Thursday, July 30, 2009

Chip Corder Help

My Resume is posted, what next? The part that needs highlighting is the time I spent at the Application helm of ISD. You may recall, ISD made the "tape recorder on a chip" chips. In a single package you could have 16, 20, 90 seconds, or even as much as 16 minutes of recordable, re recordable, erasable, addressable sound storage. I was employee number 10 of that start up and was involved in almost every major advancement as products got larger and more flexible.

That is where my value as a consultant lies. I'm hoping some companies out there need design help with those products. That I can do easily.

Note: ChipCorder is a registered trademark of Nuvoton. This blog is an independent effort and in no way connected to Nuvoton.

Resume

Boyce W. (Joe) Jarrett
13411 Overland Pass
Austin, Texas 78738
Phone: Home: (512) 263-5349, Cell: (512) 576-0244

Experienced customer centric Engineer with a background in analog, digital, hardware and software, a proven track record in both applications management and marketing, and 17+ years of direct customer contact in the technical sales process.

Talent Summary:
·17+ years of experience in technical field sales support (FAE) in a design-win focused environment selling semiconductor ICs into a wide range of markets.
· Supported numerous distributors with product presentations, training and joint customer visits at sites all over the Americas, Europe and Asia.
· Extensive experience in writing and editing application notes and other customer support collateral.
· Presented technical seminars at numerous locations around the globe.
· Design experience with testing, process control, A/D and D/A converters, analog and digital communications systems, and design of robotic systems.
“I have worked with and managed Joe for the past 5 years. His level of customer support for all matters is excellent, and he will take ownership for any/all questions or problems needing resolution even if it is outside of his areas of expertise. Joe builds great relationships with the engineers in his accounts, and is a great field asset for any company.” April 7, 2008
Peter Himes (VP Sales & Customer Service at Winbond Electronics Corporation)

WORK HISTORY SUMMARY:
Field Applications Engineer 17+ years
Manager and then Director of Factory Applications 4 years
Hardware and Software Design Consultant, 4 ½ years
Marketing Manager Telecommunications Products 4 years
Product Engineer 3½ years

Complete WORK HISTORY
Winbond Electronics Corporation America
ISD (Information Storage Devices) Acquired by Winbond in 1998
Field Applications Manager (7+ years)
· Technical field sales support.
· Present technical seminars to design engineers.
· Interfaced with component engineering to obtain component qualification for Winbond products.
· Perform one-on-one design consulting to customer engineers.
· Write application notes and assist the Winbond factory with the definition of new products.
· Support Distributor sales with product presentations, training and joint customer visits.

Director (promoted from Manager) of Factory Applications (4 years)
· Managed a staff of up to 9 engineers and technicians including local direct employees and remote contract employees.
· Managed and participated in the creation of extensive Application notes, reference designs, White Papers (both hardware and software), sales training presentations, and customer product presentations.
· Managed vendors who designed and manufactured programming and demo systems for ISD products.
· Traveled extensively world wide to support and promote ISD products.
· Presented numerous papers on ISD Products in the US, throughout Asia (including interior China), and in Europe.
· Supervised the creation of web and Email based Applications support system for ISD products.

Field Applications Engineer (5½ years) - Left an active consulting business to become employee number 10 in this very successful semiconductor startup. In the early years, was the “entire” Applications Department and was the only FAE for the company during this 6-year period. Authored multiple issues of 80+ page application manual for early ISD products.
While in this position, created IP that resulted in 2 patents: One in an original software algorithm and the other in the main logic core of several of ISD’s long duration audio storage products.
Self Employed full time consultant
· Designed hardware and software for micro controller based products mostly for telecommunications and telephone interconnect systems employing EEproms, DTMF encoders and decoders, telephone line interfaces, and other analog circuitry
Note: Several of these products became the number one seller in their market segment.
· Designed systems in industrial applications that were used in testing, process control and robotics.
· Additional design experience included work with both simple and high-speed A-D converters and remote control of external hardware through serial and parallel communications channels
· One long term project involved remote control of complex hydraulic and electromechanical equipment, and acquisition, storing, displaying and analysis of data through a remote 12 bit multi-channel A to D converter and the software maintenance of safety systems while the equipment was in operation.
Advanced Micro Devices
Product Marketing Manager
· Strategic and tactical marketing for products use in digital switching applications for the telephone industry with a sales backlog that reached $40 million.
· This position included Field Sales interface, new product definition, coordination with production planning and product engineering, design-win and sales strategies, cost analysis and pricing, data sheets and other related product literature.
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United Technologies Mostek Corporation
Field Applications Engineer (5 ½ years, Florida and Texas)
Communications Marketing Manager (2+ years)
· Strategic and tactical marketing for MOS and CMOS integrated circuits related to communications and telecommunications applications especially in subscriber-loop telephone systems and DTMF encoders and decoders. .
Product Engineer (3+ years)
· Characterized MOS-LSI products to insure maximization of production yields through coordination with Production, Design and Planning.
· Supervised technicians assisting in the performance of these duties
· Worked with Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 Mini-computer controlled tester and wrote PDP-11 assembly language programs.
EDUCATION:
BSEE plus additional post graduate studies at UNIVERSITY of TEXAS at ARLINGTON
Training in communications systems during activity duty in US Naval ReserveCompleted additional courses in C++, Unix and DSP.

Note: ChipCorder is a registered trademark of Nuvoton. This blog is an independent effort and in no way connected to Nuvoton.

Lets Begin

It appears that one of the ways to accomplish things in today's environment is to start a Blog. I want to get the word on on several issues. First, I need a job. I'm not desperate, I'm not ready to head off to McDonalds and put in my application. But I have enjoyed working all of my life and worked for some interesting companies. I would like to work for another 5 to 10 years for another interesting company, then retire. Since 5 years seems to be the limit most people expect from a job these days, that does not sound unreasonable, at least to me.

Second, I have some talent and experience in certain areas which might lead me into more of a consultant role. This blog may help with that; we shall see.

I also plan to post my current Resume since there have been some recruiters who think thats one way to help them find the right person to fill one of their open positions.

For now, I'll close this and see about uploading my Resume!

Note: ChipCorder is a registered trademark of Nuvoton. This blog is an independent effort and in no way connected to Nuvoton.