William Natter

- Firmware: integration of a new bypass blade
- Manufacturing:
* software testing of locally manufactured, complex electronic products
* responsible for validating new product to be sent to beta testing site

Supplier approval and part qualification
- Verified the capability of new suppliers to produce reliable, quality parts (was slated to audit suppliers in 2009)
- Requested and checked proofs that parts met reliability requirements
- Provided feedback on supplier capability in cost reduction initiatives
- Participated in requirements specification re-definition/re-write
- Gathered crucial information for linear price projection initiative

FPGA verification through simulation and lab testing
- Improved testbench maintainability, consistency and ease-of-use while keeping deadlines
- Minimized coding errors and increased test coverage of lab test scripts
- Sped up in-card testing by making lab test scripts self-checking and remotely runnable
- Created and supported Bus Functional Model for a new DDR-based proprietary protocol

Lab testing, integration, and product integrity testing
- Tested latest generation wireless equipment in lab for conference demonstration
- Tested product integrity of advanced wireless equipment
- Shortened climate chamber use for safety testing by automating card boot-up

Timing & power analysis tool support and methodology development
- Achieved 0-timing-defect in 3 internal ASIC static timing analysis contracts
- Debugged and fixed internal customers’ timing analysis scripts
- Created and sped up internal timing analysis audit tool
- Improved ease of use and thoroughness of internal timing analysis methodology
- Taught methodology to internal customers
- Created first timing bottleneck analysis tool, before First Encounter’s
- Increased internal customer satisfaction by visiting while on vacation
- Received 2 customer appreciation awards for contracts started just weeks after being hired