Peter J. O'Shea
Wakefield, MA **880
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Professional Profile
Eighteen years with a leader in the semiconductor industry and at NASA with a major contractor. Responsibilities included product development, production test development, failure analysis and customer support. End products ranged from integrated circuits for auto and consumer products to spacecraft components. Created and edited old-house restoration website with international readership. Bachelors of Electrical Engineering. Professional Experience
Self-employed home health care (2006-2015)
Cared for ill family member.
Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA (1993-2006)
Supervising Product Engineer, Digital Audio Group (2004-2006) Head of Product Engineering, supervised four engineers. Pioneered test strategy, hardware and software for a new family of Class D audio amplifier products. Senior Product Engineer, Digital Audio Group (1998-2004) Developed test solutions, characterized and released new audio products to production. Released five products in three years with initial revenues totaling $5M. Senior Product Engineer, Disk Drive Group (1995-1998) Working in a small group of product engineers, responsible for debugging functional blocks and developing test hardware and software for computer hard drive read channel IC's.
Failure Analysis Engineer (1993-1995)
Responsible for determining failure causes on Analog Devices components to support customers and improve product reliability.
Paramax Systems Corporation (formerly Unisys) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Failure Analysis Engineer (1986-1993)
Responsible for determining failure causes on electronic components. Goal: improve reliability of various NASA space flight projects such as the Cosmic Background Explorer
(COBE), Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Managing Editor and Contributor, O ld House Chronicle (1998-2002) Developed, managed and wrote for a non-profit house-restoration website with a bimonthly schedule. Managed staff of ten, developed html and web server programming, built readership from zero to thousands of regular readers. Negotiated with commercial website for sale of original content. Developed cd-rom version of website. Professional Achievements
- Published paper on using open-source versioning software (CVS) for test program development, 2004.
- Gave seminar on test-time reduction techniques to Analog Devices product engineers, 2002.
- Analog Devices Spot Award for failure analysis work on disk drive products supporting key customer accounts, 1995.
- Received three NASA Achievement and Goddard Achievement Awards for work in support of various earth-orbiting satellite projects, 1991-1992.
- Catholic University senior design project received Washington Society of Engineers Young Engineers Award, 2nd prize, 1988.
- Inducted into Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, 1987. Education
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering, 1988. 3.3 GPA in major, 3.1 overall, Dean's List, Tau Beta Pi. Student member, IEEE.
Senior Design Project: "Four-Axis Computer Control for the Scanning ElectronMicroscope Stage"
Completed ServiceNow System Adminstration course, April 2015. Personal Interests
White Mountains hiking, cycling, hockey. Former bike racer. As a teenager, one of the youngest in the country to obtain top category of licensing in amateur radio. June 2015