SUMMARY

• Electrical & Electronics Engineer with 4.5 years of experience in automotive embedded sys­tems design, implementation, testing, and quality assurance.
• Highly organized, analytical thinker, and problem solver.
• Self - starter with excellent communication, time-management, documentation, and interperson­al skills.
• Looking to join a dynamic workplace to best put my technical skills to use.
• Design, develop, implement, and test EMI/EMC/ESD compliant automotive embedded solu­tions for a world-wide clientele as Senior Engineer in a multi-national company.
• Create test plans, run test cases, coordinate reviews, maintain traceability matrices, perform root cause analysis, and reliability analysis as System Quality Controller for projects.
• Skilled in end-to-end hardware system design that include requirements analysis, high and low level design, component selection, BOM generation, schematics capture, PCB layout, proto­type unit testing, system integration testing, and design validation.
• Developed hardware libraries, quality checklists, and testing guidelines based on industry stan­dards for the newly launched embedded hardware division of the company.
• Skilled in conducting feasibility studies and presenting design ideas to peers and clients.
• Experienced in design for manufacturability taking into account client design requirements.
• Proven track record as a valuable team player and consistently meeting deadlines.
• Efficiently led a multi-department team. Responsible for allocating resources and making sure core requirements and deadlines were met, while also being a hands-on design engineer.
• Digital/analog circuit design, MCU based design, digital communication protocols
• Automotive environmental testing standards and best design practices including automotive grade component selection and board design for EMI/EMC/ESD compliance
• Schematics capture, single/multi layer PCB layout and circuit simulation
• Reliability Analysis including FMEA and MTBF calculations
• Unit testing and hardware-software system integration testing
• Proficiency with digital test equipment and measurement tools
• Embedded system development tools - Cadence Allegro, OrCAD, PCAD, PSpice
• High-level programming languages - Basic C/C++, FORTRAN
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Outlook, Project), VSS (version control), Adobe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Automotive MCU based design
• DC-DC power converters
• LED driver control
• Electric motor and relay control
• Rotary electronic actuators
• Digital communication protocols (RS232, RS485, LIN, CAN, Flexray)
• Design for EMI/EMC and ESD compliance
• Projects involved in,
• LED Driver Module
• Trunk Lid Actuator
• Automotive IC Development Board for demo at the 2008 Auto Expo, New Delhi
• Reliability Analysis of Sunroof Control Unit
• Adaptive Front Lighting System
• PCI Type II Flexray Controller Card with FPGA
• Rotary Electronic Actuators
• On Board-LAN Wiring Comparison & Consolidation
• Designed and developed a CAN bus controlled LED driver module to control high-power au­tomotive LED headlamps for a European OEM client.
• Effectively used PSpice simulation and reliability analysis to reduce turnover time and costly iterations.

Hardware Engineer, System Quality Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a Trunk Lid Actuator unit to control the rearview camera in an auto­mobile. The unit must accept commands via LIN bus and activate the trunk lid. The client was a tier-1 European automaker.
• Effectively worked with an offshore electromechanical team which helped the client to roll out the product in a timely manner.

Hardware Engineer, System Quality Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a unique development environment to demonstrate and test the func­tionalities of the client’s new automotive companion IC. The IC is a LIN Transceiver with Voltage Regulator, Attenuator, Relay Drivers, and MCU Interface for automotive applications. The client was a top European semiconductor manufacturer.
• Effectively designed and developed an IC development board that interfaced with a GUI to al­low consumers to test out the chip’s functionalities.
• Successfully led a multi-development team to develop the hardware, software and graphic in­terface modules taking into account the client’s time and budget constraints.
• The client was able to successfully demonstrate our system at the 2008 Auto Expo at New Delhi, India.

Project Leader, Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Determined the MTBF figure for a Sunroof Control Unit manufactured by a Swedish OEM company.
• Successfully used a top-down approach to identify the failure causes of the unit, draw the fail­ure tree diagrams, and determine component failures.
• Trained junior engineers to familiarize them with the concepts of Reliability Analysis.

Hardware Engineer, System Quality Controller

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed an automotive grade Adaptive Front Lighting System for a tier-1 Asian automaker. The AFLS was a pioneer at the time in proactively adjusting the front light­ing based on road, weather and vehicular conditions.
• Effectively used PSpice simulation to reduce turnover time and costly iterations.
• Our team designed and developed a PCI Type II Flexray controller card using FPGA as part of Confidential Ltd’s IP development initiative.
• This allowed the company to speed up testing and validation processes for in-house as well as client projects.
• Trained and mentored junior engineers in the hardware development process including design, schematics capture, PCB layout, testing, and design for manufacturability principles.

Hardware Engineer, System Quality Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a unique Rotary Electronic Actuator to control the vanes of a tur­bocharger in the automotive engine. Two types of prototypes were developed. One of the pro­totypes was based on a Hall Effect sensor and the other on an Optical transceiver system. The client was a prominent Asian OEM company.
• Liaised with an offshore mechanical team to design for manufacturability, keeping the final product within size, shape and weight specifications.
• Analyzed, identified and consolidated the electrical wiring of many high-end automobiles for comparison purposes.
• Was able to create easy to understand block wiring diagrams in MS Visio without compromis­ing the clarity or details for an Asian automaker client.