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Engineer Quality Assurance

Location:
Westmoreland, NH
Posted:
September 20, 2014

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Resume:

Summary:

A detailed minded, self- driven "hands-on professional", with diverse

knowledge and experience in the electronic and electro-mechanical

manufacturing. A Engineer (network & hardware test), programmer, and

designer/builder of small PCB boards and multi-unit product test Fixtures.

Exposure & Skills:

Mechanical:

Measuring: Calipers, Micrometers, Feeler/Thread/Depth/Dial gauges,

2D Shadow Graph, AOI, Laser inspection.

Tools used: Arbor press, center punch, step drills, UNC taps,

reamers, T-squares, hand grinders, drill press,

hammers, metal files, gear/bearing pullers, jewelers

rouge, slip ring pliers, bolt cutters, wire strippers,

easyouts, greenlee & pin punch sets, chisels, hack /keyhole

saws.

Machines: Micro CNC, upright millers, lathe, bandsaws,

drill press, belt sanders, wheel/handheld grinders,

pipe & key grove cutter.

Programming: Visual Studio 20xx [00/05/08/10]: C#, MS-LINQ, Lamda

Expressions, ASP.Net, VB 6.0, MVC structures, remote pc

debugging, Tcl-Expect, Bash, Borland & Microsoft, C/C++

compilers, LABVIEW 5.1/11, Various 8/32/64 bit ?P Assembler

code. ADO.net, JET4.0, OLEDB, ODBC, RDO, MS-Access 200x{0,3,7} .

Platforms used: [Windows]: MS-Windows3.1/95/98/NT(3.5x, 4.0)/2000/XP/7,

Novell, DOS 32/6.22.

[Unix]: SunSparc10/20s, TurboLinux Server 5.1, SCO Unix.

[Embedded]: VxWorks, PSOS, WindowsXP.

Development: Visual Studio 20xx [00/05/08/10]: C#, MS-LINQ, Visual

Basic 6.0, Tcl/Expect & Bash Scripts, Procomm Aspect, Borland &

Microsoft, C/C++ compilers, LABVIEW 5.1, Various 8/32/64 bit ?P

Assembler code.

ADO.net, JET4.0, OLEDB, ODBC, RDO, MSAccess 200x{0,3,7}, IBM

Rational Clearcase.

Test Platforms: ASICs: Nand tree, B.I.S.T., Boundry Scan/JTAG

IEEE1149.1.

Circuitry: Vector Analyzer, ?P Emulators, Logic Analyzers,

Spectrum Analyzers,

RF-Power meters, DSO, Oscilloscopes,

Curve tracers, OTDRs,

LCR, DMM meters, ICT HP3070/GR2287L,

8400 Takaya flying prober.

Environmental: Qualmark OVS 2.5/4.0, and Thermatron's "Aspect"

walk in Chamber,

various Heat tents, Thermocouples,

RTDs, Accelerometers, Air velocity

instruments.

Networking: Exposure to various Hubs/Blades of managed switches (Layer

2/3), ATM, MPLS, Token Ring, 802.3-2002(inclusive), Wireless

802.11g, P.o.E.802.3af. SNMP 1 & 2c.

Exposure using: Project Management, TQM, Kaban replenishment, 5s Lean

Mfg., ISO2001, IP67, Six sigma planning, Solder & Rework,

Incoming Inspection, and Quality Testing. SAP, Peoplesoft, Man-

Man, AutoCad 07/09/10, PADS, ExpressPC, Microsoft: (Office

2000/03/07/10, Access, Visio, Project). Etc...

Employment History:

[ Repair Technician ] Jan 2014 to Jul 2014

Agency: CoWorx Staffing: 99 Cedar Drive Charlestown NH.

Assignment: Whelen Engineering; Manufacturer of a variety of Flashers,

Sirens, and PA systems

for all types of Vehicles.

Duties:

Repair/rework, debug and testing of various Whelen products that fail

during production.

Achievements:

Achieved product knowledge and handled the repair of most Whelen Flashers

and Sirens within a short amount of time,

which was noted on my 3-month review.

Cleaned up a 4 month backlog of repair units, while also handling new

failures.

[ Security Guard (UnArmed) ] Mar 2013 to Dec 2013

Hunter North Security, Route 9 Spofford NH; Provider of Security and

Safety personnel and service.

Assignment: [Mar 2013] External Facility Security.

Assignment: [Apr 2013] Security Guard for a retirement home complex.

Duties:

Receptionist, Inventory and transporter of Emergency medical kit, First

responder in emergencies, Assisted in the coordination of emergency crews,

monitored public areas for repair and safety. Performed daily interior and

exterior security sweeps of entire facility containing some 60

accommodations.

Achievements:

Received accolades for detecting a major propane leak behind cottages and

safely evacuated residents from a potential life

threatening situation.

Received accolades for going above and beyond for assisting residents.

Received acknowledgement for creating emergency guidelines for security

officers stationed at a new Facility.

[ Senior Engineering Tech.=>Associate Test Engineer ] Mar 2004 to Jan

2012

Cognex Corp Natick MA.; Manufacturer of Vision Hardware & Software for

automation and web inspection.

Duties:

Developed single & multiple-unit product H.A.L.T./P.A.T. Quality Tests (

Test Plans, Fixtures, Cabling, IO Circuitry, related Test Software ).

. Managed HALT LAB resources, and equipment including scheduling chamber

usage and tests.

. Facilitated meetings with hardware engineers to review

test plans.

. Produced test-plans, applied revisions and implemented test, then

generated test-reports.

. Designed, prototyped, purchase materials for, and fabricated, single and

multiple-unit test fixtures for variety of products.

. Both designed and leveraged digital/analog IO interface circuitry.

. Developed multi-unit/tasking standalone hardware test application.

Written in C# using .net 3.5/4.0, and some VB 6 to exercise hardware and

communication paths and capture images, and exercise IO's (i.e.

functionality test hardware) while under environment stress loads.

. Implemented MS-Access databases for each product's Test records storage

using SQL included

( Tables, Queries ).

. Assisted senior test and sustaining engineers with SW/HW various tasks

including; test of new components, D.O.E. tests for FMEA.

. Assigned as product technical lead for tiny footprint turn-key Embedded

XP PC system called the BRICK.

Achievements:

Achieved several bonus awards assisting in compressing test time to stay on

track for scheduled goals.

Created and utilized an automated electronic test report signoff scheme

using embedded VBA, and MS-office 2003,

to saving time.

Produced and implemented several network based initiatives for testing,

using both hardware and software,

saving time & money. Required learning P.o.E. (i.e. Power over

Ethernet) and Facets of SNMP (Simple Network

Management Protocol), and the administration of several "Cisco" small

business managed P.o.E. hubs

(SRW2008MP/SG300-10MP, SGE2000P).

. Applied Lean principals to pre-existing test fixtures, by making them

modularly adaptable for more than one similar

NPI product type.

NOTE: Update was done in order to accommodate a fast train of new product

introductions saving new construction

development time of fixtures, and associated storage space.

. Developed, prototyped, and built solid state hardware circuitry and

platform for standardizing product IO testing,

NOTE: Circuit applied current load and allowed switching between

sink/source mode under software control.

[Engineering Technician] Jun 2003 to Dec 2003

Agency: Technical Needs, Lebanon, NH.

Assignment: Labsphere Inc; Producer of uniform light source and spectral

measurement products/systems.

Duties:

Part of an engineering development team tasked with design improvements

for the next generation of products.

[ Self Employed ] Apr 2002 to Mar 2003

EcoQuest Intl., Greenville, TN. Developer /Manufacturer of Environmental

Air and Water purifiers. Home based MLM).

Duties:

Promoted products face to face, supported Customers, held business

development meetings.

[ Sr. Functional Test Engr. ] May 2000 to Apr 2002

Smtek/Century Electronics in Marlboro, MA. Electronics Contract

Manufacturer (Tier II/III).

Duties:

. Key Customer liaison to the Test Group.

. Responsible for quality test process ISO 9001

Six Sigma participant.

. Responsible for maintaining all in-house test equipment.

. Created test strategies and SPC processes (VB6 & Excel).

. Monitored, debugged, and repaired various products.

[ Debug Tech.=> NPI Fast Track Tech.=> Test Engr.I => Test Engr.II ] Aug

1995 to May 2000

Synernetics/3Com Corp. Billerica, Boxboro, Southborough, Marlboro, MA.

Developer/Manufacturer of enterprise to small business network systems.

Duties:

[Repair Tech]

. Tested & repaired 960 Power PC based 10/100/1000T layer 2/3 switching

products, plus FDDI, ATM/SONET adaptors.

. Created/Documented NPI repair process and train technicians for new

centralized S2 repair depot.

. Part of NPI (New Product Intro) "Fast Track" customer return analysis

and repair.

[Test Eng I]

. Supported live monitoring on builds of legacy + NPI products at Tier I

contract manufacturers (Created automated data

parsers & filters ).

. Resolved ongoing quality issues at the contract manufacturer ( i.e.

created software filters in VBA for MS-Access).

{Test Eng II]

. Assisted senior engineers with NPI test strategy, equipment, and

involvement in ASIC Dev/Test, and software test coding

in C.

. Administrated multiple NIS SUN servers to allow NFS mapping of Test

Scripts run on embedded Wind River Vx-works.

NOTE: Required learning TCL Expect scripting, ypserv, ypbind, rpcbind

and associated directory structures.

Education:

Diploma: Shawsheen Valley Technical Regional Vocational High School

100 Cook St., Billerica, MA.

Miscellaneous Courses, Seminars, and Webinars:

Course: Certified 300 hour intensive course in "C/Unix" (SCO) Computer

Learning Center, MA.

Course: IPv4 TCP/IP 3COM(In-House), MA.

Course: Project management (Compressed 2 day) 3COM(Worcester Poly

Institute), MA.

Course: VISUAL BASIC 6.0 Enterprise Addition 3COM(Northeastern

Satellite), MA.

Course: High Speed PCB design 3COM(Lee Ritchie, CA.),MA.

Course: System Testing, and Quality Assurance (TQM) 3COM(New

Instr. Inc., NJ),MA.

Course: Intro to T1, X25, SS7, and ISDN 3COM(New Instr. Inc.,

NJ),MA.

Course: MSCE Windows-NT 4.0 Core Mt. Wachusetts College, MA.

Course: MSCE Windows-NT 4.0 Enterprise Admin Mt. Wachusetts

College, MA.

Course: Dr. Dobbs certificate course in Mastering H.A.L.T./H.A.S.S

Cognex Corp. Natick, MA.

Course: Lean Manufacturing training Cognex Corp. Natick, MA.

Webinar: FMEA considerations OpsAla-Cart.com

Recent Learning 2012/2013:

Webinar: Machine "Vision Lighting", and also "Vision Optics", part 1 & 2

by Cognex Corp Natick, MA.

Webinar: Machine Vision Industrial code reading/verification (OCR and OCV)

by. Cognex Corp Natick, MA.

Webinar: Using "Edge Detection Tools" introduction by Cognex Corp

Natick, MA.

Course: Microsoft LINQ VTC Online, VA.

Course: Microsoft ASP.Net 3.5 VTC Online, VA.

Course: TCP/IP Packet Analysis VTC Online, VA.

Course: Unix System Administration Essentials VTC Online, VA.

Course: Quick Start .Net Regular Expressions VTC Online, VA.

Course: Linux Professional Institute Certificate Level-1 (2009) VTC

Online, VA.

Course: MySQL Quick Start (Open source Wamp/Mamp) VTC Online,

VA.

Course: J2EE VTC Online, VA.

Course: C++ VTC Online, VA.

Course: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Developer [70-464] VTC

Online, VA.

Course: JAVA ( J2EE, Scripting, Servlets, JSP, EJB, AJAX )

http:/online.learnnowjava.com.

Class: IPC Solder Training Whelen Engineering, Charlestown, NH.



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