Roy Ward

Hardware (EE) engineer with a background in complex, high volume, embedded systems.

Areas of Experience

• System Architecture
• PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Design
  • All major PCB design tools
    • Mentor Graphics Xpedition -- 15 years (concurrent design/EDM)
  • Embedded system design
  • High-speed bus design
  • Battery based (all major chemistries)
  • High-volume, cost optimized designs
  • Design cost down
  • RF-adjacent layout -- managing EMI coupling to and from RF sections
  • RF PCB materials (Rogers, PTFE-based laminates)
  • HDI (High Density Interconnect)
  • High layer count
  • Extreme environments (LEO)
• NPI (New Product Introduction)
  • Board bring-up (On-site or in-lab)
  • EVT (Engineering Verification Test)
  • System debug
    • Hardware
      • Most electronic test and diagnostic tools
      • Rework tools
    • Embedded Software
      • Linux based
      • No OS (bare metal)
• Design Review
  • Cost down
  • DFX
    • Design for Test
    • Design for Manufacture
    • Design for Repair
• Management of teams, projects, and designs
  • Realistic schedule development and maintenance

    Schedules built on actual task estimates, not targets. Early identification of slip, replanning before small delays compound. Protecting the team from schedule pressure that produces false progress.

  • Optimizing available resources to corporate priorities

    Allocating engineering effort to match corporate priority order, so that higher priority goals are fully resourced before lower priority work draws from the same pool. Where resources are insufficient to cover all goals, making that visible early so tradeoffs are a management decision rather than an unplanned outcome.

• Rework -- 0201, small BGAs, trace and pad repair (hot-air, hot-plate)

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