Engineer Quality Assurance

Chetan Patel

**** ****** ******* **. # **

Kalamazoo,MI

Phone: 732-***-****, 732-***-**** (Mobile)

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

Senior electrical hardware engineer with over nineteen years of extensive

experience in all aspects of product development, test and integration,

troubleshooting, assembly, final test, material planning/procurement and

configuration control.

Technical Knowledge / Experience:

Responsibilities: System integration, System test, Current Engineering,

Manufacturing, Compliance testing, Software and Hardware Integration.

Technologies: Wireless/CDMA, Data Communications, Medical

Instrumentation, Cordless phone

Equipment: Digital storage scopes, Spectrum analyzers, Adtech AX4000,

Smart bits 2000. Data I/O, Idacom;

Software: Express PCB designer, Schematic capture, Orcad10.5, Xilinx,

Perforce, Agile

DxDesigner.

Education:

MS in Physics with major in Electronics, Nagpur University, India.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sep 2011 to Nov 2012 - Consultant

Animas Corporation.

. Verification and Validation for Insulin Pump.

Nov 1999 to Dec 2011 - Hardware Engineer Datatek

Applications Inc.

. Test Engineer for Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Project (TCD)

. Worked with designer/developer to generate TCD test procedure, which met

FDA requirements.

. Responsible for collecting, analyze and maintain test data for each

handheld TCD unit, database management for serial number, and warranties,

programmed FPGA and DSP firmware. Built and tested custom magnetic

components for TCD. Perform final test of TCD using PW and CW transducers,

which requires basic ultrasound technician skill. Worked with development

team to generate ECN's, performed quality assurance testing.

. Part of design team, which created a device, built as an interface to the

U.S. Army's SINCGARS and EPLRS tactical radio systems. The device

implemented MIL-STD-188-220 and ADDSI data communication protocols

allowing external systems to access current force combat radio networks.

The device could also act as a passive, bit-level protocol analyzer

allowing examination of every bit flowing from and to the attached radio

from physical layer to VMF messages. Conducted extensive validation and

performance characterization of design using VMF traffic generation tools.

. Performed system test, System integration, Current Engineering, Hardware

support and Manufacturing Services, Hardware design verification,

component analysis, and ORCAD schematic Capture on Datatek's

Telecommunication product line of Protocol converters and Intelligent

network Processors.

. Member of Transition team for Life Cycle management products.

Responsibilities as a member of this team included knowledge transfer,

equipment transfer, creating the hardware development environment for

schematic and Hardware tools, product tracking and management tools,

building hardware and software labs.

. Current Engineering and Life Cycle management of Lucent telecommunication

products. Product lines included Datakit Virtual Circuit Switch, BNS-2000

High Speed Virtual Circuit Switch, PSAX ATM Switch, and Lambda Router a

Nano technology based MEM Optical Cross-Connect router. Responsibilities

included factory replacement part certification, unit and system testing

. Designed test cases, and have executed and managed complex

integration, regression and system test cycles for systems and

products. Built and managed elaborate test networks in our lab, for

our customers and for our own facilities. These facilities include the

subject network elements, a variety of hubs, routers and hosts, and a

wide variety of data and telecommunications monitors, analyzers and

simulators (including Adtech, Smartbits, Fireberd, HP analyzers, and

many others.)

. Device obsolescence management, Set up different test to simulate

customer problem in lab, hardware bug fixes.

. System test engineer, which include setting up different approval test

for Hardware and Software changes on Datakit BNS product, Lambda Router

and PSAX product line.

. Repair and Failure Mode Analysis (FMA), providing detailed analysis to

our customers.

. Responsible for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), FCC Part15B Class

A test requirements for all Datatek migration Products includes

perform test at Compliance test labs to obtain approval for EMR test.

. Responsible for Hi Pot testing on Datatek's migration products per UL and

CSA requirements.

Aug 1998 to Nov 1999 Member of Technical Staff Lucent

Technologies.

. Member of the Path-Star Access Server development team.

. Hardware Design verification, problem identification and resolution

and system functional and performance testing.

. Performed first article debug and integration on Ethernet circuit pack.

. Performed analysis of circuit packs and developed testing procedures.

Dec 1997 to Aug 1998 Member of Technical Staff Lucent

Technologies.

. Member of CDMA New Product Introduction (NPI) team.

. Manufacturing - Lead Test Engineer for New Product Introduction team.

. Lead Test Engineer for the Integrated Test Engineering (ITE) team.

Responsible for automated test systems, including in-circuit and

functional test required for final sell off of Philip's mobile phones.

. Interaction with hardware and software designers of the product

development teams, regarding test setup and manufacturing problems

. Weekly milestone presentations of all production activities, including

progress and quality reports for all NPI engineering members and the

directors of manufacturing.

Apr 1996 to Dec 1997 Member of Technical Staff Lucent

Technologies.

. Responsible for battery charging circuit design, verification,

schematic capture, layout, and system power consumption for 900 MHz

high power frequency hopping spread spectrum digital cordless phones,

which works with multiple handsets.

. Responsible for compliance, UL, FCC part 68 requirements for cordless

telephone.

. Successfully introduce the manufacturing spread-spectrum high end

cordless telephones giving on-site support and technical training to

engineers and technicians from test and manufacturing departments at

factory.

. Coordinated and participated in the prototype building and system

integration phases as well as the board level production test fixture

development.

. Current engineering for the various 900 MHz digital cordless

telephones with corrupted security code and multiple hand set

registration.

Status: US Citizen

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