Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌

Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌

Senior Applications Engineer at NEC

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Current
  • Senior Applications Engineer at NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH
Past
  • Firmware Design Engineer at Concurrent Technologies Plc
  • Electronics Design Engineer at Electrox
  • Development Engineer at Zi Medical Plc
  • B2B Sales Executive at XLN Telecom Ltd
  • Direct Sales Executive at Telco Global Ltd
  • Hardware and Firmware Development Engineer at DNR-Imaging Systems Ltd
  • Electronics R & D Engineer at HBTech Ltd
Education
  • Northumbria University
  • Hochschule Mittweida (FH)
  • Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Semiconductors
Websites

Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Summary

Contact me at azlinkedin at gmail.com


Embedded Systems
Microcontrollers, System on Chips (SoC), ASICs
Real-Time Embedded Software Development
Communication Protocols: USB, CAN, RS232, SPI
Device drivers
* Trilingual: English, Russian, Hebrew
Professional experience in translation services

My articles:

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Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Specialties:

Home Automation
High Brightness LEDs for lighting
Fluorescent Ballast control and dimming


Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Experience

  • Senior Applications Engineer

    NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

    September 2007Present (1 year 2 months)

     NEC Microcontrollers Marketing and Applications.
     Project management
     Focus on applications requiring ultra-low power consumption microcontrollers as well as responsible for application specific MCUs for Building Management Industry and Home Automation, in particular in the following applications:
    - Fluorescent lighting ballast and dimming control
    - DALI communications
    - Driving and dimming HB-LEDs for general lighting
    - Power over Ethernet (PoE)
    - Fire and Security:
    CCTVoIP (IP Cameras), Access control, Smoke detectors, alarm systems
    - uClinux research

     Writing technical and marketing articles

  • Firmware Design Engineer

    Concurrent Technologies Plc

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    May 2007August 2007 (4 months)

    (IPMI) Intelligent Platform Management Interface multilayered protocol stack development and maintain for the latest technology: AdvancedMC™ (Advanced Mezzanine Card) with compliance to the following PICMG® 3.0 Architectures: ATCA™ (Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture), µTCA™
    Using 8051 core Microcontroller and Keil(µVision3) C Compiler.

  • Electronics Design Engineer

    Electrox

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    September 2005May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

     Laser control systems development
     Real Time Embedded Software development in ‘C’ and Assembly
     USB composite device driver development and vendor specific protocol definition and implementation.
     Embedded Network development using CAN Bus
     Time-critical software design and existing code optimizing
    to get the maximum data processing speed.
    Developing low level device drivers, bootloaders,PID controllers,etc
     Developing Embedded Software in C for 32 bit ColdFire(Freescale) SoC (System on Chip) using CodeWarrior /WinIDEA , running in the ARC MQX RTOS Multitasking environment
     Chip design targeting Altera CPLD MAX II,
    Firmware development in VHDL using Quartus II
    Simulation and timing analysis using ModelSim
     Using PROTEUS to capture Schematics and PCB layout

  • Development Engineer

    Zi Medical Plc

    (Medical Devices industry)

    August 2004July 2005 (1 year)

    Zimed was part of Zi-Medical

    •Involved in Real Time Embedded Systems Development for innovative medical devices
    •Embedded Software/Firmware Development in ‘C’ and Assembly for PIC microcontrollers
     Software structured design, Real Time programming and PC Interfacing
     USB protocol stack implementation and USB Mass Storage Device driver development from scratch Hardware and Software
     Medical safety-critical software design TÜV Munich compliant
     Schematics capture using PROTEL DXP tool, Components engineering

  • B2B Sales Executive

    XLN Telecom Ltd

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2004August 2004 (5 months)

    Buisness to Buisness Sales of telecommunication services.
    Product presentations and customer relationship establishment

  • Direct Sales Executive

    Telco Global Ltd

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    July 2003April 2004 (10 months)

    Network marketing
    B2B and domestic direct sales of Carrier pre-selection telecommunication services

  • Hardware and Firmware Development Engineer

    DNR-Imaging Systems Ltd

    (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)

    January 2002August 2002 (8 months)

    •Involved in Bio-Imaging medical systems development.
    •FPGA (XILINX) design in VHDL to control digital image sensors IBIS4 CMOS technology
    •Using different simulation and synthesis tools for FPGA/CPLD design
    •Digital circuits development and schematics capture using OrCAD.

  • Electronics R & D Engineer

    HBTech Ltd

    (Medical Devices industry)

    August 2000January 2002 (1 year 6 months)

    HB Tech Ltd. specializes in the R&D of computer integrated medical systems. Deliver high quality HW & SW solutions and support for Engineering Development teams.

    Working as a subcontractor in companies such as: GE Healthcare - Elgems/Elscint, Marconi Medical Systems, Biosence, GE Ultra Sound, Orisol, Odin Medical Systems, Elbit Systems, etc.

    • Board design for wide range of medical systems
    •Working with Altera PLD’s and programming in AHDL
    •Embedded Software/Firmware development for Microcontrollers such as PIC, 8051, 68K
    •Circuit design using OrCAD.
    •Created production project packages and documents in compliance with customers' standards.


Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Education

  • Northumbria University

    BEng(Hons), Electronics & Microelectronics Engineering, 20022004

    Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne UK

    Activities and Societies:
    Member of the International Student Society
  • Hochschule Mittweida (FH)

    Cert, Optoelectronics & Fibre Optics, 20032003

    University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany

  • Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

    HND, Electronics, 19982000

    Technion- Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel


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Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Interests:

Embedded Software, Communication Protocols, Microcontrollers, Professional development, History, castles and fortresses

Alex Zaretsky▐▓▒░8200+░▒▓▌’s Groups:

IET, IEE, USB-IF
Toastmasters,
LION,
BlueChipExpert, TopLinked, IEEE,
http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/user/294704031

  •    General Electric
  •    OpenNetworkers.info < 50.000+ members across 60 social networks >
  •    Embedded
  •    Northumbria University Alumni
  •    London IN
  •    EDAboard users group
  •    Friends of Britain
  •    Technion Alumni
  •    Toastmaster
  •    NEC
  •    Invites Welcome! (Open Networkers)
  •    Real-Time Embedded Engineering
  •    NEC Alumni
  •    Lighting Designer Group

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