1. Brian von Gunten
Brunnmattstr. 67  3007 Bern  brian.vongunten@bfh.ch  078 789 8203
Objective
Seeking a career opportunity with room for professional development and continuous on
the job educational opportunities. Fulfill a strong desire to contribute to a team of
complementary talents to solve interesting engineering challenges as well as learn and
apply the best engineering practices for digital design.
Summary
Mr. von Gunten is a motivated Electrical engineer with several years of experience
designing systems for use in the printing and related industries. He has spent much of his
professional career so far working on digital systems using microcontrollers and FPGAs.
The small team at the Institute for Print Technology meant gaining experience at all levels
of electronic design, from initial planning and project management to PCB layout and
finally the way to finished coding, testing, debugging and commissioning of systems. Mr.
von Gunten is a native English speaker, with full professional proficiency in German and
Swiss German.
Education
 B.Sc. El. Ing., Berner Fachhochschule, 2011-2015 (Berufsbegleitend)
 Electrical Installer EFZ, GIBB in Bern, CH, 2008-2011
 Primary and Secondary Education (Gymnasium) completed in the United States.
Experience
2007–2012 Scherler AG Elektro + Telematik
Electrical Installer. Developed skills in understanding technical documentation and
schematics, as well as a solid foundation in power electrical theory and installation
norms.
2012–Present Institute for Print Technology
Assistant Researcher. Designed electronic proofs of concept and prototypes for use in
research for various aspects of the printing industry, as well as occasional projects for
related fields. Considerable work with FPGA hardware for digital data acquisition
systems. Small team size led to experience running the full gamut of the design cycle.
Skills
 Three years of experience designing electronics, including the use of Altium Design
Suite and the LTSpice simulation tool.
 Three years of experience working with the Xilinx Vivado toolchain to design system on
chip level designs for the Zynq chipset. This includes programming hardware modules
using VHDL and HLS tools, as well as development of freeRTOS and Linux based
complementary drivers and software to run on the ARM A9 co-processors.
 Four years of experience working with ISE tools to design hardware modules for the
Xilinx Spartan family, including the use of Microblaze and Nanoblaze co-processors.
 Four years of experience verifying designs using Mentor Modelsim.
 Experience designing for several of the STM32Fx chips, including bare metal and
freeRTOS based designs.

2.  Four years of experience programming in C and VHDL.
 Four years of experience scripting in Matlab and designing in Simulink.
 Occasional programming with Java and Python.
 Experienced user and administrator of many different Linux distributions, including
Petalinux.
 Experience programming hardware drivers for Linux.
References
1. Christoph Eyemann, Director 2. Dr. Karl-Heinz Selbmann, Institute
Head
Scherler AG Institute for Print Technology
Papiermühlestr. 9 Pestalozzistrasse 20
3000 Bern 25 3400 Burgdorf
Phone: 031 330 41 11 Phone: 034 436 43 44