SUMMARY:

• A proactive and results - oriented engineering professional combining outstanding engineering and design skills, consistently exceeding organizational objectives. Searching for a full-time engineering employment opportunity in a company that values high design standards and where advancement is based on merit and ability.
• C, Assembler, VB.net, Object Oriented DesignIEC 60601 Compliance
• Digital and Analog Circuit DesignPCB Layout, IPC-7351B, Design For Manufacture
• Embedded Hardware DesignMicroprocessor based High Speed Motor Control
• SPI, I2C, RS-232, GPIO, CAN InterfacesDiverse Engineering and Design Experience
• Debug using Scopes, Analyzers, ICE, other Lab EquipSoftware, Electrical, and Mechanical Integration
• OrCAD Capture CIS, PCB Editor, PADS, AultiumWindows, Mac, Linux, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lake Forrest, IL

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted root cause analysis on pressure sensor circuits. Updated electronics to facilitate increased robustness, increased accuracy, increased manufacturing yields, and reduced manufacturing time and costs. Redesign includes, analog circuit design, simulations, analysis, board-flex layout, prototyping, and proof of concept in a fast paced environment.

Confidential, Kalamazoo, MI

Product Designer - Electrical (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Designed hardware and firmware for an embedded microcontroller based reconfigurable intelligent Class CF medical power supply.
• Firmware performed real-time voltage, current monitoring and control for Confidential t protection. Added flexibility to use device with other products including future unknown products. Provided genuine product authentication through an encrypted handshake. Designed a microcontroller based irrigation pump motor controller.

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Computer and network support for business and retail customers. Repair of electromechanical medical equipment including Adjustment Tables, DICOM viewers and servers. This provided income while searching for engineering opportunities.

Confidential, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Senior Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reduced manufacturing and maintenance costs while increasing reliability, manufacturability, and feature set by completely redesigning the company’s flagship electrical surgical drill. Increased efficiency and motor response to varying loads over a dynamic range of 10K-80K RPM through new firmware control algorithms. Increased ease of use by adding an LCD and touchscreen with an intuitive user interface and hidden diagnostic screens. Eliminated high shipping costs and customer frustration, by adding field firmware upgradability via encrypted Flash memory card. The design utilized two 16-bit DSPs, I2C, SPI, RS232, USB, Ethernet, and GPIO communications.
• Reduced company liability and protected profits by conceiving and designing a low-cost encrypted authentication handshake for batteries and devices.
• Designed low-cost electrical firmware and hardware for a new disposable battery powered surgical file used for spinal surgery. The design utilized a small microcontroller for battery authentication, motor control, and electric brake.
• Conceived and designed electrical hardware and firmware for a new microprocessor based Lithium-Ion / Lithium-Polymer / NiCad fast battery charger. The charger design implemented battery authentication, conditioning, constant current and constant voltage charging algorithms with bad battery and error detection.
• Designed a Lithium-Ion battery pack with a small-embedded 8-bit microprocessor for genuine battery authentication.
• Designed an automated dynamometer. The system employed an eddy-current brake to evaluate and log torque, endurance, and operating temperature of 80K RPM high-speed motors, under varying load and speed profiles. Designed a human readable scripting language for specifying load and speed profiles. The design included a microprocessor and communicated with a PC via USB. Wrote the PC application in VB.NET and the firmware in C.

Confidential, Hypoluxo, Florida

Design Engineer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed a posture and weight distribution analyzer. The design included an 8-bit microprocessor interfacing serial scales, video camera, custom LED displays, and power-lift through USB to a PC. Wrote a custom PC applications including communications and database storage for retrieval of Confidential t progress. The Firmware was written in C. The application was written in VB6 and SQL.
• Designed a survey database application used by Fortune 500 companies for internal company assessment. The ASP.net and SQL based application allowed uninhibited anonymous responses while maintaining controlled access to the survey.
• Wrote a networked multi-user insurance-item replacement database application in VB6 and SQL.
• Saved irreplaceable data by performing low-level data rescue / recovery of damaged disk drives. Very happy clients

Confidential, West Palm Beach, Florida

Research and Development Manager / Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed the DyneView™ 5000 LED Stadium Size Video Display.
• Redesigned GolfProView, a graphical golf putt predictor / simulator used in live TV broadcast, to significantly increase profit margins by cutting equipment shipping costs 50%, required personnel costs 40%, required setup time 75%, and equipment costs 30%, while drastically improving system accuracy.
• Redesigned company’s flagship product SuperVision, a graphical ballistic tracking of a baseball from pitcher to catcher used in live broadcast television. The redesign allowed for easier stadium setup, greater accuracy, real-time availability of data for live Internet applications, and saleable historic pitch data.

Confidential, Singer Island, Florida

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed an OEM 3.5” X 6” single board computer with more functionality than a high-end desktop computer with support for LCD screen and battery charging. The design included circuit design, PCB design, prototype, and documentation.

Confidential, Riviera Beach, Florida

Electromechanical Designer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on managed the design, assembly and debugging of duplicators for mass duplication of audiocassettes at 128 time real speed.
• Designed high-speed recording electronics and automation controls. Debugged mechanical actuation and product handling. Designed sequence / logic controls for motor and pneumatic controls in Boolean Ladder Logic.

Confidential, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Senior Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible from conception through manufacturing hand-off for the design of a pen-based tablet computer. The design included an Intel 386SL-25 processor, LCD panel, modem, GPS, fast Ni-Cd and Ni-MH charging, and true gas gauge.