Engineering technician

Jorge E. Garcia

*** `N. Pageant Dr. #C

Orange, Ca. 92869

E-mail: ********@***.***

Home: 1-714-***-****

Authorized to work in the US for any Employer

OBJECTIVES

Looking for a company that can utilize my diverse skills as an Electronics Technician; R.F. Test Technician; Calibration Technician; Engineering Technician; Production (Test) Technician.

EXPERIENCE

Test Supervisor/Test Manager

Meggitt (02/2009 - 09/2013)

Temporarily assumed the administrative role for the production department.

Responsible for daily activities of more than 50 employees of a government defense contractor.

Main duties consisted of scheduling workload for assemblers and test technicians.

Ensured delivery of raw materials required to stay on schedule thru weekly interdepartmental meetings.

Resumed tutoring technicians on troubleshooting techniques.

Instructed test technicians on proper use of general and special test equipment.

Explained theory of operation of circuits, subassemblies and overall function of Radar systems.

Designed, built, and debugged test fixtures for the production department including all the required documentation.

Taught technicians on how to test PCB’s according to ITP’s.

Tested entire radar system utilizing ATP’s.

Validating proper operation of the unit to be presented to the customer.

Directed technicians on proper methodology of reporting non-compliance of PCB’s or systems.

Held similar title/duties for: Galamar (11/1971 - 07/1973)

Test Engineer

Meggitt (09/2000 - 04/2012)

Conferred with Project Engineers to establish test parameters and method of testability.

Determined the type of test fixture required.

Determined general test equipment necessary to establish test parameters.

Designed test fixtures that would confirm desired specifications. To be utilized by the production department.

Created the necessary support documentation, such as assembly, BOM, schematics for test fixture.

Established ITP and ATP templates to ensure same information appears on all procedures.

Wrote associated ITP’s and ATP’s as needed.

Familiarized technicians on existing and new product lines.

Some of the testers were sold to the customer for in-coming inspection purposes.

Generated final test results for Project Engineer along with recommended nominal values and tolerances.

Engineering Technician

Meggitt (05/1998 - 09/2000)

Aided in the design/build/debug of circuits to be used in various sub-systems and systems.

Bread boarding and debugging of new engineering design projects for military and commercial use, involving R.F., digital, and analog principles and concepts.

Minor design work using transistors, relays, triacs, S.C.R.’s and optical isolators.

Design of operational amplifiers and transistor amplifiers (audio and R.F.).

Logic design with TTL, CMOS, LVDS IC families.

Held similar title/duties for: Western Digital (07/1983 - 08/1986), Ultratherm (05/1979 - 06/1981), ResDel Engineering (12/1975 - 05/1978), City of Hope (11/1973 - 08/1974), Cartwright 05/1991 - 04/1995.

Electronics Technician (Production)

Meggitt (04/1995 - 05/1998)

R.F.: Worked for various companies in testing and repair, to component level, on various units whose frequency ranged from 150kHz to 95GHz.

Digital: Test and repair of microprocessor-based equipment. Familiar with TTL, CMOS, PMOS, LVDS logic families.

Analog: Test and repair of audio power amplifiers and power supplies (low voltage).

Held similar title/duties for: Esterline (06/1981 - 07/1983), Hughes (05/1978 - 05/1979), ResDel Engineering (08/1974 - 12/1975). Test and repair of various Radar systems and sub-systems to the component level.

Electronics Technician

U.S. NAVY (08/1964 - 07/1973)

Alignment, adjustment, and preventive maintenance of several electronic communication systems at various installations.

Troubleshooting, to component level, in the event of failure of system.

Assisted in the maintenance of surface search radar (SPA-10C) and air search radar (SPS-29).

Exposure to various passive E.C.M. units.

Additional information

OTHER SKILLS

Electronics Calibration Technician (7 years)

US Navy (3 yrs.)

John Fluke Manufacturing (3 yrs.)

Electro Rents (1 yr.)

Calibration and repair of various electronic test equipment (DVM, O’scopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers) in accordance with military specifications MIL-STD-45662 and N.I.S.T. traceable.

Did on-site calibration of special test equipment that was impractical to transport to the lab.

Temporarily assigned to a destroyer (NTDS capabilities) to establish a Class “B” qual’s lab on board.

Further assignments consisted of on-site calibration of various special test equipment used by other departments (SONAR, ASROC, DASH, TORPEDO).

Skills

(01) Engineering technician: 14 yrs.

(02) RF technician: 15 yrs.

(03) Electronics technician: 20+ yrs.

(04) Prototype PCB designer: 13 yrs.

(05) OrCad capture: 11 yrs.

(06) Schematics: 11 yrs.

(07) OrCad layout: 9 yrs.

(08) Custom test fixtures: 9 yrs.

(09) Test/repair technician: 8 yrs.

(10) Calibration technician: 7 yrs.

(11) Computer literate: 20+ yrs.

(12) Electronics instructor: 6 yrs.

Electronics Instructor (6 years)

US Navy (3 yrs.)

Redlands College (3 yrs.)

Conducted classes at various learning levels for Electronics Technician Class “A” School, ranging from basic electricity to complex communications and radar systems.

Classes consisted of theory of operation of circuits and systems operation.

Reassigned (voluntarily) to Electronics Technician Class “B” School (math phase).

Instructed in math fundamentals, from basic math to calculus.

Taught night classes to ATT phone technicians.

Prototype PCB Designer (13 years)

Meggitt (11 yrs.)

Western Digital (2 yrs.)

OrCad Schematic Capture (11 years)

Meggitt (8 yrs.)

Cartwright (3 yrs.)

OrCad Layout (8 years)

Meggitt (8 yrs.)

Design and layout of prototype PCB’s used to confirm proof of concept for digital, analog, and R.F. circuits, using OrCad Layout.

Milled out prototype PCB utilizing Isolator and Qcam programs.

Populated PCB and debugged circuits as required.

Generally, I used OrCad Capture to draw/generate the required schematics with the addition of all supplemental documents.

Education (various colleges)

Introduction to microprocessors

Introduction to digital circuits

Advanced digital logic concepts

Introduction to Fortran programming

Introduction to Basic programming

Advanced Basic programming

College Algebra

Intermediate Algebra

Trigonometry and Introduction to Calculus

Beginning Calculus (CAL1)

OrCad Layout class

Santa Ana, Ca. 2005

Education (military)

Naval Electronics Technician Class “A” school

Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA 1964 to 1965

USAF PMEL (calibration) school

Denver, CO 1965 to 1966

Naval NTDS systems school

San Diego, CA 1967 to 1967

Naval Electronics Technician Class “B” school

Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA 1967 to 1968

Naval Leadership school

San Diego, CA 1969 to 1969

Naval Instructor Training school

San Diego, CA 1969 to 1969

Computer Skills

Languages: QBASIC

Hardware: IBM PC and Compatibles.

Software: WORD, EXCEL, VISIO, ORCAD CAPTURE/LAYOUT/PSPICE, ISOLATOR, QCAM, ANSOFT SERENADE, PHOTOSHOP, PROJECT

Operating Systems: WINDOWS, MS-DOS

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