Design Engineer

Qualifications:

Over ** years experience as an electrical circuit designer and 14 years

as a Hardware Project Leader of leading edge flight controls, jet engine

controls, satellite power systems and cockpit panels for military and

civilian applications.

Able to switch between the two roles or perform them concurrently as

driven by the needs of the business.

Delivered on time designs that have accumulated extensive flight hours

and are highly reliable in the harshest conditions.

Professional Experience:

6/1980 - 11/1992 General Electric, Johnson City, NY

11/1992 - 3/1995 Martin Marietta, Johnson City, NY

3/1995 - 11/2000 Lockheed Martin, Johnson City, NY

11/2000 - 11/2009 BAE Systems, Johnson City, NY

4/2010 - Present Goodrich ISR Systems, Danbury CT

Hardware Project Leader:

Provide team leadership with the goal to deliver a compliant highly

reliable product to the customer that meets the cost/power/weight/size and

schedule requirements of the program.

. Partner with a multi-disciplined team (systems, software, mechanical,

thermal, EMI, manufacturing, components and purchasing) to define the

best implementation for a proposed program.

. Write proposal documentation and present to customer and participate in

all customer design reviews after program go ahead.

. Work within the hardware design team (analog, digital, power supply,

mechanical and thermal disciplines) to define the most cost effective

solution for the customer.

. Guide team of 5 to 10 engineers through design, test and build for

development and production phases of program.

o Design Phase

. Drawing Release (schematics, bill of materials, assemble

drawings, VHDL code)

. Design Analysis (tolerance, timing, power dissipation,

component electrical stress, reliability and failure modes

and effects analysis)

o Test Phase

. Design Verification test plan, execution and results

. Production test plan and equipment review

. Qualification testing - Tests may include EMI, lightning,

humidity, thermal, vibration, HALT (highly accelerated life

testing), RGT (reliability growth testing) and others as

required by the federal or military regulatory agencies.

o Production Phase

. Resolve any part or build issues that may arise

. Provide root cause analysis for test failures and field

returns

. Work with manufacturing to ensure build and test processes

are streamlined for reduced cost and high quality.

. Manage program schedule and budget and provide input to metrics database

on a weekly basis to ensure that the program is on target to meet its

goals.

. Ensure that all compliance evidence is properly documented and recorded

in the DOORS database.

Senior Design Engineer

Perform necessary analysis and test to show that the design is compliant

to the customer specifications along with mentoring of younger engineers

in the necessary design practices that provide for a high quality design.

. Analog circuit interface designs include temperature sensors

(thermocouples and RTDs), pressure sensors (strain gauges), magnetic

speed sensors, DC and AC position sensor (LVDT, resolvers and synchros),

solenoid drives (linear and PWM) and DC motor drives (linear and PWM).

Design of sampled data acquisition system including signal multiplexing

and A/D and D/A conversion.

. Digital designs include 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers, 1553 Remote

Terminal interface, ARINC 429 interface, SPI (Serial Peripheral

Interface), RS232, RS485, Cross Channel Data Links (remote and local,

both parallel and serial interfaces), Optical Encoder interface and fixed

segment LCD controller.

. Low power output power supply design experience, both linear and switch

mode DC-DC converter type designs. Also experienced in selecting and

implementing off the shelf power module designs.

. Perform circuit tolerance analysis, part stress analysis, timing

analysis, power dissipation analysis and failure modes and effects

analysis.

. Write test procedures and programs, perform testing and document test

results at module and unit levels.

. Capture Schematics and define PWB layout and routing rules for PWB

designer. Work closely with the PWB design to insure signals are routed

to reduce EMI susceptibility and noise radiation.

. Work with Test Equipment Engineers to define test equipment requirements.

Review wiring diagrams, schematics and assembly drawings.

Education

8/73 - 5/75 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Undergraduate Engineering Program

8/77 - 5/80 University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, summa

cum laude

8/81 - 5/85 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Graduate Engineering Program, 30 credit hours, GPA

3.90

Software/Systems Skills

. Operating Systems - Windows and MAC OS

. Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Scheduler

. Design Analysis Tools - MathCAD, Pspice, Visio and Mentor Graphics

Design Architect schematic capture and Expedition PCB layout tool, and

Cadence schematic capture tool.

. Tracking Tools - DOORS Compliance Tracking, in house metrics tracking

tool.

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