Field Application Engineer

Great combination of technical knowledge and people skills. 17 years of assisting sales in the identification, presentation, design in and post sales support of new and proprietary components and systems. Major accomplishments include Xilinx Silver certification, teaching VHDL, helping to bring a branch office from $80k/mo. to over $500k/mo, registrations from 1 per month to 10-15 and design wins from 1 per quarter to 1 per week. Responsible for having the highest customer attendance of any distributor to technical seminars and training classes. Renesas Achievement Award 2003.
My contact data base contains over 2,000 central Texas engineers, buyers, representatives and manufacturers.
I have the ability to communicate technical information to persons totally unfamiliar with the subject and to use their point of reference in the explanation. Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/XP/Vista, Linux OS and Lotus Notes

MS Office: Excel, Access, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Outlook Express and Project Manager

Design software: VHDL, Boolean, schematic capture and other FPGA manufacturer specific development systems
October 99 to Dec 05: All American Semiconductor, Austin, Texas
Field Application Engineer
Major emphasis on flat panel displays and micro controllers. Initially was sole support for flat panel sales. Major lines supported include Atmel, Renesas, Aeon, Samsung, Fairchild, TDK, Supertex and Semtech.
Successfully completed Renesas certification yearly, initiated and conducted customer training seminars in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, won 1st place in an all distributor FAE training seminar 2003, and my team won 1st place for an All American training seminar 2004.
Assisted design in of Atmel ARM microcontoller at Lancer, design in of microcontoller at ELO Touch, designed in Aaeon “Boxer” computer at General Solutions, designed in Seiko display currently being used by 3M Cable Locater and designed in Omnivision cameras at Laser Shot Technologies.
I have been in the South Texas market for over sixteen years and have an intimate knowledge of those customers, their products and their engineers. I have a data base of over 1,000 engineers.
Assisted customers in device selection, development system configuration, training and design assistance. Duties also included giving customer seminars, training sales personnel, attending training workshops and giving technical support to the programming center.

April 97 to October 99: Nu Horizons, Austin, Texas
Field Application Engineer
Territory included Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Products supported include , but are not limited to; FPGA’s, micro controllers, A/D and D/A, Power supply, voice chips, modems and graphics. Conducted weekly training meetings for outside and inside sales people.
Tools and skills used to accomplish job include, but are not limited to; VHDL, schematic capture, data basing, simulation, Internet software loading/debugging, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
Major accomplishments included Xilinx Silver certification, teaching customer VHDL training classes, helping to bring my branch from $80k/mo. to over $500k/mo., boosting registrations from 1 per month to 10-15, and design wins from 1 per quarter to 1 per week.

Feb. ‘88 to April 97 Marshall Industries, Carrollton/Austin, Texas
Regional Field Application Engineer
Assisted outside sales personnel with the design in of focus products which included PLD’s, FPGA’s, DSP’s, and micro controllers. Lines trained and certified in include Xilinx, Lattice, T.I., (ACTEL),AMD, Philips, and Synario. Design tools used included schematic capture, VHDL, boolean entry and simulators. Responsible for all customer engineers in the central United States. First distributor FAE recipient in Texas of the Xilinx Special Forces award 7-10-1991. Attended multiple classes and received certificates of completion on TI DSP's. Consistently had the highest customer attendance for Xilinx, TI and other manufacturers sales seminars.

Hardware skills: PC upgrading, repair, build to specification, hard drives, memory, networking, 802.11 wireless, Palm PDA's, Win CE, USB 1.1,2.0 peripherals, graphics accelerators, LCD projectors

Test equipment used: Oscilloscope, DVM, frequency generator, spectrum analyzer, variable power supplies, logic analyzers