JAMES “PAT” YOUNG

Pat Young is a seasoned Engineer with experience with both circuit design and electronic packaging / interconnect design.  He has over 25 years experience working in the electronics industry.  Pat re-joined E-M Designs in early 2008.  He had also worked as an Electrical Engineer with Gerhard Engineering from July 1990 to November of 1994.

Pat has extensive experience using Solidworks for 3-D mechanical design, Cosmosworks for stress analysis, and Floworks for thermal simulations.  Pat is also fluent with MicroCap (analog SPICE simulations) and Altium (Schematic/PCB Layout) tools. 

Pat's recent expertise is in the area of high speed data communications up to GHz speeds with a focus in interconnection technologies and high speed signal integrity.       

He is a holder of a number of patents and was a primary proponent, author, and connector designer for the eSATA standard.  Pat is well versed in the areas of agency and safety regulations and certifications (FCC, UL, CE, TUV, CA, etc.).  As an EMI and ESD control specialist, mentor, and author, he has functioned as a world wide regulatory compliance officer bringing dozens of products through certifications.    

 SPECIALTIES 

·         Complete electrical and mechanical product design

·         Industrial design – Product styling

·         Enterprise class high availability storage system architecture

·         High volume, low cost consumer products

·         Computer simulation for stress and thermal analysis

·         High speed circuit, PCB, & connector design

·         Programmable logic design

·         Video and security system design

·         Computerized data acquisition

·         Production engineering

·         Laser 3-D scanning systems

·         Product safety per UL & TUV requirements

·         EMI and ESD control specialist; mentor and author

·         World-wide product regulatory compliance officer

·         Serial ATA cable and connector representative and primary contributor

·         Primary proponent, author, and connector designer for the eSATA standard

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 December 2007 to present

E-M Designs, Inc.                                               Dana Point, CA

Senior Electrical / Mechanical Engineer

Pat’s responsibilities include both electrical Engineering and mechanical Engineering.  Although he has only been with E-M Designs a short time, he has already established himself as an invaluable member of our design team. 

He has been the primary package designer of a high volume Point of Sale device for a major corporate client.  Pat’s responsibilities have included incorporation of Industrial Design (ID) concepts into the production parts, ergonomic considerations, generation of the master 3-D CAD model, and component / material selections.

November 1994 to March 2007

Silicon Image Inc. / CMD Technology                Irvine, CA

Principal Level Hardware Engineer

Pat’s responsibilities included both system and product design with a focus on interconnection technology and high-speed signal integrity.  Fluent in multiple CAD systems for digital design. Extensive use of Solidworks for 3-D mechanical design, Cosmosworks for stress analysis, and Floworks for thermal simulation.  Use of C language for fabricating custom production and data acquisition systems.  Multiple patents and patent applications pending.  Primary product designer of over a dozen products, some specific examples: 

·         Principal architect of SATA based enterprise storage system with multiple patentable innovations

·         Ultra high speed SCE connector, US patent 6814583, Samtec SAL1

·         Daytona SCSI RAID system – Best in show DECUS, 96, US Patent 6018456

·         Yukon controller, for retrofitting SATA disks in EMC˛’s Clarion storage system

·         SV2000, 5 disk SATA RAID system – Patented component 6843674

·         SV1010, 2 disk SATA/USB RAID system – Patent pending

·         Duo-Stor, 2 drive miniature SATA/USB RAID system using 2.5” disks

·         Tailgate / Safe-cable, internal disk mirroring device – Patent pending

July 1990 to November 1994

Gerhard Engineering, Inc.                                 Mission Viejo, CA

Staff Consulting Engineer

 Complete electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and PCB design, from conception to prototype to production.

 Product design specialties: 

• Analog and digital Video, PC based Video processing
• Digital video communications
• Hand held products with graphic and custom LCD displays
• Medical electronics
• Mentor on FPGA and other programmable logic
• PC peripherals and data acquisition systems
• Fiber optics
• Optical and laser communications and laser based scanning radar
• Security devices and algorithms
• Space flight computer and data acquisition design

February 1983 to July 1990

MAI Basic four Inc.                                         Tustin, CA

Electrical Engineer

Design and production of intelligent serial data terminals.  Also worked on graphic systems and terminals and point of sale peripherals.

August 1982 to February 1983

Data-Chron, Inc.                                           Tustin, CA                    

Electronic Technician

Engineering and Production technician on time base equipment utilizing IRIG and NASA modulated time codes for missile telemetry.   Component level test and de-bug of time code generators, translators and tape search units. Extensive use of most common test equipment.

August 1980 to December 1981

Ormond Inc.                                                 Santa Fe Springs, CA

Technician

Production and field technician on industrial strain gage based weighing systems.  Built tested and installed weighing systems, batching systems and thrust stands used for rocket engine development.  Performed on-site modifications and both mechanical and electrical design a well as production engineering.

March 1979 to May 1980

CalComp Inc                                              Anaheim, CA

Laboratory technician

Maintained entire plotter and controller product line to component level in field engineer training facility.  Extensive micro code experience on TTL based mini computers.