Neil Girling

Current

• Engineer at Cyan Optics, Inc.
• Photographer at The Blight Photography (Self-employed)

Past

• Electrical Engineering intern at Google
• Electrical Engineering intern at Google
• Hardware Engineering intern at Apple Computer

• Hardware Engineering intern at Apple Computer

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Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Connections

74 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• The Blight

Neil Girling’s Summary

Recent college graduate with nearly two years experience interning for Apple and Google in hardware design, and work infrequently as a professional photographer.

Neil Girling’s Specialties:

System integration, board design, firmware development, event photography, post processing digital images

Neil Girling’s Experience

• Engineer

  Cyan Optics, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Photographer

  The Blight Photography (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Photography industry)

  November 2001 — Present (7 years 9 months)

  Photography blended with costumes and performance art, I work on-crew with a dozen different Bay Area and Los Angeles based circus and carnival groups, including the Vau de Vire Society, Gooferman and Circus Metropolus, Cirque Berzerk and the Wandering Marionettes, Dreamtime Circus, and many others.
  
  I'm also available for weddings, events, and anything else you might have in mind.

• Electrical Engineering intern

  Google

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

  June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

  Electrical Engineer intern
  Developed a test board for a hardware subsystem on a major project
  - Edited schematics, laid out components and routed signals
  - Selected and procured all parts
  - Developed embedded software to control devices

• Electrical Engineering intern

  Google

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

  June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)

  Electrical Engineer intern/co-op.
  Assisted server team with internal hardware projects.
  Completed substantial work as sole designer for a piece of internal
  hardware.
  Wrote firmware, including chip communication protocols.
  Created a schematic for support hardware.
  Researched parts, contacted suppliers.
  Examined electrical characteristics of prototype hardware.

• Hardware Engineering intern

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

  Hardware Engineering intern/co-op System Integrator and Electrical
  Engineer.
  One of two members on the core Systems Team for Intel Mac mini.
  Worked on the Intel transition.
  Used Cadence's Allegro to assist in the creation of board
  schematics.
  Created and edited constraints and topologies via Cadence's
  Constraint Manager.
  Assisted PCB routing with Cadence's Specctraquest.
  Provided local support for overseas builds.
  Investigated and solved build-blocking problems.
  Brought up and debugged boards and systems.
  Took resumes and screened candidates at Cal Poly for Apple
  recruiting.
  Dubbed "The Super Intern."

• Hardware Engineering intern

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)

  Worked on the original Mac mini as an Electrical Engineering
  intern.
  Managed prototype allocation list.
  Set up prototypes, troubleshot, and debugged.
  Wrote scripts to extract and analyze test data.
  Qualified parts.
  Set up and configured servers.
  Used Cadence to design a schematic.
  Utilized diagnostics to discover problems.
  Researched thermal margin of product.

Neil Girling’s Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  2002 — 2007

Additional Information

Neil Girling’s Websites:

• The Blight

Neil Girling’s Interests:

Computer hardware, photography.

Neil Girling’s Groups:

Vau de Vire Society

•    California Polytechnic State University Alumni

Neil Girling’s Honors:

Several Dean's List from Cal Poly, 3rd place for Photo of the Year from Minolta

Neil Girling’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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