Engineer Electrical

***** ********* **** ****

Cypress, Texas *****

Cell 281-***-****

E-mail ac1lx4@r.postjobfree.com

William J. Caruana

Education

**/**** ********** ** ******* Houston Texas

B.A. Business Administration (Finance)

12/1981 University of Houston Houston, Texas

B.S Electrical Engineering

Professional experience

6-6-2016 to present Conner Industries Houston, Texas

Salesman

Wholesale sales of lumber and engineered packaging to industrial and retail customers. Servicing of new and existing customer accounts.

10-10-13 to 12-08-2015 Excell Battery Corporation Houston, Texas

Sr. Engineer

Designed a solar/ line voltage powered lithium ion battery charger and SMPS for a battery backed up communication system. Designed a high current LED lithium battery drive circuit for medical applications. Provided failure analysis and improvement of surface and down hole batteries with instrumentation for battery capacity and down hole environmental conditions. Battery capacity characterization. Generated layout and design of PCBs using Eagle CAD software for down hole and surface systems. Responsible for supervising drafting personal generating and updating Solid Works mechanical and electrical drawings of battery packs and mechanical parts. Wrote work procedures and specifications for manufacturing of battery packs and test equipment. Designed test equipment for manufacturing. Responsible for forensic tear down of returned battery packs. Wrote root cause reports for field failure returns and implemented changes to electronics packaging to improve ruggedness of down hole electronics. Assisted sales force on sales calls that required a technical expert. Provided field support for customers at their locations. Wrote and presented battery gauge seminar presentation to customers.

08-02-10 to 07-31-2013 Compass Directional Guidance Houston, Texas

Sr. Engineer

Responsible for design of high temperature down hole microprocessor based brushless motor controller for mud pulsing applications. Directed vibration and temperature qualification of electronics. Designed test hardware and software for PIC based surface test equipment for down hole instruments. Qualified brushless motors for down hole use. Wrote specifications for internal and external sourced hardware, Wrote test procedures, manufacturing procedures, failure reports, and hardware design specifications. Performed all troubleshooting and repairing to the component level of failed electronics returned from the field. Wrote root cause field reports on failed down hole systems. Designed PCBs using PCAD software. Traveled to customer’s location for field failure analysis.

06-08-09 to 5-17-10 Navigate Energy Services Houston, Texas

Electrical Engineer

Lead electrical engineer for MWD and DWD down hole and surface hardware. Responsible for upgrades to existing tools and new tool designs. Heat testing of components and complete systems to determine which components are causing failures. Designed PCBs using Altium software. Responsible for root cause evaluation and repair of field and production failures.

02/200*-**-**-** Hewlett Packard Computer Corp. Houston, Texas

Electrical Product Engineer

Responsible for product testing strategy and resolution of product issues. Debugging and finding root cause of failed systems. Also responsible for reducing product testing time, cost, and generating process documentation. Duties include holding weekly meetings with team members to determine action items and making sure testing is in place when the product starts production. Interfacing with hardware design, firmware, diagnostics, procurement and manufacturing. Working with program managers and engineers to resolve prototype, pilot and production issues.

02/1997-02/2001 Baker Hughes Inteq Houston, Texas

Senior Project Engineer

Lead electrical design engineer for neutron /density measurement while drilling tool. Worked on the MWD tool from design through field support. Designed embedded microprocessor and FPGA based systems using high temperature electronics. Experienced in both analog and digital electronics. Worked with the mechanical, firmware, manufacturing and project lead scientist to develop the measurement system. Provided field support in the pilot phase of the system. Troubleshot field and production failures to the component level.

04/1994-02/1997 Western Atlas Intl. Houston, Texas

Senior Research Engineer

Worked on a downhole quartz pressure gauge and switching power supply used on a wireline sampling tool (RCI). Also supported various existing and new wireline high temperature logging tools, including cased hole resistivity and induction tools.

01/1993-04/1994 International Technical Services Houston, Texas

Contract Engineer

Supported electronics used for data acquisition on gas pipelines and railroad cars. Systems included terrestrial and satellite based data collection and transmission systems for Dow Pipeline Inc. Debugging and repair of data acquisition system boards. PCB layout using PC based design software.

05/1989-09/1992 Western Atlas International Houston, Texas

Project Engineer

Worked on downhole electronics for a new generation MWD system. Projects included switch mode power supplies and a nonvolatile memory module. All systems were developed for the high temperature, high shock and vibration environment. Wrote the application software for the downhole nonvolatile memory system.

01/1982-05/1989 Halliburton Energy Services Houston, Texas

Senior Engineer

Designed and worked on various wireline downhole electronics systems including dipmeter, lateralog, dual guard forxo, and coring tools. Gained field and design experience testing established and prototype wireline tools at field locations.

Software Experience

References

Microsoft Office Suite

C Language Programming

PIC and Microprocessor Assembly Language Programming

PCAD PCB Design

Altium PCB Design

Eagle CAD PCB Design

LTspice simulation software

By request.

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