TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Low signal amplifier design, op - amps, characteristics of different technologies of passive components, noise reduction techniques, shielding, signal and power transistors, TTL, CMOS logic, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), variable frequency drives, optosensors, LEDs, laser diodes, heat measurement devices (thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors), various sensors and transducers, filters, heaters, stepper motors, DC motors, high voltage design, high vacuum, plasmas, dye-pulsed lasers, pneumatics, hydraulics, printed circuit board (PCB) design, surface mount technologies (SMT), PC, computer bus and port specifications and design (including USB), various PC chipsets, various Intel and Motorola microprocessors and microcontrollers, Confidential microcontrollers, ARM and RISC Architecture, touch screen displays, CRTs, video and RF, PC motherboards, drives, memory, cards, Ethernet, concentrators, routers, termination, single and three phase power, vehicle power and interconnect.

Software: Basic, C, C++, assembly code for various processors, Javascript, HTML, ladder logic (including Allen-Bradley and Siemens), Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Project, Labview, Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), SPICE, PSPICE (electronic simulation packages), AutoCAD, Canvas drawing program, PADS and PCAD printed circuit board (PCB) design, Windows networking, basic TCP/IP.

Test Equipment: Prototyping Equipment and Special Training. Oscilloscopes, multi-meters, watt meters, logic analyzers, gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, atomic absorption spectrophotometers, inductively coupled plasma spectrophotometers, colorimeters, pneumatic leak detectors, time domain reflectometer network analyzers (for both RF and computer networks). Forty hour HAZWOPER and 30 Hour OSHA. NFPA 70 (NEC); UL508; various MIL and AERO-SPECs. Sheet metal break, sheet metal shear, band saw, drill press, circuit board etching equipment and processes, wirewrapping, micrometers, solder station, through hole and surface mount soldering and desoldering (on PCBs), and prototype packaging. Rework of PCBs to correct design errors, by cutting traces and/or adding connective wires.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Electrical Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designing interconnect and cabling for utility vehicles on tight deadline. Power conditioning and distribution design. USB, GPS and video.

Engineer and Business Owne

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Interfacing off the shelf electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, optics, software, computers, etc. into custom engineering and process systems. Designing temperature controllers. Repairing and installing equipment, and training people for chemical instrumentation; in-house and field service, including extensive component level repair of PCBs. Building and repairing PCs. Repairing 2000 Watt, 4000 Volt RF transmitters. Have performed these tasks on extensive domestic and overseas sites in variety of cultural contexts, with various technical and financial resources. Business sales and management. Web design. Custom hardware and software design.

Project Engineer / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Engineering schematic design, wiring diagram, outline dimensional and bill of materials for three phase power controller, using various relays, contactors and signal controls. Specifying test procedures and overseeing testing of wide variety of electrical components. Writing Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs).

Electrical Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designing Confidential systems and programming ladder logic. Testing and correcting new systems to conform to operational and quality specifications. Troubleshooting customer welding parameters for proper welds. Controlling single and three phase power (50 and 60 Hz) for servo motor positioning and resistance welding parameters.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Implementing unique environmental and indoor air quality services to businesses and governmental entities. Fuel tank site and asphalt parking lot design. Technical planning and budgeting as per state regulations for state paid projects. Representing Project Designer and Building / Construction Owner for environmental and construction projects. Ensuring projects meet specifications and regulations, while solving construction and environmental problems.

General Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Took small construction business from $0 / year revenue and $0 net worth, to $1.3 million / year revenue and $350,000 net worth in two years. Scheduling and managing three construction crews simultaneously in multiple sites, while monitoring progress, quality and cost. Handling state and federal regulations for labor, construction and trucking. Laying out and measuring grade on new construction. Estimating project costs and material usage before construction, and specifying materials, safety concerns and procedures, and techniques. Project managing and helping construct an electric substation.

Systems Engineering Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designing custom hardware and software control systems and data collection systems for research scientists. Testing, debugging and building working custom instrumentation for scientists to use in research. Specialized in ruggedizing systems for hostile environments; designed and built systems used in the wilderness desert Southwest, Central American rainforest, buried in the Antarctic icepack, and other similarly challenging placements. Interfaced systems to PC and MAC using A/D, reading digital info into and out of Centronics parallel and RS-232 serial ports (non-printer applications, as instrumentation interfaces), and various other modalities. Designed computer driven stepper motor and servo motor drives. Designed custom computer cards to the IDE specification. Layout of printed circuit boards (PCBs), generating Gerber files with PCAD, using through hole and surface mount components. Worked extensively on low power and state-of-the-art battery powered applications. Designed and built linear and switching power supplies. Designed and built RF telemetry systems. Designed low-light optical sensor systems interfaced to computers. Worked with fiber-optics. Designed low noise, microvolt and nanoampere amplifiers. Worked extensively on signal noise reduction techniques. Networked computers, including new installations in entire wings of buildings, using plenum cable, Novell, Windows, Appletalk and Ethernet. Also installed concentrators and new Ethernet cards while debugging I/O memory, interrupt and DMA conflicts.

Service Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Built engineering service department from scratch. Oversaw and trained staff of three degreed service engineers. Scheduled and assigned engineering projects. Troubleshot and repaired various chemical instrumentation systems and RF transmitters to component level. Installed systems on customer site and trained customers on equipment. Built and fixed PCs. Oversaw engineering budget. Wrote engineering change orders (ECOs).

Electronic Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Repaired chemical instrumentation equipment in shop and field to the component level. Gained experience in electronics, pneumatics, optics and RF transmitters. Built and repaired PCs. Helped design upgrade interface for obsolete gas chromatographs.