Design Project

Kenneth Prather

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

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

City: Shrewsbury

State: MA

Zip: 01454

Country: USA

Phone: 617-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $110,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Kenneth E. Prather

703 Avalon Way

Shrewsbury, MA 01454

617-***-**** *********@********.***

Objective

To obtain a Senior Systems Electrical Engineering Management position in R&D engineering utilizing system design, electronic design, development, project, employee mentoring, teamwork and customer support skills.

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering Technology April, 1988, Franklin University, Columbus, OH

Obtained 32 credits in Electronics (1983-1984) 3.7/4.0 Devry, Columbus, OH

Diploma in Electronics Technology (1980-1983) Crawford County A.V.T.S. Meadville, PA

Professional Skills

Project Management: Identify and secure necessary personnel, equipment and supplies; train customers and field service personnel; supervise development efforts on entire project; coordinate with Warranty/parts Renewal, Technical Publications and Sales/Marketing.

Design Specifications: Research customer requirements; evaluate customer requests; create proposal of design approaches and schedule; forward information to Marketing.

Hardware Engineering: Design system based on hardware specifications; create preliminary model; document design and implementation; test product and create releasable product including testing documentation; release product to distribution.

Drafting: Mentor Graphics, Viewlogic, AutoCAD.

Manufacturing Support: Coordinate parts procurement, personnel scheduling, assembly and testing of custom products in a low volume production environment. Design of test fixtures and prototype circuit boards.

Technical Knowledge

Circuit Design: Analog and digital system design, P.C. board design, Switched mode, linear, and high voltage Power Supplies. EMI, RFI and noise reduction. QAM, QPSK, FSK. Phase angle fired power supplies and motor drives.

Power Systems: DC motor controllers (35-90HP) DC PWM, Phase angle, and skip pulse, AC motors (110-995VAC, 60-300 HP), Transformers (120-995VAC, 0.1-200KVA), power supplies 0-1KW. Pneumatic, hydraulic, and vacuum systems. X-ray sources and high voltage power supplies.

Manufacturing Engineering: P.C. board design, assembly and testing, soldering and inspection. Mechanical fit and assembly and design for reparability.

Agency Certification: Perform certifications under FCC, UL, CSA, CE, MSHA, NFPA and other agency requirements.

Computer Languages: Visual BASIC, Pascal, Assembly Languages (8080, 8085, 6800, 8086).

Software: Mentor Graphics, AutoCAD, Cam350, and Auto Board, and Microsoft Office.

Troubleshooting Experience: Extensive experiences debugging consumer products, digital settop boxes computers, AC/ Dc motor drives, machine shop equipment, Debug and repair of IBM PC, Sun workstations and Apple Macintosh computers to component level. X-ray sources, high voltage power supplies, and linear accelerators.

Control Systems: PLC and motion control systems and custom FPGA systems.

Employment History Kenneth Prather page 2

L-3 Communication Woburn, Massachusetts 03/03-04/12

Automated Group Systems Engineering Manager

Machine Design and Integration

Major Projects:

Argus PKI and L-3 versions MVT-HR, FPT Rail project

Millimeter wave QRS evaluation NRR

CCO/Cambria PX cost reduction MVCT

Projects include 2D x-ray machines, 3D x-ray machines 3rd and 5th generation CT gantries 7th and 8th generation machines. I also applied for 2 patents on my own and one joint patent. One of the patents is for a new E Beam x-ray scanning tube with an integrated high voltage transformer/multiplier. The second patent is for an E Beam scanner with a fully articulated C-arm 5th generation CT gantry. One imaging patent has been granted. I also was in charge of all Compliance Engineering.

Analogic Peabody, Massachusetts 03/00-03/03

Senior Design Engineer (R&D)

Power and motion systems

Major Projects:

Jupiter 5Kwatt dual motor drive (D) CT Machine Argus PKI and L-3 version

Cobra conveyer/Disk motion EDS Bomb scanner Tomotherapy machine

Worked on changing orders to the EDS Bomb scanners. In charge of electrical design team on the Argus bomb scanner. Specified power distribution unit for the 100Kwat (D) CT machine. Added RFI and shielding on (D) CT machine. Wrote the motion control program in Visual BASIC for (D) CT machine. Designed electrical controls system for conveyers to test EDS machines in Haverhill facility. In charge of team designing a dual 5Kwatt AC motor drive for the Jupiter project.

Scientific-Atlanta Atlanta, GA 05/94-03/00

Broadband

Engineer Digital Settops (R&D)

In charge of designing the Explorer power supplies. The Explorer power supplies are a high volume low cost pwm switch mode design. They are specified as a 32 watt average 42 watt peak supply with four outputs. We have passed conducted, radiated EMI and UL easily. Previously made engineering changes to the Richmond and U.S. West motherboards and the Richmond graphics board. Responsible for testing, component level debug, design validation, repair, interface and training of manufacturing personnel for the Richmond digital settop project.

Southtronics Atlanta, GA 07/93-11/93

Turnkey electronics assembly

Manufacturing/Quality, Test, Repair

Contract work. Manufacturing circuit boards for Apple Computers. Debugged and repaired failed assemblies to a component level using a Pace re-work station.

BMA of Grant Park Columbus, OH 02/92-05/93

Outpatient Dialysis Clinic

Patient Care Technician

Part-time work. Perform assessment and cannulation of patients. Direct patient care.

Dresser Industries, Jeffrey Division Columbus, OH 02/88-10/91

Mining Equipment-OEM

Electronics Project Leader (R&D)

Managed several cost reduction and product improvement projects. In charge of full mechanical, electrical, drafting and electronics. Applied for 1 patent for an intrinsically safe power supply.

Key accomplishments:

Designed diesel safety shut down system Designed safer motor interface circuitry Designed I.S. power supply

Designed 35 HP SCR phase angle drive Redesigned circuits for failure elimination Designed 2-way radio

Designed XP alternator and regulator Radio RF interface and Data monitoring circuitry (8086 based).

Redesigned 300 volt DC 35 HP PWM motor controller

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