Castro Valley, CA
Phone: +1 (858) 722 2298
Email: [email protected]
Homepage: https://cdwilson.dev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdwilson
GitHub: https://github.com/cdwilson
2022 – Present, Principal, Common Ground Electronics, Castro Valley, CA
Boutique embedded systems engineering services firm
2022, Technical Advisor, Tempo Automation, San Francisco, CA
2018 – 2021, Senior Technical Product Manager
2018, Technical Product Manager
Software-Accelerated PCBA Manufacturing
- Conducted user, market, and competitive research to identify product opportunities in the customer experience and inform the product roadmap communicated to c-level leadership.
- Responsible for the design, planning, execution, and launch of real-time order status tracking and PCB design visualization features in the customer portal, contributing to a 19% increase in NPS from 2018 to 2019.
- Owned an initiative to reduce the time-to-RFQ by redesigning the bill of materials (BOM) editor, resulting in a 23% reduction in the median BOM issue resolution time.
- Established technical credibility with key customers by participating in IPC-2581 technical committee meetings, ultimately leading to investment from Lockheed Martin (Series C).
2010 – 2018, Electronics Design Engineer, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions for Smart Grid
- Co-designed Cisco's first industrial IOx "fog" compute module, enabling customers to run custom IoT applications on Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Routers.
- Lead electronics design engineer for IEEE 802.15.4g hardware reference designs used by Cisco DevNet partners to develop 3rd-party Cisco Resilient Mesh End Point (CRME) devices.
- Developed the world's largest closed-circuit mesh network testbed consisting of over 5000 IoT hardware endpoint devices, unlocking CI/CD workflows and remote development/debug/testing for internal firmware development teams.
2007 – 2010, Electronics Design Engineer, Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems), San Francisco, CA
Pioneer in IP-based wireless sensor network technology
- Responsible for transition to agile in-house hardware design and manufacturing. Adopted industry standard EDA, DFM, PLM tools and methodology to scale hardware development from prototype to production.
- Designed and launched 802.15.4 2.4GHz PhyNet™ wireless sensors and router network interface cards for enterprise-scale wireless sensor networks.
2006, Undergraduate Researcher, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Berkeley, CA
Pre-competitive, public domain research
- Implemented distributed adaptive duty cycling algorithm in nesC for Telos wireless sensor motes running TinyOS 1.x operating system.
2004, Interim Engineering Intern, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
CDMA Technologies form factor accurate (FFA) baseband team
- Developed framework for an intranet website used to track internal development of FFA hardware.
2009 – 2015, Owner, Flying Camp Design, Castro Valley, CA
Open-source hardware design
- Designed open-source hardware boot-strap loader (BSL) programmer for TI MSP430 MCUs.
- Developed open-source cross-platform BSL GUI utility in Python.
2010 – 2014, Partner, Moteware, Berkeley, CA
Open-source electronics disseminator for research groups and education
- Founded with a group of former graduate students at UC Berkeley.
- Helped manage sales, support, IT, and manufacturing.
Product :: Jira, Confluence, Git/Github, Python
Electronics :: KiCad, Cadence Concept & Allegro, OrCAD Capture, Autodesk EAGLE, Arena PLM, Oracle Agile PLM, lab safety, PCBA bring-up & rework
Interests :: Embedded systems, traveling, mountain biking, surfing
2003 – 2007, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Awards: Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship