Jerry B. Williams 12824 Lauran Road Hagerstown, MD 21742 (301) 739-1450 jw15cfbda@westpost.

net NOTE: Separate work experiences pertaining specifically to the CIA, FBI, NASA, N RO, NSA and other government agencies and military design work is located at the end of my resume under the heading "Specialized Contract Assignments". Addition al government and military design work is available upon request. QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE Results-oriented Senior Electronics Mechanical Packaging Designer with a proven track record of providing innovation and significant cost savings in designs wit hin high-technology, start-up and high-growth environments. * Expertise in a wide-range of design and development functions, including: mech anical design, printed circuit board design, electronic and electro-mechanical c omponent design, component research and vendor sourcing. * Precise, quality-driven approach to projects, balancing creativity with discip line and logical design strategies. * Effective communicator; ability to explain complex technical concepts in easyto-understand terms. * Skilled in pinpointing errors and problems during early stages of development to minimize errors. SKILLS / TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES: * New Product Development * New & Emerging Technologies * Custom Component Designs * Electro-Mechanical Designs * Analog/Digital/RF PCB Designs * CAM350 PCB Post-processing * 19" Rack & VME Systems and E/M Hardware Development * PCB Translations and Rigid-Cable & Custom Cable Designs * Vendor Sourcing and Vendor Engineering Liaison Support * ANSI Y14.5M Standards * IPC2221A PCB Design Standards * MIL-STD 100 Drafting PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SENIOR DESIGNER / CONSULTANT Built distinguished record of achievement through increasingly responsible posit ions and client engagements. Earned across-the-board commendations from client c ompanies, supervisors, team members, and vendors for breadth of knowledge and qu ality of design work. Maintained positive, enthusiastic approach and record of s uccess in both assignments and large-scale projects despite rapidly changing tec hnologies, complex design problems, and major company reorganizations. Employers and Key Projects: KNOX Video Technologies - Gaithersburg, MD / Senior Designer * Responsible for all mechanical designs and PCB layouts for entire product line of "Audio/Video Router/Switchers". - Mechanical designs consisted of both new and original designs, as well as ex isting product re-designs, first by using AutoCAD and recently by using SolidWor ks Premium. - PCB layouts consisted of multi-layer (4 to 8-layer) designs using both SMT a nd Thru-Hole technologies with 75-Ohm controlled-impedance routing and special a

ttention given for low cross-talk to adjacent tracks. * Recently completed a major "3D" re-design project comprising of a 12-U (21" hi gh) rack-mount card-cage chassis that comprised of 30 different pieces of sheetmetal, all inter-related and they all had to fit together really well. * Worked with a variety of outside vendors in selecting and sourcing components, such as: panel overlays, switches, power supplies, electro-mechanical component s and hardware items and different types of connectors. * Initially used "ALTIUM PCB Designer" to layout video Printed Circuit Boards. A LTIUM has a built-in "impedance calculator" which made determining track widths for 75-Ohm routes on different layers fairly easy. Moved up to CADENCE "OrCAD PC B Editor" when MOOG Aerospace purchased KNOX Video. SMITHS Detection, Inc. - Edgewood, MD / Senior Designer Biological, Chemical, Radiological & Toxic Agent Hazardous Material Detection Eq uipment & Systems * Processed mostly unusable GERBER files using CAM350 into updated and usable GE RBER files, allowing new circuit boards to be fabricated. Original files were pu rchased by SMITHS Detection and were designed without using PCB Designers. * Analyzed R&D prototype enclosure to determine cable and wiring needs. Then cre ated cable assembly drawings using AutoCAD for both documentation purposes and f or fabrication by outside cable assembly companies. * Specified various Electro-mechanical components, such as: switches, connectors , cables, wires and crimp terminals. Sourced and worked with a variety of outsid e vendors to have switches customized to meet certain electrical and mechanical functions, as well as military and the IP68 specification and in having these sw itches custom fabricated. PATS Aircraft, LLC - Georgetown, DE / Senior PCB Designer Custom Aircraft Interiors and Avionics Fuel-Systems Electronics * Designed new and re-designed various old circuit boards for commercial aircraf t avionics. Re-designs involved updating old circuit boards using "Thru-Hole" te chnology to ones using "Surface-Mount Technology", resulting in one project that had used three separate circuit boards into being reduced to a single circuit b oard. Another project that had used four circuit boards was re-designed down int o two inter-connecting circuit boards. Significant cost savings were realized. * Extensive use of "copper pours" on both my new designs and especially on the r e-designs resulted in significant reductions of "EMI / RFI" emissions. One re-de sign project resulted in well over 20dB of EMI/RFI noise reduction at 24-MHz, a problem frequency within the avionics electronics. * Designed 5 custom flex-circuits simultaneously. These flex-circuits eliminated all of the discrete wiring from a connectorized motherboard to a power supply, a front-panel LED display and two military-style ITT-CANNON "rack and panel" co nnectors, each containing 40 separate I/O circuits. * Assisted in the mechanical design and electronics packaging of my new PCB layo uts into the avionics enclosures. * Assisted in specifying and sourcing Electro-mechanical components, such as: co nnectors, LED's, heatsinks, switches and small electronic enclosures. Becton-Dickinson Diagnostic Systems - Baltimore, MD / Senior Designer Medical Research Diagnostic Equipment * Tasked to "reverse-engineer" and "American-ize" several originally German-desi gned schematics and circuit boards used within a newly developed, advanced techn ology diagnostic system that Becton-Dickinson had purchased from a German-based company. This included extensive researching and vendor sourcing of equivalent A merican components for European ones, while addressing a variety of design issue s. * After developing an entirely new "Bill of Materials" and re-capturing the Germ

an schematics into a more easily read set of "American-ized" OrCAD schematics, t hen re-designed all of the German circuit boards into new PCB layouts using the OrCAD "Layout Plus" PCB design software. * Performed the mechanical design of a "relay-switchover" enclosure that allows the equipment to function on both American 120VAC, as well as the European 220VA C systems. * Traced out all of the German system wiring from scratch and created a "System Wiring Diagram" using AutoCAD. iBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION -- Columbia, MD / Senior Design Consultant Developer of "High-Definition" Digital Radio Broadcasting Technology * Designed all rack chassis, brackets and panels for "GEN2 Laboratory Reference Design" of Digital Radio Broadcast Exciter, Processor, and Receiver. Teamed with a variety of outside vendors to meet project goals on-time. Performed the layou t design of all in-house Printed Circuit Board layouts; transmitted CAM350 files to ensure faster, more accurate transfer of design data to PCB fabrication vend ors. * Selected a large majority of external vendors (components, metalwork and PCB f abrication) and maintained excellent vendor relationships to expedite developmen t of customized components and progress of purchase orders. *** Specialized Contract Design Assignments *** * 3eti, Inc. --- An engineering & research firm under contract by NASA and The U .S. Navy to design and develop "proof of concept" engineering prototypes. My res ponsibilities were the design of Printed Circuit Boards, some mechanical designs and assist in the selection and sourcing of electro-mechanical components. * APCOM, Inc. --- Senior Designer for audio/digital/power supply/RF and video PC B's used in high-performance surveillance communications receiver equipment used by "secret, unheard of and unknown U.S. government agencies" (i.e. the then-unk nown "NRO", National Reconnaissance Organization, among others). PCB documentati on and mechanical designs were done using AutoCAD. * ATA Defense Industries, Inc. --- Designed multi-layer Printed Circuit Boards u sed in military weapons combat training systems on an "off-site" basis. * Man & Machine, Inc. --- Designed very complex multi-layer, double-sided, surfa ce-mount computer keyboard PCB (with built-in LED's so the keys could be "back-l it") to be used in "night-time, military combat" applications on an "off-site" b asis using the Internet and phone. * NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD --- Worked in a specialized R& D laboratory tasked with developing a new generation of data-processing equipmen t for signals beamed to Earth from The HUBBLE Telescope and all of the Space Shu ttles. Designed extremely dense 8 and 10-layer PCB's, performed mechanical desig ns of VME-based circuit board front-panels and assisted in the selection of many of the electro-mechanical components (LED's, switches, connectors, fans, PCB he atsinks, etc.) and in sourcing all of their vendors. * NASA/White Sands Complex, NM --- Designed very large (11" X 14") specialized c ircuit boards used in test equipment. Test equipment was used to confirm electro nics operations and parameters of guided missiles and rockets. NASA shipped via UPS, a document package containing all of their PCB standards, documentation pra ctices, guidelines and PCB layout requirements necessary to design their Printed Circuit Boards successfully "off-site". * Northrop-Grumman Corp. --- Designed power-supply Printed Circuit Boards capabl

e of handling 600-Amps of current!! The circuit boards are used by the U.S. mili tary in AC-power generators that are located in remote desert and/or jungle area s (i.e. Afghanistan and Iraq, among others). PCB Designs were done "off-site" by using the Internet for data transfer. (Work was performed as an independent con tractor directly with Northrop-Grumman Corp.). * RACAL Communications, Inc. --- Designed extremely dense, double-sided, multi-l ayer, surface-mount Printed Circuit Boards used in communications transceivers b y the CIA and FBI. The transceivers were about the size of a pack of cigarettes and had three circuit boards sandwiched one on top of another with their compone nts interleaved between them, in order to minimize the vertical stackup dimensio n. * SAIC / IDEAS --- Worked on a variety of 19" rack system mechanical designs for use in antenna-array switching and communications systems used by the NSA (Nati onal Security Agency), using AutoCAD. * The Watkins-Johnson Co. --- Tasked to create both "intra-rack" and "inter-rack " cable and wiring drawings to document a 4-unit, 19" rack "communications inter cept" system for use by the NSA (National Security Agency). The entire drawing p ackage comprised of 24 "D-size" sheets (22" X 34") showing all cable runs, chass is and rack interconnects, patchbay wiring, etc. Also performed mechanical desig ns of small rack-mount enclosures. All work was performed using AutoCAD and all of the mechanical designs and drawings were done "off-site". "D-size" AutoCAD dr awings were plotted out using my own H/P 7570A "D-size" pen-plotter. * Windermere Information Technology Systems --- Responsible for the designs of s everal complex multi-layer, surface-mount, digitally-controlled, BLUETOOTH and c ritical high-frequency RF Printed Circuit Boards used in "intelligence gathering and surveillance" applications. Complex and detailed 6-layer designs required 0 .028" thick (normally 0.062") laminate material using 0201 and micro-BGA compone nts with 4-mil (normally 5-mil minimum, usually 8-mil to 12-mil) tracks and spac es, controlled-impedance, differential-pairs and multiple-split Power and Ground Planes. The Printed Circuit Boards were for use in covert surveillance and/or t racking operations by The United States Department of Homeland Security. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT * * * * * * * * * * Printed Circuit Board Layouts to Reduce Electromagnetic Emissions Grounding and Shielding of Electronic Systems Introduction to the "ALLEGRO" PCB Design System Introduction to AutoCAD 3D Basic Training of SolidWorks 2004 "SolidWorks Essentials" 2008 "SolidWorks Drawings" 2009 "SolidWorks Sheet-Metal" 2009 "SolidWorks Essentials" 2010 CADENCE "OrCAD PCB Editor" 2010

PATENTS AND RECOGNITION'S: * U.S. Patent (#4,478,464), 1984 - Rack-Mounted Enclosure Design * Award of Technical Excellence, U.S. Army - Field radio communications equipmen t repair (Held "Secret" clearance while on active military duty) /EOR