Summary:

Project Management Experience:

• Eight years managing the development of medical devices
• Four years in commercial and military equipment design and manufacturing
• Widely distributed workforces and projects
• Commercialization of experimental electro-mechanical systems

Systems Experience Highlights:

• Network Appliance to deliver Time to 10/100BaseT Ethernet networks
• Medical device for treatment of enlarged prostate using microwaves
• Medical device for incubation and expansion of blood cells
• Medical data acquisition system for electrophysiology
• Standalone controllers and communication devices for VCRs
• PC based digital oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers
• Microprocessor Emulators for Intel, Motorola, and Zilog processors
• Logic analyzers
• Mobile Robots and Sensors

Technologies:

• Wireless Helmet Mounted Display for consumers
• USB, ISA, EISA, PC/104, and PCI bus interface designs
• ARM7TDMI based Network Processor, 10/100 BaseT Ethernet MAC and PHY
• Motorola, Intel, Philips, Microchip and Zilog microprocessors
• Xilinx FPGAs, PLDs, All logic families, including ECL10K and 100K
• A/D, D/A conversion at up to 16 bits, up to 100MHz
• Signal conditioning front ends down to 0.5mV full scale range
• Patient isolation and input protection for ESD and EMC
• Design for and test to European EMC standards (CISPR11, IEC801)
• Design for high reliability and/or fault tolerance

Software:

• Microsoft Project
• VHDL
• Visual Basic, Basic, Turbo Pascal
• C on PCs and embedded microprocessors
• Assemblers for all above microprocessors

Other:

• PCB Layout
• US and European medical and safety standards - UL2601, IEC601, etc.
• ISO9000 and FDA Good Design/Good Manufacturing Practices

Work History:

2003 - Present   Bryant Labs   Consultant

Bryant Labs is my consulting company. Since 2003, I have completed projects for several clients, all across the country. List of clients available upon request.

1999 - Present   Motion Research, Inc.   Consultant

I have been the principal hardware and firmware designer for Motion Research's Helmet Mounted Display products. The design uses TI's MSP430 family processor combined with Cypress Wireless USB chips to implement the 2.4 GHz spread spectrum wireless link. The product is designed for rugged use, very low power and weight, and high volume production.

For the last two years I managed the R&D department at Symmetricom. I lead a group of up to 35 people at two sites and a $4M budget. Our projects include standard products designed for volume manufacturing as well as one-of-a-kind products and complete systems for government contracts. In late 2002, I was a key part of harmonizing the TrueTime and Symmetricom Engineering efforts, including ISO-9000-2000 Procedures and Processes, as part of the merger of TrueTime, Datum, and Symmetricom

As a Project Director, I was the principle customer liaison for the design and development of Medical products under contract to major medical companies in the US. Our customers included CR Bard, Johnson & Johnson, and US Surgical Corp. In addition to customer and vendor management, I was involved in all phases of the design, development, qualification, and manufacturing of Medical Devices. I also participated in the development of procedures to meet the requirements of the FDA and ISO-9000.

Image Logic makes a family of products for the video production industry. I have designed a number of closed caption encoder/decoders, VITC and LTC time code encoder/decoders, VCR controllers, and other accessories for them.

Rapid Systems was a small manufacturer of PC based Digital Oscilloscopes and Spectrum analyzers. I designed a 2 channel, 12 bit, 1MHz system for them and was working on a 100MHz data acquisition "back end" system when I left.

I worked on the design and development of several microprocessor emulators, including ones for the MC68000 and the i8086.

I spent a brief time at Fluke working on their Hand Held multimeter lines, including the 8020 and 8024, providing sustaining engineering support.

Paratronics made a family of Logic Analyzers. While there I designed waveform capture/display and counter/timer/signature analyzer option boards.

Education:

1979 BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, with honors.

Numerous continuing education credits and certificates.

Contact Information:

Keith B. Payea
Bryant Labs
985 Hyland Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 566-8935 (land line)
(707) 548-9532 (Mobile)
kpayea@bryantlabs.net

Last Revised: 9-Nov-2004