I work at Nortel Networks. I have worked there for the last 17 years with a 2 year interval at Astec.What I do is power distribution and alarming. That involves not only design but architecting the front end power for new systems as well. What I enjoy most about it is the mix of electrical and mechanical involved in the designs. To do good designs, particularly at the architectural stage, requires ability in both fields which is something I have.

The following are only a small representative few of the multitude products I have designed and for which I have pictures.

Above is a micro based alarm card. It receives inputs from various other subsystems and reports status serially on 4 links. There is visual indication on the front and isolated contact closures for the customer. Most of the circuitry is on the secondary side of the board while the large devices are on the primary.

This was a design I had a lot of fun with. There were quite a few challenges on this universal design not least of which was blind mating 100A (@ 52-75V) modules to a backplane in such tight physical constraints. One can see the size of the eight 1/0AWG input connections in the right picture above. At the same time the input power mates there are also 8x25 signal connectors (four total) that must mate and yet still have room for the forty 10AWG outputs. Again there are alarms for 4 shelves, the bay and the office. This design won an external award for telecom power product of the year.

I'd like to show you what I'm working on now but then I'd have to kill you. ;-)