Mike F.

• Electronics Design Engineer, Product Designer and Developer
• Circuit Design, digital, analogue circuit simulation using LTSpice
• PCB Design – Altium Designer (10 years), Flexy/Rigid, differential pairs etc
• Experienced Prompt Engineer using ChatGPT
• Creation of Python based test software, using SciPy, NumPy, PyVISA and Matplotlib libraries to control test equipment in the performance of long-term stability testing of system equipment and electronic modules within a quantum computer and creation of various plots of the recorded data for analysis and characterisation of system components and their performance over time
• Switch Mode Power Supplies and control circuitry for multiple systems for EPOS systems,
LED automotive lighting products and intelligent street lighting systems
• Involvement in the development of Consumer Electronics products
• Design and analysis of a specialist ultra-stable resonant RF circuit using Waveform Generators,
RF amplifiers, Signal Analysers, VNA’s, RF circuit simulation and other test equipment
• Used VNA’s to analyse the open circuit characteristics a circuit, made up from a combination of external components and ASIC internal parts, prior to active connection and test of the inductive elements of the circuit
• Embedded Controller design and of test firmware for Intel, Microchip, Atmel, NXP and ARM
• Design of IOT and Smart Lighting Products
• Programmable Logic, PAL’s, CPLD’s and Renesas/Dialogue GreenPAK
• Experience of programming in Python, C, C++, VBA, Assembler and other languages
• 3D CAD – OnShape – CADKEY – DesignSpark Mechanical
• Prototyping, SMD manual assembly and soldering
• Development work on WPT and Battery Charging Systems
• Innovation and concept development using Particle Photon-2 and Arduino etc.
• Experience in cost-down exercises for volume manufacture on a number of different products
• Evaluation of the various effects of component change, removal and total circuit re-imagining and re-design
• Management experience at all levels from team leader to Director