Engineer in Pinellas Park, Florida

Jerry's experience and passion are in Product Engineering, Development, and Design and the technical management thereof. He has worked domestically and internationally developing products and supporting: third-party certifications, production start-ups, production troubleshooting, and Sales and Marketing efforts. Jerry has worked in small and large companies as well as consulted. He has extensive experience with the entire product cycle from conceptualization to mass production support. This includes: collaborating on product concepts and feasibility; writing functional and interface specifications, writing performance and verification reports; analog and digital electronics design incorporating manufacturability, testability, electromagnetic compatibility, and electrostatic discharge aspects; supporting PCB designers, firmware, software, and diagnostic teams, manufacturing, mechanical, and quality engineers and buyers. He has provided engineering oversight of third-party design resources; functional testing and design verification; reviewed and tested hardware diagnostics. He has worked directly with component manufactures, and both domestic and off-shore contract manufacturers. He travelled overseas to support pre-production/production; and mass production. He resolved: component availability, end-of-life, and quality issues and analyzed production and field failures. He has worked successfully in environments as the sole hardware engineer and as member of a distributed design team. He is an excellent verbal and written communicator. Some products for which Jerry directed the development or designed the electronics are: a peripheral for mainframe computer bus; a demonstration railroad ticket vending machine; two coin operated ticket vending machines; off-air and cable television channel selection monitors; three online ticketing terminals, including an impact printer, a thermal printer, a marked card reader, and a document scanner; two ticket validation terminals; self polling modem for multi-dropped networks; a DSU/CSU communication network interface; two DSP based leased line modems; several USB and IEEE1394 high performance audio interfaces; and three combined audio and control surface interfaces for digital audio work stations. He has consulted for: Renewable Energy Revolution, SunQuest Energy, Native Instruments North America, IO Lab Corp, and Entertainment Manufacturing Group, Inc. Where he: developed a method for collecting power from a multiplicity of exercise bicycles for an inverter which supplies power to a building's electrical system; reviewed schematics, reduced power consumption of battery-operated power control circuitry, and made recommendations that resolved electromagnetic emissions of a portable Disc Jockey controller used with an iPad; took over and completed development and verification of a 4-channel, 24-bit, 96,000 samples/second, audio interface for a high-end Disc Jockey mixer; designed and verified prototypes of a flexible modular four-channel re-clocker for restoring AES3 digital audio signals sent over long 75Ω & 110Ω cables; conceived and built evaluation unit to quietly switch input sources to active live sound power amplifiers; and created and verified the design for a digital audio signal re-clocker, with automatic bypass on failure, that is configurable into three functionally different products. He is a co-inventor on methods: for synchronously processing fader position inputs in an audio system and for detecting the channel to which an electronic receiver system is tuned. He has been employed by Control Data Corporation, Control Data Australia Pty. Ltd., Ceridian Corporation, Automated Wagering International, Video Lottery Technology, Electronic Data Systems, Powerhouse Technology, M-Audio, and Avid Technology.