Fisher Consulting Services
Resume
RICHARD
J.
FISHER
6416
GLENDALE
SUMMARY OF
QUALIFICATIONS
Extensive
experience
in
the electronics industry with
progressively Responsible positions with major international companies
in
digital and VLSI Technologies
with
special
emphasis
in:
Corporate/executive
management
Strategic
planning
and visioning
Embedded
Applications
Engineering/Project
management
Extensive
marketing
and sales experience in a corporate environment
MCU/Processors ( 8 bit – 32 bit) and their applications
Memories
and
memory subsystems design/architecture
Microcontroller
and
Microprocessor applications
Silicon solutions in a
system's
environment
Mainframe/Mini
and
personal computers design/architecture
HIGHLIGHTS OF
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
President,
BND
Holdings Corp. $1.2M in Gross revenue concrete coatings residential and
commercial.
Corporate
management
for RF Products with 4 direct and 3 indirect reports.
5 product released and 2 in development.
Responsible
for
product support, new product definition and coordination for
microcontrollers and
ASSP products with 4 direct and 25 indirect reports.
Multiple product lines developed and
supported.
Responsible
for all
training, component and systems support for Intel products for the SW
and
coordination of account and market penetration.
Coordinated
technical
support for the southwest for Fairchild and National
Semiconductor,
with
emphasis on ASIC, PLD, Memory, and VLSI solutions.
Developed
a 16 MHz
Driver/Sensor module for real time digital data acquisition. Directed
two
people in support of development effort.
Member
of development
team for MC‑30 Super mini. Designed 256 KB OS Kernel ROM memory board
for O.S.
utilities. Authored functional specifications for processor and memory
controller.
Member
of development
team for 8/70 and 8/70M processors. Directed manufacturing support,
debug, and
test of pilot and prototype systems. Supported
customer
on‑site
installation in
Designed
and
developed set associative memories, with LRU memory replacement for
virtual
addressing pointer storage and 8k, 4 level cache memories.
Patents and Awards
Received
Received
Outstanding
Memory Applications Engineer Award for Fairchild Semiconductor
Received
Field
Applications Engineer of the year Award for National Semiconductor
Received
Factory
Applications Engineer of the year Award for Microchip Technology Inc.
Received
International
Award for Professionalism in the European market for
Microchip
Technology Inc.
SPECIAL
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Significant
experience
in corporate strategic planning, market analysis and trends.
More
than 10 years
experience in evaluating patentable ideas and assisting in managing
Microchip’s
patent portfolio. Member of Microchip
technology patent council.
Profound
people
skills with decades of experience in team environments and working in
the
marketing and sales channels.
Extensive
Applications
experience with interface, digital, ASIC, ProLog, micro
and
embedded controllers in the following markets: Automotive, Computers
and
peripherals, Consumer products, Appliances, Telecom and Military.
Extensive
travel
experience in all world major markets. Business
understanding
of
the art of doing business in the
following
world market regions:
Professional
involvement
Senior
member of the
IEEE society
Member
of IEEE Remote
Sensing Society
Participating
member
of the College of Engineering Industrial Counsel at
Team
leader for
Future City Competitions
Hold
an Amateur Radio
License, General class
Industry
standards
committees participation: Access.bus, USB, ZigBee
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
BND
Holding Corp.
DBA Syntec Concrete
Coatings
President
Microchip
Technology
Inc.
Director
RF
Products Group
Director
of
SMAD Applications
SMAD
Applications
Manager
Memory
Applications
Manager
Arrow
Electronics
Inc.
Regional
Applications
Engineer
Silicon
and
systems level applications engineering for Intel Corp.
Training,
technical
guidance and strategic supervision of outside sales staff.
National
Semiconductor
Corporation
Staff
Applications
Engineer
Senior
Applications
Engineer
Systems
level
engineering, product training and customer support of NSC
products.
Fairchild
Semiconductor
Corporation
Senior Applications Engineer
Support
sale
staff and customers with technical/design issues for the states of
Top
Applications
engineer for Clipper processor design-in competition
Nation
Award
for Applications Engineer/Sales Engineer Team Award
Genrad
SPD
Sr.
Development
Engineer
Design
and
development of digital measurement and data acquisition equipment.
A.B.
Dick
Principal
Engineer
Design
and
Development of Super Mini computer
Honeywell
LISD
Senior
Systems
Specialist
Logic
Engineer
Processor design.
Computer
Technician
Units
Test
Technician
MILITARY EXPERIENCE
On‑the‑job
trainer/supervisor,
Luke AFB,
Airborne
Radio
Repairman, Sergeant, Secret clearance, Outstanding NCO awards, USAF
Honorable
Discharge
EDUCATION
BS,
Mathematics/ BS
Environmental Science,
AS
Science/Mathematics,
graduated WITH DISTINCTION,
USAF
Airborne
Numerous
industrial
and technology training seminars specifically with applications of
silicon
solutions.
Numerous
management
training seminars and (in-house classes)
OTHER
INTERESTS
Contemporary
Liturgical
Musician, Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church (33 years),
Personal Computing, Amateur Radio, Wild life, Paleontology, the Natural
Sciences and Life
Professional
Enhancement Classes
Arizona Polymer Flooring
Microchip
Team
Leadership Training
Performance
Appraisals
Worthwhile
meetings
Peter
Lowe Leadership seminars
Lessons
in Leadership,
Dr. Peter Covey
Management Overview
ISO9000
Awareness
Managing
and Sponsoring in a team environment
Quality
Improvement
Process
Handling
Performance Problems
Listening
Visioning
and Goal setting
Project
Management
Interviewing
Skills
Conflict
Resolution
QS9000
Arrow
Electronics
Strategic
Selling
National
Semiconductor
Corp.
One
Minute Manager
Time
Power Seminar
DATAC
(ARINC 629, Boeing)
Classic
Design (Linear ASIC)
Unix
Training (Solbourne)
Fairchild
Semiconductor
Corp.
Impact
III Presentation
skills
CMOS Gate Array Design
Class
ECL
ASIC Design Class
Genrad
Corp.
2620
Programming
Honeywell
Information
Systems
Interactive
Multics
Multics
Hardware Specialist
Analytic
Troubleshooting
(KT)
Introduction to PL/1
Aircraft
Radio Technician
OJT
Trainer Supervisor Course
Communication-Electronics
Repairman
Aircraft Radio Repairman
Aircraft
Radio Repairman
Course
Published
Papers/Articles/Application Notes
Portable
by Design
Conference 2/1994
Serial
EEPROMS Supplement
Microcontrollers To Enable
Flexible Portable Systems
Embedded
Systems
Conference 9/1994
The
Digital Power Factor
Correction in a Pure Inductive Load
ACCESS.bus as an Embedded Control Pathway
PCI
Conference 3/1995
ACCESS.bus:
The Missing
Communications Link For Easy,
Inexpensive Connectivity Between The Host System and Computer
Peripheral
Devices.
June
1999 issue of Appliance magazine, International Technical Appliance Conference
May 8-10, 2000 in
Wescon
1997
“The
Mechatronics
Revolution: Enhancing Your
Electromechanical Design with Microcontrollers”
PICmicro
Primer
in
Mechatronics.
AN558
Using the 24xx65
and the 24xx32 with Stand-alone
PIC16C54 Code, Dick Fisher
and
Bruce Negley
AN535
Logic Powered
Serial EEPROMS
Domotechnica,
Implementation
of a distributed processing
system in Appliances: Central vs. Decentralized Processing?
