QUALIFICATIONS

With unique talents and abilities, Mr. Rodriguez achieves solid business results by rapidly designing and delivering world-class consumer electronics products. 

·         Proven Skills having created over one hundred fully productized designs

·         Uniquely diverse perspective ranging from high-end home theater to automotive & marine products, from OEM to aftermarket.

·         Complete scope, able to deliver end-to-end product designs from power-supply, preamp, power amp… to speaker specifications.

EXPERIENCE

Provide audio & power engineering consultation & design services to the following clients:

Harman International Industries, Northridge, CA                                  1992-Nov. 2004

Principal Design Engineer Audio Power Amplifiers

Designed audio power amplifier products for Automotive and Home Theater markets under the JBL, Infinity, Harman/Kardon, and Mark Levinson brands.

Responsibilities:

Digital and analog circuit design, schematic drawings and other documentation; PCB layout, performance & compliance testing; competitive benchmarking, Bill of Materials preparation; supplier selection, production support and continuous product improvement.

Implemented the following topologies: Class A, Class AB, Class D, Class G, Class H,
Class GH, and newly patented DAFPS (Direct Audio From Power Supply).  

More than 100 products designed, for detailed descriptions and pictures

PATENTS AWARDED                                                                       

US Patent No. 6,392,476                                                                               USPTO issued 2002

System and method of reproducing audio direct from a switched mode power supply, full bridge and push pull, for 12VDC and 120/240VAC.

US Patent, No. 5,986,498                                                                     USPTO issued 1999

Developed new Amplifier Topology, "Audio Direct from Switched Mode Power Supply" based on experience in switched mode power supplies and Class D amplifiers.

Bravo Audio Systems, El Paso, TX                                                                   1990-1992

Design Engineer

Designed power amplifiers for Eclipse, and head units AM/FM cassette with removable face plate and BBE features for Jensen

Chloride Power Electronics, El Paso, TX                                                            1983-1990

Design Engineer

Designed switched mode power supplies and audio power amplifiers for IBM, AT&T, and Alpine.

AMPEX Corporation,                                                                                       1977-1983

Test Engineer

Professional studio tape recording machines, AG-440, MM1200, and ATR-124

Spent one year in training at Redwood City, CA with AMPEX product designers

Worked at AMPEX while attending college

EDUCATION

Electrical Engineering degree, Instituto Technologico, Cd. Juarez Mexico              1974-1978

Bilingual: English and Spanish

Seminars attended:

1.       Switched Mode Power Supply Design (A. Pressman)

2.       EMI Electromagnetic Interference Control (EMI Services)

3.       Stress Screening for Components (Hobbs)

4.       Zero Defects (IBM)

5.       uP Z8 Applications (Zilog Micro-controllers)

6.       Digital Signal Processors (Analog Devices)

7.       Switched Mode Power Supply Design (Texas Instruments)

8.       DSP (Analog Devices Inc.)

9.       TI Analog and Mixed Signal Reference Design Applications (2002)

Software skills:

1.       Tango Schematic                                        

2.       Tango PCB                                                

3.       P-cad 2004 Schematic                    

4.       P-cad 2004

5.       Altium Designer DXP4

6.       Micro Cap Circuit Simulator

7.       Auto Cad light                                              

8.       Webpage design