacturing and test fixture, enabling off-board testing and streamlined final assembly. To support activation during power-up and ensure minimal leakage, I developed a custom low-leakage circuit, achieving a shelf life of up to one week. To increase flexibility amid supply chain constraints, I created separate board layouts for each available package (e.g., 40-pin, 64-pin, etc.). The result: we shipped 50,000 units per week, and the deployment was a success.

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