Darren Myers
Louisville,CO
Summary
Highly passionate and motivated circuit designer with a large breadth of experience in product design and high performance discrete circuitry.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Analog Design Engineer
PS Audio Inc
Boulder, COLORADO
03.2019 - Current
- Designing industry leading and award winning consumer audio products.
- R&D of new innovative circuit technologies for ultimate signal path integrity.
- Responsible for all circuit design, PCB layouts, product functionality and testing.
- Discrete high performance operational amplifier and power supply design with a focus in ultra low noise and distortion amplification.
- LTSpice simulations including in depth analysis of noise, distortions, complex non-linearity's such as IMD & SID, power efficiency and device modeling
- In charge of subjective and objective analysis of products.
Development Engineer
PS Audio Inc
Boulder, United States
06.2016 - 03.2019
- Responsible for product development including circuit design and PCB layout.
- Created the Stellar line of products that are now the top selling components at PS Audio.
Electronics Design Engineer
Bowers & Wilkins
Montreal, QC
07.2013 - 04.2016
- Responsible for schematic capture, circuit design and safety/EMI compliance.
- Focused on proprietary Class D non-linear power amplifier design and helped bring a total of 7 products to market.
- Led the crossover redesign of the legendary Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus loudspeaker.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Charlotte, NC04.2013
Skills
- LTSpice simulation
- PCB layout
- Altium, Dxdesigner and Kicad
- Audio Precision analyzer (APx)
- Multimeters and oscilloscopes
- Soldering
- Ultra low noise design
- Operational amplifiers
- Power amplifier design
- Non-linear amplifiers
- DC/DC converters
- Stability analysis and compensation
- Linear power supply design
- Safety and EMC
Accomplishments
- 2020 Analog Product of the Year Award - Stereophile Magazine.
- 2021 Power Amplifier of the Year Award - The Absolute Sound Magazine.
Timeline
Senior Analog Design Engineer
PS Audio Inc
03.2019 - Current
Development Engineer
PS Audio Inc
06.2016 - 03.2019
Electronics Design Engineer
Bowers & Wilkins
07.2013 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of North Carolina At Charlotte