Ben Newton

About Ben Newton

Talented electrical and computer hardware engineer and technical lead with 22 years of experience engineering high quality and complex medical devices, computer systems and printed circuit boards. Accomplished and well respected technical leader adept at resolving data-driven decisions, articulating technical direction, and maintaining a focused and cohesive team. Driven to innovate from initial concept through implementation and customer delivery of cutting edge electronics hardware. Detail oriented with breadth and depth of knowledge in the areas of high speed SERDES technology and signal integrity analysis, digital and computer systems architecture, analog and digital PCB circuit design, FPGA design, electronics manufacturing processes, systems debug and design verification techniques. Extensive background in customer focused and manufacturing focused product support.Specialties: Computer systems and architecture; Product concept development; Analog and digital circuit design; PCB layout, stackup, trace geometries, materials technology, Cadence, Allegro, PADS; Strong leadership abilities; Signal integrity analysis in high speed digital systems; FPGA design, Verilog, VHDL, Xilinx ISE; Battery and super-capacitor power circuit design; Skilled in DFT, DFA, DFM, DFC; PCI-Express, SAS/SATA, USB, InfiniBand, DDR; Extensive lab bring-up and debug experience; Firmware debug, C++, machine languge, forth; UNIX, Linux, and Windows administration, shell scripting, PERL; Adept at managing sensitive, urgent customer escalations, mission critical manufacturing support in high stakes, line down situations.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Teradyne

   May 2022 — Present · North Reading, MA, US

Education

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  1996 — 2000