ANKITA SOMALKAR

Email: ac8kg1@r.postjobfree.com Contact: 714-***-****

SUMMARY:

I am reliable and ambitious person with Master’s degree and experience in electrical, electronics, business analysis and technical writing and seeking Electrical Engineer position in conductive professional growth environment. Adept with reading schematics, analyzing the problems arising and coming up with a profitable solution

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Electrical Engineer, Flow Devices and Systems Inc. Oct 2018 – Present

The Company manufactures precision Mass Flow Controller which is used to measure and control the flow of gas

Work experience:

•Facilitated the component unit physical testing and documented the required outcome for the circuit design

•Created various Engineering Change Order forms to get approval from the designated personnel

•Analyzed circuit board design of Mass Flow Controller PCBA using Altium Designer or Allegro and updated the corresponding schematics according to the requirements of the end client. Working with DC/DC power design

•Studied the schematics for addition of isolated circuits and the design with SSD Card added for giving more accuracy to external circuitry. Modify the present features and supply it to end user.

•Studied the schematics in Altium Designer for addition of isolated circuits and the design with SSD Card added for giving more accuracy to external circuitry. Assisted in FPGA implementation with VHDL for custom hardware functionality. Used GUI and API for testing the results and troubleshoot hardware issues

•Modify the circuit design according to end user needs and requirements

•Conducted repeatability test using the software specifically used for Mass Flow Controller and checked the circuit specifications accordingly for change and updated the blueprints, electrical one-lines

•Documented the Company files according to various gas specifications and conducted meetings to discuss the issues faced by the end user or for any new version of the design

Business Analyst, Anjaneyap Inc., Jan 2018 – Sept 2018

Took in-depth training and became familiar with Business Requirement Gathering for systems, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling (BPM), Methodologies (RUP, Waterfall, Agile Scrum), Process Redesign & Business Process Reengineering with smooth liaison between developers and end-users

Detailed analysis and client cases were used to develop business architecture based on project stakeholder's requirements such as scope and workflow analysis

Plan meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint demo and retrospective meeting, control framework

Business requirements planning and created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) accordingly

Gained knowledge for how to conduct Joint Application Developments (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), walkthrough, and Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Became well acquainted with BRD, FRD, UML diagrams, BPR and software used by a BA, Microsoft Office

Business Analyst, MResult Corp Oct 2017 – Dec 2017

Project Name: Central Reporting Portal (Client: Non- Disclosed - Pharmaceutical Industry, CA)

Project Description: Redesigned and launched an updated reporting portal for a large division with users across multiple offices. Portal brought together various reports in static and on-demand formats from multiple sources. Elaborate custom security and role matrix allowed secure access with centrally managed function.

Responsibilities:

•Worked as a liaison between stakeholders and technology team to interpret business needs. Worked closely with PM and Scrum Master for getting the clear idea of the project. Coordinated with team in gathering project requirements from the stakeholders by facilitating JAD, JAR, Interview sessions, Focus groups

•Worked closely with Product Owner for creating Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog

•Collaborated and negotiated with stakeholders in defining project scope boundaries

•Conducted Brainstorming sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly

•Worked with UI team in developing wire frames, prototype to elicit functional and nonfunctional requirements

•Assisted in documenting Use cases and designing UML diagrams (Use case model, Activity diagram, Data flow diagram, Sequence diagram)

•Worked under Senior BA team to design process flow diagrams reflecting current and proposed business processes and its functionality

•Engaged in creating Test scenarios, Test scripts, Test cases. Documented Test plan and involved in planning Test strategy

Methodology: Agile Scrum

Tools: MS office (2016), MS Visio (2016), JIRA

Business Analyst, MResult Corp July 2017 – Sept 2017

Project name: VoiceGlance Product

Project Description: The goal of the project was to enhance and add new features for a SAAS based highly automated and intelligent job applicant screening platform. Project improved features on interview summary module and end user role assignment.

Responsibilities:

•Responsible for Gathering requirements from key Stake holders, SME’s

•Assisted in creating requirement artifacts like Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)

•Perform feasibility analysis to evaluate multiple options and determine best fit solution

•Took part in GAP analysis to evaluate solution scope by doing an AS IS to TO BE comparative study

•Developed survey questions to elicit and prioritize the functional requirements

•Resolved stakeholder conflicts and ensured no scope creep during project implementation

•Assisted in Documenting and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure proper requirements management

•Participated in Daily Agile Scrum, Biweekly Sprint Planning and Retrospective Sessions and update the team on work status

•Collaborated with the QA team for smoke testing and created change requests using JIRA and delegate development tasks to appropriate personnel

Major contribution: Creating Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document, Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix, following industry best practices and assisted in creating and standardizing business analysis templates, maintaining a product backlog

Methodology: Agile

Tools: MS office (2013, 2016), MS Visio (2013, 2016), MS Project, Rationale Requisite pro, JIRA, Excel

PROJECTS: (Work Independently)

Electrical Engineer, GPS Lab, CSUF (Academic Projects) Jan 2016 - May 2016

Designed MATLAB program to calculate satellite position from downloaded Ephemeris and Almanac data from Novatel receiver for 5 PRN operating systems and analyzed the digital electronic circuit designs used for data acquisition

Studied the prototype of Klobuchar’s model in AutoCAD with addition of test points used to measure Ionospheric delay and designed digital signal-processing algorithms using MATLAB and did debugging of the bugs

Studied single differencing, double differencing, mitigation of multipath errors, pseudo-range, the effects of ambiguity on the data collected to design a program for calculating Iono delay present

Studied DOPS (Dilution of Precision) and GDOP (Geometric Dilution Precision) and the system design, designed program as needed functional specification for electronic RF receivers to determine the location of person on earth with precision of 99%

Explored different methods of multipath mitigation using MATLAB, collected Range Data from the satellite and carried out documentation for verification of calculations between almanac data and range data

Electrical Design Engineer, Industrial Safety System Project (Project Contract), KKWIEER Jan 2015 - June 2015

Collaborated with engineers from various industries and researched 10+ existing systems circuit schematics to develop a prototype for industrial alarm system for Fire, Smoke and gas leakage

Designed circuit in Circuit Maker, utilized MATLAB for logic programming, carried out PCB layout design by defining board requirements using Protel 98

Soldered components on PCB and carried out in-circuit-testing for any shorts, opens, resistance, capacitance and other basic quantities

Uploaded machine language files to microcontroller using Atmel AVR / AVRDUDE and performed timing analysis in Xilinx ISE. To maintain signal strength, repeaters were utilized with WLAN launcher

Electrical Design Engineer, Rain Water Alarm Project (Project Contract), KKWIEER Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

Prototype utilized sensors to monitor and detect rain water as well as water levels in storage tanks. Sensors used, detected rain water using pH value range. LCD display on system provided alerts on water levels and rain water status

Utilized Circuit Maker for circuit design, did simulation and analyzed the circuit using Simulink with test points. Utilized equipment like DMM, signal generator, logic analyzer, oscilloscope, multimeter to design hardware to raise accuracy to 98%

Simulated PCB design architecture in Proteus. Assembled circuit by soldering components on PCB and programmed it using MATLAB. Published it after testing the system performance in 5+ locations using weather probability basis

SKILLS:

Experience: DSP algorithms, VLSI, VHDL, low level analog signal processing, linear algebra and probability theory and stochastic processes, PLC programming applications, system design and integration, schematics, semiconductors, electronic circuit troubleshooting/testing/verification, integrated circuit, protocols/interfaces, mixed-signal IC design fundamentals, ADC/DAC, power electronics, embedded hardware/software coding, document and design control schematic documentation/drawing, programmable SoCs, power design and Signal integrity, analog electronics design

Technical Skills: C, MATLAB, Python, AutoCAD, LabView, Altium Designer, analog, digital, PLC design, Xilinx ISE, Protel 98, Circuit Maker, Proteus, Simulink, designing PCB layout, soldering skills on PCB, AC and DC power distribution, instrumentation and electrical measurements, electronic components, digital logic designing, interpret electrical schematics, technical documents, test reports, cables and harnessing, SerDes

EDUCATION:

•Master’s in Electrical Engineering- CSU Fullerton, CA

•Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, India

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