Karpagam Tirumazhisai Manivannan E-mail: acfrqi@r.postjobfree.com

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Pittsburgh, PA 15241

OBJECTIVE

Electronic Quality Engineer, 2 years experience with Whirlpool Corp., seeking a challenging career in Manufacturing Industry..

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, June 2012 GPA: 3.8/4.0 University of

Toledo, Ohio

Diploma in Embedded System and Design, CDAC, India July 2010

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Anna University, India May 2009 GPA: 3.8/4.0

K EY STRENGTHS

1. A year of diversified manufacturing experience in high and low volume production with a solid background in

manufacturing and Quality Systems.

2. Demonstrated success in introduction of new products into production, and in developing, implementing, and managing

new processes to improve quality and productivity.

3. Skilled in troubleshooting, problem solving, decision making, able to grasp complex systems and identify

opportunities for improvement and resolution of critical issues.

4. Working knowledge of IPC-610 standards for electronic manufacturing & rework of defects.

5. Well versed in designing analog and digital circuits, testing electrical apparatuses, and electronic components of

high voltage power systems.

6. Experienced with a wide variety of lab instrumentation including high speed electrical oscilloscopes, logic analyzers,

and signal generators for testing and debugging embedded system software.

7. Well versed in developing embedded code for ARM 926/968 using embedded C and assembly language.

8. Well versed in computer system organization and architecture: processors, memory hierarchies, CPU design,

pipeline, and I/O.

TECHN ICAL SKIL LS

1. Manufacturing:

Electronic Control Robust Design Process (ECRD)

C2C Project Delivery Excellence

Project Management and Cost Leadership

Global Supply Chain Strategies

Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

TQM, TPM, Continuous improvement process

2. Programming Languages: C, C++, Assembly, LabView

3. Microprocessors/controllers: 8085, 8086, 8051, ARM

4. Operating System/Target platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX

5. Simulation Languages: CAD/CAM, MATLAB & PSPICE

WORK EXPERIENCE

Electronics and Controls Quality Engineer October 2012-present

Whirlpool Corporation, Findlay OH

• Assure quality of design for assembly, manufacturing, service and test throughout the design process.

• Expertise in Root Cause Analysis of internal production line failures and field failures.

• Coordinate with project specific software team and project specific hardware team for analysis.

• Interacted with different suppliers for failure analysis report for components.

• Supported Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for new launch projects and maintain software validation process.

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• Contribute inputs from quality audit to design engineers during product enhancement on design improvements to minimize

manufacturing time, cost and increase yield.

• Extend assistance to design engineers in preparing engineering documentation necessary for the transition and development of

production.

• Identify potential manufacturing issues during initial design reviews (DFM reviews).

Microsoft Amalga Enterprise Platform Application Analyst June 2011-August 2011

Department of Information Technology (University Computer Center), University of Toledo

• Worked with the lead end-users and a Microsoft Application Analyst to design solutions for the effective application of

Amalga UIS (Unified Intelligence System).

• Built and configured end-to-end Amalga UIS solution including user views, reports, input screens and bar-coded forms.

• Tested and validated with end-users.

Research Assistant January 2011-June 2012

Department of Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, University of Toledo

• Developed and implemented a Gray level Co-occurrence matrix based Support Vector Machines for Particulate Matter

Characterization by enhancing image analyzing techniques.

Web Master January 2011-December 2011

Department of Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, University of Toledo

1. Designed and developed web pages using scripting languages such as CSS, XHTML, Javascript, and Python.

2. Maintained databases using SQL and Oracle.

UNIX System Programmer August 2010-December 2010

Department of Information Technology (University Computer Center), University of Toledo

1. Developed scripts to export and import data from remote Oracle server and maintain log files.

2. Compiled scripts and implement them for banner upgrade using SUNGARD.

TECHN ICAL PUBL ICATIONS

K. Manivannan, P. Aggarwal, V. Devabhaktuni, A. Kumar, D. Nims and P. Bhattacharya, Particulate matter

characterization by gray level co-occurrence matrix based support vector machines, J. Hazard. Mater. 223-224

(2012) 94-103.

K. Manivannan, V. Devabhaktuni, A. Kumar, P. Aggarwal, and P. Bhattacharya, Application of Support Vector

Machines to Analyze Ambient Particulate Matter, Advances in Engg. Research, vol. 6, Nova Science Publishers,

Inc., 2012.

DIPLOMA CURRICULUM I N EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Government of India

• Real-time operating system and applications of embedded network protocols, Internetworking protocols and real-time

scheduling.

• Programming projects on POSIX thread programming with ARM processors.

• Hands on experience in configuring, programming and compiling real-time Linux systems.

• Knowledge about ARM architecture, ARM/THUMB programming model, Assembly and C programming (GNU tools),

configuring and building GNU cross-tool chain.

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