## BIO
FREDERICK W. WILSON
**<u>Education:</u>** THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - Columbus, Ohio
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, September 1992
GPA: 3.7 on a 4.0 scale
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY - Youngstown, Ohio
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale (Class Valedictorian)
**<u>Thesis Title:</u>** “Frequency Scaling of Musical Signals with Time Correction Based on a Sinusoidal Modelâ€
**<u>Related Experience:</u>**** <u>President – WB Electronics</u> (November 2001 – present)**
** -** Sole-proprietor
- Contracts have included schematic design, PCB layout, and embedded software engineering for a wide variety of products including children’s’ educational toys, consumer grade medical devices, audio components, CAD/CAM vision systems, and Rfid devices.
- Commercial designs: Neurosmith’s Music Blocks, Phonics Tiles, and Jumbo Music Ball
- Visual BASIC designs for RubberMaid assembly line robot programming
**<u>Director of Engineering – Neurosmith, LLC</u>**** (January 2000 – November 2001)**
** - ** Responsible for the design and release of all related documents to
Manufacturing for a product line of children’s educational toys.
- Designed electronic hardware for Cybercartridge, Babbler, Jumbo Music Block, Sunshine Symphony, and Musini projects.
- Design Product Specifications and Validation Plans for electronic, mechanical and software subsystems for the above products. Created new protocol platform for new cartridge based products.
- Implemented 4-phase development process.
- Implemented rudimentary document control processes
- Attended company management meetings at the Board of Directors’ level
Managed 8 subcontractors for work in the US and overseas
Brought to Operations award winning 2001 product line on schedule and in budget
**<u>Product Manager – Panasonic/MCUSA</u>**** (October 1998 – December 1999)**
Department reorganization along customer lines.
Product Manager of all Saturn and Nissan projects
- Managed three Project Leaders and nine design engineers.
- Managed group budget of $8 Million
- Set design policy for these customers.
- Initiated first domestically designed radio program for Panasonic
- Made personnel hiring and promotion recommendations.
- Generated resource plans based on Project Leader input and company budget restrictions
- Monitored project status based on Project Leader reports
- Customer sales increase of $60 million per year based on new technology introductions (In dash CD Changer, DSP tuner)
- In charge of the software design group at MCUSA
**<u>Program Manager – Panasonic/MAEC</u>**** (1997)**
- Served as Interim Program Manager for all GM accounts reporting directly to the company President
- Responsible for coordination of Program Achievement Plans including: design, material procurement, production capacity planning, and quality assurance
- Managed eight department heads in a matrix organization
**<u>Senior Design Engineer – Panasonic/MAEC</u>**** (1995-1998)**
- Software Group Leader responsible for supervising two engineers
- Responsible for the selection of digital system architectures, including both hardware and software designs
- Concurrently Engineering Project Leader for the 1999 General Motors Mexico radio programs
Met with customer to develop specifications. Developed internal resource plans for project achievement. Conducted development meetings per QS-9000 development flow. Assured budget compliance. Managed a team of 4 engineers and 2 subcontractors.
- Drafted Panasonic’s current design process utilizing APQP
Generated a standardized set of procedures and documents for developing audio programs at Panasonic including quotation processes, design reviews and release meetings. Procedure set was used to
## Area of Expertise
Assembly languages
VB
VB.net
ADO.net
ASP.net
Image processing
Digital signal processing
