Marques W. Cherry
**************@*****.*** CELL: 404-***-****
SUMMARY
Excellent customer service and soft skills
Highly skilled in RF propagation & design
Great analysis and troubleshooting ability
Flexible and willing to travel
Quick upstart who enjoys mastering new things
Dedicated to keeping the company in the green
Current Work Experience
Electronics Engineer 2006 – Present
Aggie Electronics
Read schematics, flow charts, and repair manuals to troubleshoot equipment using oscilloscopes, function generators, and DMMs
Test electronic components to be assured that they meet quality and functionality standards
Provide support to maintain, upgrade, or replace outdated equipment with more efficient models using a continuous lifecycle development system
Install and optimize car and home audio and video, as well as vehicle security systems
Create SLAs, develop accurate milestones, determine and deploy the adequate workforce
Produce detailed reports to properly document every facet of the project
Conduct test setups in Lab View to keep costs down instead of risking damage to the actual equipment before configuration
Evaluate the specifications of components in order to choose the one(s) that best fit
Configure in-home Wi-Fi networks
Senior Electronics Technician 2014-2018
L-3 Technologies
Expedited the assembly and initialization of military aircraft display and electronic units
Performed Initial, Environmental, and Final testing
Organized the work cell using 5S and Six Sigma
Designed production schedules to continuously align with changing needs of our customer
Identified and implemented ideas for improvement using a continuous product lifecycle
Ensured that the chemicals used were in-spec
Motivated a crew of 6 to see the big picture
Produced detailed reports to properly document every facet of the project
Calibrated, maintained, and operated a variety of test equipment and helped develop prototypes
Teamed with Engineering to determine if new subassembly upgrades were fully compatible
Quality Assurance Analyst 2005 – 2006
Willstaff Worldwide
Used Spectrum Analyzers to compare actual signal strength with transmitted levels
Tested prototype cell phones for proper functionality before being released
Organized and maintained labs to ensure that all equipment and tools worked properly
Identified areas for improvement using a continuous product lifecycle
Analyzed requirements, capacity, cost, and needs to determine project feasibility, and develop plans
Re-structured the arrangement of the warehouses to make everything easily accessible
Produced detailed reports to properly document every facet of the project
Prototyped subassemblies to ensure that they meshed well with the other components
Quality Assurance Analyst 2002 – 2005
TRC Staffing
Troubleshot components used in cell phones, household electronics, and car audio for tolerance with scopes, function generators, and DMMs
Managed the control systems to keep an accurate part count
Organized and maintained labs and workstations ensuring that all test equipment and tools worked properly and were within calibration
Operated a variety of test equipment both onsite and taught clients effortlessly at satellite locations
Set milestones for a team of 24 who created pin layouts, package types, and many other specs
Ensured that all of the tests remained consistent with the ISO principles
Produced detailed reports, properly documenting every facet to present in daily status meetings
Identified areas for continuous improvement using Six Sigma techniques working under a PE
Tested and debugged supply chains to ensure that the components were distributed properly
Team Leader/Senior Recovery Specialist IV 2000 – 2002
Sears Credit
Made 1st party outbound calls to resolve charged-off department store credit card accounts
Established secure ACH payments
Used techniques learned in continuous training, to diffuse miscommunications/misunderstandings
Prevented accounts from being sourced to legal
Design Engineer 1998 – 2000
Chesapeake Display and Packaging
Developed SLAs from the customer’s specifications
Designed in-store product displays in Artios CAD and the shippers used in during production runs
Created the assembly instructions
Maintained an inventory of raw materials, as well as a relationship with the logistics
RF Technician 1997 – 1998
Moffet, Larson, and Johnson, Inc
Assisted in network design and implementation
Drove single-site and clustered tests to define the RF signal strength and identify potential gaps in coverage areas
Helped develop and implement a continuous lifestyle culture along with the Engineering team
Troubleshot, maintained, and tested components and integrated systems that we designed and built
Education
University of Phoenix
MBA (Expected) 2019
DeVry University
BS Electronics Engineering Technology/Project Management Graduated 2008
Technical Skills
Hardware: DMMs, Function Generators, Power Supplies, Antennas, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Routers, LNAs, HPAAs, ICs, Fibre Optics, System Processors, Video Processors, Fire Wire
Software: Lab View, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Windows Map Info, Ericcson TEMS, Artios CAD