Electrical Engineer Customer Service

Wayne Parades

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

Address: **** ******** ******* ***.

City: Clermont

State: FL

Zip: 34711

Country: USA

Phone: 352-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

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2949 Magnolia Blossom Cir.

Clermont, FL 34711

Wayne Philip Parades

Phone: 352-***-****

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Electrical engineer with twenty seven years of customer service, hands-on design, troubleshooting, supervisory, and program management experience. Strong ability to improve existing systems by incorporating new technology or design new solutions to meet customers requirements. Highly skilled at design checking, failure and root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Experience

11/20091/28/2013 Lockheed Martin GTL/MFC Orlando, FL

Electrical Engineer Staff

Electrical SME for the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD) systems

Work directly with customers to ensure their interface designs would be compatible with Lockheeds WCMD systems

Key electrical engineer for several high profile IRAD programs both designing and design checking of other engineers

Lead electrical engineer responsible for designing and checking the controller PCBs for all new live fire target systems

Patent application No. 13/272,435 -Responsible for concept, design, and testing of the STAB room association device

Patent application No. 13/429,585 Apparatus method for detecting presence and range of an object

Lead engineer responsible for the timely installation and testing of Lockheeds largest live fire training range to date

No notice travel to several live fire ranges to support installation or correct operational issues.

Short notice travel to a CCA vendors location to investigate a 80% failure rate at finial test. Diagnosed issue to root cause and corrected allowing production to resume.

In one 24-hour period corrected several communication and power issues that had disabled144 targets and enabled the range for use as scheduled.

Wrote and implemented corrective actions to address installation issues on live fire range SR8.

Worked directly with government and PEO STRI representatives to design an infantry target wall mounting unit and portable target hides

3/200811/2009 Unitech Orlando, FL

Senior Electrical Engineer

Designed, developed, and checked the TVS Wireless Detector which included a MILES detector and two radios

Designed and functionally checked the circuitry and prototype for a 32-shot battle field effect pyrotechnic unit

Wrote functional test requirements, initial test reports and ATPs for all circuits I designed or checked

Designed circuitry for a version of the Universal Control Device that included a radio

Responsible engineer for the design and checking of several CCAs for the MILES man worn vest.

Made a no notice trip to correct an issues with the SEAWITS kits at the JMTC on Camp Lejeune that allowed for training as scheduled the following day

3/200611/2007 DRS Tactical Systems Melbourne, FL

Contract Electrical Engineer

Lead electrical engineer responsible for development, testing, and delivery of prototype display systems for the U. S. Marines

Found and corrected power supply design errors that were causing catastrophic failure of other system components

Corrected PBC layout issues that were effecting USB functionality and video display quality

Found and replaced under rated components that raised the overall MTBF of Hammerhead tablet computers

Designed, built, and functionally checked buck, boost and SEPIC power supplies

Designed, developed, and tested new GPS and GPRS option for Hammerhead tablet computers

Designed and developed new port replicator for the Hammerhead product line

Ensured new OEM products are production ready with documentation, scrubbed BoM's, manuals, etc...

Used OrCAD and Allegro CAD programs to create schematics and design PCB artwork

Used most Microsoft office applications to support project documentation including Word, Excel, Visio, and Power Point

Supported manufacturing by finding and incorporating replacement parts of items nearing end of life status

4/20041/2006 DataMetrics Corporation Orlando, FL

Senior Electrical Engineer

Reported to the VP of Business Development

Embedded systems and display subject matter expert

Monitor/display product manager responsible for development, checking, and sustaining of all monitor/display products

Ensured all designs and systems would meet EMI/EMP requirements of MIL-STD 461

Ensured all designs and systems would meet shock and vibration requirements of MIL-STD 810 and MIL-STD 901 Responsible for design, development, testing, and sustaining of all embedded computer products

Designed, developed, and tested the Tuff Rider computer product line for heavy industrial use in the mining industry

Designed, developed, and tested a replacement smart display for the U.S. Navys Destroyer fleet

Designed developed, and tested power supplies to allow COTS equipment to operate at 12VDC, 24VDC, 48VDC, 120VAC, and 240VC

Interfaced directly with customers to understand and define their requirements. Continuously checked designs to ensure requirements were being met as programs progressed

Selected COTS and/or designed new components to ensure finished product will meet customers requirements

Use AutoCAD 2000 to design interconnect, wiring, and block diagrams

Ensured new products are production ready with documentation, BoMs, manuals, etc...

Developed test procedures for new products entering production

3/2002 4/2004 Automated Engineering Corporation Tampa, FL

Electrical Engineer

Worked directly with customers to define requirements, checked design to ensure requirements were met

Designed and tested commercial products to meet UL and CE requirements including the Digital Line Monitor

Designed and checked circuits containing multiple power supplies, 16, 32, and 64 bit micros, FPGAs, and BGAs

Designed and checked PC boards up to 6 layers using Protel99

Designed, built and checked an automated test rack for a 24 hour product burn-in to support manufacturing

Designed, built and checked several bed-of-nails for production use to test/program circuit boards prior to assembly

Built and tested PCB and system proto types, documented results, incorporated needed changes

Created project books including design reviews, specifications, schematics, and component data sheets

Ensured new products are production ready prior to finial release

Received no observations on my procedures nor documentation during ISO certification

8/1999 1/2002 Uniroyal Optoelectronics Tampa, FL

Manufacturing/Test Engineer

Developed procedures to insured proper calibration of probing and testing equipment on a twice a day basis

Maintained and monitored sixty four Statistical Quality Control(SQC) charts on a daily basis

Responsible for selection and training of test area technicians

Developed first wafer level test system for LED die covering the wavelength range of 250nm - 800nm

Developed testing methods that increased product throughput in the test area, while also increasing test accuracy and cutting 2.5 days off production time

Developed a new accelerated aging system that increased product through put by 400%

Developed a process to increase LED die brightness by 50% without affecting reliability

Used AutoCAD to design and edit the photolithography mask set

Designed new photolithography mask set that would increase wafer yield by 5%

Received favorable comments on my work instructions and documentation during ISO certification

8/1992 8/1999 Miscellaneous Florida

Several part time jobs while pursuing AA, ASEET, and BSEET degrees

General handyman work including electrical, carpentry, drywall, masonry, basic plumbing, and landscaping

Apprentice electrician wiring both commercial and residential with 120 and 240 VAC, fire, and security circuits

Customer service, ticket sales, and data entry at the King Center for the Performing Arts in Brevard county

Assistant to Dr. Issa Batarseh in University of Central Floridas soft switching research lab

8/1984 8/1992 U.S. Air Force Worldwide

Aircraft Electrical and Environmental System Specialist

Worked on the F-4, T-38, F-16, OV-10, A-10, UH-1, and HH-3E aircraft

Cross-trained to support avionics, communications, navigation, fuel, hydraulic, engine, and weapons systems

Responsible for on-the-job (OTJ) training of other aircraft electricians newly assigned to work on the aircraft

Assigned as shop safety officer and insured all safety training and scheduled inspections were performed

Served as shop test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment (TMDE) monitor responsible for timely calibration and inventory accountability of assigned equipment and received a letter of commendation during a MSAT inspection

Designed and built specialized test equipment for aircraft electrical and environmental system components to improve repair times of parts entering the shop

Designed and built battery discharge equipment that increased the aircraft battery shop throughput by 50%

Developed an aircraft battery maintenance program that increased available flight line ready batteries by nearly 10 fold and also allowed the three squadrons being supported to keep batteries on hand for preflight emergencies

Non-commissioned officer in charge of the aircraft inspection section's (AIS) electrical/environmental personnel, responsible for the timely systems inspection of seventy-five aircraft

Often placed as supervisor over members with a higher rank

Worked on the Launch truck often as the only electrician responding to preflight and in-flight electrical emergencies

Work with my Korean counter-parts to perform a time compliance technical order on Korean Air Force F4 aircraft

Swing shift supervisor of four personnel in the aircraft maintenance unit's (AMU) support section, responsible for inventory of over three million dollars of support and test equipment, and tools

Swing shift supervisor of five personnel in the Electrical/Environmental component repair shop

Swing shift supervisor of three personnel in the aircraft maintenance unit's (AMU) Electrical/Environmental shop

Maintained a zero-defect rating on all major quality assurance tasks and performance evaluations

Education

8/1994 8/1999 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL

BS Electrical Engineering Technology

8/1993 - 1996 Brevard Community College Cocoa, FL

AS Electronics Engineering Technology

8/1993 - 1997 Brevard Community College Cocoa, FL

AA General Core

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