Paul Browne

Background

About Paul Browne

A highly motivated, creative, and adaptable Computer Systems Engineer with a broad range of demonstrated leadership and technical skills, including: • Hardware, Firmware, and Software design; • Project coordination, planning, and communications; • Experience in research, development, and manufacturing environments. Thirty years of professional System design and integration experience with Fortune 500 companies has included ASIC, FPGA, and discrete logic design involving advanced computer architectures and computer interfacing. Skilled in logic design, CAD systems, automated test equipment, real-time programming, multi-threaded applications, and many programming languages in diverse operating system environments. SPECIFIC SKILLS: • HARDWARE: Embedded Processors, FPGA/ASIC design, Digital/Analog PCB design, Systems Integration • FIRMWARE: Verilog, Quartus Prime, VHDL, Synopsis • SOFTWARE: VM/CMS, Windows, UNIX, FORTRAN, APL, JAVA, C, C#, Pascal, Visual Basic, Assembler, SQL • TOOLS: Visual Studio, GIT, SVN, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, KiCAD, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, ATE, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access) TECHNICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS: • Co-authored 6 US patents in Computer Architecture and MEMS Technology • Developed uC and FPGA firmware for High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering power supplies • Integrated production test equipment for leading-edge electro-optical products • Developed and maintained databases for manufacturing control and customer problem resolution tracking • Implemented and managed a precision-assembly manufacturing operation • Used Six-Sigma methodology to Improve manufacturing yield from 30% to 95% • Designed and implemented a high-speed semiconductor tester front-end • Co-designed 486/microchannel/memory controller for IBM upgrade CPU card • Co-designed PCI/486 host bridge/memory controller, IBM27-82454