JOSEPH F. ROGERS 
jrogers@tescomp.com
  
OBJECTIVE 	A challenging position in a growing company as a Design Engineer or Test Engineer
  
SUMMARY	A resourceful professional motivated by accomplishment 
     		
Skills
Project management
Analog and Digital Design
Mechanical design 
Software design 
Technical writing

Specialties
Test equipment design
Digital and analog design
Fiber Optic networking 
GPIB & VXI test equipment
Plastics and Materials Engineering
Injection mold projects

Operating Systems
Windows- through 7
UNIX ? Linux

Application Software
Schematic capture: Pads, Work View Office, OrCAD
Mechanical design: Solidworks
MS Office
Agile, Oracle


EXPERIENCE 

2-06 to 5-10	SENIOR ENGINEER/ PROJECT MANAGER
Wafergen Biosystems - 7400 Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremont CA, 94555
Responsible for product designs for live cell imaging and dispensers for SmartChip 5K nano-well gene expression product

* Designed SmartChip Nanodispenser , including all solid models, fab drawings 
* Designed machined and injected molded Smartslide? and managed tooling design
* Managed Safety and EMC Certifications for Smartslide? SS50, SS100, SS150, SS200
* Designed a vision driven, capillary based dispenser 3 axes robotics system
* Documented system schematics using OrCAD schematic capture
* Applications pending for 2 patents as co-inventor

8-02 to 2-06	CONSULTANT
Tescomp, Mountain View, CA
Provided design services of custom test equipment, test algorithms, testing strategies, and
desktop PC and network support
* Started a consulting company and established an internet presence
* Assisted in data center move and provided support of 50+ users during relocation.
* Provided network and desktop support, mail configuration virus eradication 

3-01 to 8-02	SENIOR TEST ENGINER, FIBER-OPTIC / DIGITAL
ONI Systems - San Jose, CA
Designed intelligent SBC based test system for CWDM Metro product line including GigE, FC and SONET Blades

* Designed intelligent test controller and backplane PCB?s 
* Wrote “C” operating system software and Telnet CLI for intelligent test 
* Using Solidworks, integrated electronic and mechanical components into a test assembly
* Designed test strategies and test procedures for new products
* Generated complete documentation package, including all specification and drawings
* Developed new test equipment documentation structure
* Consulted in design reviews of new products for test capability

6-00 TO 3-01	CONSULTANT, TEST ENGINEER
SETIME - San Jose Ca, Client: FINISAR
Developed automated PCBA tester and test algorithms for METRO Fiber-Optic CWDM system.
     
* Wrote detailed automated test procedures for Gb Metro Fiber Optic network cards
* Designed and debugged test adapters for intelligent network components 
* Designed mechanical packaging components using Solidworks
* Documented tester electronics into Agile database and tester manual.
 	
2-98 to 6-00 	CONSULTANT (Self Employed) 
1-94 to 6-97	Provided technical support on 80X86 computers to companies, small businesses.
* Installed Y2K patches on 50+ desktops
* Reconfigured proxy server settings and Outlook Exchange Server settings
* Immunized and cleansed virus infected systems 
* Installed, configured and maintained LAN, DSL, routers
* Resolved performance problems and installed hardware and software upgrades
		 
 6-97 to 2-98	SERVO WRITER ENGINEER  
CARTESIAN DATA - Sunnyvale CA 94086 
Member of the R&D team of a PCMCIA2 XY magnetic storage device 

* Member of the design team of next generation servo writer 
* Developed specialized PC based test equipment used for product evaluation 
* Designed  "C" data acquisition / data logging software and test system
* Designed Excel spreadsheets for analysis and presentation of test data 
* Designed modifications to existing servo to integrate new optical sensor 
* Resolved system noise problems with improved grounding  and power distribution
                                           
8-83 to 1-94 	SENIOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 
VERBATIM CORPORATION - Sunnyvale, CA 
Founded and managed Standards Laboratory and supported measurements worldwide 
for flexible disk products 

* Project engineer for architecture, analog and digital electronics and software for the master media reference system 
* Designed specialized read write electronics for the evaluation of heads and media 
* Developed worldwide media standards program, correlation tools head /drive selection procedures 
* Served on ANSI technical committee as the principal company representative and Project Editor 
* Appointed by ANSI to the US delegation to ISO 
* Liaison between NIST, PTB and Verbatim sites worldwide 
* Resolved measurement discrepancies between departments and sites and with major OEMs. 
* Designed mechanical tools, jigs and adapters for production and the lab 
* Designed statistical tools to estimate measurement uncertainties in the measurement process

	 
EDUCATION 
		University of California, San Diego - Magnetic Recording 
		University of California, Berkeley Extensions - 68000 Design and Interface 
		St. Petersburg Jr. College - Electronics Technology 
		De Anza College - Cupertino, CA - Microelectronics Technology - Spanish