SUMMARY

• A creative, versatile electrical engineer possessing a “can do” attitude with a broad range of experience. Recently employed in the automotive and utility industries validating, troubleshooting and testing circuit card assemblies of electronic control units for diesel exhaust sensors and RF metering units.
• Worked over ten years in the communications industry within the various disciplines of test, design, component purchasing, regulatory verification and product maintenance. Versed, from the system down to the circuit board level, with cellular, public safety and military products such as radio handsets, base stations, speaker microphones, vehicle intercoms, filters and battery packs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft’s Office Suite
• Visio and Visual Basic
• Vector's CANalyzer
• LabVIEW 2014
• LabWindows/CVI
• ANSI C
• Agilent’s VEE
• AutoCAD
• Altium
• OrCAD
• PSpice
• MathCAD
• DOORS
• Innoveda’s DxDesigner
• Hewlett Packard’s Advanced Design System
• Mentor Graphics
• Altera’s Max Plus 2
• Pascal and Microwave Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stoneridge, Lexington, OH

Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Devised tests, analyzed data to develop an algorithm to determine when a sensor is poisoned
• Authored vendor final functional test requirements for sensor module assembly
• Experimentally determined emissivity of sensor element substrate with FLIR camera enabling a more accurate characterization
• Validated board house vendor and production software for controlling the sensor module

Confidential, Solon, OH

Contractual Hardware Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conceptualization, design, development and deployment of production test equipment for microprocessor controlled radio products used in the public utility industry
• Diagnosed contract manufacture’s circuit card assembly failures to recoup resources before transition to Mexican contract manufactures and improve overall test processes
• Analyzed, diagnosed and repaired legacy test station circuit card assemblies supporting production
• Analyzed, devised tests and documented fuel cell breathalyzer results over the specified temperature and humidity range to enable accurate algorithm development
• Troubleshot and repaired units damaged during testing to ensure a continuity of data collection
• Demonstrated and Documented that the 2015 model Transmission Control Unit functions within worst case analysis thresholds over the - 40° to 105°C range using CAN and LIN communication bus tools in conjunction with an array of bench test equipment thus meeting customer’s contractual requirements and enabling production to commence on schedule

Confidential Cincinnati, OH

Hardware Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Authored test plan and test procedures for VHF and UHF passive filters satisfying customer’s requirements for vehicular cosite mitigation
• Oversaw and authored test report for full MIL-STD-810 environmental qualification of satellite antenna interface unit fulfilling a prerequisite for production
• Troubleshot legacy frequency hopping filter automated test system enabling product contractual repairs and delivery
• Authored interface control, critical item specification and test plan documentation using Microsoft’s Office Suite and DOORS enabling design traceability to customer requirements
• Created system level interconnect block diagrams with Visio conveying the TOCNET and VIS design to the customer and supporting engineering teams
• Defined and crafted requirements for Stryker modification contributing to the meeting of contractual obligations

Confidential, Clarksburg, MD

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented test stations, comprised of the electrical, mechanical, software and equipment procurement, for multi-cell battery packs increasing production from 300 packs/day to 500 packs/day as well as generating SQL data for yield analysis
• Directed and procured the material for the build of additional automated test stations enabling production to increase from 300 to 500 Combat Survivor /Evader Locator modules per month
• Built circuit board prototypes and proof of concepts for nine volt battery chargers, infrared motion sensors and 2.4 GHz satellite turners per client’s specifications

Confidential, Huddleston, VA

Contractual Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed NiMH battery pack testing for a prototype 1 Watt handheld transceiver by writing automated LabVIEW routines resulting in a charging algorithm over the 0 C to 40 C temperature range in addition to determining the discharge life of the unit’s battery
• Oversaw UL913 Intrinsically Safe testing of Land Mobile handheld Radio accessory speaker microphones by authoring the Control Documentation and performing the liaison function with the certified testing laboratory enabling the product to meet compliance and secure a new clientMaintained electrical component inventory for prototype VoIP mesh network 1 Watt handheld transceiver in the 2.4GHz band enabling adherence to the production schedule
• Contributed redesign input for a five pole passive filter, FET switched peak detector and printed circuit board grounding scheme allowing the design to more efficiently meet the client’s requirements
• Performed schematic capture layout entry, component selection and library maintenance for kilowatt 500 MHz FM Tri-Mode Exciter transmitter upgrade fulfilling contract obligation

Confidential ., Lynchburg, VA

Development Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Authored procedure document for CDMA Cellular Base Station Test equipment rack fulfilling release requirements and giving operators a useful tool
• Debugged and evaluated component and sub-circuit failures of CDMA Radio Base Station up and downconverter RF circuit boards, using array of RF test equipment, thereby increasing factory yields
• Analyzed the transmitter redesign of a dual band cellular phone to a single band facilitating product introduction into the South American market
• Analyzed Electromagnetic Interference radiating from Ethernet cables attached to a Cable Modem Line Card in order to meet Federal Communications Commission Part 15 specifications