Bryan Follis

follisbj@email.uc.edu


co-op or other experience and responsibilities

  • Systems Engineer, Apple, Inc. (2 quarters):

    • Performed system design/integration for Home Digital Media Systems group

    • Performed circuit, schematic, and PCB design/layout

    • Characterized power draw of existing products

    • Characterized noise floor for wireless performance of existing products

    • Debug of system core logic and power sequencing

  • Performance Engineer, Apple, Inc. (4 quarters):

    • Port and optimize third party programs to Apple's operating system

    • Develop automated application testing suite for Windows to compare against Apple's operating system

    • Develop automated quality assurance testing suite for Apple's in-house performance tools

    • Work with Architecture and Performance Group to develop performance tools

skills/expertise areas

  • Schematic design and PCB layout: Allegro

  • Soldering

  • Programming experience: C, C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, MATLAB

  • Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista, OS X, Linux

  • Office Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Apple Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

areas of interest/type of project sought

  • Photonics minor

  • Systems design and integration

  • Wireless communication

  • Optical communication

  • Microcontroller applications

  • Hardware and software performance analysis