SUSAN NIERMANN, ASEE

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QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

Test Engineer – Test Technician – Production Test Development

Electronics professional with 14 years of achievement spanning manufacturing operations, test engineering, and design

verification test. Manufacturing tasks included test planning, design, verification, and automation. Designed and

Automated tests using software and hardware for prototype test and design verification test; used in support of HW

engineering and manufacturing. Worked extensively in start up environments with immense pressure to increase

productivity quickly. Experience includes In Circuit Test, Hot Mock Up, Module burn in, and Final Systems Test. Trusted

team player with demonstrated capacity to deliver test solutions. Collected return materials analyzed failure information to

complete root cause analysis. Interfaced with contract manufacturer to deploy tests and support issue resolution and

ramps in production.

Areas of expertise:

TEST ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS – ENGINEERING TEST (DVT)

PRODUCTION TEST PLANNING, DESIGN, AND AUTOMATION TEAM PLAYER PROCESS IMPROVEMENT – PEOPLE SKILLS

OMEGA SOLUTIONS – St. Louis, MO 2009 to Present

Innovative company focused on building teams to contract for operations and manufacturing projects.

TEST TECHNICIAN

As a technician with both mechanical and software skills, helped this early stage company and its clients test and support

various HW assemblies. Continually analyze testing to identify opportunities for greater effectiveness, and lead process

improvement initiatives to best grow test quality and capacity.

Worked with the test team and critically reviewed failures of prototypes with Engineering.

Tested systems in development and pre production; acting as lead technician.

Characterization, reproduction and logging of new product release bugs.

Assisted setup and maintained systems in support of the Sales team.

Performed Senior Bench Technician duties including board test and repair and root cause analysis with close

interaction across field and engineering (HW and SW) teams.

Composed test procedures for production use.

UNDER COVER ANGELS – St. Louis, MO 2002 to 2013

In response to personal and community needs, created this web enabled company to design, develop, sell, and distribute products needed

by persons with developmental disabilities.

OWNER & ENTREPRENEUR

Developed the business concept, product design, and website to sell products assisting people with autism, ADHD, ADD,

sensory integration issues, and sleep disorders.

Developed three major product lines.

Participated in trade shows and directly worked with customers to design and make custom products.

Created company website, financial processes, and distribution methods.

Participated in the community by providing charitable donations.

TURNSTONE – San Jose, CA 1999 to 2002

A leading provider of products that enable local exchange carriers to rapidly deploy and efficiently maintain DSL services to Competitive

Local Exchange Carriers.

SENIOR TEST ENGINEER

Drove the planning, development, execution, and delivery of hardware test solutions for Manufacturing and Engineering.

Led both technical and project management aspects of projects. Engaged with many groups to define and optimize

project goals. Specialized in Hardware test design and automation. Led efforts to optimize test coverage and test times.

Developed automated testing for Production at the Functional & MBI Test Levels.

Managed the outsourcing of ICT Test development.

Created Test Plans for review with the HW, SW, MFG, & QA Teams. These plans outlined TEs detailed strategies for

testing at Production Test.

Responsible for characterization, reproduction, and logging of new product release bugs.

Performed and provided team oversight of analyses of field failures and test process/coverage, then implemented

technical and process improvements as required.

Worked very closely with Engineering, QA, Manufacturing, and Service to insure a quality and timely delivery.

Various PCAs such as a Combo CPU/DMM/Waveform Generator, Switching Cards, LAN Access cards, and various

line qualification cards.

Team player with test team and assisted Engineering in automating manual tests to run in Engineering lab to “beat up”

the board by repeated testing, to analyze repeatability/consistency of board functions, and report “bugs” to team.

Supported crucial production increases at the Contract MFG site. Our record quarter production increased 10x

Responsible for hiring temps & coordination of external sources to support our MFG team to enable this massive

unplanned increase in production to be tested & shipped.

NETWORK EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGIES – Redwood City, CA 1987 to 1999

Manufacturing Communication Equipment and Global Provider of Networking Technology.

SENIOR TEST ENGINEER

Devised and implemented hardware test approaches in support of development and operations. Led projects from

preliminary planning to on time, on budget delivery.

Developed test automation tools for Test Engineering and Production Test.

Functional/MBI Test Automation – Created a tool to enable rapid development of functional test for production. This

tool is written in industry standard National Instruments – LabWindows package. My goal has been to enable

technicians with no C/C++, or shell programming to develop and maintain the text based scenario modules that define

the tests for the PCAs. Attention was paid to make this work across the spectrum of varied PCAs from CPUs, to

Memory Cards, to LAN Products, Voice Modules, and ATM Trunks. This tool allows a single manufacturing tester to

run multiple stations in tandem.

Software Download Automation – Automation to allow on board software download to PCAs from NETs ISO9000

released software locations. This automation is menu driven and allowed a maintenance free station upon new

product code releases.

Power Supply Test Automation – Developed a PC based, IEEE controlled power supply test system. Standardized

hardware and software interface with a modular approach to adding new units to the test system. Developed tests

using C/C++ and the NI LabWindows package.

Characterization, reproduction and logging of new product release bugs.

Analysis of field failures, and test process/coverage. Implement improvements in process as required.

Designed Hardware/Software for many functional test systems for use at vendors to test misc. assemblies such as

power supplies, PDUs, and Alarm Panels, Battery Back up PCAs.

Developed in house functional test systems using the Fluke 9100A with a bed of nails test fixture.

Developed tests for the In Circuit Test using the Fairchild 333 and HP3070 In Circuit Test Systems.

Wrote test programs for Production Test and Engineering for evaluation of prototypes/pilot units.

EDUCATION

Heald Institute of Technology, San Jose, CA

Associates, Electrical Engineering (GPA 4.0/4.0)

CERTIFICATIONS, AFFILIATIONS, & ACTIVITIES

Highly valued for reliability, creativity, and quality of work on a variety of highly technical projects.

Accomplished Rock Climber and Mountaineer

Accomplished Horseman

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