Mark Norton
Technical Lead Design Engineer at Garmin
Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Norton is a Technical Lead Design Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in digital hardware, FPGA and board-level design, now leading design efforts at Garmin. He has driven complex avionics and aerospace projects from requirements through verification and sustainment, including DO-254-aligned FPGA processes and high-speed timing solutions for radar and transponder systems. Comfortable across system-to-gate design, he pairs deep VHDL/Verilog expertise with practical firmware, low-power RF and DDR/SoC integration experience. Mark also builds tooling in Python and Tcl (notably a VHDL mode for Sublime Text and co-simulation scripts) to automate workflows and accelerate verification. His background spans large defense and commercial organizations (VIAVI, Rockwell Collins, Northrop Grumman) where he revitalized legacy products and navigated component obsolescence through board redesigns. Based in Lenexa, KS, he blends engineering leadership with a craftsman’s attention to implementation detail.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyMacon R-1 High School
Github Skills (81)
vhdl10
sublime-text10
emacs10
elisp10
sublime10
coverage9
char9
parser9
svg9
s-expressions9
language-server9
diagram9
memory-model9
emacs-initialization8
testbench8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Remillard/VHDL-Mode
Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
A package for Sublime Text that aids coding in the VHDL language.
Contributions:44 releases, 300 commits, 98 PRs in 3 years 8 months
sublime-textvhdlemacs
Remillard/BB2-Discord-Bot
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:70 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
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