Carlos M. Herrera

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Albuquerque, NM 87121

505-***-****

acpdyo@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Senior Electronics technologist with 35 years experience in manufacturing, calibration, and

maintenance, as well as development of automated test equipment, and production and testing facilities,

in the technical areas of Automation & Process Control, Computers & Computer Support, and

Electronics Repair, and Security, Experienced in design and development of electronic &

electromechanical systems. Range is from small prototype circuits, and automated manufacturing and

testing systems to complete facilities. Software design & development experience: Labview, Visual

Basic, C++, machine code programming, and ladder logic arrays. Excellent diagnostic skills and the

ability to troubleshoot and repair systems, from the system level down to the component level. Have

experience designing and building electronic and mechanical prototype systems, and facilities.

Experienced reading, blue prints, schematics, drawings, layouts, and other related specifications, also

generating engineering control documentations, reports, drawings, sketches, flow charts, diagrams, or

schematics using engineering tools such as AutoCAD, Orcad Schematic Capture, and Microsoft products

like Office, Visio, Excel, word and PowerPoint. Experienced in project management; including

procurement, resource scheduling, manpower allocation, and cost oversight.

I have designed and fabricated numerous automated test systems, robotics systems as well as

complete facilities. The systems were built around several environment types such as local and remote

control, as well as SCADA based systems, with worldwide remote access. All while complying with all

standards and regulations both local and federal. Also Experienced with Robotics design & development

and the various components used servo drive systems, VF drives, position sensors & encoders.

Experienced operating test equipment, including millimeters’, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and

specialized equipment like RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and noise

figure analyzers. Experienced in Calibration methodologies, experienced with electrical property

calibrations, temperature measurements with different temperature ranges, also familiar with laser

calibration methodology both output and movement calibrations.

Experienced in software development/updating and testing on various environments, Basic, C ++.

Experienced working with graphical programming languages like Lab view, as well as PLC scripting

software. Experienced developing software on various PLC platforms, like Mitsubishi and Allen

Bradley PLC’s. Experienced working with and build custom software on multiple Windows Operating

systems, from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 7. Also have done a lot of software migration of custom

control software to Windows 7 operating systems. This includes migrating system software from one

operating system to another. Either by massaging the working code or through the use of virtual

environments like VMware. Also experienced in building custom PCs, as well as installing hardware

upgrades, repairing tablets and smart phones.

Trained in High Value Asset Physical Security Systems design and implementation, having designed

several complete systems at various sites all complying with local and federal construction requirements.

Experienced with circuit design analysis, developing ways to defeat electronic security sensors system

by mitigating the electronics. Subject matter expert in Interior Sensors, Infrastructure, and defeat

methodologies and taught classes in these fields to various government agencies as well as friendly

nations, certified corporate Instructor capable of developing course presentation and materials. Have

worked with several government agencies as well as NATO countries to teach security design and defeat

methodologies. Was member of Advanced Concepts Group at Sandia.

Work History:

Sandia National Labs 5/5/1997-7/1/2013

Electrical Engineering Technician Neutron Generator Production Facility 5/2008-7/2013

Responsibilities included performing electrical repairs, preventive maintenance, equipment

installation and modifications and upgrades to a wide variety of production equipment. Calibration

support of electrical measurements system, mechanical measurements, Ink and laser marking systems,

vapor deposition systems, automated 6-axis metal deposition machine, automated welding system,

building electrical controls systems and programming programmable controllers. Use complex

schematics, drawings and test equipment to troubleshoot equipment problems. Recognize system and

equipment problems before they become major problem and be proactive to solve the problem. Repair

and maintenance of motion control and machine vision systems, electrical repairs, preventive

maintenance, equipment installation and modification to a wide variety of production equipment as

required. Responsible to maintain maintenance logs, purchase requisitions, preventive maintenance

inspections records, drawing revisions, documentation as well as other required engineering

documentation. Reengineered several test systems including a UV ink marking system and an automated

X-ray system for product qualification. Responsibilities also included software support maintenance.

Responsible for implementing software backup systems with several methods to recover production

equipment software, also responsible for migrating control system operating system software from older

operating system software to Windows 7 Pro for the entire production facility.

Electrical Engineering Technician Physical Security Systems Area III 4/2001-5/2008

Assigned to Intrusion Detection Technologies security sensors testing department in Area 3,

responsibilities included maintenance and repair of Intrusion detection sensors infrastructure on a 27 acre

site. Responsible for the mechanical and electrical fabrication of electrical system infrastructure, laying

conduit, pulling wire, and general design and installation of field distribution boxes as well as the data

collection - system on site. Project Liaison on several projects where job was to oversee contractor

installation s and verify that installation met NEC codes as well as any local codes that might apply to

site. Was Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Site Evaluation Assessments (SEA’s) at various sites around

the world. Also SME instructor and provided training to various government agencies like DOE, NRC,

USDA, State Department, and the military. Developed a PIR(Passive Infrared) tester that was part of a

standardization program for SIA (Security Industry Association) The project was to develop a low cost

test system that could be used to standardize for all commercial PIR sensors built worldwide. Design and

implemented the upgrade for the Area 3 test field. The new system included multi tiered networks with

satellite connectivity to facilitate gathering data from sites in extreme climates. Data collection went

from a single collection point server to distributed intelligence system improve alarm capture and

associated video assessment correlation. Was part of the design team that developed ROWS (remotely

Operated Weapons Platform) for use military WSA’s (Weapon Storage Armories).

Electrical Engineering Technician Battery Department 5/5/1997-4/2001

Responsibilities were the same as below but became Tester Team lead where I managed 3

programmers, and 4 technicians. Our job was to support current battery testing for the Battery

department. The team’s duties were to repair and calibrate battery testers that needed repair. As well as

providing scheduled maintenance and Calibration. Another function was modifying operating software

as required to meet testing needs, all while maintaining full engineering controls by updating any

changes made. The team was responsible for operational performance, of the battery test systems at

Sandia’s Battery production facility. Also responsible for three other sites across the country. Another

duty was as lead of the same people to design and develop future battery testers to replace or upgrade

aging testers as they became obsolete.

JTI Systems Inc. 11/1/1980- 5/3/1997

On contract to Sandia National Laboratories in the Battery Development Lab where responsibilities were

general electronic systems maintenance, electronic and mechanical hardware fabrication, and equipment

calibration, and general supporting automated tester development for the department. As level of

expertise grew I started designing systems. This included writing software as well as designing testers.

Designed over thirty automated product acceptance testers for several organizations at Sandia National

Labs, these included Power Sources, Power Electronics, Quality Assurance, and Calibration &

Metrology, as well as other government agency and projects like NASA's Galileo and Magellan deep

space probes and long life deep space battery, automated thermopile tester for Los Alamos National

Labs. These were hi-accuracy product acceptance testers that conformed to NIST standards.

Responsibilities also included project management managing resource scheduling, cost over-sight, as

well as software and hardware development, many of these projects were multi- million dollar.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) 4/1/1976- 11/03/1980

Bench repair technician – Responsibilities were to troubleshoot and repair Altair 8800 home

microcomputer which was sold as kits to the home market. Later as the PCC_2000 (Pre-built Altair

8800) small business computer was add I also work on this machine.

References:

James R Norton 505-***-**** Antonio Aranda 505-***-****

John Milloy 505-***-**** Steve Garcia 505-***-****

Carmella Varoz 505-***-****

Education:

Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute

Electronics Technology Program 8/1979 – 5/1981

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