Electrical Engineer Design

Nailah Salaam

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Poway, CA 92064

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443-***-**** (cell phone)

CLEARANCE:

Current Secret Clearance

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Visio, Cadence, Unix, MS Office, Pro/E (2D, RSD), Mentor Graphics CHS &

VeSys 2.0, AutoCAD 14, C++, Perl/JavaScript, E3 Zuken, Orcad Capture 16.3

PDM systems: Wildfire, TeamCenter, SAP

EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS:

Spectrum analyzer, Oscilloscope, Multi-meter, & Signal generator, Cirris

Tester CH2

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Contracting for Aurora Flight Sciences June '12 to Oct '12

(Apex Services Inc)

Senior Electrical Engineer Dulles, VA

. Development of Electrical Cable Harness for Medium Altitude Long

Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicles

. Produce Technical Documents Package for UAV harnesses both flight,

prototype, and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

. Supporting all types of communications bus protocols including CANbus,

RS232, RS422, ARINC, etc

. Signal conditioning - Thermistors, strain gage, potentiometers, and

accelerometers, etc

Contracting for Orbital Sciences Corporation November '11 to June

2012

(Precision Resources)

Principal Engineer Dulles, VA

. Development of Electrical Cable Harness for Spacecraft

. Produce Drawings, Bill of Material, and detailed Schematics, and

Wirelist

. Responsible for EMI/EMC requirements imposed upon harness and

maintained through physical electrical interface throughout spacecraft

Comtech AeroAstro February '11 to November '11

Spacecraft Harness Engineer Ashburn, VA

. Developed Electrical Cable Harness for Spacecraft Procurement and

manufacturing of all Test, Flight, and Mock-up Cables

. Produced Drawings in accordance with GD&T of ASME Y14.5M-1994 (R1999)

& ASME Y14.100, Engineering Drawing Practices, Bill of Material, and

detailed Schematics, and Wirelist

. Selection of parts in accordance with preferred, approved, and

screened parts in accordance with EEE-INST-002

. Developed electrical modification and installation work instructions,

procedures and recommendations

. Responsible for EMI/EMC requirements imposed upon harness and

maintained through physical electrical interface throughout spacecraft

Contracting for General Dynamics - Land Systems May '10 to February '11

Electrical Engineer Woodbridge, VA

. Support development of requirements and generate specification

documents for military electronic components, subassemblies, modules

and boxes.

. Integrated applications such as motor rotary shaft encoder via CANbus

protocol for Motor Speed feedback

. Gathered technical information, analyze technical problems and provide

technical solutions in areas related to cabling, high speed buses,

power buses, power distribution, high and low voltage converters,

power supplies, and power generation.

. Supported concept and design development, implemented and tested

components and subsystems.

. Wrote test requirements, procedures, reports and performed tests in

the laboratory and in vehicles as required.

Contract for Northrop Grumman July'09 to April '10

Electrical Cabling Lead Azusa, CA

. Served as a single point of contact for all technical issues related

to Engineer & Flight Cables for Space Based Infrared Satellite (SBIRS)

. Worked closely with Design Engineering, Quality, Production/Material

Control, IPT Lead, Manufacturing Supervision and hourly Production

Personnel

. Provided guidance to Mechanical Design Engineering regarding routing

design concepts and specification requirements for space-grade product

selection and qualification such as connectors, backshells, shielding,

cable & wire

. Responsible for schedule and timely delivery of drawing packages for

both Engineering & Flight cables

. Secret Clearance Required

AAI Corporation Sep'07 to July '09

Contract for AAI Corporation Sep'06 to May'07

Electrical Hardware Engineer III / Electrical Lead Hunt Valley, MD

. Responsible for designing shelter, box wiring harnesses, and to know

military wire and fiber connectors

. Responsible for requirements analysis, preliminary design, and detail

design; Tasks include packaging, determining performance, and

preparation of specifications as required

. Performed work that involves conventional engineering practices but

includes a variety of complex features such as conflicting design

requirements, unsuitability of standard materials and difficult

coordination requirements

. Participated in and responsible for material and component selection

. Participated and planned for hardware integration

. Worked closely with manufacturing to assure production of items to

attain cost goals

. Tasked to meet technical requirements within schedule and budget

constraints

. Provided program planning/schedule/proposal/strategy inputs & perform

Cost Account management functions for all assigned tasks. Support

typical DoD milestones such as SRR, SFR, PDR & CDR. Secret Clearance

required

Smiths Detection (John Galt Staffing) May'07 to Sep'07

Electrical Hardware Engineer Edgewood, MD

. Responsible for cable sizing, and connector selection in military

products; Electrical integration activities

. Test plan development; Power analysis; conduct analysis of power

consumption at a system level to understand AC generator sizing and

ratings; Interface with equipment manufacturers to understand

electrical interface and communication specifications.

. NEXGEN meteorological military shelter prototyping

Lockheed Martin/ (DUA Computer Resources) Oct'05 to Jan'06

Electrical Engineer Baltimore, MD

. Responsible for the interconnect wiring within the chassis and outside

of boxes. Used board level I/O provided by other design engineers and

integrated system design requirement into wiring schematics, and wire

running lists documents

. Utilized the Routed Systems Designer and ProCabling in a ProE

(Wildfire) environment

. Worked on NLOS-LS, Non Line of Sight - Launch System for the Army

United Defense now known as BAE Systems (TAC Worldwide) Apr'05 to Jul'05

Electrical Engineer York, PA

. Responsible for electrical design engineering of Future Combat Systems

(FCS) Military Recovery and Maintenance Vehicle (FRMV)

. Specifically supported design updates and development of Integrated

Computer System (ICS) and the Joint Tactical Radio System(JTRS)

. Evaluated, within Vehicle electronics, the power, size, and weight for

cost analysis and design of physical architecture

General Dynamics Land Systems (Total Tech) Oct'04 to Apr'05

Electrical Engineer Westminster, MD

. Responsible for electrical design engineering of harness and cable

assemblies on Mobile Gun System and complete system integration of

cabling harness. Integration, development, and revision of electrical

schematics, wiring diagrams, harness hardware(BOM), and Engineering

Change Notices

. Responsible for Root Cause Corrective Action process related to

Electrical Harness Design

. Using PRO-E (Wildfire) to create 2D drawings from complex 3D models

Boeing Aircraft (Q & C International) Jul'03 to Nov'03

Electrical Hardware Engineer St. Louis, MO

. Responsible for the generation of specifications to procure simulated

instruments and design simulated cockpit panels

. Schematic capture of wire routing and design layout utilizing Mentor

Graphics 8.9, Logical Cable

Orbital Sciences Corporation Oct'99 to Jul'01

Senior Engineer Germantown, MD

. Lead the concept development, specification and design for particular

spacecraft harness systems

. Knowledgeable in design of spacecraft telemetry and command using CAD/

CAE systems (AutoCAD 14, Cadence, Visio) for design entry, simulation/

analysis and component placement

. Capable of delivery of harness design from preliminary requirements

through flight hardware delivery

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Jun'99 to Oct'99

Avionics/Electrical Designer Savannah, GA

. Designed layout for wiring schematics in Mentor graphics 8.6,

researching, verifying, and updating harnesses to latest Engineering

changes documentation.

. Translated dummy schematics to intelligent diagrams that provide

functional data on wire attributes in Oracle database format

Space Systems Loral Jul'98 to Jun'99

R&D Engineer Palo Alto, CA

. Automated and published data gathered from systems engineering for

command, telemetry, and auxiliary harness wiring for satellite

. Compiled inter subsystem data for access company-wide, for customers,

and for vendors.

. Provided Technical writing and editing for requirements and user

manuals documenting processes

Lockheed Martin Dec'95 to Jun'98

Harness Design Engineer Newtown, PA

. Involved in all phases of harness design integration and manufacturing

support.

. Calculated voltage drops, allocated interface connectors, and wrote

test procedures

. Used Mentor Graphics Logical Cable and created electrical payload

schematics for 3 satellite programs

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, May'95

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Certification in Perl, Java, and Javascript, Feb'00

Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA

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