Engineer at NewTek
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Engineer at NewTek
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- Senior Electrical Engineer at Xilient Inc
- Electrical Engineer at RealtimeAssociates
- Electrical Engineer at Mammoth Toys
- Electrical Engineer at Rapport Inc
- Electrical Engineer at Individual Computers
- Engineer at Drawform Inc
- Owner at CME Computer Store Chain
- Chassis builder/Designer at Ellsworth Racing
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Jeri Ellsworth’s Summary
15 years experience in all phases of electrical and mechanical engineering, including design, implementation, test, and delivery. I have extensively used my diverse skill sets to improve the quality of product delivered to the customer, including design and code reviews, and special design for test procedures to improve yield and ensure high performance.
My goal is to apply my electrical and mechanical engineering skills to new and exciting projects, which will enable me to deliver a great product while expanding my skill sets.
Jeri Ellsworth’s Experience
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Engineer
NewTek
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Hardware and ASIC design for live video production switchers.
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Senior Electrical Engineer
Xilient Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)
April 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Xilient, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, creates solutions for digital media convergence. The company is based in Cupertino, California.
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Electrical Engineer
RealtimeAssociates
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Developed very low cost electronics and proof of concept devices for several hand held LCD games, and an annoying dancing/singing/howling plush toy.
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Electrical Engineer
Mammoth Toys
(Semiconductors industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
I was responsible for taking several video based toys from concept to large scale production , which included FPGA prototypes, developer boards, all RTL coding, simulation, formal verification, software support, documentation, ASIC tape out support, and pilot runs. Time was very short from concept to final production, so the initial effort was focused on designing a base CPU platform and API for each product. This allowed software development to start early in the design phase. With this top down design approach the new hardware modules were added smoothly to the prototype and simulations as soon as they were implemented.
A wide variety of hardware modules designed for these products include: Blitter, DMA engine, SDRAM controller, multistage sigma/delta DACs, ADSR envelope generation, wave table, NTSC and PAL video generation, chunky/planar video tiles, a complete C64 chipset (SID, VIC, PLA, CIA, NMOS 6502), in-circuit debugging and ARM bus interface. -
Electrical Engineer
Rapport Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
Designed several reference boards for the Kilocore reconfigurable processor, synthesized a due diligence simulation of the VHDL “PipeRench” processor core from Carnegie Mellon University, designed a FPGA and laid out the board for a VOIP phone platform, performed chip bring-up of the prototype Kilocore processor.
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Electrical Engineer
Individual Computers
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Initiated a joint project to design an ATX form factor reconfigurable computer named C1. I was the principal designer and it was manufactured and sold by Individual Computers. The design consisted of a 4 layer board, 1k100 and 1k30 ACEX FPGAs, 12bit RGB VGA port, PS2 mouse and keyboard, LPT port, 2 PCI slots, 2 Amiga clock ports, SDRAM connector, EDO connector, C64 IEC port, dual SID sockets and a 16 bit stereo DAC. The board is still available and currently has several cores available based on older 8-bit computers such as VIC20, C64 and Sinclair.
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Engineer
Drawform Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Industrial Automation industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
I designed a low cost controller to replace mechanical timers for a miniature solvent still and additionally invented a baffle/reflux system for the very small head vacuum distillation column that prevented boil over.
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Owner
CME Computer Store Chain
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
Founded multiple stores in the Oregon Willamette Valley.
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Chassis builder/Designer
Ellsworth Racing
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Automotive industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years )
Designed, raced, built and sold race cars. (1/4 mile, V8 powered, full tube chassis)
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Jeri Ellsworth’s Websites:
Jeri Ellsworth’s Interests:
Home chip fabs, pinball machines, race car chassis design.
Jeri Ellsworth’s Groups:
Hackers, VCF, PAPA & Pinball Expo, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
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Synapse Product Development
