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IEEE Buenaventura June 2020 Newsletter
In This Issue
Local IEEE Announcements •  June 10: The FarmBot: An Open Source Robotic Gardening Machine — Online Other Announcements •  Webinars from IEEE-USA Job Opportunities and Sponsors •  Advanced Personnel Profiles — Staffing & Recruiting Since 1995 •  Astranis — Getting the next four billion people online by building next-generation telecoms satellites •  Syntesis Global — Management Consulting
Local IEEE Announcements
The FarmBot: An Open Source Robotic Gardening Machine Speaker: Marc Roland Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-06-cs A link for the webinar will be sent to you before the meeting. Overview The FarmBot is an agriculture robotic farming machine which aims to "Create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone." The FarmBot device is an open source, precision agriculture computer numerical controlled gardening tool to help you grow vegetables. Users can add, update and modify the open source project's hardware, software and documentation. The FarmBot is 100% open source so all our engineering design and CAD models and software code is available online for free. If FarmBot users have specific customizations that they want to do they can design their own tools and custom software. They are welcome to use our engineering designs to power their own FarmBot systems and tools. The FarmBot has 4 motors, two X-Axis motors, one Y-Axis motor and one Z-Axis motor and these motors are what power the movement of the tool head in the 3D space above the growing area. Learn more about the FarmBot at the presentation. About the Speaker Marc Roland is a Professional Engineer and the Director of Marketing, Sales and Reliability Engineering at FarmBot. Marc will be going over the engineering details of the FarmBot. Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Section Computer Society Chapter
Other Announcements
Webinars from IEEE-USA •  June 18, 11:00 AM PDT: Diversifying your Consulting Practice for Times of Crisis At one point or another, every consultant's practice goes through a dry period. These dry periods can not only be discouraging but can add emotional and financial strain to the consultant. In this webinar, we will explore the strategies and techniques that consultants can follow to diversify their offerings to minimize their dry spells and thrive in times of crisis. •  June 25, 11:00 AM PDT: How to Lead Your Remote Teams More Effectively If you're new to remote working, or you've been working as a remote team for years, this webinar is for you. These principles aren't new, I've been teaching leaders and teams these tools for a while, but Covid-19 will change the way we work now and in the future. Your personal and company brand will either flourish or be damaged by how you communicate in person and remotely.
Job Opportunities and Sponsors
Advanced Personnel Profiles Staffing & Recruiting Since 1995 Santa Barbara area Company is developing cutting edge advances in sensing, microfabrication and electronics creating next generation of wearable diagnostic devices. Analytical Chemist, Electrochemistry •  Degreed in Electrochemistry or chemistry with 5 years experience of biosensor development. •  Knowledge of enzymatic-based sensor, hydrogel constructs, electrodeposition processes and electrochemical systems. Process Lead Engineer •  MS or PhD with 10 years medical device experience •  Clean room experience with nanofabrication equipment and MEMs fabrication processes (deposition, lithography, etching, and plating) Lead Mechanical Engineer •  10 years experience medical device design •  Extensive modeling and industrial design skills with CAD, preferably SolidWorks •  Experience working with a small or medium size team •  Able to mentor small engineering team Contact Pat Jacobs — 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com Santa Barbara area Company is developing sophisticated, complex instrumentation. Sr. or Staff Electrical Engineer •  Responsible for full range of product development from design, prototype, test, analysis and documentation. •  Strong analog and mixed signal skills •  Minimum of 3 years industry experience •  FPGA programming experience •  Controller design •  Experience with ORCAD, Allegro or Alterra Contact Pat Jacobs — 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com Alfred Mann Foundation (www.aemf.org) – Valencia, CA Senior DSP / Controls Engineer Work with clinical team to design data collection studies.  Analyze collected data and specify filtering and parametric detection methods.  Develop sensor fusion and control algorithms.  Reduce algorithms to energy-efficient C code.  Perform energy-consumption and SNR analysis of sampling, filter, fusion, and control algorithms.  Work with firmware engineers to implement sampling, filter, fusion, and control algorithms in product software. •  MSEE or equivalent. •  Minimum 5 years experience. •  Strong understanding of digital communications theory, signal processing, and ADC / DAC systems. •  Must understand spectral estimation, filter creation and performance evaluation, and SNR assessment. •  Background with audio signal processing a plus. •  Experience with C / C++ and Matlab a must; experience with Verilog or VHDL a plus. •  Machine / deep learning experience a plus. Contact Pat Jacobs — 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com Senior Software Engineer – Mobile Prototype and develop class III mobile software for active medical implant technology, including the creation and execution of unit test procedures and test scripts. Work will involve all phases of product development from concept through qualification and field test. •  BSCS or equivalent with minimum 5 years experience. •  Experience with either Xamarin or Flutter required. Experience with BLE communication is desired. •  Experience with AWS Cognito and AWS S3 is desired. •  Experience with NUnit or another unit test framework is desired. •  Experience with configuration management and issue tracking and resolution. Contact Pat Jacobs — 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com Astranis Getting the next four billion people online by building next-generation telecoms satellites San Francisco, CA Astranis is going to get the next four billion people online by building next-generation telecommunications satellites, and they need your help. They’re hiring senior electrical engineers to join their 60-person, San Francisco-based team of world-class engineers from SpaceX, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, Boeing, NASA, and more. Prior space experience is not necessary, but you have to be comfortable getting your hands dirty with real hardware. Openings include •  Senior Power Electronics Engineer •  Senior Avionics Engineer For more information, please reach out to Christian Keil, or visit their web site to check out all their open jobs. Also, check out the IEEE Spectrum article on smallsats, where Astranis is featured. Syntesis Global Management Consulting Syntesis Global introduces the “New Standard” for Creating a Culture of Excellence in Leadership Development, Organizational Dynamics, Career Transitions and Outplacement Services: Syntesis Global™. With over thirty years of business experience, Syntesis Global™ offers state-of-the-art Performance Consulting through Executive Coaching, Change Management, Team Building, Organizational and Career Management services. Contact Rick Hernandez, President and CEO at contactus@syntesisglobal.com
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