Menelik Yimam

Menelik Baye Yimam 507-316-1033 | yimam.menelik@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
St. Cloud State University | St. Cloud, Minnesota GPA/4.00 (Engineering, Cumulative): 3.69, 3.64
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering May 2016

EXPERIENCE
Embedded Systems Engineering Intern 05/2015 –Present
Zycom LLC. St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Design excitation, Analog Front End, control and power supply circuitry for a mixed-signal medical
device
• Write firmware to control wave generation, communication and GPIOs on ARM and PIC microcontrollers
• Test and redesign printed circuit boards (PCBs)
Digital Electronics Teaching Assistant/Grader 01/2015 –05/2015
Electrical and Computer Engineering, SCSU St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Helped students apply electrical and electronic theory to analyze, design and breadboard circuits
• Demonstrated proper of use of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and power supplies
HuskyTech L2 Expert Consultant 08/2013 –12/2015
Technology Support Services, SCSU St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Fixed software, hardware and network issues on student computers, e-Classrooms and lab computers
• Trained L1 consultants on SOP, phone etiquette, general printer and computer troubleshooting

ENGINEERING PROJECTS
Electrical Impedance Tomography Device for Soft Tissue Characterization
Iteratively design and implement hardware (split-rail switch mode power supplies, analog multiplexer
switch network, AC current source and several active band-pass filters around an ARM processor with
on-chip DAC) on PCBs for a system which generates 2D impedance maps of soft tissue on a Windows
Form Application graphical user interface (GUI)
Wireless Digital Oscilloscope and Function Generator
Designed a digital oscilloscope with two analog channels and two digital channels (for pulse width
measurement and pulse width generation) using a PIC microcontroller, keypad, LCD, Bluetooth module
and Windows Form Application GUI
Interrupt Driven Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller
Designed an interrupt based DMA controller on Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC using FPGA programmable logic
and ARM Cortex-A9 processors on the Zynq Evaluation and Development Board (ZedBoard)
Transformer Coupled Switch Mode Power Supply
Designed an off-mains AC to DC switch mode power supply with 7.5W maximum output power at 5V

LEADERSHIP
Vice President 01/2013 –Present
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers St. Cloud, Minnesota
Work with board members to organize professional growth and networking opportunities for
engineering students at SCSU
SKILLS
Technology Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC, ARM Processors (Cortex-A9, Cortex-A7, Cortex-M3), PIC18F4455
Languages C, C++, C#, VHDL, Verilog, Assembly for ARM, MATLAB, R
Tools Altium Designer, Microsoft Visual Studio, CCS C Compiler, Vivado Design Suite, Xilinx
SDK, MATLAB/Simulink, IAR EWARM, Keil µVision, Altera Quartus, PCB123