Design Engineer CE/CS @ Tactual Labs Co.
March 2019 - (Current Role)

• Design, Develop, and Verify the Boot Solution for Tactual's next product family
• Primary Development on a new, baremetal Firmware Library
• Extend OpenOCD to support Lattice MICO32 Debug

• Supporting Architecture:

  - Write/Edit System-Level Specification Documents

  - Create System- and Block-Level Diagrams

  - Owned Block-Level Specifications for modules realated Power, Reset, Clocking, and Primary Control Processor

• Supporting Verification:

  - Created the Initial Verification Strategy

  - Pre-Silicon Verification of the Control Procesor using embedded software tests

Design Verification Engineer @ Intel Corporation
January 2017 - October 2018

• Primary Advisor for baremetal software used by multiple DV teams

• Design Verification, Stratix 10 and Agilex SoCFPGA's:

  - Write and Debug pre-silicon tests using a combination of embedded software (C/Assembly) and hardware (SystemVerilog) in simulation

  - Primary owner for system-level verification of various peripheral IP's, including SD/MMC, Quad-SPI Flash, I2C, UART, SPI, NAND, and EMAC

  - Assist with post-silicon issues, including replicating bugs in simulation

Embedded Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
December 2015 - December 2016

• Continuing work in the Programmable Solutions Group as part of the Altera-Intel acquisition

• Lead/Developer, Stratix 10 Utility ROM:

  - Developed a tightly-constrained ROM Fragment used for Wafer Test and Characterization

  - Owned all aspects of the development lifecycle, including gathering requirements and writing design/specification documents

Embedded Software Engineer @ Altera Corporation
December 2011 - December 2015

• Developer, Arria 10 SoCFPGA BootROM:

  - Handled the clocking code for SoC Boots, including PLLs and Flash devices

  - Maintained minimalistic Quad-SPI and SD/MMC drivers

• Software Tester, CycloneV SoCFPGA BootROM:

  - Owned pre-silicon software testing, including the writing of the test plan and testcases

  - Initial bring-up of the Boot process in first post-silicon

  - Proud to say the code never needed to be re-opened for corrections