DANTON LEONARD
800 Main Street #220
Redwood City, Ca 94063 USA
Home: (415) 366-9501 x-220
danton@usa.net
Danton@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain an engineering position which enhances my experience.
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 6/82
Smart Products Design, Control Systems
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 6/82
Digital Systems & Design
EXPERIENCE

5/97 - Current WebChat Broadcasting System, Menlo Park, CA
QA Monitor
Monitored Chat Rooms for compliance with laws and regulations.
  • Provided reports of bugs and pornography,
  • Made sure servers kept running,
  • Enhanced cut-and-paste usage in reporting.
9/96 - Current ToyLand Internet Magazine, Redwood City, CA
Managing Publisher
Started and Published Trade Magazines on the Internet.
  • Provided new advertising venue for advertising customers.
  • Writing, graphics, and publishing of three magazine issues every two weeks
  • Promoted Web Site globally, including beginning ToyLand Korean Website
  • Established unique place and product in market.
6/87 - Current Danton Does Datasheets, Redwood City, CA 94063
Manager, Technical Documentation
Provided technical writing/publishing services for a wide range of companies:
  • Surveillance and Cellular Communications
  • RISC Processors
  • IBM-PC Add-on Boards
10/84 - 1/86 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Adjunct Instructor
Began a new set of courses in Storage Controller Design, which had not been taught before at SCU:
  • EECS 473 - Flexible Disk Drive Controller Design
  • EECS 474 - Winchester Disk Drive Controller Design
  • EECS 475 - Optical Disk Drive Controller Design
1/84 - 9/84 Entrepo, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Sr. Applications Engineer
Technical Marketing support of tape drive systems.
  • Wrote, edited, and published Datasheets and technical applications notes for techncial marketing.
  • Formed Specification Task Force, defined specifications in time to manufacture product.
  • Managed design of tradeshow demonstrations, cover artwork for sales literature.
6/82 - 1/84 SEEQ Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA
Marketing Applications Engineer
Technical Marketing Support of EEROM, EPROM, and Processor IC products.
  • Designed, built, and programmed Single-board computers as test beds for memories, wrote and published application notes regarding these designs.
  • Debugged customers' designs, won design-ins.
  • Analyzed product problems to determine requirements for product engineering.
SKILLS
  • Assembler Programming: 486,386,286,8086,Z80,Z8601, 68701, GMCM
  • High-level languages: C, PASCAL, HTML
  • Desktop publishing: Interleaf, PageMaker
  • Circuit debug/test equipment: In-circuit emulator, development system, oscilloscope, waveform generator, DVM, EPROM Programmer
  • Networks and Controllers design & network debug): Internet, Ethernet, Serial, SCSI, DECnet
  • Internet Interfaces: ftp, Navigator, Communicator, Explorer, WinZip, Gopher
HONORS
  • Corporate Awards (2) - VLSI Technology, Inc.
  • Marketing Award - SEEQ Technology, Inc.
  • National Merit Scholar - Sun Co.
  • General Motors Scholarship - General Motors Corporation
  • Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Award (top 5% of Engineering Senior Class) - Stanford University
References available upon request.