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Engineer position

Location:
San Jose, CA
Posted:
October 09, 2012

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Yelena Landa

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** *** **

City: SAN JOSE

State: CA

Zip: 95131

Country: USA

Phone: 408-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 98

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Yelena Landa

1711 Fan Street

San Jose, CA 95131

408-***-****

*********@********.***

Objective: A Senior Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout Engineer position.

Summary: Expert in PCB layout design including Mentor Graphics PADS software (PowerPCB) and schematic capture tools (PowerLogic, View Draw, and OrCAD). Extensive experience in design of PCB layouts of any complexity including high pin counts IC packages and controlled impedance. Advanced knowledge of design procedures, standards and component engineering. Professional expertise in both manual and auto routing. Familiarity with Cadence Allegro PCB layout system.

Skills: Highly capable in all aspects of layout design and troubleshooting, including:

Procedure development for layout design and verification;

Requirements and data consistency analysis;

Schematic capture, library management, footprint and symbol creation;

Multi-layer dense surface mounts and through hole boards layout;

PCB capacitance balancing;

Fabrication and assembly drawings, manufacturing panels, pick-and-place data;

Bill of materials (BOM), engineering change orders (ECOs);

Gerber data, package release;

Coordination between schematic, planning, manufacturing, and quality assurance departments, as well as component vendors and PCB design software providers.

Software: PADS, OrCAD, View Draw (DxDesigner), AutoCAD, Agile, Arena, MANMAN, MS Windows, and MS Office.

Professional Experience:

Senior PCB Designer, November 2005 - Present

Aurora Networks, Santa Clara, CA

Play a leading role in PCB design for various optical transport products for the high-bandwidth transmission systems required at advanced hybrid fiber channels (HFC), fiber deep, and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.

Manage PCB design process through all the stages from analysis of requirements to the full package of design documents related to PCB layout.

Take a PCB design through all the phases from a prototype release to the production release.

Senior PCB Layout Consultant, September 2005 - November 2005

Sunrise Telecom Inc., San Jose, CA (via Oxford & Associates, Fremont, CA)

Developed full packages of design documents related to PCB layout for portable equipment for testing optical, access, mobile, and cable networks including PCBs with more than 1000 components and up to 16 electrical layers.

Senior PCB Layout Engineer, April 2004 - August 2005

Synaptics Inc., San Jose, CA

Develop PCBs for the family of touch pad pointing devices for notebook computers (Hewlett-Packard), players (Apple iPods and Philips), cellular phones (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony-Ericsson), and touch pad keyboards (Logitech). Personal responsibilities include:

Feasibility study of PCB layout designs;

Development of full packages of design documents related to PCB layout.

PCB Layout Design Consultant, June 2002 - April 2004

BEI Systron Donner Inertial Division, Concord, CA

Developed new and modified existing rigid and flexible PCBs for the family of quartz products including sensor clusters for a complete line of micro-machined, solid-state gyroscopes, and inertial subsystems for aerospace, defense, and automotive applications intended to measure angular rotational velocity or linear acceleration. Personal responsibilities included:

Development of full packages of design documents related to PCB layout;

Investigation of PCB failures from layout perspective;

Development of engineering change orders (ECOs) for PCB layout design.

PCB Layout Designer, April 1998 - November 2001

Finisar Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

Developed and revised existing rigid and flexible PCBs for most of Finisar products: device modules for high-speed fiber optic data transmission for gigabit-rate fiber optic communication systems; fiber optic link extenders for enterprise data networks; fiber optic test instruments; laser testing equipment. Personal responsibilities also included:

Supervision of component library maintenance;

Leading Package Releases, including Gerber data, fabrication and assembly drawings;

Development of technical procedures for PCB layout design, including quality standards;

Training of junior designers and technicians;

Handling emergencies from Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Purchasing.

PCB Designer/Component Engineer/ECO Coordinator, March 1996 - April 1998

Centigram Communications Corporation, San Jose, CA

Developed and maintained PCB layout documentation of a family of Centigram products, including wireless and wire line messaging and communications systems. Worked on numerous circuit boards and their modifications:

To provide required functionality, introduced numerous enhancements to several types of dense 6-8 layered line-cards and other cards;

Handled various design issues of the PCB layouts;

Developed and maintained PCB layout documentation, including Gerber data, assembly and fabrication drawings.

Additionally had component engineering responsibilities:

Support functions for design, QA, purchasing and manufacturing, material review board (MRB);

Component standardization and cost reduction, multiple source development;

Part selection, evaluation, control and approval;

Engineering change orders (ECOs), authorized source lists (ASLs), bills of materials (BOMs);

Verification of mechanical drawings and supervision of design documentation incorporation.

Education:

BS in Computer Engineering and Electro-Mechanics,

University of Precision Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia (currently known as Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics an Optics) http://www.ifmo.ru/eng/

Professional training:

Allegro PCB Layout System Training Certificate, Cadence, San Jose, CA;

PADS PowerPCB and PowerLogic Training Certificate, Hitek Services, Santa Clara, CA;

PADS - BlazeRouter Education Certificate, Innoveda, Milpitas, CA;

Acceptability of Electronic Assembles Training Certificate, The Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC), Sunnyvale, CA;

Intensive AutoCAD Courses Certificate, Rosenberg School, San Francisco, CA.

Personal: US Citizen.



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