Ok, so work isn't my favorite thing to do in life... I'll admit that fact up front. I much rather enjoy spending time with family and doing all of the things I call fun in life. However, if I do have to work, at least I enjoy the career that I have chosen for myself. I find digital design a very challenging, fulfilling, and rewarding occupation. Below, you can read about all of the technology employers that I have engaged with. Click on the logos if you'd like to learn more about each company (at least for those that still exist!).
 

In between my undergraduate program and graduate school, I took a job at a small engineering company in Fresno, as a test technician. I repaired returned goods, offered technical support on the telephone, and quality assured products to be shipped , such as the KDA unit and 16-channel analog monitor expansion card pictured below. I gained a lot of practical experience such as soldering and cabling. It gave me good exposure into the electronics industry.

RNS To prepare best for my career, I took on a job as a hardware engineering intern for a company in Santa Barbara called Rockwell Network Systems. I gained valuable experience in simulating and verifying a computer network interface chip--the RNS2200 FDDI to PCI controller pictured on the board here. I knew I was earning my pay when I found bugs in the design. Earning money really helped Suzanne and I stay completely debt-free through our last months in college.

The first full-time job of my career was at TRW’s Avionics System Division in San Diego. I had opportunities to design and verify integrated circuit chips and help debug hardware/software problems on printed circuit boards that contain communication, navigation, and identification circuitry for the Joint Strike Fighter (left) and F-22 (right) fighter jets. It gave me great pleasure to make this small contribution to the defense of the US. Plus, I found it exciting to work on such a high-profile product. It felt so good to have finally begun my career after the many long years of college.

My longing for commercial experience has led me to my current employer, Cypress Semiconductor. I work for the Computation & Consumer Division, which designs integrated circuit chips for the  consumer electronics (e.g. cellular phones, PDAs) and computer peripheral (e.g. monitors, disk drives, printers, keyboards, mice, etc.) industries.  I've had an opportunity to work on several chips, like:

USB EZ-USB FX1 FX2 (replaced by FX2LP) TX2 SX2 FX2LP (pictured left) Wireless USB Wireless USB LP Low-Power Mobile USB MoBL-USB TX2 MoBL-USB FX2LP18 PSoC Microcontrollers West Bridge Antioch (pictured above right)

Other Information: My Resume (PDF) An award-winning paper that I co-authored for the Snopsys User's Group (SNUG) 2002 Conference. The slides are also available.