Professional Work

My professional work since graduating in Spring 2015 has included designing everything from heavy truck wiring harnesses to ultra low power wireless sensors. Working in small and fast moving teams for 9 years I have developed a powerful array of skills that includes:

High speed and RF PCB design (Altium Designer)
Design and tuning of RF modules and devices
Design of factory tests for devices including BLE, WLAN, and LTE technologies
Experience designing both product PCBA and factory tests together
Design of power, cost, size, and heat constrained products
Familiar with USB, QSPI/SPI, eMMC, I2C, UART, SWD, JTAG, Ethernet, PoE
Skilled with hand PCB assembly and rework with parts as large RF modules and as small as 0201
Experience programming and operating Neoden YY1 pick and place machines
Mechanical mock-ups and PCB integration (Solidworks and Altium)
Factory and customer facing engineering support, including on site support
Comfortable working in both Windows and Linux environments
Development of .NET applications for internal and factory tests (C#)
Familiar with SVN and GIT version control systems

PnP Transmogrifier

While working at u-blox my team invested in a Neoden YY1 pick and place machine to speed up build times of prototype boards. With a high mix of different boards and BOMs to be built I knew we needed an easy way to convert our Altium pick and place files to the required format for the machine.

Using my C# skills I created a graphical application to easily convert between the CSV file formats, optimize part placement, and easily make part substitutions.

I have been able to share this application publicly and it can be found here:

github.com/conroyn/PNP-Transmogrifier

Cornerstone: The Smart-Aid Kit

The Smart-Aid Kit is an intelligent, internet connected, first aid kit that tracks its contents and alerts the user when supplies are depleted or expired. Alerts will be delivered via email, text message, or a smartphone app depending on user preference.

The user can then order fresh first-aid supplies or opt into an automatic reordering system whereby supplies are automatically shipped to the user immediately.

The goal of the Smart-Aid Kit is to ensure that, with minimal effort, first-aid supplies are always fully stocked and ready for use when they are needed most. I created the Smart-Aid Kit to be my Senior Project at Western Washington University.

WWU FSAE Electric: 2012-2014

Beginning in the summer of 2012 I began leading development of an all electric powertrain for the Western Washington University (WWU) Formula SAE (FSAE) team. For the previous two years I had been the electronics lead for the combustion powered Viking 51 and Viking 53 FSAE cars, designing and building wiring harnesses and support electronics. For the 2012-2013 year vehicle, I heavily lobbied team leadership and worked with department faculty to enter the team in the brand new fully electric powered FSAE competition. This is still the most challenging project I have ever worked on for two reasons: technical challenges and team conflict. Though the available technology was rapidly improving, electric vehicles were still considered by many team members and system leads as slow, overweight, and worst of all a distraction from improving suspension design and overall vehicle dynamics.