Engineer Manufacturing

HEMENDRA PATEL

********.*****@*****.***

*** ********** ***, ******* ** 07652

Cell 201-***-****

Summary

Experienced System Test Engineer / Manufacturing Engineer with strong leadership and relationship-building skills.

Highlights

●5 years of leading team of test engineers and assemblers.

●Support new product launches, defining manufacturing detailed execution sequences product and process requirements.

●Developed Processes and Test procedures for Production.

●7 years of experience in testing firmware and test software for Pre and Post production.

●Component level troubleshooting.

●Microsoft applications skills.

●Fast learner

Accomplishments

Production

●Consistently met production and schedule levels.

Experience

Nov 2006 to Present

Elcom Technologies, Rockleigh NJ.

Team Leader / Sr. System Level Test Engineer.

●Working as Project Lead/Engineer for SIGNET systems.

●Create and train production employees on standard operating procedures (SOP’s).

●Test and repair RF systems like Receivers, Converters (UP and Down) & Synthesizers.

●Perform research, design and development of manufacturing processes including manufacturing flow and production equipment

●Work with engineering on technical issues and recommend changes to ATP’s and test methods on new, existing, and development products.

●Test RF systems hardware and software according to customer specifications.

●Utilize programing software like Quartus, Hiwave, CCS2 & FlashPro to program RF Systems and modules.

●Part of team member to plan with R & D, purchasing and planning for assembly and Testing schedule.

●Assist Operations Management in creating & improving the systems for production control, labor standards, standard operating procedures, safety and quality assurance.

●Part of team member to coordinate with the vendor for creating source control drawing for finalizing the specs for the project.

●Work with the software engineering and Test engineering to finalize and create test software for better quality and less test time.

●Created software validation and manufacturing test procedures.

●Created the Top level BOM, testing procedures and final test document.

●Worked as a part of team member for different projects as IMOD, IBS (KOR, NFS & MI) VME (RFSA, NBC & VMESG).

●Part of team member to work with Quality to update the procedures like ESD procedure.

●Part of Team member to work with the Calibration team to identify the units/equipment due for calibration.

●Successfully install and test the new Temperature and Humidity chamber for Test engineering.

Oct 1999 to Oct 2006.

Datascope Corporation, Mahwah, NJ

Manufacturing Engineer

●Part of team member to find alternate / automated testing methods to reduce production and testing time.

●Part of team member in qualifying new vendors. Supporting vendors for requirements to test Circuit boards and mechanical parts like Solenoid Valves, Compressors, Pressure Gauges Etc used in Cardiac and Anesthesia units.

●Part of team member in designing and developing new analog and digital Circuits boards for new products, cost reduction products and test fixtures.

●Experience of working as a Quality Engineer. Updating Quality procedures like First article inspection, Final Quality Control procedure, software validation procedure etc.

●Part of project team to release new products for manufacturing, writing and releasing ECO’s.

●Create and update SCD’s, test procedure, quality procedures, manufacturing drawings, product BOM’s (parts List) for new and released products.

●Part of Team member to reduce the burn in time from 72hrs to 48 hrs and adding alternate burn in cycle.

●Part of team member to modify the final test and eliminating Final quality control.

●Part of team member to Automate test for product like Passport 2 & Spectrum for reducing testing time.

●Create new test cables & fixtures for simplifying assembly and test for production.

●Writing validation protocol to release test fixtures.

●Part of team member for Gauge R & R.

●Knowledge of troubleshooting Circuit boards to component Level.

●Part of team member to eliminate paper Device History Record (DHR) and replacing with Electronic DHR.

●Creating and maintaining a daily, monthly & yearly First turn on rates for all products.

●Maintaining production test First turn on rates above 90%.

●General knowledge of working with RF equipment.

●Complete setup production Cell for assembly and test of Panorama.

OCT 1998 to Jan 1999.

AT&T Chicago, IL.

Desktop Support

●Installing Y2K patches for Windows 95, NT 4.0 and MS Office.

●Installing & upgrading software: MS Exchange, Internet Explorer 4.0, MSOffice & Mcfee Virus.

●Troubleshoot and support Network and Local printers.

●Fixing login and printer problems arising from Y2K patches, reinstalling network printer connectivity.

●Installing and upgrading memory and hard drives.

EDUCATION

●BS Electrical Engineering (US Equivalent), Shivaji University, Solapur, India.

●Major in Industrial Management, Biomedical Instrumentation & Computer Networks

●Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

Support & Implementation Windows NT Server 4.0.

Support & Implementation Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

Microsoft Windows NT server in Enterprise.

Networking Essentials.

●Windows NT 4.0 Administration & Support, STI, Edison NJ.

SKILLS:

O/S: Windows XP, 7 & 10, Windows 2000, Windows NT.

APPLICATION: MS Office, ACCESS 2000, Lotus Notes 7.0, MS Outlook & Exchange, MS Visio.

References: will be furnished on request.

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