Wayne Little

• Lead a team of 3 Principal Engineers to create Zenith’s product development philosophy: post-silicon characerization, specification requirement tracking, revision control repositories, budget tracking, hardware engineering libraries, and software design. • Design in-house circuit solutions for bench evaluation from pencil sketch to simulation to prototyping: programmable constant current source, DIY signal injection transformer, DIY line step amplifier. • Championed Zenith’s post-silicon validation process flow, reporting structure, and balancing requirements aligned with internal, customer, ISO 16750, and IATF 16949 standards. • Pioneered automated test benches in Python implementing oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, and electronic loads to decrease validation time by 50%. • Architected and managed Zenith's AVL for hardware engineering.

• Strategic engineering support for a diverse power portfolio of products accounting for $50M in lifetime revenue across the Auto Regulator business; ASIL DC-DC POL, and SoC PMICs. • Experienced in Functional Safety development for Maxim’s power products in accordance with ISO 26262 • Directed experienced and junior engineers to be self-reliant and driven on personal quarterly business goals. • Fostered a Subject Matter Expert philosophy within the PMIC team; e.g., EMI, PCB Layout, and SPICE and SIMPLIS modelling. • Created and executed post-silicon validation plans for Maxim’s automotive power products. • Championed new process developments for LTSpice Models championed automotive customers’ requirements in performance, and advocate for their needs in development meetings. • Engineered a refined OTP programming process to eliminate errors for customer prototype evaluation. • Drafted schematics, layout, and documentation for customer evaluation modules with Cadence Allegro. • Developed programmable GUIs in Qt IDE for customer evaluation of silicon. • Developed automated bench evaluation setups in Python to decreasing data collection time by 25%.

• Project lead engineer for Dialog’s first non-Apple PMIC design (SC2703) for Spreadtrum Communications. • Created and executed post-silicon validation for buck, boost, ADC, battery charger, and I2C blocks. • Led Python development to fully automate silicon evaluation: Measuring, analyzing for pass/fail, and automatic report generation speeding up evaluation by 50%.

• Strategic applications support for Microchip’s $20M remote diode temperature sensor product portfolio. • Product Architect for Microchip’s EMC18xx and MCP990x Remote Diode Temperature Sensors. • Directed an engineering team to design an interactive demonstration of temperature sensors over CAN/LIN bus for Microchip MASTERS 2014 conference. • Mentored a team of electrical and robotic engineering interns.

• Strategic engineering support sustaining a $100M product operational amplifier portfolio. • Product architect for LMV331/393/339 comparators, LMV321/324/358 operational amplifiers, NCS2211/8353 audio power amplifiers, and NCS5650 power line communication amplifier. • Designed customer evaluation module schematics, PCB layout, and footprint/symbols in OrCAD. • Developed simplified SPICE models for the LMV series operational amplifiers to support circuit simulation and design validation.

• Level 2 engineering support for TI's diverse operational amplifier portfolio. • Reviewed customer schematics and PCB layout, TINA Spice simulations, and evaluation kit validation.