ROSS MERNYK
751 President Street #2, Brooklyn, New York, 11215
Phone (718) 783-6977


SUMMARY

Twenty years experience designing innovative, ergonomic, elegant, electronic systems and software, both individually and in team environments.

I have extensive experience in:

• Real-time programming (firmware, software)
  
• Micro-controller design and interface (hardware)
  
• Powerline arcing AFCI and ground-fault GFCI research and detection algorithms
  
• Self-Testing device design (firmware, hardware)
  
• Device communications (protocol design, telemetry, packet telemetry)
  
• Microprocessor design and programming: 68HC11, 6805, PIC, Z80, ST72, Atmel
  
• High-level programming: Embedded C, Borland C, Microsoft Fortran
  
• Data collection, telemetry, logging, processing, and plotting
  
• Digital circuit design and interface (CMOS, TTL)
  
• X-10 and CEBus automation protocols
  

I have additional experience in:

• Sensor and transducer interface circuitry
  
• Oceanographic and environmental formulae and algorithms
  
• Representing companies at conferences and in customer contacts
  
• High-level programming: Basic, Algol, PL/I, Lisp
  
• Helping management and customers define products and user interfaces
  
• Direct international customer technical support, both onsite and by phone
  
• Microprocessor programming: 8051, 8086, DOS/BIOS, 6502
  
• Ergonomic user interfaces (hardware and software)
  
• Kermit, Xmodem, and proprietary transfer protocols
  

EXPERIENCE

LEVITON MFG. CO.	Queens, NY
9/97 - 6/07, Chief Engineer

Research and develop electronics and firmware for powerline arcing and ground-fault detection equipment.

• Have contributed considerable intellectual property: Powerline arc detection AFCI, zero-cross alignment, X-10 communications, GFCI detection and self-test, binding algorithms and user interfaces.
  
• Designed hardware & firmware for device which communicates X-10 over powerline and RS-485 over twisted pair, while executing a finite state machine and synchronizing to a large network.
  
• Designed hardware & firmware for adaptive control of proprietary devices. Product communicates with network via LONworks Neuron chip, and performs timing sensitive local control by reading switches and sensors.
  

ENDECO, INC.	Marion, MA
6/88 - 8/97, Consulting Engineer

• Developed hardware and firmware for a deployed acoustic current meter.
  
• Designed wireless RF packet telemetry field station, for collection of sensor data via analog interfaces, acoustic telemetry, SDI-12 bus, and customizable RS-232.
  
• Helped in product definition, and then implemented, an integrated control program for userfriendly realtime multisite monitoring via wireless telemetry, including setup, operation, live plots, alerts, automated remote control, file plots, file transfer.
  
• Programmed OEM handheld terminal for menudriven client server application, including sensor data logging, calibration, file transfer, user data entry.
  

YSI, INC.	Yellow Springs, OH
5/89 - 8/97, Consulting Engineer

• Designed automated testing pod, with multi-drop RS-232 to PC, and 50 digital and calibrated analog lines to target.
  
• Working closely in a small engineering team, helped define an intuitive user interface for YSI's dissolved oxygen meter, and for the EPA BOD test. Then wrote a program to operate the meter by PC, and guide computer-illiterate users through the EPA test.
  
• Developed integrated program for processing, plotting, and transfer of data files. Interfacing with several groups within YSI, I was able to satisfy demands on functionality, aesthetics, performance, and easy of use.
  
• Created a complete network protocol, YSInet, for real-time, multi-site, multi-medium communications, including data collection, device control, and education.
  

ENDECO, INC.	Marion, MA
5/85 - 5/88, Electronics Engineer

Designed microprocessor based, low power, environmental monitoring systems.

• Interfaced hardware and software to various sensors and transducers.
  
• Wrote complete on-board control programs in 6805, Z80, and 68HC11.
  
• Wrote IBM-PC based processing, plotting, and real-time monitoring software.
  
• Worked closely with other engineers, technicians, management, marketing, and sales.
  
• Designed wireless packet telemetry system for real-time multi-site monitoring and control, complete with menu-driven turn-key software for setup, operation, calibration, dtmf command, custom user control language, and voice synthesis.
  
• Represented company at conferences, vendor meetings, and to customers.
  
• Wrote several complete user manuals.
  

PKS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.	Milford, CT
9/83 - 8/84, Design Engineer

Designed office key telephone systems.

• Wrote on-board diagnostic package in C and Z80 Assembler, including recursive subroutine for routing through audio switching matrix.
  
• Designed bank-switched memory circuit for retrofit.
  
• Interfaced with artwork designers, field service personnel, vendors, and applications engineers from custom houses.
  

EDUCATION

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	Cambridge, MA
Course work completed May 1985
BSEE with Thesis completed December 1987

• Thesis title: An Implementation of a Sailboat Autopilot.
  
• Excelled in all design courses and Thesis.
  
• Special courses taken: Digital Design Lab, Mechanical Design Lab, Thermodynamics, Computation Structures, Computer Systems Design, Exploratory Data Analysis.
  
• Studied finite state machines, microprocessor systems, TTL digital hardware, team projects, mechanical designs, machine shop, generating raster scan video.
  
• Humanities concentration in psychology.
  

PATENTS & CREDITS

• Patent: "Arc Fault Detector," U.S. Patents #6972572 & #7180299, December 2005 & February 2007
  
• Patent: "Arc Fault Detector with Circuit Interrupter," U.S. Patent #7003435, February 2006
  
• Patent: "Method of Adding a Device to a Network," U.S. Patents #6901439 & #7219141, May 2005 & May 2007
  
• Listed: Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 5th Edition, 2000-2001; through present edition
  
• Listed: Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition, 2000; through present edition
  
• Listed: Who's Who in the East, 27th Edition, 1999-2000; through present edition
  
• Member: IEEE since 1995, ISA since 1995
  
• Presented: "The Endeco Data-Watch Adaptive Packet Telemetry System," Ross Mernyk, Oceans 87, September 29, 1987, Halifax, NS.
  

BACKGROUND

Born and raised in New York City. Educated in a private coed liberal arts school. Passionate about improv, photography, brainstorming, and bacon. Also enjoy bicycling, inventing, rollerblading, hiking, swing dancing, volleyball, sailing, and breadmaking.

Email: website@rossmernyk.com
Updated: July 15, 2007