Engineer Quality Control

Parvathi Kodandaraman

Green card Holder. Do not require any sponsorship to work

Summary 7 years Experience - 2 years experience in SIEMENS Building

Technologies, NJ as Hardware Engineer III and 5 years

experience as Hardware project engineer in the field of

embedded systems that involved Project management, Analysis,

Analog and Digital Design, Development, Testing, Acceptance

test procedures (ATP), Integration, Implementation of

multitasking system, Support, Quality control, Documentation,

Trouble shooting, Assembly programming, C programming of

various microcontrollers, Intel Embedded processor, DSP and

programming for FPGA and CPLD using VHDL. The Modules

developed are being used for various applications including

aerospace and military applications.

Strengths Excellent analytical, quantitative skills and logical

reasoning ability

Good communication skills - verbal and written

Very good at working as part of a team and leading teams. Fast

learner

Professional attitude

Education B.S in Electronics and Communication Eng., Bangalore, India

Technical Hardware

Skills Analog and Digital design, Intel embedded microprocessor

80C186, Intel microcontroller - 8051, 12 bit

microcontroller-AD(C812, Zilog Z8 Encore XP 4K

microcontroller, DSP-ADSP 2181, FPGA- Xilinx Spartan 2e, CPLD,

ADC, DAC, Frequency synthesizer ADF4113, LCD display, Video

Decoder-AD7184, Video Encoder- AD7194

Languages

C, C++, Assembly, VHDL

Environment

Keil real time operating system(RTOS), Zilog IDE,

Windows, DOS

Mechanism

Object oriented programming, Data Structured,

Embedded programming involving Interrupt service

routines (ISR) and Device drivers

Interface

I2C, SPI, RS232, RS422, UART, PCI

Schematic tool

Orcad, UML

Simulation tool

Emulator, Pspice, Electronic work bench, Modelsim

Laboratory Equipments

Logic Analyzer, CRO, Spectrum Analyzer, Function generator

etc.

March 2010 - Present Lasko

Products

West Chester, PA

Electronic Product Engineer:

Developing Technical specifications for products.

Responsible for design review, testing and quality control of

digital heaters and fans.

Working closely with overseas manufacturers and suppliers in

developing printed circuit boards for products and addressing

any issues.

Testing printed circuit boards in accordance to product

functionalities and mechanical aspects.

Involved in the cost of the products.

May 2006 - April 2008 Siemens Building

Technologies

Florham Park, NJ

SW/HW Engineer III:

Technical Details - Projects:

Class A Phone riser and Remote Phone LED for MP6-XLS Fire

system - Was involved in the design and in writing the

Architecture and high level design document in PEP format.

Performed tests to confirm the functionalities.

RS485 Card - Designed and developed the general purpose RS485

card.

MUX WAIO - Was involved in the design and development of

Multiplexer in Wide Area Input/Output (WAIO) Project. I was

also responsible for writing the specification document and

test report.

Worked on several UL related issues and component issues.

Sep 2004 - July 2005

Lasko Products

West Chester, PA

Consultant - Project Engineer:

Technical Details - Projects:

Designed and developed software for safety device using

Zilog's 8 bit Z8 encore XP 4K microcontroller-Z8F042A. Z8F042A

has inbuilt programmable extended peripherals and is the

latest release of Zilog. The environment worked on was Zilog

IDE. C programming involved the use of several ISRs, pointers

and queues.

Performed the project implementation with the integration of

software and hardware.

Responsible for writing test requirement documents, test plan

and project document

Involved in the design review, testing and quality control of

remote controlled digital Heaters. Responsible for

co-ordinating the design with clients in China.

Sep 2001 - June 2004

Deepti Communications

Bangalore, India

Project Engineer:

Responsibilities:

Involved in the entire life cycle - Analysis, analog and

digital Design, Development, Assembly, C programming, Testing,

Acceptance test procedures, Implementation, Support and

Trouble shooting - of several projects.

Project estimation, planning and scheduling

Managed teams.

Responsible for quality control and ensuring on-time delivery

of the modules.

Meetings with cross functional team members and other project

managers to improve operational efficiency.

Onsite consultancy & meets with clients

Responsible for preparing User's manual and project documents.

Presented seminars of my work in departmental and company

meetings

Technical Details - Projects:

Involved in a project that dealt with the design and

development of a console system with Vacuum fluorescent

display, keyboard, switches and FPROM functionalities using

RS232 and RS422 communication. Developed the driver functions

for these functionalities in assembly and C and tested the

whole setup. The processor worked on was Intel 80C186 embedded

processor.

Developed a frequency synthesizer module using ADF4113

synthesizer, which was programmed using 8 bit 8051

microcontroller in Keil RTOS.

Developed and tested the VME-Versa Module Emulator discrete

I/O card. The complete glue logic was implemented in CPLD.

Designed and developed a non-contact temperature detector

module, which detects the temperature of any object and

displays it on the LCD using AD(C812 controller.

Designed and developed a data acquisition card with ADSP 2181,

ADC and DAC. The project involved assembly programming of

ADSP-2181.

Involved in the design and development of Image Acquisition

card (Frame grabber) with embedded Xilinx Spartan2e FPGA,

Video Decoder-AD7184 and Video Encoder-AD7194. I2C logic and

Image processing of video signals were implemented using VHDL.

Oct 2000 - June 2001 Indian Space Research

Organization(ISRO)

Bangalore, India

Trainee:

Technical Details - Projects:

ISRO is the Indian governmental agency in charge of the

development of India's space program.

I was involved in the development of "Digital Temperature

Compensated Crystal Oscillator" for frequency stabilization

under various conditions. The project involved the hardware

design of Analog to Digital converter, Digital to Analog

converter, Temperature sensor and compensation network with

micro controller and RAM

Used C language with several interrupt service routines for

programming 8051 microcontroller.

Close interaction and co-ordination with other members of the

design group, the software team as well as workers on the shop

floor

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