Customer Service Mechanical

BRADFORD A. ACHILLE

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Woodstock, GA 30188 linkedin site: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bachille

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Printed Circuit Board design professional with 25+ years of experience in

the Defense electronics, Telephony, and Utilities industries. Recognized

for designing high quality circuit boards, that adhere to manufacturing,

and testability guidelines. Proficient designing rules driven, multi

layer, surface mount, digital and analog printed circuit boards, utilizing

leading CAD tools. Also skilled in creating schematics, fabrication

drawings, and creating and maintaining ECAD libraries.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

NIVIS LLC, Atlanta, GA Contract PCB Designer

Oct 2010 - Present

. Create PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation used in RF

based products using PADS 2007

ECONIS LABS, Alpharetta, GA Contract PCB Designer

June-July 2010

1. Create PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation used in RF

based Remote Monitoring products using- Orcad Capture, Orcad Layout

V16.2

NIVIS LLC, Atlanta, GA Contract PCB Designer/Mfg Support May

2009 - Dec 2009

2. Create PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation used in RF

based Remote Monitoring products using- Orcad Capture CIS, Orcad

Layout V16.

3. Maintained PCB footprint library and PCB design archive.

4. Tested Rf output of radio modules, tested and assembled evaluation

kits.

5. Electro-mechanical assembly of NIVIS EdgeRouters using hand, power and

soldering tools.

6. Quality inspection and record keeping for assembled products.

L3 COMMUNICATIONS-Display Systems, Alpharetta, GA Contract Designer

Jan-May 2009

7. Created Rigid and Flex PCB layouts, and associated documentation for

military displays, using Orcad Capture CIS and Allegro 15.7.

LANDIS+GYR (formerly Cellnet+Hunt), Alpharetta, GA Senior PCB Designer

2006 - 2008

8. Created new PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation using

Orcad Capture, Orcad Layout V16., and PADS 2007 Layout. Translation of

Altium Designer 6 layouts into Orcad.

9. Designs used in Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Meter

Infrastructure (AMI).

10. Improved end-to-end ECAD flow from library creation to CAM

deliverables.

11. Key contributor to the design guidelines and processes used by the

ECAD team.

NIVIS LLC, Atlanta, GA Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer

2003 - 2006

12. Created PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation used in

AMR, AMI and other Remote Monitoring products using- Orcad Capture

CIS, Orcad Layout V10.5.

13. Evaluated feasibility of mechanical design elements and packaging

solutions.

14. Maintained PCB footprint library and PCB design archive.

15. Received several Spot Awards for providing assistance to customers and

co-workers.

16. Electro/mechanical assembly of NIVIS products.

ARRIS INTERNATIONAL, Suwanee, GA Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer

2001 - 2002

17. Created PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation in the

following CAD tools- Orcad Capture, Pantheon, Cadence Allegro V14.0, and

Mentor Expedition .

18. Worked on a variety of designs from high-speed multilayer backplanes

with controlled impedance, matched length nets, and differential pairs to

cable/data/telephony boards including RF circuitry.

MOVAZ NETWORKS, Norcross, GA Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer

2000 - 2001

19. Created PCB layouts, symbols, and associated documentation using Orcad

Capture, Layout and PADS Layout.

20. Designed dense digital processor cards, utilizing BGAs, microBGAs,

PQFPs and other

High-density SMT devices.

NORTEL NETWORKS, Alpharetta, GA Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer

1988 - 2000

21. Produced PCB layouts, symbols and associated documentation in the

following CAD tools- UniCAD,

and Cadence Allegro.

22. Created high density digital and/or analog motherboards, backplanes,

and power supplies for the

Access Networks line of business.

23. Provided design support for several Nortel start-ups and acquisitions;

Elastic Networks, ARRIS Interactive and others.

24. Worked closely with Mechanical design department to co-ordinate

mechanical input to PCB department.

25. Prepared and lead several ECAD tool training sessions for approximately

25 Engineers. Also provided phone and on-site tool support for trainees.

26. Awarded 7 Peer Quality Awards for exemplary service to both peers and

customers.

Additional experience at the following companies:

LORAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEMS, Norcross, GA -PCB Designer

TECHNICAL DESIGN INC., Norcross, GA -PCB Designer

FORTEL/EDUTRON INC., Norcross, GA -PCB Designer

LORAL ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Norcross, GA -Mech. Draftsman/-PCB Designer

MARCONI AVIONICS, Dunwoody, GA Electro/mechanical assembler/Mech.

Draftsman

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Training Certificates:

Pantheon, Allegro, Expedition, UniCAD, Valor Basic Enterprise, PADS

Layout/Logic

Seminars or classes attended:

IPC Design Standards/DFT & DFM Workshop, Nortel Customer Service

class,

Nortel Designing for High Speed Interconnect class, HTML Introduction

class.

University/school programs attended:

Drafting course. Marietta-Cobb Area Vocational/Technical School

Liberal Arts Major. State University of New York at Oneonta

Liberal Arts Major. Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

ADDITIONAL COMPUTER SKILLS GerbTool, GCPreview, Arena PLM, Agile PLM, MS

Office

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