4431 N. Greenview Ave. Unit 2, Chicago, IL 60640·773-368-0311·ben@missele.com
Benjamin M. Missele
Experience
06/29/09 – 2/25/11	Motorola	Arlington Heights, IL
Senior Technical Staff Digital Design Engineer
01/09/03 – 06/29/09
Senior Digital Design Engineer
06/01/98 – 01/09/03
Digital Design Engineer § Led an engineering team to complete the redesign of a Base Station Controller system processor board ahead of an aggressive schedule. § Designed system testing and coordinated with external test labs to achieve NEBS certification for the Motorola LTE Enhanced Packet Core third party integrated frame solution. § Lead engineer for a Base Station Controller system backplane design that met all requirements and deadlines. The backplane continues to show high quality and performance in customer applications. § Successfully led an international team, including members from China and India, which met all deadlines and quality goals for design, factory build, and test of a circuit board design. § Responsible for all phases of circuit board design including requirements, hardware specifications, part selection, circuit design, capture, layout, test plan design and execution. § Established relationships with software and test groups as well as third party vendors and test labs. § Member of the Motorola STAR safety team. Managed test lab safety, TL9000 procedures, and test equipment calibration and selection. § Skilled in timing analysis with Timing Designer. § Design analysis and verification using Tektronix Digitizing Oscilloscopes and Logic Analyzers. § Ethernet over copper design and testing. § T1 and E1 span line testing. § Programming in the Expect scripting language. § Programmable logic design in ABEL and VHDL.
05/97 – 08/97	Motorola	Arlington Heights, IL
Digital Design Intern § Entered schematics using Mentor Graphics. § Investigated new Xilinx FPGA synthesis and compilation tools for use on future design projects. § Investigated parts for a new design project. § Designed a new product testing board for Motorola internal use.
05/96 – 08/96, 12/96 - 01/97	Motorola	Arlington Heights, IL
Software Development Intern § Developed a system of automatic data collection and processing for 16 networked test stations. § Configured hardware and software for three test stations running Windows 95. § Extended previous data collection system to all test stations in the Arlington Heights plant.
Education
08/94 – 05/98	University of Illinois	Urbana-Champaign, IL
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
References
References are available on request.