SUMMARY:

• Principal electrical/electronic engineer with both design and manufacturing experience. Proven success in analog and digital circuit design and circuit board layout.
• Bringing concept prototype devices to production level and release that meet or exceed IEC 60601 latest edition and Title 21 CFR devices standards.
• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to facilitate interdepartmental projects and managing them to completion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Electrical Engineering Design: DX Designer PADS Altium P - Cad Or Cad P Spice

CAD Software: SolidWorks 2014 Visio AutoCAD

Programming Software: Microsoft Visual Studio (Visual C++ and Visual Basic)

Math Software: Matlab MathCad Instrumentation Software LabView

Office software: Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Power Point

Programming Languages: C++ C PIC Microprocessor assembly MC6809 assembly 8088 Assembly

Motion Control: Mitsubishi A Series PLC Programming Language CompuMotor Motion Planner Circuit Board Design, Layout and Component Selection 3D modeling of circuit boards

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Poway, CA

System Analyst / Electrical / Electronic Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating and modifying SQL databases and writing test procedures for large-scale automated control systems for the mining and oil industry.
• Performing detailed testing of these systems to insure they meet the customer's specifications.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Contract Principal Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and made changes to preliminary circuit designs for a point of care instrument for its feasibility design stage.
• Generated PCBA documentation and fabrication and assembly files for 3 PCBAs that were fabricated and assembled for feasibility study devices.
• Designed sensor cables and indicator cables and generated cable documents for assembly by a contract manufacturer.
• The timely manner in which the documents were reviewed, changed, generated and sent out for quote resulted in six operating prototype instruments being assembled and ready for feasibility testing in less than four months.

Confidential, Poway, CA

System Analyst / Electrical / Electronic Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote display software for a display PCBA that was thought to be un-programmable, allowing the use of custom designed display boards that were already designed and purchased.
• This saved the company $50,000 in hardware and several months time in integration and redesign of the controller.
• Designed circuits, the boards and an enclosure for a data acquisition module for heavy industrial use.
• Designed EEG amplifier, A/D circuit board and an interface board for an EEG device.
• Designed an ARM 32-bit microprocessor based controller board for an oil platform choke valve control.
• Designed an ARM 32-bit microprocessor based controller board for an ocular diagnostic device.
• Designed an ARM 32-bit microprocessor based electroporation generator including the power supplies and the patient therapy circuits.
• Designed the circuits and the circuit boards and chose the components for the circuit boards insuring they followed the IEC60601 standards for medical devices.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior Staff Electrical Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design for reliability and manufacturing. Update instrument documentation for transfer of instrument manufacturing
• Write qualification protocols for instrument manufacturing for the San Diego, CA facility so instruments that were manufactured
• Plant could be sold. Debug automated assembly machinery that has no documentation.
• Designed improved instruments that would decrease the cost by 50%.
• Selected components to replace obsolete components and to make the instrument smaller and lighter with fewer components.
• Wrote installation, operational and performance protocol so that instrument manufacturing could manufacture and sell instruments manufactured in the San Diego facility.
• Analyzed problems with three undocumented automated machines and fixed the problems in a timely manner.
• Identified obsolete components on four instruments and proposed solutions and schedules to address them.
• Found and purchased a oximeter that was considered to be unobtainable within a week.
• Wrote and released an installation, operational and performance qualification for a oximeter used to calibrate oximeters manufactured by Accriva.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Principal Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed the software validation for an RF generator when the software engineer who wrote the software was unavailable due to layoffs, allowing the protocol to be finished in a timely manner. This saved the company 5 weeks and approximately $25,000 in hiring software consultants.
• Solved an RF power output problem which resulted in a reduction of failures during final testing for insufficient output from 30% to 1% for that failure.
• Wrote design specifications for and implemented a PCBA test fixture for an existing product that was manufactured by an outside firm decreasing final assembled generator failures by 90%.
• Designed a temperature data acquisition PCBA for a next generation RF ablation generator.
• Designed and validated two test fixtures for a new RF ablation generator.
• Designed a semi-automated test fixture for a new design generator to reduce the testing time.
• Designed test fixture for a new product which eliminated the need for a wet bench.
• Designed an automated tuning a test fixture for a new product.
• Re-designed a circuit and changed the PCBA layout to add features and address noise and output power issues on an RF ablation generator.
• Re-designed and selected RoHS components for an RF ablation generator so that it meets the Reduction of Hazardous Substances or RoHS directives so it could be sold in the European Union after July of 2014.
• Brought a device from concept to design to manufacturing of approved devices.
• Wrote PCBA test procedures for a new RF ablation generator so that operators with little or no electrical technician experience could follow them.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior Electrical Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised two electrical engineers, insuring they had the resources and guidance needed to complete and close projects.
• Submitted project plans to director with associated costs and timetables for project completion.
• Recognized and provided solutions to technical problems that came up during the project.
• Recommended changes to the project plan if needed to insure completion.
• Coordinated and facilitated activities between suppliers, contract engineers, manufacturing, and design engineering.
• Mentored junior engineers.
• Validated scanner motor tests software and collaborated with software engineer making improvements to the software that speeded up the testing.
• Designed and validated a video microscope test fixture. Wrote the software using LabView to run the fixture, and designed the electrical and part of the mechanical assembly
• Designed a PCBA to replace a sensor and power cable assembly increased reliability and ease of manufacture.
• Designed and validated a load test fixture for an uninterruptible power supply, eliminating the need to send suspect units back to the manufacturer for testing resulting in a two to three week savings in time for each unit.
• Designed and validated two stepper motor controller programming and test fixtures. Got changes implemented to the stepper motor controller firmware during development, which reduced the number of potentially damaged objective assemblies, by improper limit settings.
• Solved control computer lock up problem. Worked with supplier to design a solution, which required no recall of equipment from the field and decreased the number of failures on the manufacturing floor from 50% to 5%.
• Solved an encoder problem. Later serial number encoders began causing positioning errors on the system.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Electronic Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Submitted project plans and project budgets to director with associated costs and timetables, which included contract engineering costs, labor costs, and materials costs. Project was completed under cost and on time.
• Recognized and provided solutions to technical problems that came up during the project.
• Recommended changes to the project plan if needed to insure completion.
• Coordinated activities with suppliers, contract engineers, manufacturing, and design engineering.
• Supervised a manufacturing floor lead, a contract firmware engineer and a contract electrical engineer.
• Re-designed soil moisture monitoring system improving its reliability from 3% to 93%. Redesigned the capacitance sensor PCBA and the logger microprocessor circuits. Rewrote the logger code.
• Designed a lead acid battery charger using a switching circuit including the PCBA layout. This design resulted in a battery failure reduction by 60%.
• Designed a probe test and calibration fixture. This test fixture resulted in fewer data entry errors by automating the probe testing.
• Completely set up manufacturing floor where none had existed.
• Wrote specifications for another contract design company to design the in-field communication, which improved the reliability by 75%.
• Audited a cable and PCBA manufacturer for IPC Class II standards. Generated and released the documentation a timely manner with attention to detail. The contract manufacturer had very few questions, resulting in timely delivery of the components.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Senior Electronic Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed Michelson optical module, replacing a mechanical stretcher modulator (a 6" by 3" by 2" box in a console) with an all electronic modulator which reduced the noise by 50% and increased the reliability of the unit overall by 35%.
• Coordinated activities between engineering and manufacturing. Facilitated activities between engineering and manufacturing.
• Rewrote bill of materials for circuit board assemblies to include manufacturer and manufacturer part number, which also required re-specifying of some components, reducing the rejection rate of the PCBA’s by 20%.
• Wrote and performed validation procedures and reports.
• Wrote failure mode analysis documents for the device, both FEMAs and FEMCAs for an FDA audit.
• Specified alternates for obsolete electronic components.
• Worked with TUV Medical to qualify a unit with an updated design.
• Perform audits on three PCBA suppliers.
• Produced fabrication drawings for printed circuit boards where none existed.
• Changed printed circuit board assembly documentation so it was more detailed and consistent in format.
• Wrote validation plans and justifications for various manufacturing assembly and test procedures using Design of Experiments.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed part of a pressure sensor amplifier circuit to make it small enough to fit inside the handle end of a catheter cable in preparation of designing a smaller multi-parameter inter-cranial pressure monitor.
• During monitor re-qualification for TUV, tested monitor under the next TUV medical device standard, saving the company the approximately $20,000 fee to test the monitor at a later date.
• Qualified a new monitor for use in the United States by Underwriters Laboratories.
• Compiled, verified, and corrected schematics, circuit board drawings and parts lists for a device which the company acquired from buying another company so a new circuit board manufacturer could be used to manufacture the boards. When the new boards were tested, there were no functional problems with the boards so the manufacture of the monitor could continue without being delayed.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed a strain gage circuit board that took the output from the gage and converted it to a digital output, which was converted to RS-232 serial port data to go to a PC serial port. Design included writing software for the processor.
• Designed electrical distribution and control system for two compound processing machines
• Designed an RS-232 serial port for a custom microprocessor board.
• Re-designed electrical system on an instrument increasing instrument reliability by 200%.
• Helped bring a dispensing robot from concept design to manufacturing.
• Solved a stepper motor accuracy and reliability problem with a small change in the controller firmware.
• Produced final release documents for mass production of machinery and instruments.
• Took a lead role in getting all of the documentation released and guided manufacturing in the installation of these which resulted in installation happening ahead of time and the machines working correctly on startup with very few problems.