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    "name": "Alexander Phillips",
    "label": "Principal Engineer, Test Engineering",
    "email": "mail@alexanderphillips.net",
    "url": "https://alexanderphillips.net",
    "summary": "Principal engineer in test engineering and silicon validation, focused on Cadence’s Palladium emulation and Protium prototyping systems. Ten years of building test-automation frameworks, system-monitoring software, and manufacturing tests for rack-scale hardware, starting from a physics background in dark-matter research.",
    "location": {
      "city": "San Jose",
      "region": "California",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
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        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "Tatsuonline",
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      }
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Cadence Design Systems",
      "position": "Principal Engineer",
      "description": "Test Engineering, Silicon Validation Group",
      "location": "San Jose, California",
      "startDate": "2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Created the Protium System Manager (PTSM), which ships on every Protium X3 rack: it reports the live status of every blade and moved blade-to-blade communication from UART to Ethernet, a far more reliable link.",
        "Built the automated test framework for the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 rack-level designs, made R&D’s tests run more efficiently, and wrote new tests for several product lines.",
        "Helped launch Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 into manufacturing."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Jabil Circuit",
      "position": "Test Engineering Lead, High Performance Computing",
      "location": "San Jose, California",
      "startDate": "2016-04",
      "endDate": "2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Led the department’s test group of engineers and technicians; promoted from intern to test engineering lead and certified as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Engineer by examination.",
        "Designed and maintained the automated test infrastructure for a customer’s enterprise emulation platform, and later a large-scale device-testing framework, in Python, Bash, and C shell on Linux.",
        "Proposed and built a generative adversarial network (GAN) to detect defects in printed circuit boards.",
        "Built production data tooling: test-result parsers in Python, Rust, and Go for the manufacturing execution system (MES), a live test-progress monitor for the factory floor, and a secure data portal spanning test stations.",
        "Designed tests with customer engineers, traced design flaws, and consulted site-wide on new product introductions."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "King Saud University",
      "position": "Research Assistant, Physics",
      "location": "Riyadh, Saudi Arabia",
      "startDate": "2015-06",
      "endDate": "2015-07",
      "summary": "Built dye-sensitized solar cells and measured their quantum efficiency."
    },
    {
      "name": "Purdue University",
      "position": "Undergraduate Research Assistant, High Energy Physics",
      "location": "West Lafayette, Indiana",
      "startDate": "2013-08",
      "endDate": "2014-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed pulse-shape discrimination methods in C and Python to separate neutron and gamma recoils in XENON100 detector data for dark-matter searches.",
        "Built hardware for a neutron-generator setup, including a hardware replacement for gamma-recoil discrimination scripts."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Purdue University",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "area": "Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minor in Physics",
      "location": "West Lafayette, Indiana",
      "startDate": "2010-08",
      "endDate": "2015-12"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Rust",
        "C",
        "Go",
        "Bash",
        "SQL",
        "SystemVerilog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hardware and test",
      "keywords": [
        "Hardware emulation",
        "FPGA prototyping",
        "Rack-level test automation",
        "Silicon validation",
        "Manufacturing test",
        "MES integration",
        "JTAG"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tools",
      "keywords": [
        "Linux",
        "Git",
        "QuestaSim",
        "ModelSim"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "Subject Matter Expert (SME) Engineer",
      "issuer": "Jabil Circuit"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lean Bronze (Kaizen)",
      "issuer": "Jabil Circuit"
    },
    {
      "name": "Qualified Sealed Radioactive Source Handler",
      "issuer": "Purdue University"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Jabil Star Award",
      "awarder": "Jabil Circuit"
    },
    {
      "title": "Respect, Recognize, Reward Award",
      "awarder": "Jabil Circuit"
    },
    {
      "title": "First Place, Regional Best Practices Competition",
      "awarder": "Jabil Circuit"
    }
  ]
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