Noah T. Vawter
			1010 Mass Ave Apt #11
			 Cambridge, MA 02138
			noahvawter@hotmail.com
			    (617) 230-5047

OBJECTIVE

Creative electronic engineering in a research and development role.

SPECIAL EXPERIENCE

MIT Media Lab             Researching unique audio synthesis, dissonance
Research Assistant        modeling, and autonomous music.
Computing Culture Group   
9/04 - present

Informal Group Project    Portable, embedded generative music hardware product.
With MIT grad students    Schematic input, architecture design, DSP code author.
10/02 - 12/03             Codec device driver.  Colloborated on Flash File 
                          System and PC Interface.

Personal Project          MIDI-synchronized audio effect unit.
1/98 - 1/01               ADSP-2181 and 68HC11 C and Assembler Code.
                          Wavetable synthesizer.  Original effect algorithms.
                          IIR, FIR DSP implementations.

Major Qualifying Project  Creation of non-linear audio synthesis/effect 
WPI                       algorithm.  Fourier analysis of output waveforms.
1/96 - 7/96               VHDL implementation.  Firmware operating system (x86)

Bose Acoustic Engineering 1 Semester Class on site at Bose.
Framingham, MA            Mobility Analogy.  Standing Wave Equation.
1/96 - 5/96               Room Acoustics.  Psychoacoustics.  Speaker Design.

WORK HISTORY 

Avici Systems.            Schematic input to SONET network hardware (OC-192, FPGA's, SerDes, +)
Sr. Software Engineer     Developed board test diagnostic software (memory, custom ASICs, +)
N. Billerica, MA          Design input for performance and testability.
7/99 - 7/04               Every task necessary to ship hardware on time (Startup env.) 

3Com/U.S. Robotics        Wrote PowerPC diagnostics for network interfaces (IEEE 1394, WAN)
Diagnostic Engineer       Designed custom WAN interface test hardware.  Altera PLD design.  
Westborough, MA           Debugged embedded processor implementation.
8/97 - 6/99               Debugged flash file system.

Intelligent Solutions     Developed a medical imaging server.
Medford, MA               TCP/IP socket programming, DICOM 3.0, C++ and Java.  
Systems Engineer          Configured, installed Sun Ultra Servers and
11/95 - 7/97              SPARCstations on gigabit Fibre Channel networks. 
	
Stratus Computer          ASIC design in Verilog:  Fault-tolerant memory bus.  
Marlborough, MA           Communication with parallel 120 MHz processors.  
Hardware Engineer         Verified.  Designed memory board test hardware.
1/95 - 8/95               (Single semester Co-op during college)

Birk Manufacturing        Wrote equations and application to design flexible
Old Saybrook, CT          heater traces.  Export data to CAD package.
Electronic Engineer       Interfaced Fluke multimeter to PC via serial port.
5/93 - 12/94              Wrote serial device driver in C and assembly.	  

EDUCATION

Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Worcester, MA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 5/97
Academic Scholarship
Year abroad in Hamburg, Germany during high school (8/90-8/91)

Independent study in fractal graphics.  Coursework in bifurcation analysis.