T. DOUGLAS BURTON
OBJECTIVE: System Engineer/Project Leader in a high-tech organization seeking a graduate-level electrical engineer with a broad range of experience designing systems and digital and analog circuits.
EXPERIENCE:
2004-Present LUNA INNOVATIONS
Senior Engineer. Reporting
to Vice President, Products Division. Lead design engineer for compact
PCI-based fiber optic sensing system.
Lead design engineer for Motorola MPC8245-based distributed fiber-optic
sensor system, with 80 MHz data acquisition system, Analog Devices TigerSHARC TS203 DSP, and Altera Stratix FPGA.
2001-2004 LUNA
TECHNOLOGIES
Senior Engineer. Reporting to Director, Hardware Engineering. Lead design engineer for nine surface-mount pc boards for a new fiber-optic test instrument. System design and integration using Xilinx FPGAs in VHDL, OrCAD schematic capture, compact PCI COTS boards. Developed custom backplanes using HyperLynx LineSim software for signal integrity modeling. Supervised two engineers, one technician and one PCB CAD specialist.
1996-2001 GRAYSON WIRELESS INC Forest, VA
Senior Engineer. Reporting to Project Manager, IS-136 Smartcell Design Group. Lead design engineer for three surface-mount pc boards for a new base station controller for IS-136 microcells. Hardware design using Motorola 860 PowerQUICC and 68HC812, Xilinx FPGA. Also designed network interface board to meet T1/E1 interface requirements.
1994-1996 BIOCONTROL TECHNOLOGY Indiana, PA
Senior Engineer. Reporting to Manager, Embedded Systems Group. Lead design engineer for three surface-mount pc boards for a new non-invasive glucose monitor. Embedded systems software and hardware design for Intel 80C186 and Analog Devices DSP, motor control and power supply design.
1988-1994 OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Farmington, CT
Senior Engineer. Reporting to Section Manager, Doors Group. Group leader and system engineer for a closed-loop door control system using the 80C186 microcontroller and brushless DC IGBT drive. Responsible for system specifications, microcontroller board design using Viewlogic CAD, testing and software in 'C' using HP emulator; developed three PLDs for board using ABEL and ViewPLD. Supervised two engineers, two summer interns and one technician; named InRoads "Supervisor of the Year" for the Hartford area. Designed elevator drive controller hardware, including relay-based safety circuit, motor starter and transformer. Patent awarded dynamic load-weighing calibration for elevators.
1985-1988 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Plainville, CT
Development Engineer. Reporting to Subsection Manager, Circuit Breaker Electronics. Responsible for hardware and software design for electronic circuit breaker products. Designed and developed, from concept through manufacture, a microprocessor-based test instrument for electronic circuit breakers. Project included switching power supply design and microprocessor hardware and software development. Patent awarded for tester design and methodology.
1984-1985 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Portsmouth, VA
Engineer. Reported to Subsection Manager, Home Control Products. Responsible for hardware design, test and vendor interface for integrated circuits used in Home Control Products.
1980-1984 A T & T - CONSUMER PRODUCTS (BELL LABORATORIES)
Indianapolis, IN
(1981-84) Member of Technical Staff. Reported to Supervisor, Advanced Technology Group. Lead digital designer for PRISM, a small digital telephone system. Responsible for system architecture and requirements. Developed core voice processor architecture to handle any combination of up to 24 separate digital voice channels simultaneously. Designed and developed two key CMOS digital IC's for system. Hardware designer for GENESIS modular telephone. Responsible for analog design of half-duplex speakerphone module, and digital design for Intel-8051-based directory module. Designed and developed two network protocol IC's.
(1980-81) Member of Technical Staff. Reported to Supervisor, Advanced Features Group. Hardware engineer for telephone product development. Designed digital tone ringer IC, automatic tester for measuring acoustic output of telephone sets.
PUBLICATIONS: GOSAM symposium paper - 1985 --"A Digital Amplitude-Shift-Keying Receiver with Adaptive Noise Filtering"
PATENTS: "Test Kit for a Circuit Breaker containing an Electronic Trip Unit", No. 4,814,712, issued March 21, 1989
"Recalibrating an Elevator Loadweighing System", No. 5,407,030, issued April 18, 1995
SPECIAL BASIC, FORTRAN, C programming languages.
SKILLS: UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS, Windows operating systems.
EDUCATION: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Pasadena, CA (198081)
MS Electrical Engineering. GPA 3.6 out of 4.
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY, Blacksburg, VA (1976-1980)
BS Electrical Engineering. GPA 3.95 out of 4. Summa Cum Laude, 2nd in class of 200. Member, Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies. Specialized in microprocessor system design.
CONTINUING Texas Instruments: TMS320C14 Digital Signal Processor
Workshop --
EDUCATION: 3 day hands-on seminar
Motorola MPC860 PowerQUICC Workshop: 4 day hands-on seminar.
Xilinx: FPGA Design Workshop - 3 day hands-on seminar
Hamilton Standard: Facilitator Training -- 1 week course
United Technologies: Program Management Training -- 1 week course
Otis Elevator: Quality-Function-Deployment 2 day course
PERSONAL: Married, 2 children. Active with Boy Scouts of America. Webmaster. Eagle Scout.