Electrical Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Memphis, TN *****
Ron J. Turnpaugh
Personal Goal:
I would be excited to be a integral part of a team in which I can fully utilize a combination of my management and hands-on electrical engineering experience to meet and exceed all goals.
Professional Highlights:
Management Experience
Utilizing a combination of my technical, project management, and leadership skills to create a positive, motivated and professional team of engineers. The team met all company goals, deadlines and budgets for bringing new, innovative and profitable electronic products into the Automotive Aftermarket.
Personally, and regularly provided training to a team of electronic technicians on the repair and troubleshooting of new product circuits, multi-layered PCB assemblies, harnesses, software and soldering skills.
Maintained a very productive path of communication between upper management, engineering, sales, marketing and customer support personnel. Organized and attended numerous meetings with all levels of the company for project status, budgeting, design review and warranty resolution.
Solved numerous quality issues by determining the root cause of failures by utilizing data collected from customer service, warranty and the repair technicians. Combining data into different styles of spreadsheets that allowed me to implement and track short-term and long-term solutions.
Engineering Experience
Designed analog and digital circuits, as well as, specified components to be used in designs that would fit both the functionality and the operating environmental conditions that the products would be required to operate in.
Created embedded code for numerous products using embedded microprocessor control.
Created designs, schematics and multi-layered circuit boards with high pin count and fine pitch surface mount components.
Completed numerous designs utilizing graphical and touchscreen displays for user interaction.
Designed, built and tested many types of functional prototypes used in real-world test and evaluation.
Conceptualized, engineered and integrated many custom hardware and software control functions that allowed our engine control units to control, collect data and perform exceptionally well under extreme racing conditions.
Designed, built and integrated specialized test equipment used for development, testing and quality control of our products. Including automated computerized fuel injector flow bench, complete engine simulators, and go/no go test fixtures that are provided to contract manufactures for final testing of our products.
Skills:
Proven communication skills. Successfully communicate with all levels of personnel.
Proven Leadership and management skills, during fast paced and stressful situations.
Highly experienced in circuit design, microprocessor integration, and embedded code development.
Experienced in the implementation of LCD display, touchscreen and other user interface solutions.
Skilled at working with numerous communication protocols to support on-board component to component communications, as well as device to device or PC data logging.
Proficient in Orcad Capture and Layout, Altium Designer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Basic/ Studio, Microsoft MPLAB and MPLABX C compilers, Autodesk AutoCad. As well as numerous graphical/illustration software packages.
Employment History:
Quality Manager, 01/2018 to Current
Titan Medical Manufacturing, Bartlett, TN
Electrical Quality Engineer, 08/2016 to 01/2018
Electrolux, Memphis, TN
Electrical Engineering Manager/Lead Designer, 06/2005 to 12/2015
Comp Performance Group (Fuel Air Spark Technology division), Memphis, TN
Electrical Engineer:, 10/2002 to 06/2005
Comp Performance Group (Fuel Air Spark Technology division), Memphis, TN
Electrical Engineer, 07/2000 to 09/2002
Superflow Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
Electrical Engineer, 05/1998 to 07/2000
Jaycor Corp, Colorado Springs, CO
US Army SGT. Communications Technician, United States Army
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Cochise College/ASU, Sierra Vista, AZ
Associate of Science in Mechanical Design and Drafting
TI Technical Trades Institute, Colorado Springs, CO
Dale Carnegie Course, Public Speaking and Communications, Managment
Memphis, TN
US Army Signal School
US Army Signal School, Augusta, GA
Achievements:
Led a multifaceted engineering group in the complete design, developing and launching numerous electronic automotive performance products which earned SEMA Product of the Year, Best New Product of the Year and Best Engineered awards.
Designed many successful products that were “first to market” and set the standard for the competition to meet.
Contributed to many technical articles in various automotive publications.
Completed the Dale Carnegie Training course for management and public speaking.
US Army Veteran
Hobbies:
Guitar and Piano
Physical Fitness
Motorcycle Building
Custom Auto Painting
Drag Racing
Welding and fabrication
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