Hi, I’m
Ayo Adigun
Electronics Engineer
MAIDSTONE,KENT
Summary
An accomplished Electronics Engineer, proficient in analogue, power and high speed digital electronics design. Equally adept at working at a systems level to design architecture for complex systems/products. Full design lifecycle experience, having seen multiple projects from concept through to production. Understanding of RF PCB development. Very hands-on with proven design verification experience and fault finding abilities. Comfortable using laboratory equipment and soldering miniature components.
Overview
13
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Cambridge Research Systems Ltd
Consultant Electronics Design Engineer
07.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Developed electronics and firmware for a battery-operated wireless response box for fMRI applications
- Utilized a 2.4 GHz radio module with Bluetooth LE 5.1 radio protocol
- Implemented low power operation and integrated lithium polymer battery protection circuitry
- Implemented USB Power Delivery protocol for flexible charging options
- Developed Embedded C firmware for MSP430 processor
- Successfully ported SDK from STM32 platform to MSP430, involving re-writing peripheral drivers
- Designed PCB schematic and layout using Altium Designer
- Led electronics and firmware development of a colorimetry device for vision science experiments
- Developed Embedded C firmware, ensuring accurate sensor calibration and calibration matrix generation
- Designed PCB schematic and layout using Altium Designer
- Root Cause Analysis - Flicker on FLIR Camera-Based Eye Tracking Device Conducted thorough analysis and data gathering to identify flicker issue on a FLIR camera-based eye tracking device used in vision science experiments
- Prototyped and implemented identified fixes
- Conducted comprehensive test regime to ensure effectiveness of fixes
- Conducted regression testing to validate fix's stability
- Successfully redesigned PCB, with features such as high-speed USB 3.0 bus layout, Power Delivery Network
- LED driver design for LCD backlight
- Designed a high-speed layout for video conversion evaluation board
- The PCB accepts 16-lane VbyOne video source and converts it to 8-lane 4K 120Hz display port signals, driving an LED panel
- Design operates at data rates up to 25 Gbps
- Designed PCB schematic and layout using Altium Designer.
Cubic Transportation Systems
Senior Principal Electronics Design Engineer
01.2021 - 07.2022
Job overview
- Lead electronics engineer for the development of contactless NFC card readers for deployment in bus and rail terminals across London
- Lead electronics engineer overseeing the development of 60 GHz millimetre wave radar sensors for use in automated fare collection systems
- Integration of a COTS 200W stepper motor into an automated barrier system – designing for safety of patrons and ensuring system can withstand misuse and abuse
- High speed digital design (Interfaces such as DDR, Ethernet PHY, MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, eMMC) Overseeing CE and FCC certification efforts and strategy, tasks include drafting test plans, liaising with test houses and supporting testing
- 12-layer PCB schematic and layout design using Altium Designer.
Cubic Transportation Systems
Electronics Design Engineer (Contractor)
02.2017 - 12.2020
Job overview
- Analogue and digital electronics design for contactless card readers
- Circuit simulation (including Signal integrity and Power integrity analysis)
- High speed digital design (Cortex A7 based processor with Interfaces such as DDR, Ethernet PHY, MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, eMMC)
- Design verification and validation
- PCB schematic and layout using Altium Designer
- Low power (20uA) battery operated design
- Thermal management
- Power supply design (PoE, Boost, Buck, PMIC, Battery Management)
- Use of Linux OS for hardware testing.
Contractor
08.2015 - 02.2017
Job overview
- Embedded software design for patented bike navigation device
- Development of a mobile app for restaurant management
- Design documentation for FDA 510K submission
- Multiple Low Energy Bluetooth projects
- DCC model train controller design
- 4 – 20 mA output, loop powered energy meter using rogowski coils as current transducer
- Computer vision projects using OpenCV and Raspberry Pi Camera.
ML Electronics LtdSalisbury
Senior Design Engineer
09.2013 - 07.2015
Job overview
- Project delivery from concept, through development stages to deployment for various clients
- Requirements capture and analysis
- System architecture design
- Analogue and digital electronics design
- Embedded software development in C
- Project and design documentation
- System verification and validation
- PCB design (OrCAD, EagleCAD and Altium Designer)
- Achievements: Hardware and software design for 7 full life cycle projects (2 medical devices, 2 automotive projects, 3 general consumer goods and numerous prototypes)
- Power supply design (Flyback converters, 10KW DC-DC synchronous boost converter, Push Pull converter)
- Multilayer PCB design (isolation, noise, high power traces, impedance control, differential pairs).
Bedfont Scientific LtdKent
Design Engineer
03.2010 - 07.2013
Job overview
- Managing new projects from initial concept through to manufacture, whilst ensuring compliance to medical device directive
- Conducting feasibility studies
- Project requirements capture and analysis
- Risk Analysis (BS EN ISO14971 Application of risk management to medical devices)
- Analogue and digital electronics design
- Embedded software development in C
- Project & design documentation (Medical Device Standard)
- Supporting grant and patent applications
- Ensuring design compliance with industry regulatory standards – mainly EN 60601
- Conducting clinical evaluation.
Education
University of OxfordOxford
Practical Antenna Design
06.2022 - 05.2022
University of Kent Canterbury
BEng from Electronics and Communications Engineering
09.2006 - 05.2009
Skills
Analog Electronics Design
Power Supply Design
High Speed Digital Design
PCB Design
Embedded Systems Design
Ultra Low Power Electronics Design
Motor Control
Embedded C Firmware Development
Python Scripting
LTSpice Simulations
System design and implementation
Accomplishments
- Key contributor to the deployment of the One Metro New York (OMNY) hardware infrastructure across metro stations in New York, having overseen the design, verification, and certification of deployed hardware.
- Prize for Engineering Innovation, 2014: Awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering as one of the 12 shortlisted innovators for ‘FlexiPay’ a low cost innovative wireless card reader and mobile app developed for markets with infrastructure constraints which limit the effectiveness of currently available POS technology.
Timeline
Consultant Electronics Design Engineer
Cambridge Research Systems Ltd
07.2022 - Current
University of Oxford
Practical Antenna Design
06.2022 - 05.2022
Senior Principal Electronics Design Engineer
Cubic Transportation Systems
01.2021 - 07.2022
Electronics Design Engineer (Contractor)
Cubic Transportation Systems
02.2017 - 12.2020
Contractor
08.2015 - 02.2017
Senior Design Engineer
ML Electronics Ltd
09.2013 - 07.2015
Design Engineer
Bedfont Scientific Ltd
03.2010 - 07.2013
University of Kent
BEng from Electronics and Communications Engineering
09.2006 - 05.2009