Engineer Design

SUMMARY

Assertive and autonomous electrical Engineering professional with strong

project management skills and extensive experience on global manufacturing

for consumer electronics industries, organizing multicultural and

multidisciplinary engineering teams ranging from identifying prospect

talent, developing through mentoring and leading to the completion of

technical projects at the highest measurable levels of customer

satisfaction in areas of Design validation, Compliance engineering,

Systems integration and Factory automation, with a variety of industry

standards.

SKILLS

Design Validation Product requirement and Performance specifications,

Test plans, Critical design reviews, Failure

analysis, DFMEA and final reports for critical design

review to seek approval on NPD quality gates.

Compliance EMC/EMI FCC part 15/CISPR22, UL325, UL991, UL1310.

Engineering Regulatory testing on RF, Electrical, Mechanical,

regulatory, Thermal and Environmental

System/Test Design and integrate test solutions for

Integrator manufacturing, quality and incoming inspection on

component, subassembly and final assembly levels

using Lab View, C and Visual basic programming for

Instrument Control over IEE488, USB, RS232,TCP/IP.

Process Programming Allen Bradley PLC, SCADA/HMI and

automation instrumentation

EDUCATION

BS in Electrical Engineering National Polytechnic Institute in

Mexico City

MS Computer Science Technological Institute, Nogales Mexico

Masters in Project management University of Wisconsin at Madison,

School of business

EXPERIENCE

SR. NPD PROJECT ENGINEER Chamberlain Corporate Headquarters

2006 -

Responsible for the design verification, product and manufacturing process

validation on NPI projects for the US/Canadian, European, Latin America

and Australia-New Zealand markets, with direct accountability for the

execution of prototype builds, engineering sample lots builds, pilot,

preproduction readiness reviews and deployment to production at

manufacturing plant in Mexico.

. Developed a full suite of test methodologies and associated procedures

for RF, Environmental, mechanical, Electrical and regulatory design

validation tests, accompanied by procurement and acquisition of capital

equipment such as EMC/EMI pre-compliance on Intended and unintended

radiated and conducted emissions for FCC part15/CISPR22, Environmental

walking chambers for Temperature and humidity performance testing.

. Trained test engineers and technicians from US and Mexican test labs on

Regulatory Surge, ESD, EFT, Ground continuity, insulation resistance

and HyPot testing per UL and IEC standards for Residential and

commercial access controls .

. Conduct design reviews to resolve issues, and discrepancies through

failure analysis reports (FARs), supplier, sustaining and new products

corrective actions requests using 8D and DFMEA software tools.

. Accountability for development of Product requirement specifications,

Design and process validation test plans, critical design reviews and

manufacturing End of Line process controls to preserve the design

intent.

. Participate in multiple Sustaining and Productivity projects to

validate design changes while preserving the original design intent

with estimated savings of $500K.

. Implemented Six Sigma Green Belt project with estimated hard savings

for $200K/yr automate system test on residential access controls, using

LabView programming and PXI instrumentation controllers.

NPI ENGINEERING SUPERVISOR Chamberlain Manufacturing Facility

2000 - 2005

Managed a group of 5 engineers on the implementation of manufacturing test

stations including the definition, procurement and integration of both

hardware and software components to provide efficient plant wide solutions

at the subassembly and final assembly levels in both functional, in-

circuit testing as well as test system quality gates utilizing a broad

spectrum of software tools ranging from assembly level programming for

cost sensitive solutions to embedded C for Single board controllers(SBC)

for functional tester on switching/linear power supplies and logic/control

board to C,C++ and VB HP-IB, serial and USB instrument control for

Spectrum, Network analyzers, RF signal generators, signal analyzers and

power meters on handheld devices and final products.

. Lead the design and implementation of flexible systems using custom

pneumatic subsystems integrated into the automated test systems around

embedded microcontrollers with custom C program applications to perform

QUICK SETUP to simplify configuration change management achieving a 30%

reduction of cycle time and eliminating product differentiation issues,

a 15% capacity increase, a 25% reduction of fixture count and

maintenance work requests..

. Built relations with local universities and student advisors and their

test labs to hire the best prospects and developed them into our

company's best test engineers and promoted them to lead other

engineering groups within the organization.

. Managed external contractors and machine shops for the construction of

a high variety of assorted manual, semi-automatic and automatic test

equipment and fixtures for control boards, switching/linear power

supplies, harness and AC/DC motor testers in support to the deployment

of new product introductions.

. Managed the software development and bed of nails fixtures for single

and multi dwell MDA and HP3070 In-circuit test equipment to support the

deployment of new product introduction.

. Redesigned a labor intensive harness assembly line into a fully

automated set of smart test/assembly stations capable of detecting and

alerting on quality issues at the assembly operation taking a poke yoke

approach to eliminate further quality gates and ZERO defects, ZERO

rework, 90% reduction of scrap and 60 % throughput increase. 80 % cost

reduction of new product introductions.

TEST MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR Chamberlain manufacturing facility

1997 - 2000

Planned the department budget and activities of test laboratory including

system maintenance, equipment calibration and work area organization with

an structure of 3 engineers and 17 technicians responsible for both

preventive and corrective maintenance, In house Calibration and production

support on both functional and ICT test at subassembly and final assembly

levels on three shift. Conduct periodic performance appraisals.

. Obtained sponsorship and got approval for $250K+ of capital funds to

replace manual test equipment with Spectrum analyzers and created

catalog of parameters for the various transmitters in order to avoid

confusion and quality problems ensuring all products tuned to spec

rising fist pass quality levels to 99% .

. Lead and contributed to the development and deployment of 32 universal

test fixtures for the end of line test systems to resolve

reconfiguration needs for quick change with a resulting savings of 20

min/station/change and a 15% capacity increase, eliminating 25% of

fixture count, reducing stock of spare parts and maintenance work

requests and giving operations the additional latitude. Adjusted

routings to reflect this reduction of overhead.

. Preventive and corrective maintenance of assorted SBC- Dynamic C test

equipment and pogo pin fixtures.

. Preventive and corrective maintenance of ICT bed of nail fixtures for

MDA and HP ICT test systems

. Preventive maintenance of HP 3070 ICT testers, managing spare parts and

software revision control.

. Obtained sponsorship and got approval for $150K+ to acquire calibration

equipment and standards to establish and in-house NIST traceable lab

for the chamberlain calibration services and developed a database to

properly schedule calibration to minimize disruption achieving a

reduction of 30 % on equipment redundancy eliminating backlogs.

. Partnered with design/sustaining engineering in issue resolution to

raise quality levels from 76% to 96% at ICT and from 85% to 98% first

pass yield at functional test in the Logic receiver and lines.

TEST AUTOMATION SUPERVISOR General Instruments Mexico

1992 -1997

. Transferred the manufacturing of TAPs line to a satellite plant in

Mexico and developed 10 automated testing stations for 2-4-8 port TAPs

around PC with custom developed test software to control Spectrum

analyzers- tracking generators and switch matrix over IEE488 to align

product for input and output return loss, Flatness and loss on both

forward and return paths.

. Managed a project for plant wide replacement of existing manual testing

stations based on sweep and mark generators into fully automated

manufacturing test systems using industrial computers running custom

developed software for tuning and testing of CATV products, including

line extender and Trunk amplifiers to 1Ghz

. Managed a project to provide automated manufacturing test systems for

the CABLEOPTICS product lines, developing test software and

recommending required test equipment.

. Developed two fully automated systems to test CATV Frequency agile

modulation Head Ends all channels from 2 to 80 were individually tested

for audio and video signal, noise floor, signal to noise, bandwidth.

. Automated the component level testing of hybrid RF amplifier modules

and components around HP8753C Network analyzers.

. Developed an automated test system for Quality assurance to conduct

production line audits and screening on final products. Test

application developed in C with IEE488 to control HP spectrum analyzer,

tracking generators, tuned filters and matrixes, power meters and

programmable attenuators, Modulators and demodulators.

TEST ENGINEER General Instruments Mexico 1987 -

1992

. RF test engineer providing support to the manufacturing test and

configuration of CATV products like Passives, Line extenders, trunk

amplifiers and component test ant incoming inspection on Cable using

Spectrum and network analyzers, power meters, programmable power

supplies and RF switch matrixes.

. Implemented a field returns support area and trained Technicians on RF

testing and troubleshooting of CATV products.

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