Hardware Engineer and department manager of a team of engineers, currently designing, collaborating and communicating in the Flight test electronics industry.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
(Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions) Teletronics Technology Corporation
Newtown, PA 18940
TTC-CW is the premier aerospace data acquisition, recording, transmission and monitoring supplier in the world. Products support major programs such as X-35 Joint Strike Fighter, NASA Orion and SLS Vehicles, and commercial aircraft from Boeing, EMBRAER, COMAC, AIRBUS and Bombardier.
AS-9100/ISO-9001 Design and manufacturing quality systems.
Hardware Engineering Manager (2016- Present)
-Reports directly to the Director of Engineering with product line responsibility for all Data Acquisition products within the Business unit.
-Technical design reviewer as a gate to all Hardware development (PWB schematic and code review) proceeding forward.
-Works with an active production assembly and test floor to bring quality products to market on tight schedules.
Hardware Engineering, Analog/Digital (DSP) Signal Conditioning and Design Team Lead. (2012-2016)
Duties & Responsibilities:
Hardware designer for analog signal conditioning products including strain, accelerators, temperature, and Pressure etc., A/D Converters, system interfacing, and power supplies (excitation/system) including layout for analog and digital critical paths.
– Real-time digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm design for FIR/IIR sensor filtering with dynamic error correction.
– Firmware design/development (DSP) – assembly code/C/C++ code implementations
– FPGA logic/State Machine design for interaction within a master/remote data acquisition system architecture.
Engineering Internship- Honeywell Technology Solutions Incorporated Summers 2009, 2010, 2011
Lexington Park, MD
Duties & Responsibilities:
– Worked on projects supporting defense equipment testing
– Design and Replaced Video Switch Test subsystem. Main activities were re designing and debugging test fixture.
- Obtained J-Std-001 Soldering Certification
EDUCATION:
Villanova University:
Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, Selected Masters coursework in Electrical Engineering
TECHNICAL TOOLS AND SKILLS:
C/C++ Programming,
Matlab data analysis (digital signal processing applications)
Digital Signal Processors (specifically TI fixed point 5409, Analog Devices SHARC),
Microcontrollers ( 8051, Atmel, ARM based Cortex M4, Arduino toolchain),
Analog circuit simulation and design
FPGA Logic Design (Xilinx, Intel (Altera) toolsets),
Mixed signal Analog and digital schematic and PWB design (Zuken Cadstar,
Altium, Cadsoft EAGLE)
Test Equipment (Oscilloscope, Bench Power supplies, and Multi-meters),
Microsoft Office
Interests
Music (listening, playing and instrument design)
Reading, Recently on a non-fiction history kick but I’m a classic science fiction nerd
Hiking or being outdoors
Weight lifting
John (Jake) Kolb III 