Marketing Engineer-1984-1989 Fort Collins, CO (Computer-Aided Graphics Software Division)
Worked in virtually every department-technical sales and support, product marketing, product management, marketing communications, and field sales training. Included over 30 visits to major customers like Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and Hughes Aircraft, sometimes on sales calls with over $200 million at stake.
Two years as the division’s trade show coordinator, managing the equipment and personnel for our participation in huge trade shows across the country. This included workstation set-up/tear down and demo development.
Lead R&D/Technical Support teams to Europe to migrate entire networks for HP customers. Our product was Engineering Graphics System for CAD/CAE/PCB Design which ran on HP Series 9000 Workstations.
Managed team of 4 PCB designers producing benchmark designs for pre-sales support.
Received 4 rounds of incentive stock options in recognition for my work in marketing.
Research and Development Engineer 1989-1990 Fort Collins, CO– Computer Aided Graphics Software – Level 61 Lead Engineer
Promoted to Level 61 Individual contributor in R&D from Marketing. This came from the expertise I developed from the above mentioned system work. Developed system architecture for HP’s CAD/CAE offerings spanning three divisions. Unix system administrator for in-house network of 12 experimental machines.
Research and Development Engineer 1991-1996 Greeley, CO – Desktop Scanners
Designed PC SCSI card for first HP Color Scanner (Scanjet IIc). Designed workaround for NCR53C80 SCSI chip limitation, saving $7 per every scanner sold. Also wrote DOS device driver for same. Moved on to lead firmware engineer on second HP Color Scanner (Scanjet IIcx) using Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller. Firmware was in assembler and C++, and controlled lamp driver, stepper motor, CCD chipset programming, calibration RAM, SCSI interface, and DOS Command parser. Designed more tightly coupled interface production test software, saving 1 minute off test procedure for each scanner on production line. Moved on to investigative team for first HP color copier. Substantial shell programming, use of source code control systems.
Manufacturing Engineer 1996-1998 Greeley- Desktop Scanners
Production Line Test Design/Training/Support-Broadened my HP experience to the third of three major branches by moving to manufacturing. Trained production employees in procedures for testing desktop scanners and interface cards. Trained production employees in proper anti-static procedures. Applied knowledge as firmware designer and device driver designer to substantially speed up testing procedures. Designed more tightly coupled interface production test software, saving 1 minute off test procedure for each scanner on production line. Substantial shell and C++ programming for test procedures.