Alexander S. Templeton

3513 West Howe Street

Seattle, Washington 98199-3918

mobile 206-669-9536

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Career Summary

  • Senior experience in electronics hardware R&D and design for production.
  • Linear/Analog, digital and mixed-signal circuits and systems.
  • Precision low-level, low-noise front end DC-to-HF design.
  • Embedded and PC-architecture hardware and high-speed digital transport design.
  • Instrumentation design and signal conditioning.
  • FPGA, CPLD & DSP designs for signal processing.
  • Power supply, including switchers and magnetics design.
  • Conception-to-production design of industrial systems.
  • Familiarity with FDA, FCC, and FAA standards and regulations.

Senior R&D Electrical Engineer, Spencer Technologies, Inc., Seattle (2005-2007):

I was responsible for comprehensive electronics system and instrumentation design of transcranial doppler (TCD) ultrasound flow-diagnostic & therapeutic devices for scientific research and medical industry products. I performed system specification and design of:

  • Sub-microvolt sensitivity front-end analog circuitry.
  • Systems design using SPICE and MathCAD modeling tools.
  • High-resolution ADC/DAC interfaces.
  • High-speed & low-EMI serial data transports beyond 2Gbps.
  • Advanced architectures for multichannel distributed processing.
  • Low-noise linear and switching power supplies.
  • DC-HF band RF processing: DDS, transmit/receive switching, demodulation.
  • Troubleshooting, precision PCB layout and EMC-compliance in-house consultancy.

Chief Engineer, Brown Crow Inc., Seattle (since 1993):

As head of tiny consumer-products and consulting small business since 1993, I am responsible for all phases of product design & development, including hardware specification, design, and layout, firmware architecture and programming, procurement and production coordination.

  • Analog & digital signal processing.
  • Embedded microprocessor programming.
  • Circuit design & layout.
  • User interface specification and implementation, product layout and aesthetics.
  • Marketing support & customer interface.

Sr. H/W Engineer (temp), Watchguard Technologies, Inc., Seattle (2002-2003):

As principal hardware designer, I specified architecture and implementation of detailed designs of Intel- and AMD-based PC-architecture firewall motherboards, with customized security, encryption and high-throughput support features. Design for EMC with shield-room experience.

  • PC architecture using standard chipsets
  • PCI bus and DDR memory interfaces
  • EMI mitigation of existing products

Sr.H/W Engineer, Digital Harmony, Inc. (now defunct), Seattle (1999-2001):

As analog/linear specialist, I conducted research and development in Firewire/IEEE 1394-based multimedia datastream handling. Emphasis on high-quality digital audio clock recovery and jitter management solutions using proprietary and classic PLL technologies.

  • FPGA design of 400 Mbps streaming media & digital signal processing.
  • Analog front- and back-end design of networked professional audio systems.
  • RF and power supply magnetics design.
  • Patents applied for.

Senior Hardware Engineer (contract), Microvision, Inc., Bothell (1996-1998):

As lead system architect, I conducted product R&D in mixed high-speed analog & digital design of electromechanical and electrooptical laser scanning and video processing systems for Microvision’s 2nd-generation Virtual Retinal Display. I conceptualized and designed the electrooptical Mechanical Resonant Scanner (MRS) velocity correction and instrumentation-loop control system:

  • Galvanometer & scanhead drive and MRS piezo sensor PLL electronics.
  • GHz-bandwidth signal processing, laser diode and AOM drivers.
  • Specification of embedded PC controller for system control & monitoring.
  • PCB layout and specification.
  • Team-building and technical hiring approval.

Senior Hardware Engineer (contract), SeaMED, Inc., Redmond (1995):

Design, sustaining and debugging of biomedical therapeutic equipment. Worked with embedded Intel processors, LVDS signaling, parts specification. Also assisted in field research for new product ideas and technical feasibility studies.

Hardware Designer (contract), SpaceLabs Medical, Redmond (various 1986-1991):

Multiple-processor system design for diagnostic biomedical products R & D, including Texas Instruments, Motorola 683xx and Analog Devices ADSP-21XX processors. Circuit design & PCB layout, PLD design.

Hardware Engineer, MediaLink Technologies Corp. (defunct), Seattle (1990-1992):

Worked with the Medialink network protocol and hardware specification, designing customized products. Worked with embedded microprocessor cores, precision analog and digital signal processing.

  • Networked data interfaces.
  • Analog Devices DSPs, Motorola/Freescale, Microchip processors.
  • Lattice and Altera FPGAs, PLDs.
  • Field troubleshooting and customer interface experience.

Engineering Development Tools Experience

  • Lab equipment & instrumentation: oscilloscopes, logic/spectrum/network analyzers, signal generators, data acquisition & analysis tools.
  • PSPICE, IS-Spice, LT-Spice, SIMetrix, MathCAD modeling and simulation tools.
  • ANSI C, FORTRAN, BASIC and assembler programming.
  • Various DSP development tools
  • Actel, Atmel, Lattice, Xilinx and Altera FPGAs & PLDs.
  • PADS, PCAD, OrCAD, ViewLogic, Protel, ExpressPCB CAE tools.
  • MS Office applications, MS QB and VB.
  • HTML & web page authoring, etc.

Education, Professional and Community Associations, etc.

  • BSEE degree cum laude from University of Michigan
  • MSEE-level and beyond research & design experience
  • Member, Audio Engineering Society
  • Member, Electrostatics Society of America
  • Chairman, Board of Trustees of Seattle’s Radost Folk Ensemble
  • Skilled in patent, library, internet and database research
  • Hobbyist in audio engineering, electronic gadgets, tree-planting, folk music
  • Health and nutrition site webmaster