ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Resume San Jose, CA - Hire IT People

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EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Designed a portable, sensor based electronic product with an embedded processor and other fine pitch components.
Generated schematics, gerbers, pcb.
Performed component placement and reflow/soldering for prototype evaluation purposes.
Wrote embedded C code for the device, and for test thereof.
Designed corresponding test fixture which includes an LCD display, a USB interface, DUT horn amplitude monitoring, XY magnetic field coil pairs with associated programmable current source drivers, standby and run current measurement, and a pogo-pin interface.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

System and board level OrCAD schematic capture, BOM authoring, w some analog design. Short term as planned.

Confidential, Los Gatos, CA

ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities:

Hired to perform assembly and test of a portable instrument utilizing DVM’s and oscilloscopes.
Performed component replacement for upgrades and repairs.
Later also involved in optimization of analog and magnetics for 2nd generation product.
Projects included PCB layout, soldering, analog and simple digital signal processing, a solar powered rechargeable source, and embedded C coding.
S/W included a pseudo-random noise generator with planned true random source.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Designed, prototyped, installed various analog circuit additions to existing heart-assist pump-controller.
Developed and prototyped DC-DC power supplies and power supervisory circuits as well as IC based ORing.
Utilized DVM’s, Oscilloscopes, Dynamic Signal Analyzers, LT-SPICE, etc..

Confidential, San Jose, CA

ANALOG ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Assumed EE responsibilities late in development of a low power, portable blood glucose monitor.
Made minor design corrections and improvements to the PCA. Documented changes in ORCAD.
Expanded and updated electrical tolerance spreadsheet for production test.
Helped complete hardware requirements document, hardware design specification document, and design verification test protocol with formal ECO’s in “Agile”.
Linked documents and test results using “Doors”.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Finished-out build of a very miniature, PIC microcontroller based portable data acquisition device.
With good mentoring; wrote embedded C code for this same device including a command parcer.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Hired to replace electrical engineers lost midway through the design of a new semicon tool.
Designed AC distribution sub-panel for a motion control servo platform and DC distribution cables for the tool.
Assisted determination of system UPS requirements and design of UPS interlock and control.
Worked a large number of full-time, necessarily short-term, contract positions between sessions of school.
Total 31 months as “EE”, 8 months as “Component Engineer”, 14 months as “Electronics Technician”.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Developer / Manufacturer

Responsibilities:

Initially performed support functions such as magnetic field mapping, data acquisition and analysis, analog and digital circuit prototyping, circuit test, and schematic capture in ORCAD.
Used oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, dynamic-signal analyzers, RLC meters, DVMs, etc. .
Later designed and built custom analog circuits for experiments in the lab and in the field, including data acquisition signal conditioners, low noise and drift integrators and amplifiers.
Soon became a key contributor in solving a number of critical system problems while working my day job as engineering support to manufacturing and to the field, for magnetics issues.
Designed a pre-distortion filter for a device that gave the system immunity from external magnetic field noise.
Designed and implemented simple changes to existing magnetic field homogeneity optimization software that allowed optimization over new shapes that I thought might improve marketability. This proved correct.