Test Manufacturing & Engineering

REYNOLD A. GIBBS

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DORCHESTER, MA. 02124

Phone: C: 508-***-****; H :617-***-****

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

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Dependable Electronic Test Associate Engineer with over ten years of experience

learning new IC component technologies while mastering new related skills; Skilled in

linear electronics I've piloted maintenance and support of: Manufacturing processes for

Automated Test Equipment (ATE), Radio Frequency (RF) systems & Industrial multi-

phase power modules while performing both repeatability testing on Integrated

Circuit(IC) products and statistical analysis for such test, yield improvement.

SKILLS:

General Programming Languages such as C++ and National Instrument’s LABVIEW and

CVI;

Documents via CAD tools for various Schematic Capture, PCB layout and Circuit

Simulation tasks.

Proficiency using a wide host of Analyzers, such as:

[Digital communication]Agilent 86100A (DCA), Frequency Spectrum & Network;

inclusive of

[Radio/Microwave Frequency]Rhode & Schwarz RF Modulation & Distortion; and

extended to

[Data]Tex Data Signature. Skilled with RF multi-port analysis, S-Parameters and Smith

Charts.

Design, Debug Analog & Digital circuits, to component level, powered as well as driven

by standard VME, VXI, & GPIB Buss architecture.

EXPERIENCE:

GIBBS ENTERPRIZE; Dorchester, Mass. (10/08- Present)

An Innovative Small-Appliance Repair, Services provider.

Test Engineer.

1 Perform Test Software Development and burning application-code into ROMs.

2 Design PCB Test Interfaces via Schematic Capture, Layout and Circuit Simulation

tools.

3 Trouble-shoot and repair Consumer Electronics as well as residential and commercial

motor driven Appliances.

DIAGNOSYS INC; Westford, Mass. (04/08- 10/08)

An Innovative Global Electronic Test Solutions provider.

Application Test Engineer.

4 Designed PCB Test Interfaces via Schematic Capture, Layout and Circuit Simulation

tools.

5 Performed Test Software Development in National Instrument’s “Lab Windows CVI”

environment, while linked for compiling within the test sequencer/executive software

utility, “Test-stand”; C, Source Code, Compiler for Virtual Instrumentation

facilitated my coding of device-drivers’ “function-panels” for: waveform generators,

data analyzers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic-loads, digital multi-meters

and other such instruments.

6 Utilized PXI, GPIB & VXI technology, while designing test solutions via commercial

off the shelf (COTS) instrumentation for end of line production in a manufacturing

environment.

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8

CONTOUR SEMICONDUCTOR INC; North Billerica, Mass. (10/06- 12/07)

An Innovative pioneering Memory/Interface solutions provider (an Upstart

Corporation).

Electrical-Engineering Associate.

1 PCBs Built & Debugged via PCB Schematic Capture, Layout and Circuit

Simulation tools.

9 Automated Silicon Wafer Probing for Various Device Characterization and Process

Qualification by

Programming Micro-Manipulator-Prober as well as Semiconductor Parametric

Analyzer units.

ANALOG DEVICES INC; Wilmington, Mass. (12/99 – 10/06)

a top leading international manufacturer servicing the electronics industry.

ATE Systems Test Tech. (06/04 – 10/06)

10 Characterization, Qualification and Functional Testing of test system instrumentation

(signal modules) driven by VME (Versa Module Europa) & VXI (VME Extension for

Instrumentation) backplanes.

11 Retrofitted Field Service Returns of: AC Power Controllers & Supplies; RF

Amplifiers & Filters.

12 Utilized National Instruments (NI) personal-computer (PC) based PCI/PXI extension

for instrumentation during some developmental responsibilities.

Test Process Tech. (12/99 – 06/04)

13 Supported Product Engineers by Developing manufacturing test processes to improve

IC products’ test yields via both tester & product repeatability testing and statistical

analysis per test limits guard-banding.

14 Implemented, edited and generated “ controlled ”engineering change orders (ECOs)

of both test procedures as well as, C++, test programs that featured “ function-

overloading ” and modular coding implements for the in-house manufacturing

operations; Solving issues for test operators in addition to performing new product

feasibility testing, utilizing my C++ coding to control test system resources, were my

additional, on-going, responsibilities.

15 Implemented and coordinated periodic maintenance programs on test systems for

technicians.

TELLABS INC; Burlington, Mass. (1/2001- 6/2001)

a leading international Innovative Communications Solutions provider.

Electronics Optical Test.

1 Bench tested "Transponder" Boards composed of Xilinx FPGAs for Digital

Control-data processing

2 Performed BER (bit error ratio) testing using LAB-VIEW driven test controller

3 Debugged Optical Communication Designs using Mentor-Graphics PCB Design

Software tools.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC., M&C division; Attleboro, Mass. (05/94 -11/99)

a leading international manufacturer servicing the electronics industry.

Test Engineer (03/96 – 11/99)

16 Supported Staff Engineers by building & debugging their designs of Electronic Drive

Control/Protection Circuit Modules for 3-Phase: AC Industrial Compressors.

Engineering Design Tech. (05/94 – 03/96)

17 Designed circuit upgrades of both new & existing DC motor Drive Control/Protection

Circuit Modules for 3-Phase: AC Brush & DC Brushless Motors.

L.T.X. CORPORATION; Westwood, Mass. (10/86 -05/94)

a leader in automated test equipment (ATE).

Senior RF Tech.

1 Production & Field Service Customer Support of UNIX Integrated, Real-Time based

RF Systems.

2 Debugged and Repaired “SG-130” RF signal generator console and its sub-

Assemblies to the component and fault level.

A.D.E. CORPORATION; Aurbundale, Mass. (5/82 -10/86)

a Semiconductor leader in automated dimensional equipment.

Electronics Tech.

1 Trouble-Shoot and Repaired Non-Contact Gaging R.F. Probes, and various

Digital and Analog Signal Processing Modules to the Component Level.

18 Documented Test Procedures and Schematics of In-House Analog and

Microprocessor based electronic testers.

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE:

BNN CTV; Roxbury, Mass. (1986

-1998)

a public affairs & cultural arts programming service provider.

Electronic Equipment Associate.

19 Provide Tech Support for local Cable TV Broadcaster.

EDUCATION:

WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Boston, Mass. (1994 -

1998)

20 B.S. Electronic Systems Engineering Technology.

Boston College High; Dorchester, Mass. (1973

-1977)

21 Diploma, College Preparatory.

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