CONTRACT CONSULTANT - ELECTRONIC  ENGINEER
                                                     - MECHANICAL  ENGINEER

Fred Conklin, Engineering Services Logo. Electronic (Analog and Digital) Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineering, Automated Test EngineerFRED CONKLIN, ENGINEERING SERVICES
P.O. Box 1780
Mountain View, California 94042

Office:  650-855-4847
Cell: 650.906.8799
email: engineering@engsrvcs.com

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ENGINEERING SERVICES MISSION STATEMENT:
To provide effective resolution of the client's immediate and temporary design  or manufacturing engineering needs. To provide  documentation consistent with the client's needs - and suggest a level of  documentation that allows the client the freedom to choose the most effective means to modify the product in the future.

    Fred Conklin, Engineering Services has been an independent electronic engineering design contractor/consultant for over twenty years.  Fred Conklin has designed monitoring systems for explosive and poisonous gasses.  He has also designed a number of digital audio systems.  The last audio design provided multiple simultaneous channels of SPDIF.  In the telecommunications area, he has participated in the development of a high-end conference telephone and was sole hardware developer of a "Distance Learning" product that uses the telephone interface.  Fred has supervised mixed development groups (mechanical, electronic, and software design) of up to 5 engineers and technicians. Currently, he has a number of engineers from many disciplines available for use as sub-contractors, all of whom have non-disclosure agreements with Fred Conklin, Engineering Services that protect the end client. 

    Automated Functional Test has a special attraction  for him.  Fred has developed, both hardware and software design,  many Automated Functional Test systems.  Automated Functional Test brings a consistency of results to the production test floor that is unsurpassed.  As a management tool, Automated Functional Test provides the most efficient method of reporting problem areas - in the design itself, vendor quality, or in the production process.  The capabilities of Automated Functional Test can be adapted to many different types of laboratory environments, providing greater accuracy and versatility in the acquisition and analysis of experimental data.

STANDARD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:

  • REVISION CONTROL SYSTEM

  • Engineering Services uses the Perforce Revision Control System for all design documentation.  This allows any version of a document to be retrieved and complete revision history to be maintained.

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  • ELECTRONICS

  • Preferred Schematic Capture, Simulation, and Layout tool is Altium Designer http://www.protel.com

  • Altera Quartos Programmable Device (PLD, FPGA) Designer http://www.altera.com

  • Preferred Automated Test system is National Instruments LabWindows CVI, LabView http://www.natinst.com

  • MatLab with Instrument Control and Data Acquisition packages http://www.mathworks.com/

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    • Experience as an Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Consultant includes:

  • Electronic Design Engineering - Automated Test, Data Acquisition, and Control Systems
  • Analog and Digital Electronic Engineer 
  • Electronic Design Engineering - High Speed Digital Design
  • Electronic Design Engineering - Digital Audio
  • Electronic Design Engineering - PCI Bus, SPI, I2C, SPDIF
  • Electronic Design Engineering - Cypress Wireless USB implementation
  • Electronic Design Engineering - Sensor Interface Circuits
  • Electronic Design Engineering  - Small Signal Transmission
  • Electronic Engineer - Grounding and Shielding Techniques
  • Embedded Systems Design
  •  Hardware design and software design
  •  Cypress PSOC,  FreeScale 68HC12 and Coldfire series micro-controllers, 8051, and PIC
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  • FPGA Design Engineer
  • Mechanical Engineering--
  • Automated Functional Test Design and Development Engineer
  • Programming with National Instruments LabWindows CVI (C/C++), LabView
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  • Software Design Engineering - C, C++, C#, Java applications
  •  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 API (Application Program Interface) implementation using C#
  • Windows Console and GUI (Graphical User Interface) design using Visual Studio 2005 and C#
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  • Engineering Design for Manufacturability
  • EMI/EMC Approval Engineering (FCC/TUV/CE)
  • Safety Approval Engineering (UL/CSA/CE)
  • Creation and Implementation of Engineering and Document Control Systems
  • Participated in the development and documentation of a number of client patent applications.

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