Barry Smith is seeking an engineering design or management position where he can utilize over 30 years of experience designing analog and digital circuit boards. He has experience in fields including video, imaging, RF, power control, and instrumentation. His experience includes schematic design, simulation, PCB layout, testing, and manufacturing support. He held several senior engineering roles with companies in industries such as imaging, test equipment, avionics, and displays.

1. BARRY J Smith Email: AnalogEE92056@yahoo.com
2930 Jesmond Dene Hts Rd Home Phone: (760) 941-6007
Escondido, Calif. 92026 Cell: (760) 525-7951
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a position in engineering design or a “hands-on” management position where a broad scope of technical
experience can be utilized.
EXPERIENCE:
Summary
A hands-on and analytical professional with over 30 years experience in successful and timely designs of analog
and digital circuit board assemblies to support a wide range of products that include high-performance wideband
analog video, scientific IR cameras, RF, PLL/Synthesizers, DC-DC, high-voltage, precision instrumentation, low-
frequency /low-noise transducer amplifiers, and TE-Cooler/Thermal closed-loop control. Engineered activities
include schematic capture, spice simulation, Schematic-based CPLD design/simulation, breadboard, “Intense”
PCB layout, bench test, parts procurement, accurate and complete design documentation and manufacturing
support.
Sr. Analog Design Engineer 1/2001 to present
Surface Optics Corp - San Diego Ca
Part of a small team of engineers and scientists tasked with development and production of several instruments
used for measurements in the IR spectrum. Instruments included several hyperspectral imaging cameras, a
portable FTIR, and a hand-held battery-operated Reflectometer. Notable circuit design includes:
• Michelson Interferometer Closed-Loop Digital Controller/Driver Circuit board design in support of portable
FTIR instrument. Extremely accurate voice-coil speed control in all 3-axis was key to the success of this
hand-held portable instrument and was accomplished using a very complex CPLD.
• Multiple circuit board designs to support several exotic multi-channel high-speed CCD arrays for use in
scientific hyperspectral imaging cameras. High-speed, high-voltage clock drivers as well as low-noise 14-bit
ADC readout electronics and thermal management were key to the success of these designs.
• Total architectural and analog circuit design responsibility to deliver a battery-operated hand-held IR
reflectometer to the Navy in under a year. Instrument made use of 8 discrete channels of unique IR and
visible detectors and had NIST traceable calibration. Low noise 16-bit data acquisition, size and modular
circuit partitioning were key to the success of this product.
Sr. Analog Design Engineer 4/2000 to 1/2001
Acterna (formerly Wavetek) - San Diego Ca
Major analog design responsibility for next generation commercial portable hand-held LAN cable tester to
compete against Fluke Instruments. Design schedule and time-to-market were critical to the launch of this
instrument. This product is essentially a hand-held network analyzer covering a frequency spectrum from DC to
over 600MHz. Circuit design responsibilities included:
• Cable length-measuring circuit using reflected wave techniques to create an oscillator where frequency is
proportional to “electrical” cable length. Circuit was capable of measuring over 1 mile of copper cabling with
impedance variations of more than 3:1.
• 200Vp-p, 0.5W EL Panel Backlight inverter.
• Active Short (Patent Issued) where current and voltage at wire-pair input are mirrored at the wire-pair output.
• Precision 4-wire resistance and capacitance measurement using “lossy” analog switches/muxes.
• Wideband Optical TDR with 16-bit accurate timebase for fiber applications.
• Design tools utilized included Orcad Schematic capture, Pspice, and PADS pcb.

2. RF Design Engineer 8/99 to 4/2000
TRW Avionics Systems Division - San Diego Ca
Responsible Engineer for the layout and design of a very complex backplane to handle the interconnect for 30+
SEM-E style avionics modules for next generation Military aircraft. Initial layout included (8) different bus
architectures that included a reflective wave PCI bus and (2) 400MHz serial links. Particular emphasis was placed
on module placement and grounding for necessary isolation between –120dbm VHF/UHF receivers and a 60W
VHF/UHF transmitter all connected via a common backplane.
Sr. Staff Design Engineer (two tours) 12/90 to 10/93 , 5/96 to 8/99
Hughes/JVC Technology Corporation - Carlsbad Ca
• Complete systems level responsibility for high definition, Light-Valve based, large screen projection display.
• Analog design responsibilities included entire RGB video signal processing path from line inputs up to and
including high power CRT drive.
• Design of a 120Mhz, 75VP-P Video Amplifier containing a unique closed-loop Cathode Stabilizer circuit for
maintaining constant “black” beam current in spite of aging CRT conditions.
• Design of a unique frequency dependent “peaking” network for RGB bandwidth enhancement containing
DAC control of independent “white”and “black” high-frequency pixel edge enhancement.
• Design of a high-bandwidth analog non-linear RGB gamma circuit to linearize the non-linear light transfer
characteristics of the projector Light-Valve.
• Project manage, heavy vendor interface, and system integration of a digital NTSC scan converter/decoder for
next generation accessory internal to the projector.
• PLL re-design to expand lock range and reduce phase noise at lock-range extremes.
• Design tools utilized include Altera Max + Plus II FPGA/CPLD design software, Spice simulator, PADS
Power PCB, and PADS PowerLogic schematic capture.
Project Engineer 10/93 to 5/96
Tylan General, Inc - San Diego Ca.
• Total analog responsibility for entire precision instrumentation pressure transducer and pressure control
product line. Designs included heavy use of precision OpAmps, filters, closed-loop feedback, and
temperature compensation.
• Design of a switch-mode heater control regulator circuit with milli-degree temperature control for transducer
applications.
• Re-design/upgrade of a closed-loop pressure control box that included re-design of the analog front-end,
analog layout, grounding scheme and signal muxing philosophy as well as selection and incorporation of a
new 16-bit A/D converter to replace the obsoleted 12-bit converter.
• Made design changes to existing pressure transducer product line for EMI compliance per customer
requirements in an extremely short time period.
• Made visits to various customer sites to offer technical assistance in characterizing and correcting system level
failures on sophisticated silicon wafer-fab equipment utilizing our pressure control products as sub-
assemblies.
• Design tools utilized included Orcad Schematic capture, Pspice, and PADS pcb.

3. Engineering Manager 6/89 to 12/90
DNB Engineering - Fullerton Ca.
• Design of a 350MHz A/D 4-channel preamp with ECL rise and fall times of 650psec for use in a time interval
analyzer that outperformed HP equivalent.
• Design of a 2-cable 6-channel fiber optic mux where 5 RS-232 and 1 voice channel were PLL time muxed for
screen room applications.
• Design of a MIL-SPEC 3-phase power EMI filter with > 80dB of atten at 200MHz.
• Analyze and recommend design fixes for outside companies whose product failed in-house FCC or MIL-
SPEC EMI compliance testing.
• Manage and direct several engineers and electronic technicians that included project and resource
scheduling in an RF/EMC compliance lab environment.
MTS Display Engineer 6/83 to 6/89
Hughes Aircraft Co. Ground Systems Group - Fullerton Ca.
• Major analog design responsibility on a 10 X 13 inch video interface board containing 160MHz discrete RGB
preamps, variable H & V blanking and multi-line rate capability for use in a militarized color monitor.
• Design of a closed-loop "bucking" magnetic field generator circuit to improve color CRT purity in high
ambient magnetic fields.
• 3-year, 20-hour work week Engineering Internship while attending college.
Avionics Navigation Systems Specialist 6/77 to 6/81
USAF
• Maintain and repair all radar and navigation avionics on C-130, C-141 and C-5 aircraft as well as "black box"
repair down to component level.
EDUCATION:
• BSEE in Analog electronics 1986 Cal-Poly Pomona
• Honor Grad: GPA 3.6/4.0