OBJECTIVE:

Manufacturing Test Engineering position.

SUMMARY:

• 12 years analog, and digital testing of PCBAs, cards and test fixtures
• 10 years VME, STD, CPCI, and QBUS, board and test fixture experience
• 10 years Test Fixture Evaluation, functional verification, and legacy embedded computing experience
• 10 years card manufacturing engineering experience; Test procedures, BOMs, Card Procurements, and Assembly instructions.
• 8 years hard drive duplication/ imaging IDE, SATA, SCSI, MFM, FAT16, NTFS, UNIX, LINUX.
• 7 years PCB manufacturing, CAD/CAM, bed of nails test fixtures
• 7 years Research and Product Development experience
• 4 years NPI, New Product Introduction, assembly & test procedures, BOMs, fabricated parts drawings, Gerber, PCBAs
• 3 years RF troubleshooting experience
• 3 years Confidential testing experience with up to 8 FPGAs per board
• 3 years Experience with radar signal processor card / system level testing and with hand held radio technology.
• 1 year BOM conversion from OEM to Confidential, found replacements for obsolete components.
• 1 year programming skills in C, and Excel Visual Basic macros
• ½ year board layout experience using Protel
• ½ Verilog/VHDL programming for FPGAs, Pursuing Digital Design/Embedded Systems Certificate at UCSC Ext. very proficient computer user

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Protel Schematic Capture, Orcad, dBA, Arena PLM Plus, SAP Business One, Altera Max Plus II, SPICE Plus, GPIB, Visual Basic, C, ProComm Plus Scripts, Familiar with OS/Unix, Linux UBUNTU, and Windows environments.
• Familiar with LabVIEW and SolidWorks, Intel 8088 & Motorola 68000 Assembly Languages.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Assembly Instructions, worked with BOMs, fabricated parts drawings, Gerber, PCBAs for NPI processes.
• Tested optical sensors with Quanergy Processing Unit (QPU).
• Executed process experiments
• Worked with mechanical engineers, R&D engineers, quality engineers, marketing engineers and the production crew.
• Helped to purchase humidity/temperature chamber and vibration system to meet European test standards

Confidential, Livermore, California

MANUFACTURING TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Performed functional development of test fixtures, did system evaluations, set - up and trained technicians for production test releases.
• Wrote more than 80 test procedures for STD80, STD32, CPCI, and VME 32/64 boards.
• Worked with Gerber files, assembly drawings, schematics, location designator drawings (silkscreens), and electrical or mechanical drawings.
• Updated test release documents in dBA and SAP-Business One.
• Wrote ECOs/PCOs/ECNs to track changes in products
• Scripts > Edited Single Board Computer’s SROM memory to update product ID and Serial Numbers ( Confidential ).
• Tested memory.
• Downloaded Monitor firmware from PROM to Flash and ran the test to see if boards runs without error.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set-up OEM Test Fixtures and made modifications for new and variant products.
• Formatted (FAT16, NTFS, Unix, Linux) and Imaged hard drives (IDE, SATA, SCSI, MFM) from 20MB to 2TB by utilizing MS DOS 3.3, MSDOS 6.2 to 7, MS Windows 3.1- 95 - 98 - 2000 and MS NT, Windows 7, UNIX, LINUS,
• VROM 32K System. Used Norton Ghost DOS/windows version 15, and ICS Image Master. Also, configured single to multiple IDE/SATA/SCSI drives.
• Used converters from IDE/SATA to USB, IDE/SATA to SCSI, and PCI to SCSI cards.
• Maintained and updated modifications for old/new Test Fixtures.

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

BOARD LAYOUT ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Protel for audio-video applications, entered schematic, generated netlists, performed board layout, routed tracks, and poured plane layers.
• Utilized I2R bus. Built and tested prototypes.
• Repaired old PCs, built new PCs, upgraded sw and drivers, and configured them for multichannel audio applications.

Confidential, Morgan Hill, California

HARDWARE TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a new product development team of design and system engineers.
• Was responsible for bringing up Signal Processors, SP370, which reported to CS-3701, Tactical ESM and Radar Surveillance System with capability of up to 3 DIFM channels (2 to 6GHz, 6 to 18 GHz, and 2 to 18 GHz) and a tuner channel (160MHz).
• Performed system level and card level tests in a radar system for all seven digital cards, VME and Q-bus based, in a Signal Processor.
• Brought SP370 from development phase to production phase, trained 3 test engineers to expedite the testing cycle.
• Was also involved in testing of Signal Processor, SP160, a single channel (2 to 18 GHz) and a tuner channel (160MHz).
• Executed system setup, calibration, acceptance testing, wrote procedures, tracked HW & firmware ECNs, and supported QA efforts to make sure that all changes were incorporated for the signal processor, 6u box, in hand.

Confidential, Redwood City, California

HARDWARE DESIGN ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Designed a LCD prototype board for evaluation purposes; developed test procedures for circuit verification, and documented firmware requirements for testing. Was responsible for part procurement.
• Designed a small Altera circuit that provided sync detection in a serial bit stream. This circuit also divided down the main clock to provide several related clocks with the required phases for use in other circuits.
• Reviewed Labview programs, which were written for Analog Test fixtures.
• Took over responsibility for a large build of Confidential RF subcarrier Transmission Units. Responsibilities included part procurement, generating assembly kits, managing the assembly and test processes.
• Tested and debugged the Analog Board for the Confidential FM receiver and Transmission Units. This required documenting the status of each board as well as running many tests, looking for trends, and variances. This testing required extensive use of oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF function generators, and logic analyzers.
• Completed the testing of Analog Boards ahead of schedule to support a significant marketing demo effort.
• Tested, debugged, and upgraded several functional test fixtures for the Confidential receiver analog boards. Was responsible for installing and maintaining these test fixtures at the outside assembly house.

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

PROCESS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Worked on newly developing technology projects, embedded resistance in Confidential and embedded capacitance in PCBs, with a principal engineer. Coded Visual C / GPIB programs to control Keithley SMU and Multi-meter. Wrote over 20 procedures for PCB process.