David G. Hardy has over 20 years of experience as an electronics engineer, working on projects involving space electronics, thruster controls, and satellite programs. He has expertise in areas such as FPGA and embedded systems programming, digital and analog circuit design, DSP techniques, and software development. Currently he is an Electronics Engineer at Busek Co. Inc., where his responsibilities include replacing space parts with commercial components and programming FPGAs for thruster controls.

1. David G. Hardy
148 School St., Framingham, MA 01701
757-771-5737
dghardy01@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
April 2014 to Present Electronics Engineer Busek Co. Inc.
• Worked on a commercial satellite program to reduce costs of space electronics by
replacing high-reliability space parts with COTs parts by performing the engineering
analysis required for parts replacement.
• Programmed FPGAs to provide high speed feedback controls for thruster electronics, to
replace large numbers of discrete components with internal DSP processing
• Created and implemented a custom software requirements-to-specifications-to-
verification program that included software tracking, version management, and
verification methods for implementation of in-flight space software and FPGA firmware
• Designed electronic circuits from concept to schematic capture to PCB layout,
fabrication, and design for various projects, including small engine injector controls,
space electronics, and thruster controls
• Worked with outside vendors and NASA personnel to implement high reliability, space-
rated FPGA designs and board level hardware controls for space electronics
• Wrote and submitted proposals for Phase I SBIR and STTR NASA, Air Force, and
DARPA projects.
2002-Oct 2013 Engineer, Jefferson Lab
• Programmed and designed PID feed-back, feed-forward controls, operator displays and
other various devices used in observation and controls for use in the Free Electron Laser
Laboratory. Typical applications included motor synchronization, vibration suppression,
and precision mirror position control using control design, optimization, PID tuning,
operator interfaces, instrumentation read-backs and other devices.
• Programming skills in C++, C, Matlab, VHDL, LabView for High level and embedded
applications using motors, temperature controllers, LVDT’s, transducers, test equipment,
and process controllers.
• Several years’ experience designing circuitry, embedded controls, and PCB boards using
Altium Designer. Analog Circuitry design experience from DC to 1500 MHz and
Digital design experience up to 250 MHz using appropriate components including op
amps, passives, actives, mixers, couplers, digital logic chips, ect., using PCB/CAD and
schematic capture to the Board Level. This includes configuration, bootstrapping and
programming of both FPGAs and microcontrollers
• Skilled in the use of engineering diagnostic tools such as a network, spectrum, and
dynamic signal analyzers, TDRs, oscilloscopes and other test equipment
• Used DSP design skills to design FPGA based complex filtering schemes for feed-back,
feed-forward controls
• Programming LabView operator interfaces for control of my PCB board designs through
PCI, I2C and RS232.
• Designed and implemented PCBs to the multilayer board level. Experience with
GERBER file setups and PCB layout specifications including experience with PCB board
vendors

2. • Programmed using communication protocols such as RS232, RS485, I2C, GPIB.
Embedded system programming experience includes ISA, PCI, VME, bus device support
for analog signal digitizers, video signal processors
• Project management experience includes: providing labor, component selection, time and
cost analyzes, preparing weekly and long-term reports
1995-2002 Crew Chief, Operations, CEBAF Accelerator, Jefferson Lab
• Initiated and coordinated engineering activities, maintenance tasks and scientific
experiments with engineers, scientists, operators, and technicians on a daily basis
• Coordinated accelerator operations program, trained new operators, mentored crew chiefs
in training and was responsible for precise logbook record keeping
• Performed electrical engineering and computer programming tasks for operations in
coordination with other groups and divisions, in addition to responsibilities for electron
beam instrumentation and beam diagnostics
• Programmed embedded systems with the use of Experimental Industrial Control System
(EPICS) controls and wrote high level applications for operations
In-flight Electronics Technician, United States Navy
• Served as the In-Flight Technician for all avionics systems on the P3 Aircraft
• Served as a member of COMBAT crew of 12 Navy personnel
• High Responsibility for maintaining and repairing mission critical avionics during 12
hour flight missions
EDUCATION
Old Dominion Master of Science Electrical Computer Engineering (2014)
• Courses include: Control Systems Engineering, Linear Systems, Digital Signal
Processing I & II, Machine Learning, Advanced FPGA Design, Advanced Topics in
Engineering Mathematics,
• Thesis topic: Implementation of Compressive Sensing on a Long-Wavelength IR
Camera
Training Courses:
• LabView Basics, Advanced LabView
• Altium Designer, Dx Designer, PADS, Capture and PCB Designer Training
• High Speed Digital Design Techniques
• High Power Microwave Amplifier Design
• Electron Beam Optics Theory and Design
University of Delaware: Bachelor of Science, Applied Physics (1995)
• Major: Applied Physics Minor: Mathematics
• Undergraduate work for magnetics materials lab
United States Navy Training
• “A” and “C” school for basic and advanced Avionics
• P3C Update III In-Flight Technician Training

3. Associate of Applied Science, Delaware Technical and Community College
• Major: Electronics Engineering Technology