Target employment: Contract or Full time, mid-April 2000 Past salary: ID Systems $62,500 + 15,000 stock options vested over 5 years. Upon resignation, both the CEO and Director of Engineering offered to retain me for a negotiable salary between $70k-$80k, plus an unspecified number of additional stock options. Xerox Corp. $40/hr over three-month period AGNC Corp. $37.50/hr over three-month period Dear Recruiter/Manager, I'm a mechatronics engineer. This isn't your usual mechanical engineer... so I'm prefacing my resume with some elucidation as to what I mean by this: I am an expert c programmer (9 years) and technically advanced Matlab/Simulink programmer (7 years), including custom Simulink GUI work. I have several successful professional consultations behind me for major firms such as Xerox Corporate Research & Development, as well as professional experience as a real-time/embedded firmware systems engineer for a Silicon Alley start-up. I have significant control systems experience, extending to fuzzy and non- linear as well as classical control, and including both time- and frequency- based system identification and DSP techniques. I'm presently looking for a stimulating permanent position where my work demands expertise in the areas of software development/programming as well as real-time/embedded control system design and implementation/integration, especially any R & D involving Matlab/Simulink analysis. The combination of my controls background with extensive code development experience, and my doctoral training as a mechanical engineer, put me in a unique position where I can draw from any and all of these areas to synergistically complete a wide variety of challenging projects for your company and/or clients. Sincerely, Julian de Marchi, Ph.D. mailto:julian@perihelia.com http://www.perihelia.com -- -- -- %< -- -- -- -- -- %< -- -- -- -- -- %< -- -- -- -- -- %< -- -- -- -- -- %< -- -- curriculum vita/rιsumι: Julian Andrew de Marchi credentials: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, B.A. Physics, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering mailto:julian@perihelia.com http://www.perihelia.com tel: +1 (917) 334 6404 address: 327 14th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES: • Seeking challenging mechatronics work • Willing to travel for occasional business • Excellent written and verbal English • Solid team-building, project management and interpersonal skills EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVES: Gainful employment with a small-to-medium sized division at a research-oriented firm with a fundamental interest in social and technological advancement using mechatronic system design. I would like to employ my skills in mechatronics to assist in the efforts of a research and design group. EDUCATION: 1998 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Identification and control of friction, impact backlash and elastic compliance in machine tools 1994 Master's, Mechanical Engineering • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Experimental degradation of flexible beam control in the presence of drive train nonlinearities 1992 Bachelor's, Mechanical Engineering • Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science 1992 Bachelor's, Physics • Bard College, a School of the Liberal Arts and Sciences WORK EXPERIENCE: 1999-2000 Firmware Engineer • I.D. Systems, Inc. (Silicon Alley, New York City, NY) • Real-time embedded c-language firmware/software development for customized radio-frequency asset-tracking and asset-management systems. System design, product development, project scheduling, system testing and quality assurance. Internal development tools coding and documentation. Technical interviewing and screening for human resources. Personal effort has contributed to successful systems delivered to American Steel Foundries, Avis Rent-A-Car, Dana Commercial Credit, FedEx, Ford Motor Company, Hallmark Greeting Cards, United Postal Service (UPS), U.S. Postal Service and others. ID Systems (IDSY) went public in August 1999. 1998-1999 Engineering Consultant • Xerox Corporation Wilson Center for Research and Technology (Webster, NY) • Servocontrol system design for proprietary keystone xerographic component in new line of color photocopiers, applying Ph.D. research in friction dynamics and control. Task was to accomplish paper alignment (for a range paper weights, unknown a priori) within 10 micrometers in less than one tenth of a second. Task was completed successfully within four months, using Matlab and Simulink together with DSP-based data-acquisition system and custom-built mechanical test bed. 1997-1998 Associate Consultant • TCG, Inc. (Troy, NY) • On-site industrial/corporate mechatronics training as member of TCG consulting team based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1995-1998 National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Fellow • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) Mechatronics Research Group • Doctoral research in friction modeling and simulation. Developed novel friction identification methods for asymmetric viscous and kinetic friction in nonlinear, overdamped systems. Numerous presentations on novel mechatronic system design and educational techniques in Europe and America, with emphasis on current research programmes. Research assistance in the areas of mechatronic system design and research project management, as well as original, basic research activities. One journal publication, several conference presentations, and two pending journal submissions. Several Matlab, Simulink, and c code libraries, hardware projects and educational systems. 1997 Consultation • American Guidance, Navigation and Control Corp. (Chatsworth, CA) • Custom design, construction, integration, testing and proving of a special mechanical positioning test bed system with flexible beam attachment. Client was a defense research contractor with heavy emphasis on Matlab systems modeling and control systems design/ simulation. Needed test bed to prove control system design using active piezoelectric vibration damping. Design, delivery, installation and system integration performed in less than three months. On-site follow-up consulting and education for PhD researchers at client end. Successful results published in academic technical journal. 1995 Consultation • General Electric Corporation R & D Center (Schenectady, NY) • Custom design concept for proprietary mechatronic boroscope. Creative design was sought out and discovered, then proven using available/feasible technologies. Design was to be used for high- tech imaging/navigation system for turbine inspection and maintenance, without having to disassemble turbine. Design was well-received by client. 1993-1994 Teaching & Research Assistant • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) • Tutorial assistance for the Machine Dynamics, Mechatronics, and Project Management for Mechatronic System Design courses. Co-development and world-wide promotion of Rensselaer mechatronics curriculum. Author of Introduction to Mechatronics electronics laboratory curriculum. Lecturing duties and laboratory assistance. Co-organiser of Rensselaer Engineering Creativity Conference. Mentoring of subsequent Mechatronics teaching assistants. 1992 Interface Specialist (Internship) • German Aerospace (DLR-Langer Grund, Deutschland) • Automated FORTRAN analysis of particle-image displacement velocimetry (PIV) data for Vulcan rockets used on the European Space Agency's Ariane-5 project. Work involved developing FORTRAN code for image processing, using frequency transforms, image autocorrelations and the like, for specialized image-processing equipment. 1991 Interface Specialist (Work/Study) • Columbia University Microelectronic Sciences Laboratory (NYC) • Integrated and automated hardware and BASIC software for high- vacuum Gallium-Arsenide (GaAs) film-deposition experiments. Work/study involved custom electronic circuit design and integration with BASIC software to run post-doctorate research experiments on-line, overnight. BASIC application controlled the machinery and analyzed the gather data. 1991 Programmer (Internship) • Fokker Aircraft b.V. Electronics Laboratory (Schiphol, Nederland) • Programmed Pascal and dBase software for global positioning system (GPS) signal processing for use with research on proprietary air- braking technologies. Work involved translation of equations in Master's Thesis of post-graduate intern into a Pascal application which could resolve military-like accuracy out of the civilian GPS signal band in spite of atmospheric disturbances and so forth. 1990 Laboratory Assistant (Work/Study) • Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (New York City) • Customized MASS-11 research database software for bone and cartilage sample management in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory. Assisted with general laboratory management. Work/study involved general maintenance tasks as well as some assigned projects like mechanical test bed design and engineering for automating indentation experiment for testing cartilage hardness, and related computer applications programming. 1989 Programmer (Internship) • Systems Analysis Services (Auburndale, Massachusetts) • Customized dBase database software and installed custom PC-based point-of-sale and inventory systems. SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES: platforms: MS DOS, MS Windows, UNIX; DSP, Intel, Motorola, Neuron and processors languages: assembly, BASIC, c, c++, FORTRAN, Pascal, Perl applications: AutoLev, FrameMaker, HTML, LabVIEW, LaTeX, Maple, Matlab/Simulink, PRO/Engineer, Working Model (3D) experience: analog & digital electronics, embedded processor interfacing, numerical & control computing, real-time/embedded control system design PENDING PUBLICATIONS: "Comments on `Natural Frequencies and Dampings Identification using Wavelet Transform: Application to Real Data'" • Julian A. de Marchi and Kevin C. Craig • [submission to the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing] 1. "Asymmetric Viscous and Kinetic Friction Identification via the Extended Logarithmic Decrement Method", and 2. "Identification of Arbitrarily Overdamped Second-Order Systems via Parametric Harmonic Oscillation", and 3. "A Model for Backlash and Compliance with Viscoelastic Impact Effects" • Julian A. de Marchi and Kevin C. Craig • [submissions to the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, February 2000] REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: "Mechatronic Design of an Inverted Pendulum System for Engineering Education." • Celal S. Tόfekηi, Julian A. de Marchi, Kevin C. Craig and Selahattin Φzηelik • UK Mechatronics Forum International Conference (Mechatronics '98) • 9-11 September 1998 • Skφvde, Sweden "Real-Time Control of an Inverted Pendulum using Direct Model-Reference Adaptive Control." • Selahattin Φzηelik, Julian A. de Marchi, Howard Kaufman, Kevin C. Craig • Conference on the Control of Industrial Systems (IFAC '97) • 20-22 May 1997 • Belfort, France "Mechatronic System Design at Rensselaer." • Kevin C. Craig and Julian A. de Marchi • Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Education • January 1996, volume 4, number 1, pages 67-78 "Experimental Degradation of Flexible Beam Control in the Presence of Drive Train Nonlinearities." • Julian A. de Marchi, Jun Ma, and Kevin C. Craig • International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE '95) • 12-17 November 1995 • San Francisco, CA "Rensselaer Mechatronics Newsletter." • Julian A. de Marchi, editor • Rensselaer Mechatronics Research Group • an annual publication • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • viewable online at http://www.meche.rpi.edu/research/mechatronics INVITED PRESENTATIONS: "Research and Technology Seminar: `Mechatronics in Industrial Applications'" • Julian A. de Marchi • Xerox Corporation Center for Research and Technology • 29 January 1999 • Webster, New York "Mechatronics in Machine Tools." • Julian A. de Marchi and Kevin C. Craig • Control and Configuration Aspects of Mechatronics (CCAM '97) • 21-26 September 1997 • Ilmenau, Germany "Undergraduate Mechatronic Design at Rensselaer: Philosophy and Practice." • Julian A. de Marchi and Kevin C. Craig • Focused/Vision and Control Aspects of Mechatronics (ViCAM/EFAM '96) • 16-21 September 1996 • Guimarγes, Portugal "Mechatronic System Design: Philosophy and Methodology." • Julian A. de Marchi and Kevin C. Craig • Conference on Computer-Aided Engineering Education • 12 July 1996 • Virginia Polytechnic Institute, VA "Mechatronic System Design at Rensselaer." • Kevin C. Craig and Julian A. de Marchi • International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics (ICRAM '95) • 14-16 August 1995 • Istanbul, Turkey SELECTED COURSEWORK: Mechatronic Design • Mechatronic Project Management (TA) • Mechatronics (TA) • Mechatronic System Design (TA) • Engineering Design • Optimal Design of Multidisplinary Systems • Data Analysis (Statistics) • Mechanical Engineering Experimentation • Methods of Experimentation • Creative Design for Engineers and Managers • Creativity Workshop • Computer-Aided Design and Graphics Control System Design • Optimal Control Theory • Adaptive Systems • Neural Network Computing • Nonlinear Control • Classical Control Systems • Digital Control Systems • Digital Control Systems • Numerical Methods • Control Systems Design and Digital Implementation • Systems Analysis Techniques Mechanical Engineering • Machine Dynamics (TA) • Vibrations • Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems • Experiment • Applied Multibody Dynamics • Experimental Physics • Mechanical Engineering Laboratory • Solid Mechanics (Statics) • Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer • Fluid Mechanics • Energy Sources and Conversion Electrical Engineering • Mechatronics: Electronics Lab (co-author) • Microprocessor Laboratory • Analog Electronics • Electrostatics • Digital Electronics • Electrodynamics HONORS: 1997 Inductee, Phalanx Honor Society • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1994-1997 Graduate Research Fellow • National Science Foundation 1995 Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1989-1990 Dean's List of Honors • Bard College LEADERSHIP: 1994-1996 President • WRPI 91.5 FM Stereo/Radio Rensselaer ($100k budget, 150 members, 65-mile radius) 1995 Chief Engineer • WRPI 91.5 FM Stereo/Radio Rensselaer 1994 Program Director • WRPI 91.5 FM Stereo/Radio Rensselaer 1993 Library Manager • WRPI 91.5 FM Stereo/Radio Rensselaer 1991-1992 Secretary • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Columbia University Chapter 1989-1990 Cultural Attachι • Society of Physics Students, Bard College Chapter 1988 President • Amnesty International, Bard College Chapter 1988 Co-Founder • Bard College Natural Food Cooperative 1987-1988 Co-Captain • Bard College Ultimate Frisbee Team REFERENCES are made available at your request. 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