NATASHA ATANASOVA

ADDRESS:

***, ***** ******* ****, **

Calgary, AB, T2Z 0M3

Phone: 403-***-**-** / 403-***-**-**

e-mail: aboql6@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION:

M.Sc. Faculty of Electronic Engineering 1995-2000

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Concentrations: Microelectronics

Professional qualification in Engineering Pedagogy 1997-1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

August Electronics, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 7/2010 – present

Quality Specialist

-Analyze nonconforming product and process performances in accordance with engineering, customer, and supplier specifications

-Assist with the collection and preparation of data, and the investigation process to identify root causes of problems

-Involved with the implementation of corrective short and long term action upon approval

-Regularly report any discrepancies observed with production processes, parts, and products

Innovative Manufacturing Source, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Quality Inspector 12/2006-12/2009

-Ensuring that all work is inspected to IPC-A- 610 standard

-Collecting data for the defects and statistical analysis

-Liaison with area supervisors when repetitive workmanship failures are identified

-Testing

-Programming chips

Inray Solution, Sofia, Bulgaria

Quality/Reliability Engineer 5/2000- 6/2006

Responsible for the design and continuous improvement of processes;

Participating in failure analysis of products, processes, nonconforming material and systems utilizing statistical and quality analytical methods;

Conduct reliability analyses including predictions, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), failure modes, effects & criticality analysis (FMECA) and Weibull analyses;

Participate and contribute to HALT readiness activities and other required subcomponent testing to demonstrate and grow in product reliability

Coordinate MIL-HDBK-217F reliability predictions using ReliaSoft

Perform failure analysis on customer returns

Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Instructor 9/2004– 11/2005

1. Computer Systems Periphery

(The course covered - Magnetic Storage Principles; HDD; FDD; Optical Storage; Video Cards; Sound Cards; ATA/IDE Interface; SCSI; Serial and Parallel interfaces; Power Supply, Printers; Plotters; Scanners; Keyboards; Tablets; and Monitors)

(4 classes, average class size 22 students)

The course description was created by me.

2.Quality and Reliability of Electronics Assemblies

(The course covered - Key Reasons for Reliability Engineering; Reliability and Quality Control; Data and Data Types; Basic Statistical Definitions (The Probability Density and Cumulative Distribution Functions; The Reliability Function; The Failure Rate Function The Mean Life Function; The Median Life Function; The Mode Function) Discrete and continuous probability distributions; Parameter Estimation (Probability Plotting; Least Squares Parameter Estimation (Regression Analysis); MLE (Maximum Likelihood) Parameter Estimation for Complete Data); Bayesian Statistics; Confidence Bounds; Degradation Analysis; Warranty Analysis; Tests of Comparison; Stress-Strength Analysis; Risk Analysis and Probabilistic Design with Monte Carlo Simulation; Non-Repairable and Repairable Systems; Analytical and Simulation Calculations; RBDs and Analytical System Reliability; Component Configurations; Fault Tree Analysis and Reliability Block Diagrams; Accelerated Life Testing; Reliability Growth and Repairable System Data Analysis; Reliability Prediction Methods for Electronic Products (MIL-HDBK-217 Predictive Method – Part Type and Part Stress Methods, Statistical Process Control (SPC))

(4 classes, average class size 22 students)

The course description was created by me and prof. Anna Andonova

Co-author of 1 manual Quality and reliability of electronic assemblies

Co–author of more than 15 conference papers in the field of the Quality and Reliability of electro-mechanical assemblies

CERTIFICATES and COURSES:

IPC certificate (IPC 610 – Acceptability of electronic assemblies) 1/2007

Quality Problems in VLSI Design within the framework EU Project REASON IST-2000-30193 Research and Training Action in System On Chip Design 9/ 2002

MS office course 1998

Six Sigma Black Belt (Quality Management) 2010

LANGUAGES:

English, Russian, French, Bulgarian

COMPUTER SKILLS:

SPSS

Reliability Software - Weibull++, ALTA, Relex

Visual Basic, HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash

Word, Excel, VBA, Power Point, Access

Windows 98/2000/XP

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