Mark Aaron Rages
1008 Falcon Drive
Columbia, MO 65201
(573) 823-4631 (cell)
markrages@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Electronics Hardware / Firmware Design engineering position
SUMMARY
- Entrepreneur in electronic equipment design
- Hardware / firmware consulting
- PCB layout and prototype manufacturing
- Engineering manager for film transfer house
- System administration / web programming for film transfer house
- Video hardware and software design
- Design and maintenance of film projectors and cameras
- Design and production engineering for AMPS cellular phone / two
way voice pager
- Design experience with POCSAG pagers
- Wrote an objective voice quality analysis program in 'C' (from
Master's work)
- MS in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia
- BS in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla
- Computer skills:
- Operating systems:
Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Emacs
- Programming languages (PC):
Python, C/C++, Bash, Matlab/Octave, FORTRAN
- Programming languages (Embedded):
C, Microchip PIC assembly, TI 320xx assembly
- Programming languages (other):
HTML, Javascript, PHP, LaTeX
- Prototyping skills:
SMT soldering, Manual machining (vertical mill, lathe)
- Applications:
MS Office, SPICE, AutoCAD, gEDA/gschem, PADS, Eagleware
EXPERIENCE:
Hardware / Firmware consultant, August 2007 to present
Quarq Technology Inc, Spearfish SD
- Wrote MSP430-based firmware for bicycle power meter
- Schematic, PCB layout, built prototype,
wrote MSP firmware for wireless data logger product
- Schematic, PCB layout, built prototype,
wrote PIC firmware for automated test fixtures
- PC software for test fixtures and calibration (Python / C on Linux)
PCB design layout consultant, various projects in 2008
Calibration Technology Inc, Columbia MO
- Design and Layout of 4-20mA analog interface to industrial
process sensor
- Short run manfacturing (50 parts) of interface board.
Founder and CEO, January 2006 to present
Midwest Telecine LLC, Columbia MO
- Developed innovative, low-cost film scanner for small archives
- Designed mechanical, optical, and electronic systems.
- Designed USB interface
- Wrote embedded control code to communicate with optical
displacement sensor
- Wrote host capture application to run on dedicated Linux PC
- Wrote firmware for embedded digital position control system
Telecine Engineer, November 2001 to January 2006
Director of Engineering, December 2004 to January 2006
Home Movie Depot Inc, Ashland, MO
- Directed two engineers and intern in system administration and
code development
- Coordinated manufacturing and contract assembly of projector control PCB
- Designed and built telecine system for 8mm film
- Designed frame-accurate control circuit for telecine projector
- Designed PCB for control circuit
- Wrote firmware for PID control system
- Tuned PLL for frame-accurate film capture
- Wrote video DSP software to process video: adjust gamma and
brightness, crop, flip, matte, deinterlace and detect scene
changes
- Wrote video histogram and vectorscope software
- Oversaw VHS transfer system project
- Wrote Python library for frame-accurate editing of MPEG-2
elementary video streams
- Design, built and maintained Linux file servers in terabyte RAID
configuration
- Maintained 12 Windows XP / Adobe Premiere video workstations
- Modified open-source video software for realtime MPEG-2 encoding
- Migrated video workstations to Linux systems
- Designed gigabit ethernet network to transport video
- Created web-based DVD editor software
- Created automatic DVD build/burn/print system
- Created online price estimation calculator
RF/Hardware Engineer, June 1997 to August 1999, Summer 2000
Maxon America, Inc., Kansas City, MO
- Designed bed-of-nails ATE test fixture for voice pager
- Oversaw pilot and production runs of voice pager in Korean factory
- Designed charger switching circuit for voice pager
- Helped solve memory corruption problem in voice pager
- Analyzed pager digital board current consumption and solved
battery life problem
- Developed voice prompt programming hardware for voice pager
- Evaluated image problems with receiver boards
- Integrated new power amplifier in analog cellular phone
Electronics Hobbyist, 1990 to present
- Wrote Linux driver for Gadget Labs Wave/4 soundcard
- Wrote cross-platform host application for Microchip PICkit / PICkit 2
using Python and libusb.
- Designed, built and modified guitar amplifiers
- Designed and built speaker systems for musical instrument, public
address, car audio, and home stereo applications
- Repaired electronic items for family and friends
Industrial Maintenance, Summer 1995
Enduro Industries, Hannibal, MO
- Participated in the building and installation of PLC panel for
automatic crane
- Drafted wiring diagrams and equipment blueprints using AutoCAD
EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2002
Thesis title: "Processing of Voice Coded Signals"
Emphasis on Digital Signal Processing
University of Missouri at Columbia
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 1997
University of Missouri at Rolla