Sr. Electronics/Electrical Designer, Electronics Manufactuirng Expert

Jim Mizzell

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SUMMARY

Senior Electrical Design professional with extensive experience in multiple work environments. Accomplished in designing products which require long life and high reliability, as normal features, using analog, digital, micro-controller and other components. Extensive design experience including: audio, video, RF, inverters, AC and DC power, analog, digital, micro-controller and other designs. Skilled in management, project proposals, project leadership, handling projects from concept through design, safety agency approval, and into production. Broad Test and test equipment experience. Strong attention to detail to produce designs that are manufacturable. Beginning “C” skills. Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. Comfortable working in an integrated environment with other engineers, support staff, interdepartmental and international team members. Fluent with use of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Project Manager, Vizio.

The above activities were major tasks in some projects and minor components of others. Thus, all activities above are not mentioned in the job descriptions below, for sake of brevity, but all have been used during my career; details for all are available.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SELF EMPLOYED Consultant to many technical fields 8/2013 - Present

Work on projects for professional photography studios that include upgrades from film to digital technology, methodology and equipment; work with technical issues, new equipment selection, selection and editing of pictures for proper color balance, exposure, special effects, etc. Designed and delivered large DJ music system; work with DJs regarding speaker selection, enclosure tuning, feedback control and other technical and operational issues of audio systems.

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (SE), (Formerly Square D) LaVergne, TN 6/2006 – 8/2013

An international company that designs and manufactures embedded micro-controller based power equipment, focused on highly precision and reliable 8- through 32-bit power meters at this location.

Senior Staff Electrical / Electronics Engineer 2011 – 2013

Led multidiscipline groups, collaborated across teams and countries, with focus on technical solutions for development, safety, quality, reliability, manufacturability, circuit design, usefulness and cost. Provided leadership, mentoring and ideation. Performed design and design leadership, project leadership, collaborated with other engineers. Used Orcad and Allegro capture and simulation.

Circuit Design

oDesigned circuits, drew schematics, simulated circuits- microcontroller, FPGA, address, data and clock signals, many and various analog circuits, filters, power supplies and other circuits, common bus protocols- SPI, I2C, RS232, 485, Ethernet

oUsed team to build prototypes, supervised PCB layout, test to specification

Led Engineering for UL61010 3rd edition and EMC compliance in multisite, multidiscipline team

oLed multidiscipline team to identify and rectify issues as required

oRedesigned transformer to satisfy spacings issue

oResolved EMC issue for simultaneous application of compliance

Assumed responsibility for, and successfully completed, previously failed design attempts to correct months long, embedded micro-controller related manufacturing failure. Solution was addition of bidirectional gate, larger FPGA and code

Designed, planned and executed large training program for tech support engineers

Led team and quickly resolved lengthy line-down issue for two overseas manufacturing partners

oFormed international team consisting of members from SE manufacturing, PWBA manufacturer, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and component manufacturer

oDetermined problem was related to IC parameters and certain resistor value

oRan design of experiments to obtain best resistor value and IC parameters limits

Developed circuit improvements to include: method of adding color display to monochrome meter, anti-aliasing active filter for improved noise performance, improved watch dog circuit, and others

Generated the most metering circuit and display patent ideas in department, including low noise power supply, “quiet” method of supplying power around PCB

Staff Electrical / Electronics Engineer 2006 – 2011

Led RoHS product conversion project, coordinating engineers, suppliers and requirements, across multiple sites and countries to meet RoHS deadline and no loss of sales

Led product upgrades, cost reductions, saving $80,000 first year by developing a database that captured the project issue, solution, cost, savings, and tracking of cut-in process, ECNs etc.

Developed, implemented long life, high reliability 128 x 128 LCD, for use in multiple SE products, requiring travel to and working with several Asian countries to resolve design differences, supplier and quality issues

oWorked with Chinese manufacturer to choose micro-controller/driver, develop the display, place go/no-go steps in the process and audit manufacturing compliance

oChose backlight LEDs for intensity, color and voltage bins uniformity

oWorked with test lab to verify unit had fifteen year expected life

Attended manufacturing and field quality meetings, redesigned circuits, products due to quality, component EOL, addressed operational issues, thus preventing line-down situations, performed safety agency upgrades and EMC improvements to broaden fit in applicable product markets

Reviewed proposed meter and power supply circuit designs, and provided specific comments and alternative designs where/when needed

Reverse engineered competitors’ products to understand their technology and cost structure

Introduced design strategy to improve time to market and reduce product development cost by circuit and code reuse and higher dependence on component manufacturer’s engineers

Completed study of solar voltaic power generation and proposed many improvements from DC combiners through inverter and transformer to grid

MID-SOUTH PRODUCTS ENGINEERING (MSPE), Gadsden, AL 7/2003 – 3/2006

MSPE designed and manufactured products for customers, including Electrolux Home Products, Frigidaire, Marconi, Motorola, Cooper Tool, Delphi, Bose, Maytag, Viking and others.

Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Designed electrical circuits, products, implemented cost reductions, reviewed and implemented design and process improvements for manufacturability; led product idea generation team.

Designed two embedded micro-controller based electronic ice makers for DC and AC harvest motors, water addition, heater, ice harvest temperature

Designed conventional and switch mode power supplies, refrigerator/freezer interior LED lighting, ultrasonic water level detector and other circuits for appliance industry,

Designed and tested surge and other circuits and products for UL compliance

Visited manufacturing sites to setup/improve manufacturing processes; met with customers to understand issues, and talk with end users directly; visited major customer engineering facility monthly to brainstorm engineering/manufacturing improvements

Formed and facilitated brainstorming team consisting of engineers and senior management identifying potential products, markets, feasibility, and profitability

NIDEK MEDICAL PRODUCTS, Birmingham, AL 10/2002 – 2/2003

Nidek is fourth largest supplier for oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines, and other respiratory products.

Senior Development Engineer

Designed electrical, electronic circuits; built, tested prototype products for Japanese customer.

SOLA / HEVI-DUTY, EGS ELECTRICAL GROUP, Rainsville, AL 4/1990 – 2/2002

World’s largest supplier of Ferro-resonant (Ferro) AC and DC power supplies; manufactured uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), linear and switch mode power supplies (SMPS), specialized high voltage DC power supplies for Xenon lamp based copiers.

Senior Design Engineer 2000 - 2002

Large range of responsibilities and duties, including design of products, customer service support, test, manufacturing, Novell network administrator

Managed Support Engineering, Test, Repair and Lab – 35 engineers, junior engineers and technicians in department- full responsibility of Manufacturing Engineering department

Designed circuits, products, sheet metal, prototypes and demos; reverse engineered products

Designed Ferro-resonant and standard transformers for off-shelf and custom applications

Redesigned mature AC and DC Ferro and electronic power supplies for quality and safety

Led redesign of all AC and DC Ferro upgrade projects; redesigned, obtained UL compliance and acceptance for $6M product family to include electrical, mechanical and thermal design and submission to UL, resulting in improved safety, quality, and more profitable products

Reverse engineered, designed, and implemented manufacturing of competitor’s transformers

Developed spreadsheet to quickly design transformer turns per layer, build, tooling, etc.

Manufacturing Engineer Administrator 1995 – 2000

Led design of database that reflected defective components used in all products

Led UPS/power supply plant in manufacturing defect and quality resolution by implementing STOP, CONTAIN, IDENTIFY, RESOLVE, RELEASE plan

Established, facilitated Cost Reduction team – saved $2.5M first year

Develop, Interpret and train employees regarding work instructions and processes

Reduced product setup time from 1 hour to zero

Test Engineer Manager 1990 – 1995

Improved test strategy by coordinating all testing to catch defects at earliest point

Tightened component test specifications at station prior to component placement

Moved more testing and calibration to In-Circuit test station

Designed and built improved test fixtures

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Attended electronics, management, business and sales classes, seminars and workshops, including those provided by employers, local schools and colleges and companies in the trade, such as Microchip, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Cypress, component distributors and others, plus extensive use of websites and trade magazines to stay current in knowledge, skills and technology.

EDUCATION

Attended Florida Keys Jr. College, FSU Extension Center, Key West, FL, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

U. S. Navy Electronics “A” schools; numerous electronics classes, seminars, webinars and workshops

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