Electrical Engineer Medical Device

Jeffrey M. Beckerman

**** *** ***** ****** • Niwot, CO 80503 • 303-***-**** • *********@***.***

SENIOR ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Seeking a Test Engineering and/or Failure Analysis Position

Professional and highly self-motivated seeking a position with a progressive organization that can

benefit greatly from extensive experience in development, sustaining and manufacturing engineering.

Offering more than 18 years of engineering experience with emphasis on failure analysis, design

improvement and product testing.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Analog/Digital Design • Product Development

• Failure Analysis • System Troubleshooting/Debug

• PSPICE Circuit Modelling • MINITAB Statistical Tools

• Programmable Logic Development • MATLAB and MATHCAD tools

• Six Sigma “Black Belt”

RECENT MILESTONES

Improved turnaround time for field units from 56 days to 10 days.

Eliminated unnecessary procedures from the production cycle.

Drove Power Consumption solutions to increase power margins by 4.7% on new Tape Drive

Product

Took on and resolved a Critical to Customer issue requiring efficient failure analysis and out-of-box

thinking.

CAREER PATH

COVIDIEN Gunbarrel, Colorado

Product Engineer 5/2007 – 2/2013

* Responsible for Validation of Class III Medical Device Manufacturing equipment.

* Troubleshoot and resolve equipment electro-mechanical issues during Validation processes.

* Design and orchestrate Protocol functional requirements for new equipment: ForceTriVerse

Functional Testers, Hipot Testers and associated Test Challenge Boxes.

* Perform DOE (Design of Experiments) to find PAR and Nominal settings for process equipment

Branson Ultrasonic Welders.

* Communicated closely with R&D Engineering Staff on future products.

* Realized a cost savings of $465,000 annualized for transfer of hardware harnesses to new

manufacturer.

Confidential Resume of Jeff Beckerman – Page PAGE 1

Jeffrey M. Beckerman

8146 Dry Creek Circle • Niwot, CO 80503 • 303-***-**** • *********@***.***

HEI Inc Gunbarrel, Colorado

Manuf. Electrical Engineer 9/2006 – 04/2007

* Responsible for Class III Medical Device Manufacturing from the Engineering Perspective.

* Interface with customer on Field Issues and complaints.

* Designed and orchestrated Protocol Studies and Validations for product and process changes.

* Performed Investigations of non-conforming materials, processes and field complaints.

* Chaired PLT and CDBM meetings.

* Worked closely with Pilot Engineering Staff on future products.

Cornice Inc Longmont, Colorado

Failure Analysis Engineer 6/2005 – 8/2006

* Failure Analysis of the 1” Disk Drive product platform.

* Failure Analysis performed on product in the Development and Production phases.

* Formal Reporting used directly to influence and improve product design and production yields.

* Developed and wrote test scripts in Python to aid with Failure Analysis tasks.

* Cross-department communication: Servo, Read/Write, Mechanical, Reliability, Quality.

GE Analytical Instruments Boulder, Colorado

Senior Electrical Engineer 12/2004 – 5/2005 (Contract)

* Design of Experiments (DOE) for Particle-count research using different pumps, pressure, flow.

* Designed and developed an Analog Power switching circuit to for driving an Infrared (NDIR) source.

Storagetek Corporation Louisville, Colorado

Senior Electrical Engineer 1/2004 – 10/2004 (Contract)

* Developed integration/test plan, performed power budget for AC/DC power distribution on high-end

tape drive.

* Researched, proposed and integrated a power dissipation solution for the new tape drive product.

Quantum Corporation Boulder, Colorado

Senior Electrical Engineer 4/2001 – 1/2004

* Optimized Optical Servo laser diode driver circuit on the SDLT 220 to compensate for diode lifetime.

* Performed system Failure Analysis on new SDLT 850 product through design and EVT processes.

Confidential Resume of Jeff Beckerman – Page PAGE 2

Jeffrey M. Beckerman

8146 Dry Creek Circle • Niwot, CO 80503 • 303-***-**** • *********@***.***

Seagate LLC Longmont, Colorado

Staff Design Engineer 7/1998 - 4/2001

* Developed the servo pattern for the prototype Durango high performance product.

* Coordinated Servo Writer hardware design changes for the production of the 2.5” hard drive.

* Attained Six Sigma “Black Belt” certification and completed and assisted DFSS training.

Phase Metrics Inc. Fremont, California

Electrical Engineer 1/1995 – 6/1998

* Development of Optical “Push-Pin” for the Servo Writer...an industry first, enabling the

servo writing process to be implemented without mechanical contact to the drive head assembly.

* Development Team member for Clock Track reading using Kerr Effect technique.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

California State University at Long Beach, 1986

Anatomy and Physiology courses at RRCC for Radiography

SPECIAL SKILLS

* Certified Six Sigma “Black Belt”, Minitab

* PSPICE Circuit Simulation, MATLAB, MATHCAD, Microsoft Visio

* C++ (coursework in progress), Python

* Appleworks, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop Elements

HOBBIES

* Astronomy

* Music and reading

* Bicycling

Confidential Resume of Jeff Beckerman – Page PAGE 3

Contact this candidate