IEEE Meeting

Speaker: Brad Ellis

Thursday, November 11, 2004

12:30-1:30 p.m.

LEL Room #236

Speaker: Brad Ellis

Topic: "Preparing for your First Job"

Brad Ellis, Hardware / Software Engineer will talk about what, as a recruiter, he looks for in a potential employee. Starting with resume and interviewing.  Then he will talk about some of the things that he wasn't prepared for in his first job and some useful hints.

Brad joined Colmek in October of 2002 as a Hardware/Software Engineer. Before joining Colmek Brad spent two years working for Utah State University under the Center for Self Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS) developing Omni-Directional Vehicles/Robots. While there he enjoyed working with small-embedded systems, DSP, and PCB design. His skills/experience include TI DSP's (C and Assembly programming), Motorola HC12 and 332 programming, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Matlab/Simulink, FPGA and CPLD (Verilog), and PCB design and layout. As a key member of Colmeks software development staff, Brad has played an integral role in the upgrade package to the AN/AQS-24 processing system. Programming on a VxWorks and Green Hills platform, Brad and the software team continue to develop advanced, real-time, menu-driven Sonar display code that operates one of the worlds most advanced mine-hunting systems.

Brad finished his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from USU in May 2001. He received his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from USU in 2003 with an emphasis in Signal Processing. In his spare time Brad enjoys mountain biking, upland game hunting, and vacationing at Lake Powell.

Lunch will be provided