Matthew's Resume
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EDUCATION
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Youngstown, Ohio
Bachelor of Engineering `93
Major: Electrical Engineering
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
CONEXANT SYSTEMS, INC
Austin, TX July '01 - Present
Field Applications Engineer / Project Manager
Technical resource and Project Manager for active and sustaining projects for Sales team. Dedicated to supporting PCEOM’s Dell and Gateway. Covered products such as Dial Up Modems, DSL Modems, Cable Modems, Network Processors, Power Line Networking, Video Encoding, and Video Decoding. Responsible for giving technical presentation on new products, Design reviews for active projects, And presenting up0dated information on any issues with existing projects. Project Manager responsible for creating and driving schedule, Keeping a world wide team on track, Meeting deadlines.
DELL COMPUTER CORP.
Austin, TX Oct. '98 - May '01
Project Planner
Wireless communications program management team. Team is responsible for delivery of new Wireless WAN, LAN and PAN products. Responsibilities include: Develop project schedules for project based inputs and commitments from all groups involved. Developing localization plans for hardware and documentation, coordinating samples for all teams involved. Develop BOM’s , Kits, Part Numbers and all ECO’s. Coordinate documentation and information flow between all groups involved in development.
Systems Engineer/Analyst
WAN engineering team. Responsible for test and evaluation of new modem and WAN
products for portable, desktop and workstation computers. As part of this I am
responsible for evaluating new designs from vendors, writing test plans, help
organizing co-development with vendors. Internally I participate on several WAN
core teams and the CMT team as an engineering representative and work with the
marketing, procurement, new product development and several other groups to give
engineering advice. The past 8 months I have spent primarily working on
broadband access devices, both DSL and Cable based. Previous to the TPDG WAN
Engineering team I was on the PDG WAN Peripheral Integration team and the
Portables Peripheral Integration team in a similar function.
COMPUCOM SYSTEMS
Woodbury, NJ July '96 - Sept '98
Advanced Network Engineer
Working as field engineer with a wide variety of clients. Worked on projects that included Network Operating System migrations, E-Mail system migrations, hardware upgrades and general help desk support teams. As part of these project I had to adapt to unfamiliar work environments, work without direct supervision and keep a good customer relationship with our clients. Worked on workstations with products such as Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 workstation, Novell 3.X and 4.X, GroupWise, MS Exchange, CC Mail, MS Office and many others. Worked on hardware platforms such as Compaq, Dell, DEC, IBM, Macintosh, HP, QMS, and others.
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Philadelphia, PA May '98 - Aug '98
Health Link Client Solutions Analyst II
Responsible for recommendations, installation, configuration and support of workstations, server, and LAN
solutions. Second level problem analysis and support of workstation/server hardware and software. Also responsible for Netware/NT server administration/configuration.
COMMNET, INC.
Mount Laurel, NJ September '95 - June '96
Application Engineer
Acted as inside sales support for three outside salespeople. Provided technical research and recommendations for enterprise networking solutions in both Win NT and Unix. Placed sales orders, produced quotations, and acted as a technical contact for customers. Assisted in build-up of Servers and PC’s with Win, Win NT, and Unix. Also responsible for operating a help desk for Windows based laptops providing both technical support and hot spare units.
HAYES MICROCOMPUTERS, INC.
Atlanta, GA December '93 - August '95
Product Support Engineer
Performed testing and evaluation of new Hayes and Practical Peripherals Modems and software (DOS, Win, and Mac), suggested both engineering and software changes. Second level call-back technical support, troubleshot problems with Modems and communication software, made set-up recommendations and work-arounds for a wide variety of applications primarily in the DOS, Win, and Mac environments. Trained and supervised First level support. One year of First level telephone technical support for all Hayes and PPI Modems and software.