Senior Project Engineer Resume Shakopee, MN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

A Senior/Lead Electrical Engineer with extensive experience in systems architecture, detailed hardware and firmware design, product testing and manufacturing. Developed many innovative products in the D Confidential Storage and Telecommunications industries. Knows embedded controls design for automotive and medical devices. Experienced in product documentation and project completion within cost and schedule. Additional competencies include:
Product requirements and design specification.
Project planning, leadership and management.
Detailed RF/Analog/Power circuit design.
Advanced digital FPGA/ASIC design.
Schematic Capture and PCB Layout.
Embedded C/C++ firmware development.
High speed interface design and testing.
Quality Assurance and regulatory test support.
Product FMEA, Design and Test reviews.
Product improvements and continuation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

Completed the redesign and OrCAD schematic capture for a complex I/O board with a variety of sensors, analog circuits, AD/DA converters and FETs to use more readily available components for product continuation. Also designed a new high - voltage solenoid control card for this client.

Confidential, St Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

Provided electrical hardware/software design, manufacturing and test support for various consumer and medical electronic products manufactured in China. Updated C firmware and supported product testing and documentation for FDA compliance.
Participated in requirements specification and product verification planning for a Truck HVAC and Battery Charging Controller. Supported detailed design of product Hardware and Software.

Confidential: Chanhassen, MN

Responsibilities:

Supported qualification of replacement electrical components for Class 1E pressure sensors.
Designed-in replacement parts for obsolete components, updated existing PCBs and supported C firmware updates to extend the life of key products. Changes included new microcontrollers, new power FETs for motor drivers and various discrete parts to prevent total product re-design.

Confidential: Maplewood MN

Responsibilities:

Wrote product specifications and test criteria for Electrical Procurement from China. Supported vendor selection, vendor QA approval and first article verification including RoHS compliance.
Changed an RF/Analog/Digital interface for a radar traffic monitoring unit to RS232 to help ship product on time. Completed design changes, PCB layout and board fabrication in one month.

Confidential - Shakopee, MN

Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

Led the design, verification and manufacture of broadband wire-line transmission circuit cards that required high voltage isolation, switching power conversion and digital signal processing.
Used Oracle’s AGILE D Confidential base for engineering change management, support of product verification plans and reports, design documentation and associated transfers to production.
Supported product manufacturing in Mexico, China and Taiwan and the testing of new Wireless transmission products from external manufacturers.

Confidential

Principal Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Improved existing test systems design and eliminated failures after shipment to customers.
Increased customer satisfaction and department revenues, and boosted employee morale.
Conceived, proposed and designed a new USB-2 Platform for testing new wireless devices.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

Designed an FPGA for a new CRM tester at Medtronic Inc.
Consulted at I-TECH on hardware and software architecture for a new SCSI tester.
Took occasional reserve teaching assignments in K/12 grades between contracts.

Confidential

Staff Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

Built a VHDL model for simulating a complete disk drive including a new System-On-a-Chip with two ARM9E cores and proved out the process using actual start up firmware.
This pioneering approach saved the company over $1M on the first few products.
Proposed and designed a PCI/SCSI Tester with enhanced capabilities for QA testing.
Managed the project budget including a contract for Xyratex Corporation to write the Windows/PCI Driver for the tester. Supported product transfer and full-scale external manufacture and sales.