Career overview:

Electrical engineer / Project manager with the ability to apply organization needed for quality products. Develop projects from conception to end of life considering the needs of the customer, manufacturing and service. Provide technical guidance and involvement from system architecture to detail circuit design while working with the mechanical and software members of the project. Provide hands-on involvement during all phases of product development, integration and deployment.

RECENT ASSIGNMENTS:

• Control panel component selection and design to NFPA79. Companies first-time undertaking.
• Koyo PLC programming, Banner Safety Controller
• Select and implement Control Panel software, Zuken E3 WireWorks used for PerfectPick warehouse equipment.
• Develop Installation and Service plan for PerfectPick warehouse equipment.
• EMC and Safety compliance of existing equipment for international sales.
• Revise controller PCB design for re-use on new products.
• Circuit design of an IO controller for AS7200 consisting of Xilinx FPGA, Freescale DSP, Microchip PICs, sensor interfaces and DC load outputs. Develop Powerpoint based documentation for training and reference.
• Product level cost analysis for new project AS7200.
• Project manager for the AS180 and DS1225 2 simultaneous 18 month projects .
• This entailed product concept through hand-off to the Continuation Engineering group.
• 'Other' work: Controller design, hardware and software, using Arduino open source .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Communications:

• Generate product level overview / feature list and present to the sales and service groups in the team.
• Participate in and report on weekly status meetings with customers and outside partners on projects.
• Generate and present technical product information to engineers and manufacturing.
• Develop, present and maintain project schedules, set milestones and list of deliverables
• Convey the continual specification adjustments between external and internal customers.
• Chair concept and review meetings for product level, sub-systems and detail designs. Include customer, manufacturing and service concerns.
• Serve as technical point-person concerning the electrical aspect on multiple projects.
• Assess and adjust daily activities to meet project milestones with contingency plans.
• Author product functional specifications based on customer, sales and marketing requirements.

System Level:

• Plan and generate specifications and process diagrams for the product and sub-systems.
• Participate in field visits to collect, sort and incorporate needs and requirements into the product specification and design objectives.
• Perform, failure analysis of events and designs in order to adjust processes and present recommendations to management
• Create cause / effect diagrams of product function and process used in design and failure analysis.
• Generate product planning diagrams and related costing
• Generate and maintain issue hit-list throughout the projects until resolution or hand-off
• Generate and present cross-functional product cost analysis in conjunction with production, purchasing and accounting
• Identify and define critical path issues concerning the technical and project aspects of the product.
• Lead product and sub-system debug and integration groups consisting of mechanical, electrical and software.
• Generated system and sub-system block diagrams used for development, test, training and reviews.
• Developed test plans for sub-systems and contributed to product acceptance test plans
• Sales support throughout demos, shows, literature production
• Marketing support throughout product family definition, literature production, product acceptance testing
• Prototype of lean manufacturing with production during the DS1225 project
• Provide on-site and phone support during initial product release.

Detail Level:

• Evaluate designs based on feedback from Tech Support after project launch
• Circuit design analog, digital, FPGA, microcontrollers and PCB layout support
• Schematic, assembly drawing, wiring and BOM creation/support
• Technical training and support for production and service
• Build, integration, test and install of PCBs, sub-systems and systems. Work with CM's pertaining to PCB prototypes.
• Interface Circuits to off-the-shelf and semi-custom devices image capture, MICR, printers, LVDT, motors AC/DC/stepper , sensors, HMI, interlocks
• Design with respect to agency safety, EMC, RoHS, WEEE , manufacturability and testability requirements
• Specify and design product IO distribution, AC distribution, electrical enclosures
• Define and design test fixtures for PCBs and wiring.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Engineer,

Confidential

• Opex designs and manufactures mail sorting and extraction equipment ranging from desk models to capitol equipment. Major project assignments

• Develop and define processes for updating equipment and their designs circuit design, part selection to RoHS and WEE directives. Lead staff of 4 during the update.
• Continuation engineering work on products at the system and detailed level based on field information.
• Electrical architect and electrical lead staff of 5 EE's for the 'Eagle' project, an automated mail extraction equipment. Provide technical and management support to a team of eight electrical personnel. Design of IO PCBs using Xilinx CPLDs and Microchip PIC processors. Develop basic PCB debug routines in 'C', Integration of semi-custom printer controller.
• Project manager for updating three products, MPS40, S150, MPE7.5 for the French Ministry of Finance. Managed staff of 15 software, mechanical and electrical .
• Project manager staff of 5 mechanical, electrical, software for AT T wireless mail services involving two products MPS40, MPE7.5 . Developed workflow processes for the equipment use, attend weekly customer phone meetings. Manage in-house development team including mechanical, electrical and software development.
• Author and introduce in-house engineering development process and guidelines.
• Electrical architect, logic design and electrical lead staff of 4 EE's for the MPE7.5 and MPS7, automated mail sorting equipment. Provide technical and management support to a team of four electrical personnel.

Engineering Consultant

• Fidelipac Corp. in Philadelphia PA, a Radio broadcast console manufacturer. Design of subassemblies line meters, backplane, audio input for radio broadcast consoles. PCB circuit design of channel control, audio metering, backplanes, switch modules. Phases included prototype debug and manufacturing support. Additional tasks were product ad sheets and Website.
• 33Branch Corp., Medford NJ, a video production company. Specify, install and maintain video editing equipment. Developed informational CDs using Macromedia Director. Supported taping as sound engineer.
• Mister Softee Ice Cream, Belmawr, NJ. Generate workflow, specifications and development of a relational database MS Access to track drivers, trucks and loans. Developed and maintained Website
• Premiere Consulting, Medford NJ providing management training. Design of PowerPoint, multimedia presentations and teaching manuals for Pfizer and Comcast.
• Shamong Township schools business office. Maintenance of PCs, network and Unix server.
• Fellowship Alliance Chapel in Medford, NJ. Specify, install and maintain PCs, network Novell and Windows . Specify and install audio and video equipment. Developed and maintained Website. Develop teaching and sermon presentations. Stage setup and soundboard operation. Trained sound system operators.
• Los Amigos Restaurant, Berlin, NJ. Specify, install and maintain their business PCs and network. Developed and maintained Website.
• Christian and Missionary Alliance, Metro district. Developed and maintained Website. Developed and presented computer training seminars for church staff and missionaries.
• Legal Medical Staffing, Voorhees, NJ. Specify, install and maintain their business PCs on a Novell network.
• Prudential Securities, Marlton, NJ. Specify, install and maintain their office PCs on a Windows based network.

Design Engineer,

Confidential

• SASI developed and manufactured Point-Of-Sale equipment used by Wawa, Rite-aid, Pep Boys and independent supermarkets.
• Design circuitry for 40 column thermal and impact printer based on Seiko and Epson modules and Intel 8031 and their power supplies.
• Design electronics for keyboard and a magnetic card reader interface, 8031 based.
• Metalwork and plastic enclosures design worked with specific designers for LCD display, printers and monitors.
• Design of an adapter board for 80486 families to 80486DX4.
• Design of PCI / ISA backplane.
• Plan, perform and report on sub-system evaluations of disk drives, drive controllers, network cards, etc.
• System level troubleshooting including vendor and customer interface.
• Install and support prototype systems domestically at customer sites Pep Boys and RiteAid

Senior Member Technical Staff

Confidential

• Datamedia designed and manufactured PC based equipment for financial institutes. I held multiple positions while at Datamedia: Senior Member Technical Staff, Member Technical Staff, Test / Manufacturing Engineer group of 3 , Supervisor of PC Board Assembly and Test staff of 10 technicians and 10 assemblers , and Production Technician.
• Detail circuit design

• Implementation of customer specified workstation.
• Modem communications rack, 80 ports, 8051 based .
• ISA bus, Floppy controller, EGA video board.
• 8088 based Motherboard and system.
• Serial Sync/Async Communications PCB, ISA bus Z80 based and interface PCBs.
• 8086 based Workstation, CPU / Video / IO / Disk.
• 80286 Motherboard, VLSI chipset based.
• Workstation integration, 80286 workstations, LAN based.
• 80286 based Workstation, VLSI chipset based.
• 80386SX Motherboard, C T chipset based.
• ISA peripheral board which included serial, parallel, floppy, and IDE. C T device based.
• Design review of a custom communications PCB, 80386SX based.
• 80386DX Motherboard, C T chipset based.
• VME IO PCB, 68EC040 based.

• Design and program in-house test fixtures for PCB test and System test
• Train production technicians on new products
• Provide on-site domestic and international customer, vendor and integration support
• Support in-house production issues

Software: MS Office Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Project , Orcad, Altium and Eagle PCB CAD , Xilinx CPLD , Zuken E3 control panel , LabView