Applied Minds is a small company that invents, designs, and prototypes breakthrough products and services for both industry and government.
Intel Asia-Pacific Research & Development Ltd.
Shanghai, China
Winter 2006 - Summer 2008
Development Manager
Developed notebook computer reference designs for Intel platforms: Managed all functional engineering teams including Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Software, and Industrial Design
Chief architect for the world's first notebook computer motherboard standard: adoption of this standard will help make
notebook components as interchangeable as desktop computer components
Ensured projects were on-time and under budget for a multicultural, multidisciplinary team on three continents
Tropos Networks, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
Fall 2005 - Winter 2006
Principal Baseband Engineer
Managed technical development and project planning for a mobile Wi-Fi product critical to securing a $4M public safety
contract with Oklahoma City and equipping every municipal fire truck and police car with network access
Designed and built the world's first automotive Wi-Fi mesh router - responsible for every system in the product
Managed a team of internal design and test engineers as well as external design contractors
Senior Engineer
Winter 2003 - Fall 2005
Designed and built the digital systems of a product that allows all residents of Chaska, Minnesota to get T1 quality ISP
service for $16 a month, while offering the lowest installation cost of any network technology
Integrated the baseband, power, and mechanical systems of the world's highest performance outdoor Wi-Fi product
Designed and built a battery backup system for an outdoor Wi-Fi product that allows networks to function without
interruption even if major infrastructure is destroyed
Finisar Corporation
Sunnyvale, California
Fall 2001 - Winter 2003
Transceiver Design Engineer
Team leader, chief architect, and system integrator for a 10Gb/s DWDM optical transceiver: the smallest, lowest power,
and lowest cost way to get 10Gb/s Ethernet across metro-scale links
Led a team to build the world's first 10Gb/s 40km and 80km DWDM XFP transceivers: managed a team of engineers
to integrate the electrical, optical, thermal, and software design of the product
Designed and built the world's smallest and lowest power 10Gb/s cooled EML transmitter subassembly
Achieved outstanding signal performance with 10Gb/s directly-modulated Distributed Feedback and Fabry-Perot lasers
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
Mechanical Engineering Department:
Infrastructure Development and Teaching Assistant
Designed and built digital and analog electronics for robotic control and theatrical display
Led seminars and design reviews for students in an advanced mechanical engineering design contest
Taught classes of students about good design practices while helping them schedule engineering projects
Astronomy Department: Instrument Design Engineer
Summer 1999
Designed and built components of a novel instrument to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background
radiation
Developed the instrument design on campus and in the field as part of a multidisciplinary research group
Retrofitted equipment into existing infrastructure and sourced off-the-shelf parts from vendors to keep project on-time
and under budget
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Fall 1997 - Spring 2001
Bachelor of Science with Honors: Engineering and Applied Science
Completed coursework in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, and Optics
Foreman for Dabney House party construction and special effects, 1999 - 2001
HONORS
Intel Division Recognition Award
Fall 2006
Awarded for outstanding contributions to mobile computer standards
Patents
Fall 2003 - Present
Awarded 8 US Patents and 6 published patent applications for inventions I authored and co-authored
Won 6th place out of over 3,000 projects for an RF power-efficiency meter I developed for Texas Instruments
SKILLS
Electronic Engineering
Design and debugging of complex mixed-signal circuits; Multilayer PCB layout and fabrication; EMC design and testing;
ESD-safe SMT soldering including fine-pitch parts; Analysis with modern test equipment e.g. oscilloscopes, spectrum
analyzers, waveform generators, and network analyzers
Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX productivity software and system setup; Hardware assembly and debugging down to
SMT level; Network setup, maintenance, and administration including wireless, backups, and RAID
Production
Familiar with most production processes for electronics and mechanics; Design for manufacturability; Design for test;
Low-cost high-volume product design