Engineer Electrical

Peter B. Burke

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Waterford, MI 48328 (248)

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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

. Digital, Analog, Electromechanical and Acoustical experience

in both design and laboratory environments

. Practice in both team and individual project settings

. Familiarity with the packaging of electronic modules and

harness routing requirements in the vehicle environment

. Experience evaluating loudspeaker systems, designing audio

filters and devising new test procedures for systems

. Understanding of both design and build aspects of a project

. Sales experience and recreational inventor spirit formed

ability to identify a salable item or feature.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Clarion Corporation of America

Farmington Hills, MI

Electrical Engineer (Systems Engineering Group)

May 2003 to Present

. Perform EQ tuning of OEM audio systems

. Approval of out-of-house fabricated parts

. Designed VIs in LabView for temperature testing and other

data acquisition

. Conceptualization of new products

. Manage the design and validation of products from prototype

to production

. Create drawings and documents, which define all electronic

assemblies

. Liaison with customers regarding design of products

. Assist Quality Control with the acceptability of manufactured

product

. Initiate action to prevent shipment of nonconforming and

suspect product

Test Engineer (Experimental Engineering Group)

. Find packaging locations to create manuals for port/dealer

installations

. Benchmarking of competitor product for comparison of features

and cost savings opportunities.

. Development of new testing tools to improve efficiency and

accuracy

. Generate test plans that meet OEM specifications

. Assist in the presentation of new products in development to

OEMs

. Research and test for value of new technologies

OnStar Corporation (contract: Aerotek)

Troy, MI

Certification Engineer November 2002 to

May 2003

. Performed voice technologies certification of OnStar

telematics systems including: voice recognition, and hands-

free cellular phone quality

. Assisted in the research and development of automated testing

. Supported OnStar product launches for Acura, Audi, General

Motors, and Volkswagen programs

. Contributed to the input and maintenance of the voice

recognition data base

Rockford Corporation Grand

Rapids, MI

Design Engineer (Electrical/Acoustical) March

2000 to April 2002

. Assisted Senior Design Engineer in the creation of acoustic

filters

. Used various software packages to model transducer system

characteristics

. Evaluated new acoustic programs for possible use in the lab

for testing and performance modeling

. Tested speaker designs for transducer parameters, reliability

and quality

. Formulated new testing procedures to compare competitor

product

. Designed and constructed test fixtures for loudspeaker

analysis

. Reconfigured in-car test bed for multi-microphone measurement

and surround sound applications

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Grand Valley State University

Allendale, MI

B.S.E. - Electrical Engineering

Graduated: August 2002

. Science and Mathematics Division Dean's List recipient

. Relevant Courses:

o Senior Engineering Capstone Project

. Two-semester, multi-discipline group endeavor

involving the redesign of project sponsor's wind

turbine

. Entailed the reverse engineering of sponsor's

current setup and implementation of new design

. Produce usable electrical power that can be sent

into the utility grid or used to directly power an

electrical appliance

. In charge of budget tracking and informational web

page

o Audio Engineering

. Psycho-acoustic and human sensation to sound

. Plane and standing wave properties with respect to

reflections and absorption characteristics

. Spherical wave propagation, sound directivity and

reverberant sound field studied

o Advanced Digital Systems

. Microcontroller programming and circuit design

. Designed digital microphone preamplifier

o Electromechanics

. AC/DC motors and generator design

o Electronic Circuits I/II

. Multi-stage, power and operational amplifiers

. Feedback, oscillators and active filters

o Signals and Systems Analysis

. Study of Fourier transforms, convolution, and

superposition

. Utilized MATLAB to process these operations

o Materials for the Electrical Sciences

o Principles of Physics I/II

o Statics and Solid Mechanics

ACTIVITIES:

. Vehicle maintenance, customization, performance tuning and

road racing

. Car and Home audio installations

. Electronic device repair and experimentation

. Video/Audio editing

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