SPENCER L. OONK

acdd6s@r.postjobfree.com

**** ****** **, *******, ** 49464

616-***-****

OBJECTIVE / JOB INTEREST

My objective is to obtain a challenging position where I will be able to apply and expand my electrical engineering abilities.

EDUCATION

Western Michigan University – 12/15/2012

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (ABET Accredited)

Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam – April 2012

SKILLS

Auto CADD, Solid Works, Autodesk Inventor, MATLAB, MAPLE, MINITAB, C# and VB .Net programming, C/assembly level

language skills, Microsoft Office, Pspice, LTspice, VBA

EXPERIENCE / EMPLOYMENT

Gentex Corporation

600 North Centennial St.

Zeeland, MI 49464

616-***-**** – phone

616-***-**** – fax

Position-Production Support Engineer February 2013 - Current

• Manage electrical circuit board manufacturing equipment and personnel.

• Work in the manufacturing process to help improve products and equipment.

• Troubleshoot issues with products and identify suspect quality issues or inaccuracies in test and measurement.

• Initiate and manage product quality sorts when needed. Also, ensure that the root cause is found and communicated

with the entire production team.

• Conduct continuous improvement meetings with production staff.

• Train/mentor new production support engineers and supervise the training of hourly production members.

• Project Examples:

1. Simplified and organized large sets of data and simplified various production ordering processes using VBA.

2. Automated various manual entry parts of the scheduling system through the use of C#. This was accomplished

using various SQL and MES web reference calls.

3. Setup and maintain layered process audits conducted throughout the entire production floor.

Position-Intern for Electrical Assembly May - August 2012

• Worked to trouble shoot and fix problems with circuit boards.

• Worked with MES API calls to pull information from database using C#.

• Worked with microcontrollers to help measure the quality of products, programmed in C and C#.

• Project Examples:

1. Built a device that connected to a Keithley 2400 meter through RS-232. A C# program was used to control a

PIC4550 that would allow the Keithley to work as a curve tracer and display the graphs of an IC's specific pins.

The PIC4550 was set up to take specific commands from the C# program and control a series of relays through

the use of shift registers.

2. Built a device that would connect into the video decoder of a RCD auto dimming mirror. An ARM M3

microcontroller was used to control a relay which would pull the video decoders power-down pin high to

prevent shutdown and then ground the reset line of the PIC controlling the video decoder. This allowed the

ARM to gather data from the video decoder through I2C and save the information to an EEPROM. This device

was built for a test mirror which was having potential problems.

Position-Intern for Electrical Assembly May - August 2011

• Worked with engineers on problem solving, data collection, and data analysis assignments.

• Worked independently finding new ways to identify problems and implement prevention methods.

Position-Assembler May - August 2010

• Worked on a production line testing and assembling circuit boards.

• Performed tasks delegated by a team leader.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Senior Design Project:

• Scope of Project

1. Worked on a team to create a lap time recording system, for a super modified race car.

2. The timing system consisted of allowing a user to wirelessly set up a virtual start line and 6 others on the track.

3. The system autonomously detected any time one of these lines were intersected.

4. The race cars lap time and delta-t were wirelessly sent to the TFT screen.

• My Contribution

1. Consisted of working with the ARM M3 microcontroller on the LPC1769 evaluation board, in Code Red Suite 4.

2. Developed a concept of creating a virtual start line perpendicular to the cars velocity vector during setup mode.

3. Solved mathematics to check if the cars current velocity vector segment intersected on the virtual line segments and

integrated them into the C programming.

4. Worked to parse out all $GPRMC commands from a 10 Hz GPS unit.

5. Used GPS data to create a 2D model by making converted time latitude/longitude to X feet from the prime meridian

and Y feet from the equator.

6. Tested the model due to the fact the earth is an ellipsoid and a volume metric mass of a spherical earth was used as a

practical substitute.

7. Worked with the following protocols RS-232, SPI, and I2C.

8. Developed a battery protection system which utilized a under voltage, over voltage chip to protect the lithium polymer

battery from becoming heavily depleted.

9. This system also utilized a buck step down 3.3V DC-DC converter protecting the microcontroller.

Elective Classes:

• Microcontroller Application

1. Worked with the MC9S12DP256B in C and assembly for delay functions and clock setup.

2. The majority of the lab topics covered were PWM, Interrupts, Input Capture and Output Compare, Analog Input and

Output Interface, Asynchronous Serial Communication, SPI Interface, and CAN Interface.

• Power Electronics

1. The class consisted of learning and calculating by hand and simulating in PSpice power semiconductor devices.

2. The majority of the topics covered in this course were DC-DC converters such as the Buck, Boost, Resonant, and

Flyback Converter.

3. Other topics included were AC-DC controlled/uncontrolled rectifiers, DC-AC inverters, and AC-AC cycloconverters.

• Communication Systems

1. The course dealt with analog AM, FM, and PM signals.

2. The course also covered digital ASK, FSK, and PSK signals.

Western Michigan University:

Participated on the Western Michigan Sunseeker Team. September 2009- 2010

• Working with other classmates and professors to create the software for the solar car.

• Working with the whole team to build the car’s frame and attach solar panels.

• More information about the WMU Sunseeker at http://www.wmich.edu/sunseeker/index.php

Participated on the Western Michigan AIAA Team. September 2008 - April 2009

• Worked with upperclassmen to build an electrically propelled model aircraft.

• Solved challenging problems in groups that would meet the Design Build Fly (DBF) completion requirements.

• More information about AIAA DBF completion at http://www.aiaadbf.org/

Participated on the First Robotics Competition Team. December 2004- July 2006

• Worked with engineers from local companies to participate in a highly competitive competition.

• Machined and assembled different parts in Zeeland West High School’s metal shop.

• More information about FRC at http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/default.aspx?id=966

PERSONAL INTERESTS

I enjoy weightlifting, running, water skiing, and other outdoor activities.

Contact this candidate