Objective



To contribute innovative engineering designs, solid communications and effective coordination of projects in order to bring more value to a company.


Summary




Experience in all phases of hardware and firmware project life cycle requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance.
Sound coordination experience with various project phases and product design development
Excellent team building and team leading skills
Excellent written and efficient verbal communication skills
Adaptive to new work environment and quick learner
Experience with running project meetings and interviewing potential employees
Thorough understanding of real time embedded applications and design
Knowledge of gaming communication protocols like SAS and WAP
Experience with creation and development of communication protocols
Experience with embedded programming and device drivers like embedded controller boards, UARTs, SPI and I2C.
Experience with application level Test GUIs
Experience with design of physical level communication interfaces like RS232 Ethernet, USB, DCS Loop, fiber optics, V. 32, DVI, VGA and LVDS
Experience with testing on all levels from low level board testing to higher level application testing
Experience with analog designs like Operational Amplifiers and converters like Buck, Boost and SEPICs.
Extensive experience with troubleshooting and hardware board bring up.
Investment, budgeting, negotiation and cost analysis experience.


Employment

November, 2005 -  Present
Research and Development Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of all aspects of engineering from hardware to high level programming of advanced technology in the company. Develop new concepts and designs that assist IGT in maintaining its position as the leader in innovation in the gaming industry. Review and develop intellectual property that will create leverage for IGT in present and future endeavors. Technical documentation and proper procedural documentation to ensure successful handover to engineering support, product assurance and the various departments in IGT.

August, 2004 -  November, 2005
Research and Development Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of all aspects of engineering concepts like prototyping to delivery of final production release products. Interacting with and coordinating between department groups like lab technicians, product assurance, compliance and supplier management to ensure successful product release. Coordinate technical documentation life cycle for product release. Review and develop intellectual property for IGT. Technical documentation drafting for designed released products.

December, 2002 -  August, 2004
Advanced Product Development Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of new products in all phases of the product life cycle, from design requirements, design, development and testing to product release procedures. Interacting with and coordinating between department groups like lab technicians, product assurance, compliance and supplier management to ensure successful product release. Coordinate technical documentation life cycle for product release. Work with regulators to make certain product approval is not delayed due to design requirements.

July, 2000 -  December, 2002
Electrical Engineer Intern

Education

Skills


Languages : C, C++, VHDL, AHDL, Assembly, Actionscript, Java, HTML Vietnamese and English Protocols : SPI, I2C, USB, MIDI, TCP/IP, SAS, WAP and 1 Wire-Bus Microcontrollers : Luminary Micro ARM and Cortex-M3, Intel IXP425 Freescale Coldfire MCF5272, NXP LPC2100, Silicon Motion SM501 Intel 8051, Cypress EZ USB FX and Encore, Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC18 and PIC32, Analog Devices Blackfin and Intel 960 Design : Altera Cyclone, Cyclone II, Max and Xilinx Cool Runner, Operational Amplifers, Video Conversion Graphics Card, LED Light Controllers, Buck, Boost and SEPIC Converters, USB Button Panel, Wireless communications devices, IDAP interface, battery charging circuits and audio tube design. Software Tools : Keil Realview, Microsoft Visual Studios, Microchip MPLAB IDE and Cypress IDEs, Orcad Schematic Capture, Orcad Pspice, Mentor Graphics Innoveda, WinEdit, Camview, Pads PCB, Quartus II, Xilinx ISE, Model Sim, Beyond Compare, Mathcad and Matlab, Adobe CS4 Flash Testing Tools : Oscilloscope, Digital Analyzer, Digital Multi-meter, Power Supply Equipment, USB Analyzer, Ethernet Sniffers, Zigbee Packet Sniffers and Rocky Logic Ant16, National Instruments Labview, Daintree Wireless Sniffer
Basics of Project Management, Engineering Communications, High Speed Digital Design, Advanced High Speed Digital Design, Financial Management, Typewriting Speed 40wpm and 10 keys by touch
Operating Systems/ Windows XP, Windows CE, Super Loop, Microsoft Office Word Misc Software : Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Publisher, Outlook, Project Planner, Money, QuickBooks, Matrix, SAP and Adobe Acrobat


Miscellaneous

Electrical Engineer intern for Product Development Group in the development of embedded designs for electronic gaming machines. Worked on troubleshooting PCBs for gaming input/output boards, processor boards, LED boards and system testing. Firmware and Software programming for embedded controllers.
RECOGNITION
IGT Patent Incentive Award for Real Time Communications over USB
IGT Patent Incentive Award for Secured Automated Systems
IGT Patent Incentive Award for Universal Game User Interface
Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honors Degree