Senior Design Engineer with over 10 years of experience embedded systems design, research and development integrating cutting edge technology into new product designs. - 10+ years of engineering experience in embedded hardware and software design. - Systems Architecture design. - Embedded Software/Hardware Architecture design. - Embedded RTOS. - Skilled in embedded software development with low-power consumption, battery powered devices (ARM-CortexM). - Skilled embedded Linux software development for ARM platforms. - Experienced with digital hardware design (Schematic Capture/PCB layout).

Adjunct Professor @ Instructor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Haven, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses for the Computer Engineering Program. Courses: Digital Systems I and II, Computer Architecture, Microprocessors, Electric Circuits I and II, Embedded Systems. From January 2004 to Present (12 years) Par-time Instructor @ Part-time faculty in the School of Computer Science. Teaching Introduction to Software Applications and Computers. From January 2009 to Present (7 years) Embedded Software Architect @ Embedded Software and Hardware Development for new platform of Digital High-Performance Watches using Low power ARM-CortexM microcontrollers. - Lead Engineer of the R&D team designing the software for high performance digital watch platform (Xlink RTOS), which supports non-rechargeable and rechargeable devices with very low power consumption, Wireless connectivity: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Near Field Communication (NFC), ANT+ and GPS. - As part of the R&D team, responsible for the research and concept development, hardware selection, prototyping and testing of new technologies for future platform designs: GPS, Wi-Fi, NFC, Energy Harvesting devices. - Responsible for driving cross functional teams to complete all project milestones necessary to launch program. - Provide support to product development teams with platform software and documentation. - System Architecture design for new platform development, software documentation and Application Programming Interface (API) design. - Provide modular approach with hardware abstraction to provide portability of product specific application across multiple platforms, increasing flexibility and reducing time for agile development. From August 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Founder/Chief Designer @ From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Lead Engineer @ Hardware design and embedded software for smart lighting control systems product line (nLight). http://nlightcontrols.com - Lead Engineer of the R&D team for the Gateway 2.0 device and Touch screen devices (Graphic WallPod, Gateway Graphic display interface) for the nLight™ system. - Lead Engineer for the R&D team designing the hardware and software for the nPOD-GFX (Graphical Wallpod™) an LCD touch screen lighting control device. - Lead Engineer of R&D team designing the hardware and software for the NGWY2 (nLight™ Gateway 2), running embedded linux OS using ARM9 processor. - Responsible for driving cross functional teams to complete all project milestones necessary to launch program. - Responsible for develop specification and documentation for existing and new projects with integration to other development teams. - As part of the team, integrated the Gateway 1.0 device into the nLight™ sensor network and the SensorView web application software using standard internet protocols. - Designed Scene Selector device and integrated into the nLight™ system. - Provided technical support and guidance to both internal application support team and directly to customers in order to resolve product instillation issues for nLight ™system. From October 2006 to July 2011 (4 years 10 months) Design Engineer @ Responsible for the custom design of the digital hardware (FPGA) and embedded software for Controller Boards and LED matrix and LCD display systems for Passenger Information and destination systems on light weight rail vehicles and subways. - Designed digital hardware using FPGA to scan text and graphics on LED arrays boards. - Designed embedded LED sign controller and integrated into the announcement system network inside the vehicle. From July 2003 to September 2006 (3 years 3 months) Practitioner in Residence (PIR) @ Full-time Instructor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering From January 2003 to August 2003 (8 months)

MSEE, Electrical Engineering @ University of New Haven From 2001 to 2003 Frank Ramirez is skilled in: Embedded Systems, Engineering Management, Testing, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Microcontrollers, Engineering, FPGA, Hardware Architecture, Systems Engineering, Digital Signal Processors, Embedded Software, Electronics, Debugging, Manufacturing