Electrical Engineer Engineering

Joseph A. Whittaker

Littleton, CO ***** *.*********.**@****.***

Objective

Challenge my electronic design skills to best contribute to a project in a team environment at a growing company.

Learn detailed specifics to develop an optimal approach for accomplishing the project’s goals.

Work Experience

Communications Test Design Inc. Electrical Engineer Tracy, CA 10/2013 – 9/2014

Provided a broad range of engineering support for a new testing warehouse of Comcast cable subscriber equipment as

the sole local contact

Performed CATV head-end maintenance & improvement, desktop & network support, and Windows AD admin.

Supported a small management and team, as well as around 100 multipurpose employee workstations across two shifts

Remotely coordinated with corporate engineering and IT teams to report and escalate any problems caused by issues

beyond the local infrastructure

Trained new hire operators about the nuances of their function and the company’s testing systems

Performed RF networking and Cisco IOS management. Optimized Cisco DOCSIS router which resulted in double

testing throughput at no additional cost

Wrote Linux shell scripts to monitor server load and uptime

Utilized SQL Server Management. Studio for test system updating and debugging

Implemented a Wiki on a VMware server and contributed articles towards centralized local documentation

Wrote Batch, PowerShell, and Python scripts to obtain and modify system info and accelerate problem solving

Intel Corp. Intel Ultimate Engr. Experience Intern Folsom, CA 6/2012 – 8/2012

Participated in a six-week training program learning different aspects of engineering for future engineers of Intel

Worked in a team environment while rotating groups per project to keep momentum

Built a quad-rotor helicopter and flew it by wireless laptop control

Prepared and marketed new ideas for household products through Northwestern University’s Engineering, Design and

Communication course

Prepared a business plan for a non-profit organization

Symantec Corp. Technical Assistant Intern Cupertino, CA 9/2007 - 5/2008

Sorted, tested, and repaired company computer assets and provided detailed inventories to supervisor using Excel

M.E.C. Technologies Quality Assurance Intern Cupertino, CA 8/2005 - 5/2006

Tested web applications produced in house for bugs and tracked them using Bugzilla

Education

California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 5/2013

B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Projects

Senior Design: Aerobic Exercise Monitor

Lead a team of four to develop a small belt-mounted sensor logging device

Design included tracking of heart rate, walking distance, duration, and location

Used an Atmel microcontroller (programmed in C), 3d accelerometer, GPS module, microSD, polar heart rate strap &

receiver, character display, serial RTC, and Li Ion battery

LabView used as a GUI for raw sensor data

Digital Signal Processing Lab: Using MATLAB

Simulated band-pass filter bandwidths and transition bandwidths in MATLAB. Compared rectangular, triangular,

Hanning, and Chebyshev FIR filters, as well as the Remez algorithm and Yule-Walker IIR

Robotics Lab: Robot Arm Motor Driver

Designed a PCB using CadSoft Eagle for five T.I. H-bridges to drive an older HeathKit robot arm with optical transition

feedback and limit switches and performed reverse engineering to develop an appropriate motor driver circuit with a

TTL interface to any microcontroller

Power Electronics Lab: Multilevel Single Phase Inverter

Simulated in Cadence PSPICE and built a DC to stepped-sinewave AC converter using H-bridges; reported

measurements and comparisons to true sinusoidal power

Skills

3DS MAX, AutoCAD, Cisco CCNA certification materials, Illustrator, Photoshop

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