SUMMARY:

Seeking a position that will leverage my experience in the areas of design, validation, testing and support of hardware projects (Electrical/Electro - mechanical design) from proof of concepts to hardware delivery, design verification and agency certification. Experience includes digital and analog design, rapid prototyping to identify board-level solutions using embedded Confidential / microprocessors for system designs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications / Tools: Verilog, Altera Maxplus2, Cadence, Mentor Graphics-Design Architect, Eagle Software, OrCAD, PADS and Altium.

Languages: Verilog, Tcl scripting, working knowledge of C

DSP Tools: Used DSP firmware development tool-Code Composer for initial debug of the hardware modules.

Test Tools: HP logic analyzer family, Digital Storage Scopes (DSO), Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Power Meter, Noise Generator, DVM, Emulators, Debuggers, Function Generators,, PCM test equipment, Protocol Analyzers, PCI bus analyzers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing digital circuit boards with microprocessors, mixed signal circuits, power regulator circuits, peripheral interfaces.
• Circuit board designs using OrCAD and PADS.
• Develop rugged communications designs used in austere environments.
• Cabling design. Define/perform tests and design verification testing.
• Research, design, develop and test digital, analog and RF hardware for customer applications.
• Electrical designing of product prototypes. Sustaining engineering for legacy products.
• Perform low to medium complexity board routing.
• Assess field problems, determine corrective action, resolve technical problems, fault isolation and implement solutions.
• Generate technical data for tech writer for engineering manuals and procedures.
• Support on-site installation activities.
• Provide custom solutions for customers such as army for rugged computers/routers and switches.
• Battery charger circuit design.
• Worked with mechanical engineering to provide rugged housing rated for IP67.
• Confidential compliant design.
• Work with CM for board manufacturing, BOM creation, alternate or end of life parts management.
• Evaluate EMI performance of designed products and remedial designs to pass MIL-STD-461.

Confidential

Verification/Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for medical device design history files, determining test requirements, test planning, test protocol generation/execution test results analysis/test reporting and coordinating verification/validation testing.
• Tracking components, modules and assemblies for Confidential compliance and following strict adherence to policies and procedures associated with an Confidential controlled environment.
• Identifying immediate solutions for short term corrections to prevent impact to business goals.
• Integrating product performance activities with new product development to improve project delivery time and reduce post release production issues.
• Travel to customer site for field support.
• Requirements review, test planning, test protocol generation and execution, test results analysis, and test reporting.

Confidential

Verification/Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for medical device design history files, determining test requirements, test planning, test protocol generation/execution test results analysis/test reporting and coordinating verification/validation testing.
• Tracking components, modules and assemblies for Confidential compliance and following strict adherence to policies and procedures associated with an Confidential controlled environment. Identifying immediate solutions for short term corrections to prevent impact to business goals.
• Integrating product performance activities with new product development to improve project delivery time and reduce post release production issues.
• Travel to customer site for field support.
• Requirements review, test planning, test protocol generation and execution, test results analysis, and test reporting.

Confidential

Sustaining Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting hardware/embedded systems, hardware circuit design (analog and digital), doing board level design, rapid prototyping working with 0402 SMT (hands-on i.e., soldering, probing signals for instrumentation for debug, design verification) using lab test equipment such as DSOs, Spectrum/Network analyzers.
• Work with embedded programmers and interfacing with hardware.
• Documenting hardware bugs, generating ECOs in a controlled engineering environment as well as new design rapid proto-typing (schematic capture and Confidential layout), interfacing with Confidential fab houses for board builds.
• Testing new designs, conducting/documenting design verification.
• Perform root cause analysis and failure investigations as well as resolving design, quality and component issues, provide technical support for field issues.
• Validate components, materials and applications in order to sustain current product designs.

Confidential

Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for systems test engineering and product testing. Systems safety engineering, reliability and sustaining engineering.
• Provided modifications to design for end of life components/parts for an intercom systems designed by Confidential for the Confidential aircraft.
• Performed sustaining work for Confidential modules using Confidential design tool (schematics updates) and interfaced with Confidential fab vendors for new pcbs.

Confidential

Senior Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of the hardware design team that developed the airborne hyper-spectral imaging sensor system (visible, near infrared, short-wave infrared and long-wave infrared spectral regions). Responsibilities included selection of COTS single board computers, solid-state memory for data storage, power supply design, cabling design, electrical interfaces to the different digital cameras (SWIR, LWIR and IR) and heat management for the sensor.
• Interfaced with mechanical designers for cable routing, layout of the electrical components and weight management of the whole system, was responsible for housing the whole system in an aircraft for collection of data, and system integration of the sensor to the Digital gyroscope for stability.
• This sensor detected and located threat types for a range of applications such as border patrol, drug detection, rescue missions, disaster relief support, environmental analysis, weapons detection, buried IED detection, and hidden munitions.

Confidential

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Electrical Engineer in R&D of Confidential optical sensing and nano-material based tagging and detection technologies with primary focus on investigating applications for proprietary optical technology.
• Rapid prototyping to identify board-level solutions using embedded Confidential and design systems support optical data processing.
• Responsible for system architecture, hardware design, board level design, bill of material, design support for mechanical group of camera/lens housing, reviewing mechanical drawings, and interfacing with machine shops for mechanical builds.
• Responsible for new electrical design of systems for Confidential image capturing that included lighting strobe control, timing modules, controlling digital cameras.
• Maintained/authored all engineering documentation related to the electrical design of Confidential systems including schematics, design spreadsheets, bill of materials, system diagrams, writing Installation manuals for customers.

Confidential

Control Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed systems design and engineering tasks for Instrumentation and Control within the nuclear field.
• Developed engineering design packages with other disciplines (e.g., Electrical, Mechanical, Civil) on any given project.
• Participated in reviewing and checking designs, AutoCAD drawings and data by other engineers or by suppliers.
• Monitored project controls within Control Engineering, assisted in the on-the-job training of people assigned.
• Used established Engineering Department Procedures (EDPs) and their application to projects.

Confidential

Senior Electrical Engineer & Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Designed and prototyped new circuits boards, and subsystems, logic controllers, analog circuit design, and embedded processing.
• Also, designed circuits to demonstrate proof of concept.
• Used Eagle software for schematic capture for Confidential boards.
• Developed component and system level designs, performed analytical studies and tests, assembling and testing prototype systems and responsible for getting designs to the production stage with agency certifications.
• Worked with suppliers to ensure optimum design for manufacturing during prototype and production phases of product development.
• Agency certification of core product ‘ Confidential ’, a portable trace explosive detection unit.
• Design updates, manufacturing issues.
• As the product matured, worked on Quality Assurance for the Confidential product.
• Confidential core product was Confidential for trace explosives detection.