John Barnes KS4GL
216 Hillsboro Avenue
Lexington, KY 40511-2105
(859)253-1178 phone
(859)252-6128 fax
jrbarnes@iglou.com E-mail
March 2, 2002

OBJECTIVE
Help companies put products into production, profitably, by designing electronic products and electronic equipment that:
  1. Work safely and reliably.
  2. Can be manufactured economically.
  3. May be marketed and used worldwide.
  4. Can be easily adapted/upgraded to meet new and changing needs.
CAREER SUMMARY
Put over 110 major products into mass production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark International. Personally developed hardware/ firmware/ software for over 47 products, with 4 more products still in development. Developed testers, and helped debug testers, for another 63 products.

Had 6 products die in development, and killed off 3 lines of products when they went obsolete. Last four projects have been controller cards equivalent to a personal computer motherboard with adapter cards. My most recent card to enter production is the controller card for the Lexmark X820e Multi-Function Printer. This card has a 350MHz x86 processor, 100MHz SDRAM, dual Ethernet ports, IDE, USB, three video ports, PCI port, and a fax MODEM on a 12.5"x6.9" 6-layer card. This card went into production on the second spin (as have all but one of my cards), has been approved for worldwide use, and won 3rd place in the 2002 Mentor Graphics Technology Leadership Awards.

Developed firmware/ hardware/ software/ testers for intelligent terminals and their peripherals, typewriters, printers, and their accessories, 11 generations of network adapters, and 6 generations of Digital Office products. Wrote IBM and Lexmark design guidelines on testability, test coverage, design for manufacturing/ test/ repair, product debug/ qualification, design for international power/ safety/ EMC/ EMI/ ESD, PCB layout, power distribution/ bypassing, and signal integrity.

Redesigned card line to reduce card test/ repair time from 2 weeks to 8 hours, saving IBM $6,000,000 per year.

RESPONSIBILITIES
System architecture, hardware design/ development, firmware/ software development, controller design, network interface design, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, power supplies, product safety, design for manufacturing/ test/ repair, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic immunity (EMI), electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity, thermal, cables, documentation, process development, development/ manufacturing/ test support.

SKILLS
29 years experience designing electronic equipment/ products that work and meet international requirements, while meeting tight development deadlines. 34 years programming experience in over 26 computer languages. System/ hardware/ software design around 32+ types of microprocessors/ microcontrollers from the 8008 up through 1.26GHz Celerons/ Pentium III's. Designing Ethernet, Token-Ring, LocalTalk, PCI, video, MODEM, and many other types of peripheral interfaces. Designing with chipsets, ASIC's, flash ROM's, EEPROM's, and various types of RAM up to 133MHz SDRAM's. Designing products and laying out PCB's for economical manufacturing/ test/ repair, product safety, EMC/ EMI/ ESD, thermal control, and reliable operation at high speeds. Improving development/ manufacturing/ test processes. Researching poorly-understood design areas and coming up with solid design guidelines for them.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
February 2002 to present: Owner of Robust Electronic Design, Inc. and dBi Corporation.

September 1990 to January 2002: Advisory/Specialist Engineer in Digital Office/Network Hardware Development, at IBM and Lexmark International in Lexington, Kentucky.

April 1977 to September 1990: Senior Associate/Staff/Advisory Engineer in Test Engineering, at IBM in Lexington, Kentucky.

January 1973 to April 1977: Firmware Engineer in Product Development, at Sycor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of IEEE. Member of the ESD Association. Member of the Central Kentucky Inventors Council. Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary Society.

PUBLICATIONS
Author of book Electronic System Design: Noise and Interference Control Techniques (English-- Prentice-Hall, 1987, ISBN 0-13-252123-7; Russian-- Mir, 1990, ISBN 5-03-001369-5). Author of Designing Electronic Equipment for ESD Immunity (Printed Circuit Design magazine, July 2001 & November 2001). Author/ coauthor of four IBM Technical Reports and two papers presented at IBM Interdivisional Technical Liason (ITL) meetings. Author/ coauthor of IBM and Lexmark guidelines on designing products for manufacturing and for international markets.

AWARDS
3rd place (Consumer Electronics division) in the 2002 Mentor Graphics Technology Leadership Awards. Make It Happen Vision Award, from Lexmark. Two IBM Information Products Outstanding Contribution Awards and one IBM Cost Effectiveness Award. Distinguished Achievement Award (Undergraduate), from University of Michigan.

EDUCATION
M.S.E.(Computer & Information Control Engineering), University of Michigan, 1972. B.S.E.(Electrical Engineering), University of Michigan, 1971. B.S.(Applied Mathematics), University of Michigan, 1971. Have taken over 216 courses through IBM's and Lexmark's Technical Education and Voluntary Education programs. Read an average of 250 technical books and 800 technical magazines per year.

HOBBIES AND OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES
Computers, creating web pages, designing/building antennas, digital photography, electronics, ham radio, metalworking, photography, reading (average of 300 books and 900 magazines per year), videography, woodworking, and writing. Hamfest Chairman for Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society-- responsible for planning and putting on an event that attracts 650-750 amateur radio operators each year. Webmaster, Proctor Coordinator, Proctor, and Assistant LocSec for Blue Grass Mensa. Have also been President, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, and Newsletter Editor for various clubs.

REFERENCES
References available upon request.

Robust Electronic Design, Inc. is the research arm of dBi Corporation, an EMC testing and consulting company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Our staff has been directly involved in putting over 110 major products into mass production at Sycor, IBM, and Lexmark. Our specialties include: We have over 29 years experience designing/developing and putting products into production, supporting them in the field, and killing them off when they become obsolete. Our experience spans over 32 types of CISC and RISC microprocessors and microcontrollers, from the original Intel 8008 up through 1.26GHz Intel Celerons and Pentium III's. We have developed products with a wide range of semiconductor memories, from EPROM's up through 133MHz SDRAM's. We have developed products with a variety of local-area network (LAN) and peripheral interfaces, including Ethernet, IDE, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), LocalTalk, MODEM's, parallel, PCI, serial, Token-Ring, and USB. And we have used chipsets, ASIC's, FPGA's, and PAL's from a number of vendors to glue these pieces together to make them work.

Robust Electronic Design, Inc. and dBi Corporation may be contacted by:

Last revised March 2, 2002.