Engineer Design

DANIEL DIMITROV

Torrance, CA *****

Tel: 310-***-****

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

OBJECTIVE

Obtaining a challenging position of Electronics Hardware / Firmware Engineer.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVMENTS

Designed from proposal to production few Aircraft Powered Cargo Loading Systems for Lower Lobe and Main Deck – LRUs, Wiring, Control Panels, Control Units, Operating Principles and Communication Protocol, Certification and Analysis Reports.

Design of Hardware for a line of Power Drive Units from ground, Firmware programming and Integration – Motor Control of 2 BLDC motors with CAN bus communication and 32 bit MCU, DO-160 certification and testing.

Created Test Automation for line of Motor Power Amplifiers and motors (BLDC, AC induction) with NI hardware/software (LabVIEW)

Experience with Aerospace Standards DO-160, DO-178, MIL-STD-704, ABD100

Designed hardware/firmware for line of Smart Card Readers and other support electronics for Cashless Casino gaming application.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Electronics Engineer / Project Engineer

Ancra International llc, Azusa, CA 01/08-Present

Conceptual and detailed design of embedded electronics development for military and commercial application in cargo airplane systems.

Project management, supervision and training of junior technical staff.

Firmware programming in C / Assembly and embedded hardware design around TI MMS320 and dsPIC30, dsPIC33 – PWM, CAN bus, BLDC motor control.

Switching Power Supply Design - Flyback, Buck, Boost topologies, Power Factor Correction, EMI/EMC

Electronics hardware design and Schematic entry (OrCAD Capture, Eagle), Multilayer PCB design (OrCAD Layout, Eagle, Cadence PCB Editor), prototyping, hardware and firmware testing, PCB bring up and firmware-hardware integration, and lead of software and mechanical engineers in the process. PSPICE simulation.

Test fixture design, prototyping and programming for Automated Test Procedures with NI LabVIEW software and hardware

Writing device Hardware specifications, Software Specifications, Test procedures, Technical Proposals, FAA reports for certification and compliance.

System Engineering responsibility – System Testing; FAA reports and certification; Test procedures, operating manuals; tools and equipment research

Providing customer support for system level installation, verification and troubleshooting of company Main Deck/Lower Lobe Cargo Loading Systems for A330, B747, MC-21 aircrafts

Electronics Engineer

Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, CA 04/07-01/08

Design of embedded microcontroller battery operated devices for military applications.

Firmware programming 8051 - UARTs, SEEPROM, Flash Memory, Keypads, SPI, RS232, USB

Architecture design and Schematic entry, Multilayer PCB design, Prototyping.

CLPD, FPGA programming in Verilog HDL with Xilinx tools and work flow

Electronics Engineer 09/04-04/07

Glentek, Inc., El Segundo, CA

LabVIEW programming for ATE, Data Acquisition and Analysis, Measurement, Instrument Remote Control thru RS232 and IEEE-488 (GPIB).

Design of test fixtures and test procedures for industrial motor controls.

Design of servo amplifiers for brushless DC motors with trapezoidal and sinusoidal commutations.

Multilayer high voltage PCB design with EMI/EMC good practices.

Hardware / Firmware Engineer 09/99-09/04

Smart Card Integrators, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Design of a microcontroller based Smart Card Reader and peripheral devices for cashless Casino Gaming System.

Programming for Embedded Hardware: RTCs, UARTs, LCDs, SEEPROM, Flash Memory, Keypads, SPI, RS232

PCB design (OrCAD Capture and Layout 9.2)

Troubleshooting and testing electronics devices for Smart cards

Analog and Digital Design, Switching Power Supplies

Firmware Programming in Assembly and C languages and hardware design for MC68HC11 (Cosmic cross-compiler, IAR Embedded Workbench) CMX RTOS, SEEHOW Emulator, 80186EX (Borland C++ 4.52).

Prototyping, Production support, Vendors research and Purchasing

IT support- LAN design and management, WAN Connectivity, Servers, Routers, Firewalls, Printers, Cabling, Backup, User support, E-mail system, Telephone system, Purchasing, Troubleshooting

Control, Instrumentation and Measurement Engineer 04/95-08/98

Lukoil - Neftohim Oil Refinery, Bourgas city, Bulgaria

Improving the configuration of the technological process control in Oil Refinery, including equipment research, control scheme design, configuration, calibration and installation.

Supervise a team of 5 technicians renewing electronic equipment in petroleum refinery, dealing with control concepts project blueprints implementation, installation, setup and calibration.

Installation, calibration and troubleshooting to component of control and measurement devices, CNC, Power supplies, Motor controls, DC/AC converters.

Installation, setup and calibration of up to 80 tons Weighbridges.

Assisting senior engineers in analog design- Power supplies (linear, switching), motor controls.

EDUCATION

Technical University, Varna city, Bulgaria

BSEE, Electrical Engineering (5 years course) 09/89 – 05/94

Major: Electronics and Microelectronic

Specialization: Medical Electronics

OTHER INFORMATION

Languages - Russian, native Bulgarian

US citizen

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