SUMMARY

• Electrical engineering professional with senior level project experience at applying electronics Confidential and development, design innovation, teamwork, technical communications, qualification, and documentation in a wide variety of industries.
• Focuses on achieving project design goals while performing in a larger team environment to complete all teh intermediate design processing tasks and builds a foundation of team noledge for successful introduction of new solutions.
• Medical devices and systems, high performance data storage testing and devices, finite element analysis FEA multi - physics modeling and simulation, physical electronics, distributed and embedded electronic controls, software development, communication systems, analog sensing, digital electronics circuits and systems design, power generation control electronics, and new technology innovation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Chaska, MN

Development Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop Immunology measurement system requirements and create formal verification test protocols.
• Lead team to develop measurement instrument characterization experiments and perform statistical analysis to evaluate system performance meets design requirements and author reports needed for regulatory submission.
• Confidential alternative methods and designs to improve immunology measurement system design.
• Create new concepts to rapidly measure COVID-19 pre-pandemic.
• Organize and manage internal engineering communications and technical information presentations.

Confidential - Minnetonka, MN

Confidential and Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remediate marketing and product specifications, develop design verification and validation plans and execution protocol details, perform statistical analysis of test data results for design verifications on acquired product families, and author final reports needed for regulatory submissions.
• Organize and manage internal and external engineering communications and technical information presentation.

Confidential - Saint Paul, MN

Senior Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Root-cause analysis reports, developed solutions and change decision analysis for electronic system designs, motor controls, electromagnetic noise interference and gas flow calibration issues.
• Customer engineering communications and technical presentations.

Confidential - Ann Arbor, MI

Product Development Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Root-cause analysis reports developed solutions and change decision analysis for electronic system design noise and calibration issues.
• Certify to engineering training needed for 21 CFR 820 FDA and other ISO regulatory requirements.

Confidential, Fridley, MN

Principal Product Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed new productivity prototype designs automating implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator device power longevity analysis with Windows database application integration using VB.net/ Intel Visual Fortran/ MS SQL Server with integrated LINQ query application programming.
• Developed VB.net Microsoft Windows prototype applications to automate analysis of implantable device data, detecting and building reports of performance anomalies.
• Created new concepts for implantable medical devices and developed anomaly detection support tools.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed new finite element models to predict tunnel junction magnetoresistance TGMR reader device electrostatic device ESD sensitivity and define a reliability improvement roadmap.
• Developed first transient thermal-electric finite element and physical models of Giant magnetoresistance GMR and TGMR reader device sensitivity to disc drive media surface asperities 10 to 1000 angstrom height surface defects on reliability when interacting with teh reader device.
• Create and applied advanced thermal proximity sensing head concepts and finite element physical models to continue improving performance in detection of nano-meter sized media asperities. Reduced impact of 5% media defect and head reliability loss (2.5M/qtr.) by enabling media defects detection with advanced specialty head design test technology. Estimated savings of 10M+ per year in production scrap losses.
• Developed new concepts and simulations for advanced high areal density perpendicular magnetic storage writer devices.
• Created teh reliability impact model prediction and thermal de-rating for head to media defect collisions on GMR and TGMR longitudinal and perpendicular storage head technologies.
• Developed numerous other advanced device technology models to increase storage density and reliability.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Senior Test and Advisory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• First to develop and implement into a production tool, Dynamic Electrical Test capability with a 12 disc / 24 head stack test operating at 10,000 RPM.
• Developed use and physical interpretation of GMR reader distributed performance with a Micro-Track profile HSA Dynamic Electrical Test for ESD control.
• Defined requirements for and qualified 25 high performance Dynamic Electrical Test systems worldwide including AMK-Singapore, Bangkok, Thailand, and U.S.A. based design centers.
• Developed PC Windows based automated system test applications using Visual Basic and C programming. Created driver and application code for interfacing with a new spectral analysis test circuit and system design based on VXI-bus hardware and LabVIEW applications software.
• Developed SQL Plus Oracle database automated applications and performed daily statistical analysis for all HGA products and field test capability. Build advanced SQL scripts to automatically run queries on large data sets from overseas production test machines.

Confidential - Fridley, MN

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• First to innovate and design a digital electronics micro-controller based embedded control circuit with machine diagnostics for a new sine wave inverter and permanent magnet variable speed very low operating noise generator set 7.5 Quiet Diesel used for teh largest class motor-coaches.
• Design development for an advanced graphical user interface for use on prime-power or backup-power generator Dominion systems ranging from 100 to 4000 KW dat need a local or remote monitoring and control display.
• First to design and develop a two micro-controller based embedded control circuit for distributed application computing of generator control and user communications tasks.
• Develop and design advanced EMI and EMC compatible circuits.
• First to develop and apply advanced user equipment diagnostic features into generator electronic controls with smart power circuit designs.
• Develop and designed a family of general purpose harsh environment applications generator super regulator and fault detection analog circuits (SR1900, SRA) for commercial and pleasure boat marine generator sets from five to 20KW.
• Develop and designed a very robust analog electronics generator set control circuit for teh 4.0 MicroLite recreational vehicle RV generator used in high volume consumer applications such as teh Winnebago line of RV products.
• Developed and applied expertise in teh use of Cadence Design Systems Analog Work Bench advanced electronics design analysis simulation tools for time saving processing of optimized designs.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed digital process control systems, furnace, bath and lehr controls for float process plate glass manufacturers in Louyang, China and Bascharage, Luxembourg.
• Digital process control system designed, furnace controls for plate rolled glass process manufactures in Shenyang, China and Greenland, Tennessee.
• Designed digital computer control systems for glass melting furnaces, fore-hearths, lehrs on all major U.S.A glass bottling manufactures, developed world class system design recognition.
• Digital process control system designed, furnace, riser and fore-hearth controls for a glass picture tube manufacturer in Aachen, West Germany. Teh design was for Philips glass manufacturing and was state of teh art; unique requirements included complete system distributed process controllers. Responsible for developing teh distributed process control programs using advanced visual programming design tools.
• Innovated and designed a digital serial interface logic circuit dat transparently connected two parallel data devices by converting teh 16-bit parallel logic signal into two contiguous serial data bytes then back to parallel at teh remote site. dis was used to extend parallel data hardware interfaces to 4000 feet in high electrical noise environments.
• Supported five million in sales for project designs using large SCR power controllers.
• Developed and applied new concepts in power controller electronics for improved electrical power utilization.
• Analysis for application of three phase AC, SCR synchronous tap power controller power factor.
• Developed DC output component elimination circuits for three phase AC, SCR power controllers used for direct electrical powered glass melting manufacturing applications.
• Develop AC power controller circuit improvements dat prevented high inrush current failure TEMPeffects when using infrared lamps.