Bob Alkire Consulting – bobalkire.com
I am a sole proprieter of Bob Alkire Consulting. I am an experienced electronics design engineer with a diverse collection of skills to design and development of analog, power systems (battery and AC), RF, FPGA, microcontrollers and firmware development. I’ve worked on emerging technologies at HP Labs, Atari Sunnyvale Research Group, Apple Advanced Technology Group, AT&T Labs, Sun Labs at Sun Microsystems and Interval Research.
I have experience in all phases of design, from concept through design, PC Layout, enclosure design, prototype build and bring up, surface mount rework, manufacture test and compliance testing. I strive to understand the customers goals and priorities as soon as possible and design to those goals.
I am a native born US Citizen and located Bellingham WA.
Contact
You can contact me through email. Please indulge me here as I really want to get your email but I won’t see it if my email is full of SPAM. We know that emails are of the form <name><at symbol><domain name>, for my email the <name> is info and the domain name is on the first line of this site. Alternatively, I can be contacted through linkedin.
Capabilities and Tools
- Schematic Capture, SPICE and PCB Layout: Altium Designer†
- Simulation: Mathcad†, pSPICE†, ltSPICE†
- Mechanical Design: Solidworks†
- FPGA Development and Simulation: Xilinx ISE (Verilog)
- Firmware Development: C language with GCC Toolchain†
- JTAG Programmer: Segger JLINK†
- SMT rework equipment†, Test equipment†
Items marked with † are tools that I have licenses for or own.
Work Samples
I've provided links to the design content of these projects as examples of work done that can be public.
- SunSPOTs: Lead engineer for this early IoT device for Sun Microsystems and Oracle. The work was split between to design engineers although I wrote the power controller firmware by myself (pctrl.c)
- experiport: Cortex-M3 design I used for teaching surface mount hand assembly. This was also used for smartphone control of house lighting
Website
It seems most websites have lots of imagery, pop up ads and really, very little information. I’ll spare you that as I like to keep things simple but no simpler. So welcome to the entirety of my website.
-Bob