Engineer Manager

RONALD P. VIDANO

Office: 650-***-**** *** Ponderosa Drive

Mobile: 303-***-**** Boulder, Colorado, 80303 ********@*******.***

SUMMARY

Professional Reliability Engineer: Over 20 years experience of reliability

engineering, statistics and project management experience for the

development of new products and technologies. Educational background

includes PhD and MS in Engineering, BA in Physics and an MBA. Licensed

Professional Engineer and ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer. Published 28

journal articles & conference presentations and issued 2 patents. Current

DOD Top Secret Clearance.

. Reliability Program Planning: Failure Reporting Analysis and

Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

. Reliability Modeling: Weibull, Log-Normal, Chi-Square, MLE

. System Reliability Parameters: MTBF, MTTR

. Test Methods: HASS, HALT. Built-in-Test, Reliability Growth Analysis

. Design for Reliability: Block Models, Fault Trees, Component Derating,

Single Point Failure Avoidance, Economic Tradeoffs

. Physics of Failure: FMEA, Root Cause Analysis

. Wireless Availability: Link Budgets, Cellular Coverage Models

. Software Reliability: Black Box and White Box Testing, Fault Tracking,

Code Estimation

. Reliability Tools: JMP8, FTA, SAPHIRE, Reliasoft

. Design and Simulation Tools: SolidWorks (Current to V.2009), ANSYS

(Current to V.11)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Exponent; Menlo Park, California 2007-Present

Exponent is one of the most respected scientific, engineering and failure

analysis firms in the world.

Managing Engineer, Technology Development Practice (February 2007-Present)

Led efforts to rapidly and reliably develop and implement surveillance,

communications, IED detection, RFID, identification and renewable energy

projects. On assignment as Exponent's Lead Managing Engineer embedded with

the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force in Afghanistan in support of Operation

Enduring Freedom.

. Initiated the concept, led the proposal for funding, managed the

engineering, and fielded equipment for a satellite tracking project that

provided safe transit for cargo, fuel, and personnel in Afghanistan.

Implemented high availability client-server software solution.

. Led Exponent development project for RFID tag and card reliability.

Published paper discussing results at APMC 2007. Development led to a

funded U.S. Government project for Exponent.

. Within one year, managed the concept, funding, design, prototype field

trials, follow-on production and successful fielding for a novel

surveillance and relay system using commercial technologies.

. Retained as sole technical expert for a tens-of-million dollar

arbitration case for maritime security. Successfully testified on behalf

of client at formal international arbitration proceedings for project

management and reliability engineering processes.

. Project Leader for successful CAC card and reader performance project for

U.S. Government client. Developed performance and reliability metrics for

biometric identification templates.

. Developed novel CAC card threat analysis technique using fault tree

principles in response to ISO/IEC standards committee for physical access

control systems.

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ASSA ABLOY/HID; Denver, Colorado 2000-2007

Manager of Denver of Engineering (2000-2002), Senior Manager of HID

Engineering (2002-2007)

Managed a 35 person engineering group responsible for firmware, software,

and hardware engineering of the entire RFID and access control product

development cycle from concept through manufacturing.

. New product innovation by developing and introducing the iCLASS 13.56 MHz

reader/writer and card product line which increased sales by 15% in the

first two years after introduction.

. Developed from initial concept to production the VertX TCP/IP embedded

Linux intelligent access controller line including all software tasks and

an open system published API.

. Achieved compliance engineering requirements by attainment of FCC

certifications, UL/cUL approvals, encryption certifications, as well as

worldwide radio and safety approvals, which; resulted in an overall

increase for compliance certifications by a factor of 20X.

. Successfully transitioned our entire product line into a reliability

program using environmental testing, HALT/HASS techniques, and Telcordia

reliability modeling.

. Met environmental manufacturing requirements by successfully

transitioning the full product line towards RoHS and WEEE compliance in

12 months.

MOTOROLA, Scottsdale, Arizona 1994-2000

RF Systems Engineer/Principal Project Engineer

. Maintained Motorola's lead in digital radio technology by serving as

Engineering Project Leader for winning the $30 million Speakeasy II

software programmable radio program.

. Achieved standardization for software defined radio architecture by being

voted as Co-Chairman of the Technical Architecture Subcommittee for the

SDR Forum and participated in growth of the organization from start-up to

30 international companies and organizations.

. Developed wireless availability and coverage models and developed

toolsets which were adopted for broadband cellular services.

BALL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS DIVISION, Boulder, Colorado 1983-1993

Department Manager/Staff Consultant

. Met company requirement for new business by writing a winning proposal

and successfully managing a high-speed remotely programmable multiplexer

production program that yielded $25 million in profitable sales.

. Developed a system engineering method for phased array antenna programs

by using reliability block diagrams and predictions for tradeoff

analysis.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Honeywell Corporate Technology Center; Promoted to Senior Principal

Scientist

Texas Instruments Central Research Laboratories; Promoted to Member of the

Technical Staff

University of Colorado; Adjunct Engineering Professor

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Materials Science and Ceramic Engineering; University of

Washington, Seattle, Washington

MBA, University of Phoenix - Motorola Management Program, Phoenix,

Arizona

M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake

City, Utah

B.A., Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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