Jimmy Sheffield
About
Jimmy Sheffield is from Georgetown, Texas, United States. Jimmy works in the following industries: "Computer Hardware", "Financial Services", and "Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing". Jimmy is currently President & Founder at Level 3 Systems. In Jimmy's previous role as a President at Newport Enterprises/D2M Technologies, Jimmy worked in until May 2008. Prior to joining Newport Enterprises/D2M Technologies, Jimmy was a Director of Engineering at Newport Enterprises and held the position of Director of Engineering. Prior to that, Jimmy was a Director of Business Development at Newport Enterprises from Jan 2006 to Aug 2006. Jimmy started working as Director of Hardware Engineering (Contract) at Newport Enterprises/D2M Technologies in Sep 2005. From Jan 2003 to Aug 2005, Jimmy was Advanced Systems Technology Manager at Tyco Electronics. Prior to that, Jimmy was a Design Engineering Manager at Tyco Electronics from Aug 1999 to Jan 2003. Jimmy started working as Engineering Program Manager at AMP, Inc. in Nov 1997.
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Responsibility for hardware development group, including electrical and mechanical engineering and PCB layout
Responsible for all hardware engineering and development functions.
Responsible for expanding the company's business into new technologies and industries as well as the development of internal programs.
Responsible for managing a diverse group of 10 hardware design engineering and layout personel through the completion of a complex embedded system program. Hardware was completed and operational on an extremely demanding schedule.
Responsibilities: o Target account and target application penetration o Advanced electronic packaging technology research and implementation o Training of team members in new technologies o Establishment of strategic partnerships in lieu of captive resources Key accomplishments: o Skunk-works development of full ATCA system, including backplane, chassis, shelf management system, cooling system, and power distribution system. o Involvement with IEEE802.3ap 10Gbps Ethernet over Backplane committee. o Involvement with PICMG ATCA300 committee.
Responsibilities: o Management of both mechanical and electrical design personnel o Customer interface from initial sales contact through design process Key accomplishments: o Re-establishment of full design organization following merger attrition o Continued to meet customer commitments even when vastly understaffed
Responsibilities: o Target account focus for all developmental projects o Design proposal generation o Project management from initial sales lead through prototype build Key accomplishments: o Growth of key account from $0 to >$10 million in less than 2 years o Maintained >80% hit-rate for all design quotes o Development of early Fibre Channel JBOD system o Development of early cPCI 1:3 bridge board
Responsibilities: o Management of all electrical design personnel o Electrical design checking and quality assurance o Manufacturing support through prototype and production builds Key accomplishments: o Successful establishment of ISO9001 procedures o Addition of Mentor PCB CAD design tools to established Cadence Allegro resources
Responsibilities: o PCB design definition in support of CAD designers o PCB CAD tool evaluation, implementation, and support o Basic signal integrity modeling and simulations o Supervision of up to three PCB designers o Manufacturing interface during prototype and production builds Key accomplishments: o Co-development of first backplane-based RAID systems with NCR o Development of aircraft entertainment system control interface (patent 5,622,506 granted 1997)
Responsibilities: o PCB design (definition through actual layout) o PCB CAD support o Manufacturing interface during prototype and production builds o Customized standard bus product development (STDbus, VMEbus, etc.)