Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
Matthew Jared Kent Liston
Tucson, Arizona 85705
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OBJECTIVE
In search of an exciting role in a fast-paced technology company where I can utilize my engineering experience
and education to contribute to the success of your company as well as advance my personal and
professional development.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Global Solar Energy, Inc., Tucson, Az. Jul. 2009 – Present
Product Reliability Engineer
• Product Design – Identify failure modes, promote compliance to product requirements, recognize and work
on solutions for design flaws, test and verify material selections and compatibilities.
• Product Reliability – Design tests to determined cell and module life expectancies using highly accelerated
stress testing, verify conformance to IEC and UL standards, and provide recommendations for
improvement with statistical analysis of results.
• Project Management – Responsible for designing, coordinating, and timely completion of in-depth long-
term projects, supporting internal and external customers with historical data reports and/or creation of in-
house testing processes, and coordinating outsourcing to certified laboratories if needed.
Quality Assurance Engineer Jan. 2009 – Jul. 2009
• Process Development – Developed inspection methods and logistics pertaining to finished goods inspection,
increasing productivity based on cost analysis.
• Management Systems – Wrote drafts for product and process definitions, created personnel training
documentation as well as calibration and standard operating procedures.
• Product Characterization – Coordinated acceptance testing of new products, produced product technical
literature to facilitate advancement of knowledge base.
Engineering Intern Oct. 2007 – Jan. 2009
• Process Engineering – Qualified and validated equipment, drafted standard operating procedures, and
qualified new suppliers.
• Test Engineering – Analyzed real-life product performance for short term and long term effects,
coordinated resource allocations, prepared recommendations and wrote conclusions of tests.
EDUCATION
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Bachelor of Science - Engineering Management December 2008
Minor - Systems Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.25
RELEVANT COURSES:
Applied Probability & Statistics, C+ Programming, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Experiment Design,
Managing for Quality Improvement, Object Oriented Design, Operations Management, Simulation Modeling &
Analysis, Thermodynamics
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:
AutoCAD, MS Office Suite, Statistica, LabVIEW user, custom ERP system
RELEVANT TECHNIQUES:
Design of Experiments, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Highly Accelerated Stress Testing, Gage
Repeatability and Reproducibility
EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCE:
HAST (thermal cycling chambers, UV exposure chambers, ovens), force gauges, high voltage equipment,
monochromators, multimeters, solar simulators, process controllers, data loggers, microscopes
References Available Upon Request
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