My Resume : Senior design engineer (project leader) with work experience since 1978

Education : BSEE (1978) from TGM Vienna Austria (US citizen)

Design example : The "Cortez-Project" can be used to show the variety of my design experience in several fields.
The Station-Master-1000 Control-Panel represents a mixture of basic html and a simple Java-applet to talk via a web-host based java-servlet to the destination client controlling paralleled RF-amplifiers. The entire design was one of my most recent projects.

Work history : Worked for several companies as design engineer (employee), (ITT Austria, Philips, Margaux Controls, WYSE technology, Apple Computer (contract). Self employed since 1987 with contracts till present.
I also worked on various digital design projects along with software tasks which were not related to embedded controls. However, this resume focuses on the projects, which I believe show the best of the variety of my design capabilities. Some programming experience with MS-Windows, Visual C++ with MFC, Borland C++ Builder and Java (J2SE, J2EE). Throughout my professional career I worked on various hardware and software test projects including software verification testing and hardware component level diagnostics.

Software (Firmware) : Several assembly languages for INFINEON / SIEMENS (C161CS, C164CI, C167CS, CAN-bus, etc), INTEL (80x96, 80x86, 8051, etc), MOTOROLA (680xx, 68xx, especially the 683xx family including custom TPU coding).
Specialized in "C/C++"-language for embedded controllers (32-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit, Infineon / Siemens, Intel, Motorola) with real-time-critical assembly code. Drivers for CAN-bus networks.
Interrupt supported application code and debug monitors, stand alone assembly or with "C/C++"-language framework.
UCOS multitasking kernel ports to 80196, 68332 and C167CS CPUs.
Embedded remote control with networking over the internet by writing Java applets and servlets using J2SE and J2EE.

Hardware : Digital and analog designs involving a variety of CPUs (Infineon / Siemens, Intel, Motorola, etc...), PALs, PLDs, ADCs, DACs, OP-AMPs, etc…
Designs from concept to implementation and production runs (schematics, layout, manufacturing, test,  etc…)

Features : Specialized in embedded controllers including motion control (robotics), data acquisition (process control), etc… multitasking framework with high speed real-time interrupt support. Also Win32 instrumentation and control user interface design using Borland C++Builder. Java J2SE and J2EE internet network software.

Newest project :
2001 to present : Yoshimura-RD (Chino, CA). Designed hardware and firmware for a custom fuel injection and ignition control unit for racing motorcycles. Hardware based upon Infineon C161CS microcontroller. Firmware written in “C” and assembly.

PTI corporation (Penryn, CA). Designed custom contoller to monitor DC parameters of up to 50 paralleled RF-amplifiers including their remote control over the internet. Hardware based upon Infineon C164CI microcontroller with various ISR supported SPI peripherals. Firmware written in “C” and assembly. Remote control software written in Java J2SE and J2EE.

Earlier projects :
2000 to 2001 : Asyst Technology (Fremont, CA). Wrote firmware for conveyor control boards (lowest level stepper motor control) using  Infineon / Siemens C515, assembly and “C”. This project used a CAN-bus network for inter module communication. Redesign of C515 hardware to use Infineon / Siemens C167CS high performance 16 bit CPU to replace two C515 modules, increase processor bandwidth and reduce cost.

1999 to 2000 : Redwood Microsystems (Redwood City, CA). Wrote RISM concept monitor kernel for Infineon / Siemens C16x family of microcontrollers (assembly and “C”). Designed control hardware (analog and digital) for new generation of  Micro-Valves.

1997 to 1999 : Protogene Labs (Palo Alto, CA) Sole responsibility for motion control of chemical reagent deposits with piezo-jets. Dual CPU high performance design utilizing two MC68736s with QSPI I/O and inter-processor-communication.

1st CPU handles up to 6 stepper motors with full parallel processing and motion, accel / decel. programmability. With optional quadrature-position and index detection. Selectable normal-stepping (200 / 400 Steps / rev) or micro-stepping (up to 12800 steps / rev, without speed degradation). Custom TPU code for table driven interrupt supported stepper motor control . Queing of commands and parallel processing utilizing the UCOS (Copyright Jean J. Labrosse) multi-tasking operating system.
2^nd CPU is responsible for the application (ballistic real-time printing) of chemicals through high-voltage piezo-jets (6 total). Full programmability of pump / refill / idle cycle (sub-micro-sec resolution) and pump / refill / idle voltage bursts (DAC programmable up to +/- 70V). Custom TPU code for table driven interrupt supported printing software (timing and voltage). UCOS support as well.
The design allows the expansion by using more Piezo controllers for a more complex print matrix.

Below you can see a few pictures of the 1st prototype and lab-setup showing the glass-array chemical reagent deposit system

	Complete system : Whole system, incuding the shelves which contain the control logic, power supplies, Oscilloscope, etc...
	Motion control setup : X-Y-table with Z-axis tower holding the piezo-jets. Additional motor controlled movements inside the reaction chamber.

8098 based controller board : connectivity for 2 inputs, thermocouples or pressure/vacuum sensors or RTD adapter or high vacuum pirani-sensor adapter. Two by software controlled PWM or phase-angle AC outputs with 10A load capacity.

68000 based controller board : connectivity for 400 x 200 LCD display, 5-thermocouples, 2 high-vacuum sensors, 10-digital I/Os and 12 relays

Sorry about the resume unrelated footnote below (Unimogs, Unimog-parts, etc), but it's part of the Web-design software.