Rolf Wendt

• Mixed Signal Hardware Development incorporating discrete power and sensitive analog circuitry, offline and non-isolated power supply and magnetic transformer design, embedded Cortex ARM and microprocessors
• Complex product development often requiring a blend of Hardware, Embedded Firmware, Windows Software and ElectroMechanical Design development disciplines.
• Developed Hardware products containing a variety of technology, including:
  • Discrete power supplies including offline AC, PFC and DC SMPS often with custom magnetics.
  • High gain, low noise high slew Rate analog front end signal amplifiers Discrete low capacitance measurement based upon discrete Colpitts Oscillator
  • Sensitive analog receivers for use in fiberoptics and noise-floor electrical sytems.
  • High power and high voltage discrete analog amplifier products
  • High speed and ultra low power embedded ARM and other CPU digital circuits and systems
  • CPU based subsystems involving SDRAM, USB, Ethernet, and many more peripherals.
  • High speed digital complex FPGAs using Verilog and VHDL
• Developed Firmware for multiple products containing a variety of technology, including:
  • Real time embedded firmware with and without FreeRTOS for Cortex-M ARM, PIC, MSP430, many more microprocessors
  • Object Oriented embedded system developed in C+ on Free-RTOS operating system.
  • Architected and developed custom multi-threaded synchronization system software and API utilizing producer-consumer and server-client data exchange architecture.
  • Developed am embedded GUI intended for product configuration
    Integrated BACNet API on a Industrial airflow controller
• Competent in the usage of a variety of engineering tools, including:
• Cadence, Orcad and Altium for PCB design, including schematic entry and PCB layout.
• LTSpice, PSpice and Intusoft Magnetics designer for analog development
• Rowley Associates and IAR for embedded firmware development
  MS .NET C++ and C# for Windows software.
• Familiar with Perl and Python command line and server side script development
• Familiar with Solidworks for electro-mechanical development and Xilinx and Altera verilog for FPGA designs.

Technical Leadership

• Led architecture definition, specification and detailed development of products within the power utility, industrial printer, telecommunications, and consumer product industries.
• Facilitated corporate partnerships and collaborated on international technical specifications
• Direct management of skilled software, hardware and mechanical development engineers and support staff such as technicians and assemblers
• Project Management involving at least fifty engineers, with direct interaction with core executive staff of a company with a billion dollar revenue stream.
• Established product development processes, quality assurance procedures and manufacturing traceability and management tools.