Objective
Seeking a challenging position in the electronics industry as a design
engineer, test engineer, system engineer, product engineer or a customer
service engineer and project manager.
Summary
Established and knowledgeable electrical engineer with over 26 years
experience in design and test. Extensive experience in analog and digital
circuit board level design, with experience in using microcontrollers,
FPGAs, analog and digital ICs, and with other discrete semiconductor
devices.
Experience in:
. Developing board level hardware, from concept to production
. Developing hardware and software for functional test set
. All industry common test set, including Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer,
Spectrum Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, landline and mobile telecom test
set, PCM, CDMA and GSM Mobile station test set
. System integration test, installation, and commissioning
telecommunications system in central office
. Technical/customer support, sale engineer function and trouble
shooting telecommunications equipments
Broad and easily transferable skill set, detail oriented, requirements and
schedule driven, self motivated, ability to learn quickly and implement new
ideas, capable of easily adjusting to and assimilating into new situations
and environments, love to travel and an excellent team player.
Expertise Includes:
. Design analog/digital circuit, PCB, automate functional test set,
analog telephone line card, T1/E1 digital trunk card, magnetic
stripe/Smart card reader
. Evaluate and troubleshoot electronics circuit
. Altera Max Plus II and Quartus II FPGA design and simulation tool
. TCP/IP, SS7, Frame relay protocols
. Telephone central office equipment installation and commission
. Test equipments; Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum analyzer,
T1/E1 Test Set, CDMA/GSM Mobile Station Test Set, Wireless
Communication Test Set, etc.
. Generate Technical Specification, Test procedure, Test report, ECR/ECN
. 8051 Microcontroller Assembly, MS Visual Basic, BASIC and C
programming
. Microsoft Office tools, Word, Access, PowerPoint and especially Excel
with VB programming
. Orcad, Protel, Cadstar, Power PCB Schematics and PCB design tools and
AutoCAD design tools
Detail Employment History
6/06 - Present, General Electric Company
As a hardware development and product engineer, responsible for developing
hardware use in telemetric device, functional test set, document control
and support manufacturing.
. Designed Temperature sensor for refrigerated trailer to achieve +/-1
degree C precision, Pressure sensor for hazarded liquid chemical
tanker with 4-20 mA application, Acoustic sensor to detect cargo load
in trailer/containers
. Analyzed to improved reliability and to meet industry standards of the
hardware for the Trailer tracking system including SAE J1455, FCC, EMI
and ESD protection, and etc.
. Managed Engineering Change Notice
. Solved production issues, product testing issues
. Used Orcad for schematics capture, Power PC to design PCB
Detail Employment History (continue)
01/06 - 06/06, Application Research, Inc.
As a hardware development engineer, responsible for developing data
collector card for Burn-in test set.
. Used Orcad for schematics design
. Used Lattice ispLEVER design tool to design FPGA circuits
. Used Altera Quartus2 design tool to design FPGA circuits
. Used MS Visual Basic to design control program
10/02 - 01/06, Rin, Inc.
As a hardware design engineer, responsible for developing a solar water
pump and a multiple SIM card reader board on PCI bus for UMA system.
. Used Protel schematic capture and PCB design
10/00 - 10/02, DGI Technologies, Inc.
As a hardware development engineer, responsible for developing a Nortel
telephone central office compatible system, developed system requirements
and detail specifications and developed hardware and tested.
. Used Logic analyzer to capture signals at backplane of Notel's
platform in telephone central office
. Used MS Excel VBA to develop data analysis of the data captured from
telephone central office
. Used Altera Max Plus II, FPGS design tool to develop hardware for
central office simulator and the Nortel compatible boards
. Used National Instrument 96 channels digital interface cards to
interface to the simulator hardware
. Used MS Visual Basic to develop test program
. Used Protel schematic capture and PCB design
. Used MS Word to generate test report, product requirements and
specifications
. Used Oscilloscope, T1/E1 test set, cable extender to simulate Echo on
T1 trunk
2/00 - 10/00, Efficient Networks, Inc. (Siemens)
As a verification & test engineer, responsible for generating test plans,
perform product stress test, set up test environment per specifications,
evaluate and troubleshot new integrated broadband XDSL voice & data
router/modem, and generated test reports.
. Set up TCP/IP networks, DSLAM parameters, and ATM switch
. Used Voice Quality test set, Oscilloscope, and transmission Impairment
test set
6/95 - 9/99, Intellicall, Inc.
As a Product & Customer engineer, responsible for generating system
proposal, system requirements, detail specifications, acceptance test
plans, customer relationship, system installation and commission, customer
training, customer support and perform system testing and troubleshot at
certified test lab.
. Used MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
. Used Oscilloscope, Transmission Impairment test set, T1/E1 test set
. Travel globally to visit customers
. Trained international customers
Detail Employment History (continue)
12/92 - 6/95, Intellicall, Inc.
As a hardware development engineer, responsible for developing hardware for
smart payphone and analog and digital telephone switching used in telephone
central office.
. Designed smart payphone including coin operate, magnetic stripe and
smart card operate, a universal analog and digital telephone switch
for deployment in telephone central office, coin escrow circuit, smart
card fraud detection circuit and out of band transceiver
. Generated ECR, ECO
. Evaluated, troubleshot and hardware right on spot at certify test lab
to make the smart payphone meet both the U.S. and international
standards
. Used Oscilloscope, Transmission Impairment test set, T1/E1 test set,
Logic analyzer, Spectrum analyzer
. Used CADSTAR schematic capture and PCB design
8/94 - 9/90, NAC, Inc.
As A hardware development engineer, responsible for developing hardware at
board level and module level for deployment in telephone switching office.
. Designed Analog line cards, voice channel PCM switch matrix, power
supplies, PC compatible platform billing record and file manager,
calling line ID sub system
. Designed functional test sets
. Evaluated and troubleshot CPU cards, analog and digital trunk/line
cards, modem card, voice channel PCM switch matrix
. System integration test proprietary telecommunication switches
. Used CADSTAR schematic capture and PCB design
. Used Oscilloscope, Transmission impairment test set, T1/E1 test set,
Longitudinal test set, Protocol analyzer, Logic analyzer, Spectrum
analyzer
Education & Professional
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Major in Telecommunications
SONET trained
Altera Quartus II and baseline II FPGA design tool trained
Microsoft Office trained
Lean sigma trained
Personal
U.S. citizen and willing to relocate
Hobbies
Golf
Soccer
References
Bret McDugal Siemens
Ken Loffenburger Siemens
References (continue)
Dave w. Thorn DGI Technologies, Inc.
Marty Wagner General Electric Company
Dan Phelan General Electric Company
Tom Breen General Electric Company
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