Engineer Quality Assurance

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER - - Charles Martin, P.E. - - *.******@**.*** - -

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Engineered solutions to problems in electronics and computer systems.

Project Engineer planning and management.

Computer based data acquisition and control systems design.

Analog and digital electronic circuit, systems, and instrumentation

design.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Undergraduate - BSEE University of California at Berkeley

Graduate - Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (evening)

University of Texas at Arlington (evening)

University of New Mexico (Los Alamos and Albuquerque, evening)

EXPERIENCE:

LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, Los Alamos, N.M., November 1998 - Sept.

2008.

. Designed control console hardware and two control rooms for

experimental nuclear reactors. Designed for compliance with nuclear

facility and human factors standards.

. Designed, developed, installed, and operated eddy current measurement

system for SNM component production. Participated in specialized

production measurements. Developed maintenance program for the

equipment in a Radiation Buffer Area. Programmed data acquisition

software in LabVIEW and operator interface in Visual Basic.

. Performed Software Quality Assurance analysis on data acquisition and

control software.

. Designed, developed, installed, and tested an automatic data

acquisition system for the monitoring of radiation and pressure

conditions in a radioactive waste processing system.

E.G.& G. MSI, Albuquerque, N.M., November 1995 - October 1998.

As Project Engineer, coordinated technical efforts of two scientists,

four software engineers, three hardware engineers, technicians and

assemblers in the design, development, and fielding of a vehicle

mounted land mine detection system.

System incorporated metal detectors, ground penetrating radar, and

multispectral infrared sensors, real-time unix, and kinematic DGPS.

Designed phase locked loop controller for equivalent time sampled

monopulse radar.

Managed schedule, hiring, and budget for $2.2M/year project.

Co-founded VIRTUAL LOS ALAMOS March 1995 - November 1995.

A community based web site featuring local merchants and events.

Programmed Unix (Sun OS) c-shell scripts and htm. Authored nine web

sites.

LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, Los Alamos, N.M., November 1977 - February

1995.

. Designed, developed, and installed datalogger instrumentation for

tritium effluent treatment system using LabVIEW data acquisition

software.

. Automation of data acquisition for environmental research. Designed,

developed, and installed or fielded PC based unattended data

acquisition and control systems, including cellular data links and

hardware and software for soil moisture measurement using TDR

techniques.

. Planned and scheduled project construction and test using Gantt chart

software. Designed, planned, and supervised construction and

installation of experimental apparatus and instrumentation using

electrical and pipefitter crafts.

. Simulated system and designed circuits for active damping of

mechanical vibration of laser mirror.

. Designed, developed, supervised production and installation, and

maintained instrumentation and controls for laser systems: beam

characterization, timing, fiberoptic isolation of interlocks and

controls.

. Designed modification of high voltage power supply to increase

precision.

. Designed and developed fiber optic instrumentation and computer

controlled stepper motor driver system.

. Designed proton beam position detection system and computer code for

its simulation and error analysis.

. Designed and developed instrumentation for ion beam transport and

control: analog measurement, control, display, CAMAC interface

circuits and system, high speed digital failure sequence memory

system.

. Personal Computer Technical Coordinator (IBM): supported group of 30

technical personnel with hardware and software selection,

installation, interfacing, and training.

. Used 1-2-3, MICROCAP, Word, AutoCAD, Mathcad, Project, Vterm, Windows,

utilities. Programming in MS QuickBASIC and LabVIEW for data

acquisition and control, Fortran for data processing, and in HTML for

this resume.

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, Albuquerque, N.M., August 1977 - March 1980.

. Design, development, and installation of fiber optic data and control

system for control console of high energy Marx generator charging and

firing systems. Fiber optic isolation of potentially lethal voltage

transients present in instrumentation and control circuitry.

E.G.& G., INC., Los Alamos, N.M., June 1975 - August 1977.

. Digital and analog system and circuit design. Design and development

of high speed solid state cameras. Video amplifier, sampling,

digitizing systems. Designed computer interfaces of LSI-11

microcomputer.

. Designed digital phase locked loop for remote system synchronization

of data acquisition hardware with digitally driven solid state camera.

Designed computer controlled video display system.

. Designed and developed hybrid implementation of high speed CCD camera.

RECOGNITION EQUIPMENT INC., Dallas, Texas, July 1972 - March 1975.

. Research Division - new product development, digital and analog

circuit and systems design and development.

. Was responsible for implementation of optical data capture system

using self-scanned photodiode arrays and CCD's, including video

processing, A/D and D/A converter, character recognition logic, and

control circuitry. Utilized CMOS, Schottky TTL, ECL, MOS LSI, PROMs,

video and op amp I.C.'s, discrete components and data processing

hardware. Worked from initial product concept through design,

breadboard, customer interaction, proposal preparation, and high

volume production design.

. Performed preliminary design of ASIC. Developed computer controlled

digital systems.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Association for Computing Machinery

Registered Professional Engineer, New Mexico

PATENT: "Hand Held Scan Data Handling System" July 1976, OCR Wand Reader

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