Experience
Cadillac Jack **/**** - */****
Product Compliance Manager. Review product design for compliance to technical requirements. Develop and conduct testing to global standards including safety, emissions, ESD. Represent all hardware and software products to independent test laboratories for testing and certification for various jurisdictions in the USA, Mexico and Canada. Troubleshoot various LED displays, CPU controllers, POS terminals, power supplies, CPU boards, I/O boards, LCDs, various communications interfaces and printers.
International Game and Technology (IGT) 9/2001 - 9/2006
Product Compliance Manager. Work with engineers to design hardware and software tests plans. Review product design for compliance to technical requirements. Develop and conduct testing to global standards including safety, emissions, ESD. Write numerous product manuals. Develop and maintain all corporate product compliance processes. Represent all hardware and software products in detail to independent test laboratories for testing and certification for various jurisdictions in the USA, Mexico, Canada, Argentina and various European and Asian countries. Troubleshoot and repair various LED displays, CPU controllers, POS terminals, power supplies, CPU boards, I/O boards, CRTs, LCDs, various communications interfaces and printers.
Anchor Games 11/1998 - 9/2001
Product Compliance Manager. Work with engineers to design hardware and software tests plans. Review product design for compliance to technical requirements. Develop and conduct testing to global standards including safety, EMC and ESD. Write numerous product manuals. Develop bug tracking. Develop classes for product releases. Work with engineers to develop bill of materials. Represent all hardware and software products in detail to independent test laboratories for testing and certification for various jurisdictions in the USA, Mexico and Canada. Troubleshoot and repair various LED displays, CPU controllers, POS terminals, power supplies, CPU boards, I/O boards, CRTs, LCDs, various communications interfaces and printers.
Mikohn Gaming 9/1987 - 11/1998
Product Development / Compliance. Design hardware test fixtures. Program firmware for test fixtures. Review product design for compliance to technical requirements. Develop and conduct testing to global standards including safety, EMC and ESD. Write numerous product manuals. Develop classes for product releases. Develop bill of materials. Develop and maintain all corporate product compliance processes. Represent all hardware and software products in detail to independent test laboratories for testing and certification for various jurisdictions in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK and Germany. Troubleshoot and repair various LED displays, CPU controllers, POS terminals, power supplies, CPU boards, I/O boards, CRTs, LCDs, various communications interfaces and printers.
Circus Circus / Mint / Horseshoe Casino 5/1982 - 9/1987
Journeyman slot mechanic: tested and repaired various electromechanical equipment installed in the casinos to discreet component level including video slot machines, electro-mechanical slot machines, various overhead displays, bill acceptors, POS terminals, coin counters, CPU boards, I/O boards, various communications interfaces, CRTs, printers, power supplies and currency machines. Ensured proper security controls on all currency.
IGT Casino Services 1/1980 – 6/1982
Field service technician: tested and repaired various electromechanical equipment installed in the casinos to discreet component level including video slot machines, electro-mechanical slot machines, various overhead displays, bill acceptors, POS terminals, coin counters, CPU boards, I/O boards, various communications interfaces, CRTs and printers. Ensured proper security controls on all currency.
United States Air Force 12/1975 – 12/1979
PMEL/Metrology: Test, repair and calibrate wide range of sophisticated equipment including power supplies, VOMs, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzer, RF generators, waveguides, radar test equipment and other sensitive equipment. Train junior members on test and repair procedures for all equipment. Maintenance of sensitive manuals.
Education
Self Education 12/2014
Microprocessor design and assembly language programming. Expert skills with various schematic, pcb and routing programs such as OrCAD, Protel, PADS PCB, PCAD, TANGO, Autoroute. Expert soldering techniques surface mount and thru holes. Expert level prototyping, wiring and manufacturing. Advance skills with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Outlook, Publisher), Adobe suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Acrobat), Corel Draw, ACDSee, Storyboard, YouTube, various format encoding and transfer tools and various web resources and tools.
College of Southern Nevada 6/2003
Electronics Technology, Computer Technology, HTML programming
UNLV 12/1983
Technical Writing and other electives
USAF 11/1998 - 9/2001
Metrology, Electronics Technology, NASA Soldering, Advance troubleshooting, High voltage, multiphase, RF, Technical Order maintenance