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Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen

Electrical Design Engineer
San Jose,CA

Summary

Accomplished engineer, leader, product architect & printed circuit board designer. Proven ability to take a ‘back-of-the-napkin’ sketch and turn it into a mass-produced product. Adept at quickly solving tough problems, beating budget targets & schedules, while delivering exceptionally robust designs to market. Extensive experience with embedded systems, servers, storage, automotive and consumer electronics. Comprehensive knowledge of schematic capture, design rules, PCB layout & construction, design/product validation, fault injection, failure analysis, system integration, debugging, troubleshooting, identifying root cause and driving issues to closure. Very hands-on. Very motivated. Works independently or as part of a team in challenging and fast-moving environments. Startup experienced.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Staff Hardware Engineer

Teledyne LeCroy PSG
Milpitas, CA
05.2022 - Current
  • Responsible engineer for 800G Ethernet/128G Fibre Channel Analyzers
  • Redesigned the system controller hardware to address startup issues.
  • Debugged the FPGA loading firmware for the latest Xilinx FPGAs.
  • Validated prototype systems to ensure complete full functionality.
  • Cleaned up bills of materials. Redesigned cable assemblies and mechanical parts to improve manufacturability.
  • Designed & deployed a faster manufacturing process shortening the time by 2 hours.

Consulting Engineer

PDCS
San Jose, CA
01.2018 - 12.2022
  • Designed the low-power electronics & routed the PCBs for the Oasense Reva water-flow powered showerhead.
  • Designed the electronics & routed the metal PCBs for the Xlite Technologies bluetooth controlled solar LED lights.
  • Routed multiple audio power supply boards and tube amplifiers.
  • Designed and built 20 enhanced Visible Light Communication modules under contract.
  • Designed the control & safety circuits & routed the PCBs for an Electric Vehicle charging robotic system.

Research Engineer

Ford Motor Company
Palo Alto, CA
06.2019 - 05.2022
  • Design resource creating hardware for multiple teams.
  • Rapidly fabricated prototypes in support of software development
  • Designed and validated a cloud connected Upfitter module. Wrote the module firmware including the slave SPI interface
  • Designed, built & validated a switching module (6600W AC and control signals) for a robotic electric vehicle charging system
  • Redesigned an existing 8-channel CAN-FD module to reduce the size and add a Class-D audio amplifier.
  • Simulated, built & tested prototype Visible Light Communication transmitters and receivers including the analog filters.
  • Created and built a unique breakout cable to aid debugging electric vehicle charging issues

System Design Engineer

ESG Automotive
Palo Alto, CA
02.2017 - 06.2019
  • Stationed onsite at Ford's Palo Alto Research Center, creating hardware and fabricating PCBAs to support their IoT, Mobility & Drone teams
  • Developed a family of expandable, re-configurable, automotive control modules. Using open-source tools, selected the components, captured the schematics, generated the Bill of Materials, laid out the PCB(s), authored validation plans, and performed bench validation
  • Mentored junior engineers in electronic theory and board design
  • Ford bought out the contract and I continued the work as a Ford employee.

Senior Manager, Advanced Hardware Development

Oracle
Redwood Shores, CA
07.2016 - 12.2016
  • Hired six engineers to staff the hardware development, mechanical engineering and firmware teams.
  • Authored development schedules, multiple legal agreements & design specifications for a next generation analytics platform.
  • Managed four technicians building & testing eighty-three first generation systems comprising thousands of PCBAs.
  • Reduced build time by improving production flow & assembly processes. Increased production from two systems a month to forty a month without adding additional resources.
  • Worked in the lab assisting engineers with board and system debug activities.

Senior Manager, X86 Test Engineering

Oracle
Santa Clara, CA
10.2011 - 07.2016
  • Realigned team responsibilities to consistently exceed operational goals and metrics
  • Built solid relationships with contract manufacturing partners in both China and the U.S.
  • Installed a team approach to “critical development phases” resulting in faster delivery, reduced errors and improved quality & customer service
  • Centralized the dekitting process, reducing resource requirements by 50% while greatly improving turnaround
  • Using cost benefit analysis, reduced the ORT test process cost by $600k/year

Senior Manager, Mfg. Engineering

Pillar Data Systems (acquired By Oracle June 2011)
San Jose, CA
02.2010 - 10.2011
  • Managed the team writing manufacturing test process software used for testing storage systems & spares
  • Restructured the test process flow to reduce test cost & enhance yield
  • Drove External Manufacturer process improvements

Principal Engineer

Pillar Data Systems (acquired By Oracle June 2011)
San Jose, CA
03.2002 - 02.2010
  • Delivered designs consistently on-time and under budget
  • Designed various RAID Controllers, SATA mux cards, and PCIe cache cards. This work entailed authoring specs, meeting final product cost targets, choosing parts & suppliers, capturing schematics, managing PCBA layout resources, solving any issues that arose with our contract manufacturers. Also, validated boards to ensure they met design goals and functioned as expected.
  • Wrote & validated the active bezel and SATA mux card microcontroller firmware

Education

MBA - Business Administration

Saint Mary’s College of California
Moraga, CA
09.2012 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA
09.1986 - 04.1991

Skills

    Hardware design

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Additional Information

  • Outstanding interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
  • Keen ability to grasp and apply new concepts quickly utilizing them to best effect.
  • Works collaboratively with people from varied backgrounds to achieve common goals.
  • Leverages understanding of diverse environments & applies skills to meet organizational needs.
  • Proficient at hiring and building team morale & performance.
  • Experienced managing teams of engineers & programmers effectively spread across multiple time zones.
  • Rescued & completed multiple struggling projects.
  • CPIM certified. Acutely aware of how design choices impact logistics & manufacturing.

Certification

APICS Certified: Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) 

Timeline

Staff Hardware Engineer

Teledyne LeCroy PSG
05.2022 - Current

Research Engineer

Ford Motor Company
06.2019 - 05.2022

Consulting Engineer

PDCS
01.2018 - 12.2022

System Design Engineer

ESG Automotive
02.2017 - 06.2019

Senior Manager, Advanced Hardware Development

Oracle
07.2016 - 12.2016

MBA - Business Administration

Saint Mary’s College of California
09.2012 - 05.2014

Senior Manager, X86 Test Engineering

Oracle
10.2011 - 07.2016

Senior Manager, Mfg. Engineering

Pillar Data Systems (acquired By Oracle June 2011)
02.2010 - 10.2011

Principal Engineer

Pillar Data Systems (acquired By Oracle June 2011)
03.2002 - 02.2010

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of California - San Diego
09.1986 - 04.1991

Keywords

ORCAD Capture CIS, Allegro, Altium, KiCad, DipTrace, Eagle

Microcontroller, CPU, DIMM, Flash, NAND

Analog Circuit, Digital Circuit, Mixed Signal, Voltage

Hardware, PCB, PCBA

Microsoft Office

Simulation, Spice

Controls, Schematics, Distribution

Analyzer. Power Supply,

Oscilloscope, Measurement


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