Joseph Giardella - Curriculum Vitae
Chief Engineer - Giar Designs, LLC
201-663-8578
joe at giardesigns dot com
Areas of Expertise
- Product Management (Marketing) and Project Management (Engineering).
- Fundamental circuitry design of analog and digital systems keeping performance and costs in perspective.
- Communicating successfully with people of all levels by using assured interpersonal skills with the ability to remain composed and focused under high-stress situations.
- Evaluating problems and providing realistic solutions.
Education
- St. Thomas Aquinas College • Sparkill, N.Y.
- Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics
- Manhattan College • Riverdale, N.Y
- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Professional Experience
- 2005 - Present – Senior Engineer – Sound Sciences, LLC.
- 2005 - Present – Chief Engineer – Giar Designs, LLC.
- 2003 - 2005 – Product Manager – Homita USA.
- 1997 - 2003 – Project Manager - Crest Audio.
- 1996 - 1997 – Test Engineer - Gaming Laboratories International, Inc.
Notable Professional Achievements
- Designed an intelligent eight channel high power amplifier with a modular bay for CobraNet enabled audio, Ethernet control and monitoring.
- Managed a line of consumer electronic products ranging from portable DVD players to LCD televisions that grew from 3 to 15 products in one year.
- Defined and designed a series of Intelligent audio amplifiers consisting of 17 models with modular bay for CobraNet enabled audio and Ethernet control and monitoring.
- Designed an Ethernet to RS485 hub to allow legacy audio amplifier systems to communicate over Ethernet.
- Created programs to facilitate testing of gaming machine software so testing could be done more efficiently and reliably to be used for off site testing.
Relevant Skills
- Electronic Hardware Design – Analog Design, Microprocessors, DSP's, FPGA's, Ethernet, RS485, RS232, SPI, I2S I2C and other digital communications and processes.
- MCS51 family, Motorola 56K, Microchip PIC, Motorola Coldfire, Analog Devices Sharc and BlackFin
- Schematic Design, PCB Packaging and PCB Layout using Pads Logic, Pads PowerPCB, DxDesigner, ViewDraw, OrCad, CADSoft Eagle, Actel Libero, MPLab.
- Assembly, C/C++, Visual Basic, VHDL