Ken Young
Lead Design Engineer at Angela Young Studios
- Role
- Design Engineer at Stanford Research Systems Inc
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ken Young
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Experience
Design Engineer
Dec 1998 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
Designed and developed a real-time embedded operating system.Designed and developed a set of python debugging & software architecture libraries.Introduced bug prevention techniques into a development group, improving reliability and reducing development time by approximately 1 year. Our products are now nearly bug-free.Introduced and specified formal Design Validation Testing, resulting in few problem reports from customers.Codefixing: was placed on a floundering project with high bug rate and frequent crashes; fixed problems and converted into high-reliability firmware with low bug rate.Designed and developed a flash memory boot-loader.Designed and developed a font maker that turned a BMP file into data tables for embedded firmware.Designed and developed a help maker that parses the manual, GUI tables, and remote commands. It cross-linked related commands, compressed text, and produced the \'see-also\' help tables for embedded firmware.Designed and developed firmware for the most advanced Ion Gauge controller. This product bifurcated the IGC market into advanced high-end and basic low-end instruments with nothing in between. The product appeared on the cover of R&D magazine back when that was important.Designed and developed firmware for the most advanced Partial Pressure Monitor.Designed and developed firmware for the most advanced Melting Point Apparatus. This was an industry-changing instrument. Most MPAs introduced since are copies.Designed and developed firmware for a programmable temperature controller.Designed and developed firmware for an electrochemistry apparatus.Modernized numerous test & calibration stations built in the 1980s and 1990s.Designed and developed LabVIEW drivers for several instruments.Designed and developed embedded GPIB interface.Trained and managed a novice test engineer.
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