Electrical Engineer Control

Joseph Spinazola

Email: abotjm@r.postjobfree.com

Address: *** *** **** **

City: Burlington

State: MA

Zip: 01803

Country: USA

Phone: 781-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 105

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Joseph E. Spinazola

230 Fox Hill Rd., Burlington, Massachusetts 01803

Phone: 781-***-**** email: abotjm@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: A diverse Electrical Engineering role which may incorporate Circuit Design, FPGA Development, Test Equipment Design and Programming, Project Engineering, Support, in combination.

* Electrical Engineer with 20+ years MIL, consumer and commercial products experience

* FPGA development, VHDL, Verilog, XILINX, ISE, Modelsim, PADS

* Digital & Analog circuit design

* PCB design & development

* ATE, GPIB, Instrument control and Automation

* Labview, Visual Basic and C programming in Windows environment

* VME, I2C, SPI, EIA232/485, Ethernet

* Electro-Optical, Electro Mechanical

* Motion control, stepper & servo motors

* Cable harnesses

* DxDesigner (9.3) schematic capture, PADS & PADS flow, Orcad, Autocad

* Secret clearance

Employment & Project History

Goodrich ISR Westford, MA (04/2002- 06/2012), Lead EE, Designer, CAM.

Goodrich produces Digital E.O. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Sensors for US-MIL & non-US customers.

Overall role

New product architecture /designs / re-designs, sustainment to Strategic and Tactical reconnaissance Electro-Optical Multi spectral Sensors.

Lead Electrical Engineer to SYERS project for 8 years, Hands on EE lead on various projects, EE Designer, Flight Test support. ATE systems for board and assembly qualification. Fault analysis and troubleshooting.

Cost Account Manager (CAM) & Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Supervision of technical team. Developed Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) team member. Cable and harness designs in copper and fiber. Participant in Continuous Improvement (CI) and Voice of Customer (VOC) events. Key participant in PDR, CDR technical presentations. Generate technical specifications. Designs compliant to MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704. Secret Clearance 10 years.

Design Highlights

"Hermes" PCB Assembly - Spartan3 FPGA based assemblies functions as distributed multipoint networked command/control/sensor acquisition. Developed synchronous, Finite State Machines in VHDL. HDLC serial protocol core over RS485. Implemented circuit and firmware interface for Digital IO, Temperature sensors, LVDT, Accelerometers, Resolvers. Created command set and timing in firmware for command set processing. Qualified for flight hardware.

Peripheral Control PCB - UART to LVDS high speed serial SPI data acquisition hardware to act as peripheral control and acquisition of temp sensors, fast scanning mirror and inertial guidance modules.

Digital IO 6U VME PCB - Multifunction control and communication interface. Developed firmware in VHDL for clock management, Fibre Channel interface to Infrared focal plane, Integrated VME controller, command processing and digital input/output logic. Designed hardware, point-of load switching and linear power, level translation, signal conditioning, solenoid control and VME bus interface. Qualified for flight.

"Switch Logic PCB" - Sensor POD Control assembly. Designed Goodrich's first "in-cockpit" control panel, PWM LED luminance controllers, multifunction switch logic decoder, EMI design. Deployed in F15 fighters used by RoyaL Saudi Air Force.

Polaroid, Wayland MA, 1988 to 2001: Senior Engineer, R & D

Overall Role

Concept development and product prototyping, ATE designer / programmer, EE support of commercial and consumer product lines, Vendor support Engineer.

Design highlights

GUI & executable software for control of 980nm pulsed laser, data acquisition, photo-metric measurement of reflectance, X,Y,Z micro-stepping stage control used for development of new optical storage media. Developed automated laser pointing and optical power control system to read/write/erase optical media.

Developed and programmed desktop robotic kiosk system which deployed and developed 35mm film in a "miniature dark room" 2' by 2' enclosure. Various projects involving servo, stepper and DC motor control as well as closed loop environmental control.

Designed and programmed XRAY tube based automated film coating coverage instrument. Used combination of C, Labview and Visual Basic to control measurement systems, do video acquisition and automate server image analysis application.

ATE software and hardware design for offshore high volume electronics production and test. Produced PC based ATE to verify function of several commercial electronics modules used in Polaroid analog and digital cameras, including Strobe, Rangefinder and Exposure electronics. Circuits designed to measure photometric light output parameters and convert to joules, time exposures through light to frequency conversion, and acquire various analog parametric data which was presented as a custom graphical pareto distribution.

FPGA Verilog development of digital print engine logic. Printer utilized an LCOS micro-display to match spectral response and expose Polaroid film at a high resolution. XILINX, Modelsim, ISE.

Five years experience in on-site setup of foreign manufacturing partnerships. Traveled to and lived in start-ups in China, Mexico, Costa Rica and Malaysia where my role was to design and specify equipment, manufacturing line setups, process flow. Specification and implementation plans for production line and test facilities.

Raytheon, Andover MA, 1987 - 1988 Electronic Missile Systems Project Support

* Technical Support and direction of manufacturing production floor in missile production and test.

* Design ATE for electronic subsystems.

* Confidential clearance

RCA, Bedford MA, 1985 - 1987 Avionics Support engineer

* Design and test electronics and test interface fixtures for flight hardware modules. Failure analysis. ATE Programmer using ATLAS. Demonstrations and reviews before high ranking military personnel.

Education

Graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology,

Boston MA.

1985 - BSEE

Course-work

Northeastern University:

C programming Advanced C Visual Basic

Advanced VB

Esperan:

VHDL

Verilog HDL

Advanced design of FPGAs

XILINX:

EDK

UCLA:

CCD technology

POLAROID:

Statistical Process control

References upon request.

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