The Confidential Resume of Wayne A. Olmsted
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DESIGN PROFESSIONAL
Dynamic Engineering Professional with more than 20 years of contributions to product design for Telecommunications, Process Control and Instrumentation;
Innovative and accomplished electronics engineer with extensive expertise in analog and digital circuit design, product development, quality standards and support. Keen analyst, creative problem solver and superb hands-on leader. Offer solid communication and interpersonal skills. Established positive and productive relationships with business managers; developed and led high-performing teams. Managed outside testing contractors for ECI Telecom. Designed a wide array of electronics that include industrial modems, area communication systems, Temperature controlled constant-current switching power supplies for Solid-State Lighting, an electronic water treatment system and an patented UHF RFID product.
CAREER TRACK
Senior Design Engineer June, 2011 to Dec 2012
LEDnovation, Inc, Tampa, Florida
Designed high efficiency, Power-Factor Correcting, Off-Line LED Drivers for use inside of replacement Solid State lamps with power levels ranging from 6 watts to 28 watts at better than 83% efficiencies and power factors exceeding 0.9.
Worked closely with vendors in the development of state-of-the-art Color-Correcting LED Drivers for high end lamps.
Designed micro-controller based burn-in fixtures for use in Production.
Design Engineer Jan, 2010 to May 2011
Gyr8, Inc, New Port Richey, Florida
Designs Avionics for unique UAV craft. Provide Electronic design of BLDC controllers, Flight Control Circuits incorporating electronic Gyros, Accelerometers, Pressure Sensor Altimeters, GPS navigation equipment, Gyro-stabilized camera mounts and control as well as landing gear electronics and servos. The person responsible for all component selection, PC Lay-out and the design of the electronic portion of pre-flight test fixtures.
Hardware Engineer 2007 to June 2009
AT&T, ATTSI Tampa, Florida
Designed custom solutions to integrate COTS equipment into local systems utilizing RFID for asset control. Solutions included discrete Digital signal routing and DC Power regulation circuit and micro-controller (MSP430 and MC9S08) based designs.
Lead Engineer 2000 – 2007
Nielsen Media Research Oldsmar, Florida
Supplied vision, technical and management expertise vital for design, development and support of analog and digital equipment used to monitor TV and video gaming usage and viewing habits for this leader in audience measurement. Defined and documented technical specifications for design, hardware and software. Orchestrated development initiatives including selecting components, performing schematic capture, assisting with mechanical / packaging design and building prototypes. Coordinated the debugging process, integrated changes and generated the final production document package.
Designed a patented UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) based device enabling the metering of print books and magazines.
Created a long-lived, battery-powered, programmable IR tag, as well as, video, automatic gain control (AGC) circuits and head-end equipment for specialized video distribution systems.
Made key contributions to the electrical design of the A/P 3.0 People Meter and non-invasive TV concentrator, as well as an Intelligent, Multi-Chemistry Battery Charger.
Analyzed a long-standing power line modem performance problem using P-Cap 4 and enacted a low-cost solution within 2 weeks; created media source detection equipment for stand-alone VCRs and CDRs.
Analog Design Specialist 1997 – 2000
Rockwell-Collins / ECI Telecom Melbourne / Altamonte Springs, Florida
Conceived and produced designs for avionics and telecommunications products, from the development and finalization of block specifications, through design, schematic capture, layout, testing, evaluation of prototypes and final documentation packages. Analyzed requirements, allocated resources, managed time and project elements to consistently meet technical objectives, budgets and project time-lines.
Designed a pulse modulator and wrote the final requirements document for new distance measuring equipment (DME) in the Collins commercial avionics product line.
Devised an alarm card for a pair-gain system and product test fixtures; selected a vendor and supervised outside testing,...
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