Eric A. Silvis
Amery, WI *****
715-***-**** (home)
715-***-**** (cell)
********@*****.***
CAREER SUMMARY
Dedicated electrical engineer with 15 years experience in developing custom electrical power
supplies and managing all aspects of project life cycle, offering the following skills:
Well-rounded engineering experience – Design, develop, test, troubleshoot and support
the manufacturing of custom power supplies.
Accuracy, responsibility and accountability – Excellent attention to details and well
organized
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dynatronix, Inc Amery, WI
Lead Project Engineer May 2013 - May 2014
Held weekly project status meetings with other engineers and published notes for weekly
management meeting
Engineering signoff authority on orders
Project cost estimations for sales
Assigned projects to engineers on my team
Plus all tasks performed as Electrical Engineer
Electrical Engineer July 2002 -April 2013
Multitask multiple projects, custom linear and switch mode power supply design work,
create bill of materials in Fourth Shift, schematics, wire tables, manuals, and test
procedures, supported test technicians in troubleshooting and debug of final product in a
fast paced environment.
Circuit board design and PCB parts placement and layout experience.
Pro-Engineer and Solidworks system 3D modeling experience, created assembly
drawings, part creation, system schematic capture.
CE, ETL, EMC/EMI product test experience, troubleshooting and documentation.
Venable software open/closed control loop experience in measuring phase and gain
margins.
Field service experience to do troubleshooting.
Domestic and International field service experience
Rockwell Collins Cedar Rapids, IA
Electrical Engineer January 1999 – October 2001Switch
mode power supply design work; monitor circuitry, PFC, winding custom transformers.
Wrote automatic test software to verify its operation and release software.
Power supply and test harness drafting and layout experience.
Power supply test and troubleshooting responsibilities
Trained other employees how to test and debug power supplies.
Rockwell Collins Cedar Rapids, IA
Engineering Co-op III May 1998 – August
1998
Power Conversion Team Member
Wrote test programs in Visual Basic to test power supplies.
Designed power supply test harnesses to connect with the custom test station.
Engineering Co-op II May 1997 – December 1997
SATCOM Aeroi Team Member
Created and updated spreadsheets.
Designed block diagrams for the existing product using the software program Visio.
Drew and updated schematics in a capture tool called Viewdraw.
Engineering Co-op I August 1996 – December 1996
Wrote programs in the programming language C
Software testing and debugging
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; BSEE, 12/98
Experience with: Control Systems, C Programming, Digital Logic, Electronics I and II,
Circuits III and Magnetic Fields.
Active member of Circle K. Vice President of Circle K – 1995-1996
Itasca Community College, Grand Rapids, MN; Associate in Science Pre-
Engineering, 6/96
Electrical Circuits I and II, Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Calculus, and
Physics.
Recipient of completing Pre-Engineering Program – 1995
Recipient of Will Bakes Alumni Scholarship – 1993-1994
Blandin foundation Grant Recipient – 1993-1998
Active member of Circle K