Engineer Manager

Curriculum Vitae

Personal

information

First name(s) / Surname(s) Horaţiu / Pintilie

Address(es) Suceava, Romania

Telephone(s) +40-745-****** (mobile)

E-mail *********@*****.***, *******.********@**********.***

Desired employment Engineer / Manager in HW Electronics

Key experiences 23 years of Electronics Engineering experience (8 years in automotive / 15 years in telecommunications);

8 years of Managerial duties (4 years TL, 4 years as delegated, 2 months HoD);

15 years of generic Power Electronics tasks (maintenance, reparation, test and >6 years of design);

6 years of electronics R&D with focus on safety (braking & power steering, ISO26262, ISO16949);

10 years of electronic tests & reparations of the telecommunications digital / analogue devices;

6 years of high emergency field service operations (24 hours a day intervention capability).

Profile Pros: Continuous skills improvement orientation, with focus on the latest achievements in electronics;

Rational, equidistant, analytic, with a logical thinking and a logical way of weighting the facts;

The finding of the root cause and the cause – effect correlation as the rule in solving any problem;

Proactive & creative (I own a patent), hard-working, self driven, energetic, straight forward attitude;

Open-minded, very cooperative & sociable, easy networking, easy adaptation, stress resistant;

Cons: A bit overweight and shy at first.

Work experiences

Dates / Employer 03rdof July 2013 – 13th of December 2013 / Ford – Dunton Technical Centre, UK (www.ford.com)

Position /Sector Hardware Core Engineer (contracted) / Powertrain automotive applications

Responsibilities / Results Responsibilities:

HW PM for 2 new Ford car models, including: technical review, approval, time / tasks planning, release

•

responsible, implementation control, negotiation and synchronization of the suppliers / OEM time plan;

Review / approve the requirements, the technical solutions from suppliers, the HW architecture

•

released by architects (tasks involving a high level of technical understanding, electronics especially) ;

Results:

Improvements proposed in the components' specification database (task still ongoing);

•

Recognized high level of professionalism and deep technical reviewing capability, with identified issues

•

and correction requests (e.g. the thermal behaviour of a proposed housing).

Reason for living I wanted a permanent role while at Ford such option was not possible at that time.

Dates / Employer 01St of May 2012 – 06st July 2012 / Continental Automotive Hungary (www.conti-online.com)

Position /Sector RCA HW Engineer (contracted) / Quality Department

Responsibilities / Results Responsibilities:

Lead the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) investigations / trainer regarding the HW designing basics & EMC;

•

Establish priorities for the laboratory development and needed personnel trainings;

•

Technical liaison in the relation customer – plant – R&D;

•

Results: New laboratory defined with the capability to debug complex system level technical issues.

Reason for living Complicated work registration in Hungary.

Dates / Employer 15th of March 2005– 11th of April 2012 / Continental Automotive Romania (www.conti-online.com)

Position /Sector Senior Hardware Engineer (2009-2012) / Chassis and Safety

Resident Engineer at TKP (2009-2012) / Chassis and Safety

Team Leader HW Engineering (2008-2009) / Chassis and Safety

Hardware Engineer (2005-2008) / Chassis and Safety & Interior Control

Responsibilities / Results Responsibilities as Senior Hardware Engineer / Hardware Engineer (2005-2012):

Electronic Design for project related to “Electric Power Steering” (2006-2012), “Electric Parking Brake”

(2006) and “Door Control Units” (2005). My daily tasks were:

• Schematic creation/captioning for mixed signals designs, PCB layout (EVA boards / switch-boxes);

• Worst Case analysis (MathCAD, a tool about which I proved to be highly skilled ) for maximal

deviations, statistic dispersions, Monte Carlo, RSS;

• CAD simulations of the electronic circuits (OrCAD Spice, Saber, Ltspice), investigations with regard

the AC/DC/Transient analysis, powers & thermal behaviour, Monte Carlo, power losses vs. efficiency, etc;

• Tests (test definition, specifications, performing and creation of the test reports), regarding: EMC

(conducted & radiated immunity / emissions), EOL&ICT, design / product validations, lifetime tests,

module / PCB level checks (with stress factors such as imposed ramps, waves, short circuits,

disconnections, reverse battery), thermal tests, on real and / or simulated loads;

• Failure investigations, failure split and tests in regard the FMEA, FMEDA analysis;

• Interdisciplinary tasks (like HW/SW interface with port assignations, logic states vs. safety concept);

• Requirement engineering (from customer req. negotiations up to HW requirements definitions).

Page 1/4 - Curriculum Vitae

Horatiu Pintilie

Responsibilities as Team Leader (2008-2009) :

• Supervise / control / report / plan the activities of my team in the Electric Power Steering segment;

• Hiring, evaluation, training and career support for my the team (12 Engineers and Technicians);

• Establish the roadmap and strategy, expertise growing steps, resource planning (including the

calibration of the equipments and tracing of their functional status), equipment acquisition, insure the

following of the standards / norms / procedures.

Responsibilities as Resident Engineer (2009-2012) :

• Technical coordination and support of the HW development activities in the EPS projects for TKP;

• Review / Rework / Improve the design documents deliverable to the customer, including: the electronic

schematics, mathematical verifications/validations, WCA, CAD simulations, electrical / functional tests

specifications and test results;

• Customer support for tasks including: design check, robustness, EMC, integration / system tests.

Results as Engineer (2005-2012):

• A wide range of successful projects with contributions from ECU concept up to production. The projects

portfolio includes customers such as: Audi, BMW, Ford, GM, Volvo, VW, PSA, Daimler Chrysler;

• A wide range of successful HW activities including: schematic design, electric / functional tests, EMC /

ESD, layout (switch-box devices), WCA and analytic checks, requirements tasks, failure investigations;

• 1 patent registered at EPO (invention) regarding the protection of an electronic device (in case of

reverse battery supplying);

• A recognized trainer, the personal results in the WCA (worst case analysis) area being the most

important part of the shared knowledge so far;

• Many technical issues found in various designs as result of reviewing activities (regarding the chosen

component, their capability, allowed deviations), recognized as an exigent highly skilled Engineer;

• A severe design issue could be solved by statistical studies (a measurement value out of range). The

statistical result I provided shown a tolerable deviation from requirements (the client accepted);

• The use of different measurement technique (tg / ctg informations instead of sin / cos) improved the

immunity (with regard a fixture positioning error, as a persistent issue in the EOL test for the angle

measurement of a BLDC motor) solving so a major issue and unblocking so the production flow.

Results as Resident Engineer (2009-2012):

• All the deliverable technical information / results fully checked and optimally delivered to the client,

reviewed and reworked (as needed) with my permanent involvement regarding the supervision /

reporting of the activities performed by the different Conti teams assigned on the project for TKP.

• A strong established cooperation with TKP responsible, a fact that made possible to get easier

agreements in many matters (from basic negotiations up to the solving of the critical project issues);

• All the technical issues solved in optimum time with the clear involvement of the appropriate

responsible persons.

Results as Manager:

• A new development strategy have been implemented for the HW team in Iasi. As consequence this

team successfully became a Centre of Excellence for: failure analysis, WCA and thermal verifications;

• Creation of new processes (a resource management process developed in order to make possible the

share of the equipment and test facilities);

• Establishing the “Chassis and Safety” department in a new location (Iasi) from 0, by establishing the

list of needed items, quotations and acquisitions, hirings and trainings of the new comers. My HW team

counted 12 members, all hired and trained along 5 years;

• Several internal ideas, like the feedback collection from employees (“suggestion boxes”), an easier

way to check the place and status of the equipments based on RFID chips.

Reason for living Financial and Managerial performance degradation (in Iasi). Nowadays the Steering Department is closed.

August 15th 1988 – Feb 1st, 2004 / Romtelecom, Suceava Str. Nicolae Balcescu (www.romtelecom.ro)

Dates / Employer

Position / Sector Head of Department (2005) / Paid Phones Department

Team Leader (2002-2004) / Supplying and Conditioning

Special Referee (1999-2002) / Digital Switching Department

Engineer Digital Telecommunications (1997-1999) / Digital Switching Department (“Concentrators”)

Technician – Telecommunications Electronics (1988 -1997) / Analogue & Digital Switching Department

Responsibilities / Results Responsibilities as Manager (TL, HoD):

• Manager of a team (of maximum 20 Engineers & Technicians), in charge to: hire, personnel evaluation,

career orientation / support, training, safety responsible;

• Coordination & tracking of the activities, reporting, set the development and new installation schedule,

implement the strategy and politic of the company, insure the following of the processes, standards

and norms, including work safety;

• Insure a 24 hours a day intervention capability for all the existing objectives;

• Provide technical expertise regarding the:

– maintenance tasks related to the power supply units (DC currents up to 2000 A);

– verification, test, maintenance for supplying stations & batteries (capacities up to 48V@ 20 kAh);

– reparation / verification of the electronics telecommunication boards used for audio info processing;

– climatic installations (cooling / heating efficiency, cooling agent pressure, leaks, humidity, stability);

Page 2/4 - Curriculum Vitae

Horatiu Pintilie

– reparation & debugging of the electronic boards (digital & analogue boards, control units, low / high

power devices, communication circuits, sensors, galvanic insulated circuits, etc);

– maintenance of high power electric generator (diesel groups up to 100kW), engine maintenance.

Responsibilities as Special Referee:

• Technical coordinator for: maintenance, exploitation, reparation of digital phone exchanges (>30

sites), electronic PABX and concentrators, including board level diagnostics, remote controlling,

electronic and electro-mechanical reparations;

• Guide and coordinate the activities regarding the: electronic phone exchanges and associated units,

transmission devices, climatic stations, power units, intrusion & danger detection, annunciation;

• Administrative office activities with regard the central reporting, collecting and analysis of the field

collected data. Technical administration of the communication network.

Responsibilities as Engineer / Technician:

• 10 years experience of maintenance and reparation of the digital & analogue electronic

telecommunication specific boards (“concentrator” equipments in a major extent), including mixed

signal boards, switching devices, optical coupling, filters and conditioners;

• 3 years of conducting (as an acting TL) a team of specialists (maintenance and reparation of the above

said equipments).

Results as Manager / Special Referee:

• Installation of more than 10 new sites done under my coordination (> 5000 subscribers in rural areas).

• 24 hours a day intervention capability (for > 40.000 subscribers) over a full county area;

• Good mentor and Manager, highly cooperative, competitive and efficient in the work with the people;

• Assets management and maintenance of a large inventory list (more than 1000+ items, located all

over the full county area and valued for more than 5 million Euro);

Results as Engineer / Technician:

• Proper maintenance with high level of technical expertise, of a number of >30 digital “concentrator”

equipments serving a number of > 6.000 subscribers. A successful continuous tracking, registering and

reparation of the defective analogue / digital cards, with interventions always in optimum time;

• Proper intervention for professional reparations, maintenance of a number of >25 high power supplies

(up to 2000 A), medium power supplying units, smoke / flame detection, climatic devices, annunciation

systems, diesel electro-generators.

Reason for living Major changes (due to privatization), made the business collapse (nowadays the company is nearly closed).

Education

Date / Institution 2000 / “Gh. Asachi” Technical University Iaşi, Romania

Title (qualification) awarded Profound Studies Diploma in Electronics Engineering (Master equivalent)

Date / Institution 1996 / “Ştefan cel Mare” University Suceava, Romania

Title (qualification) awarded Engineer (Electrical Engineering – Automatics and Computers)

Date / Institution 1988 / “V. Karpen” Telecommunications High School Bacău, Romania

Title (qualification) awarded Technician (qualification diploma) – Telecommunications Electronics

Courses & trainings

Date / Description 2013 / Legal trainings – Conflict of interests, handling the company data, anti fraud/bribery conduit

(provided by Ford);

2011 / EMC – Theory regarding the fundamentals, analysed practical experiments / examples (provided by

Continental);

2011 / FMEA/FMEDA training – fundamentals, ways of implementation in automotive (provided by

Continental);

2010 / ISO training(s) / presentation – ISO 9001, ISO 26262 (IEC 61508), ISO 16949 (provided by

Continental);

2009 / BLDP – Basic Leadership Development Program, (internal training for Managers) (provided by

Continental);

2000 / OCB1000 – usage & maintenance of the large Alcatel telephone exchanges (provided by Acatel);

1998 / AXE10 – usage & maintenance of the large Ericsson telephone exchanges (provided by Intrakom

Greece).

Skills and competences

Technical skills and work Broad understanding of the electronics and specific behaviours based on a very good educational level;

related competences High investigation capability (able to investigate and identify designing issues in a broad range of

electronic devices);

23 years of practical experience with low to high power devices, analogue & digital, ultra sensitive up to

kilowatts applications;

Strong customer orientation, full focus on providing excellent results with respect to all the project

constraints;

Computer skills E-CAD tools used for circuit captioning and PCB design, such as: OrCAD, Eagle, Protel, Mentor;

CAD electronics simulations tools: pSpice, Orcad-pSpice, Saber, Intusoft Spice 4, LTspice, EWB;

Page 3/4 - Curriculum Vitae

Horatiu Pintilie

National Instruments LabVIEW, CAN / FLEXRAY specific (Canoe, Canape, Canalyzer);

Mathematical tools for analytical investigations of the electrical design, such as: MathCAD, MatLab-

Simulink, Excel - tabular computations (with the use of formulas and VBA programming);

Most MS operating systems (use, install, settings, tuning, diagnosis), MS Office, Microsoft Project;

Programming tools: MS C, C++ and Visual Basic, Borland C, Qbasic, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications),

plus some low to fair understanding in Dbase, Java, Pascal, Assembler language programming ;

Graphic design: CorelDraw, InkScape, Ulead Photoimpact, GImp;

Basic Mechanic Design skills with: Solid Works, Catia;

WEB design applications, 2 projects made with Adobe Flash (CS4-6), Action script AS2, HTML, XML.

Linguistic competence(s)

Understanding Speaking Writing

Listening Reading Spoken interaction

English fluent fluent fluent very good

French fair basic basic n.a.

Italian fair fair basic n.a.

Romanian mother tongue mother tongue mother tongue mother tongue

Experiences / devices

summary

Applied electronic Discrete passive and semiconductors, analogue-digital circuits, ADC / DAC, timers / PWM generation, GDU-s

components (gate driver units), (multi)processor boards, microcontroller(s), (D)DRAM / SRAM / ROM / (E)PROM /

E2PROM / Flash memories, high precision / low power analogue devices, high precision voltage / time

references, voltage trackers, precision measurement applications, energy recovering circuits, passive /

active snubber, high power converters / inverters.

Applied transducers / Temperature sensors (NTC-s, thermocouples, diodes, PTC-s), pressure / force / torque sensors, angular /

sensors position sensors (Hall, MR, GMR), optical displacement sensors, high precision shunts for current

measurement, Hall current sensing devices, angular position measurement with “Resolvers” (variable

inductive coupling).

Communication Protocols RS232, RS485, GPIB, SPI, LIN, LPT, CAN, FlexRAy, TCP/IP, USB, JTAG, I 2C, PCM, ADPCM, ATM & STM

(transmission stations via optical fiber), FSK/PSK modem network, Token Ring.

Devices and products Automotive embedded systems for EPS, EPB and Interior Control projects with DC/BLDC/AC motor drivers;

High EPS torque loads for system integration tests (Staiger Mohilo);

Thermal / climatic chambers (Voetsch, VT / VC), thermal imaging (IR cameras) / acquisition systems;

High power voltage generators (up to 200A / 100V) used to test the transients such as “load dump”, “jump

start”, “cracking”, imposed noises, wobble, etc);

Test equipment racks including voltage generators, analogue / digital recorders, solid state switches, signal

generators, multichannel scopes / recorders, data loggers, GPIB interfaces, LabView app. used to drive /

read the instruments (via GPIB bus);

Small / medium power breaking boxes (“switch-boxes”) used to develop/ test the automotive ECU-s;

100kW supplying stations for high power telecommunications purposes (multiple converters in parallel);

Linear supplies / SMPS, (mW up to kW), high power distribution panels (up to 1kA);

Three-phase high power AC/DC converters (up to 25kW), battery management (for capacities up to

20.000Ah @ 48V);

Development / work Ford Motor Company UK, Semcon Engineering UK Ltd, Continental Automotive Gmbh, Cntinental

references Automotive Romania S.R.L., Continental Automotive Hungary Kft., Romtelecom S.A., Robert Bosch Gmbh,

Thyssen Krupp Presta, Daimler Chrysler, BMW, Volvo, Audi, PSG, Ford, VW, Alcatel, Ericsson, Siemens,

Intrakom, Valhor ltd, S.C. Horval S.R.L..

Page 4/4 - Curriculum Vitae

Horatiu Pintilie

Contact this candidate