Engineer Manager

Bruce Ruck

** ***** ***** *****, **********, IL *0107

Home Phone: 630-***-****

Cell Phone: 630-***-****

Email: ********@******.***

Professional Objective

Semi-Retired - I've worked at Motorola for 26 years in a highly

specialized voice

encryption field. I would like to continue to contribute and stay

active in a more physical change

of career.

Strength/Skills

- 20 years of leadership as a group leader/section manager

- Process and detail oriented

- Scheduling projects and maintaining deadlines while mitigating risks

- Computer and networking proficient and internet protocol literate

- Strong product and networking troubleshooting skills

- Allowed to hand pick my team for many various projects and project

durations

- Recognizing employee strengths and weaknesses for optimum team

performance

Employment Experience

Motorola, Schaumburg, IL: (26 years) 1980 to

2006

Group leader/Section manager

- Leadership position for 20 years. Lead small groups of product

design engineers,

system design engineers, system sales engineers, customer support

engineers throughout

my career at Motorola. Group size ranged from 2-9 engineers.

- 2-way voice communication system design with Type I and Type II

encryption integration:

customer and system functional requirements, program management and

schedules,

represented Motorola on federal standards committees.

- Sales Contract Support (system functional turnkey contractual

requirements)

- Customer Support (site visits both domestic and international,

customer system training,

system/network troubleshooting)

- New product design factory introduction (fabrication,

manufacturing, documented

testing procedures)

- Application Design Engineer (module integration, hardware and

software)

US Army: Honorably Discharged 1972 to

1976

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign : BSEE 1976 to

1981

Riverside-Brookfield High School: 1968 to

1972

CDL Class A Licensed Jul 2010 to Dec

2010

CDL Class A licensed, qualified driver with all endorsements: air

brakes, doubles, triples, tankers,

haz-mat.

- Six weeks of CDL schooling (Star Truck Driving School)

- 300 hours of over the road training (Werner Enterprises)

- Truck assignment with 2 weeks of solo runs (Werner Enterprises)

Accomplishments:

- Completed CDL training

- Lead systems engineer representing the largest contract awarded to

Motorola land mobile division

- Designed a 900 MHz receiver

- Designed a voice encryptor to be integrated into current and future

2-way voice systems.

This was a three year project from design to factory shipment.

- Contributed to the federal standards defining network protocols

based on internet protocol

version 3.

- System certified protocols via test procedures on two way trunking

systems

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