Darryl Nelson

Production/Test Engineer

Chandler, AZ 85224

acxqcw@r.postjobfree.com - 480-***-****

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Production/Test Engineer

Iridium Satellite, LLC - 2011 to 2016

• Specification and implementation of new test equipment, product fixtures, and database architecture for data mining.

• Oversee all aspects of contract manufacturing, production, test, and quality.

• Coordinate factory support with internal and external parties.

• Search and review new contract manufacturing opportunities and transition business between manufacturers. Director of Operations

Matrix Circuits LLC - New London, IA - 2008 to 2011

• Implement successful business plan and secure funding for new contract electronics manufacturing business.

• Project management, marketing, sales, vendor and customer relations, human resources management, printed circuit and product test design.

• Electrical, mechanical, and test engineering with emphasis on extremely lean manufacturing. Rockwell Collins Contract Test Equipment Engineer

Volt Technical - Cedar Rapids, IA - 2007 to 2008

• Design, development, and integration of test equipment hardware and/or software for HASS/ESS.

• Coordinate with project leads and architects to implement a given test solution according to Rockwell Collins Test Engineering Processes and Procedures.

• Test commonality hardware platform design, including schematic and printed circuit architecture and design, specification of firmware requirements, and software requirements for LXI compliance. Consultant

Bluetail Industries, Inc - Burlington, IA - 2006 to 2007 Contract Engineering and Consulting

• Component selection, library creation, and pcb layout for primary customer Compressor Controls Corp using Mentor Graphics PADS.

• Contract embedded control design and product test development for various customers. Use of CAD/CAE, PCB design and layout, design and programming of embedded control based systems.

• Documentation of technical, user, and service manuals.

• Specification of equipment and vendors for clients.

• Full product test development using Microsoft development tools, National Instruments LabVIEW. Full development including custom and off-the-shelf hardware and software, vendor specification services, systems documentation, etc..

Test Engineer

Celestica - Mount Pleasant, IA - 2000 to 2006

Design, maintenance, and software support of ATE (HP3070) test systems. Design of various test fixtures, test control systems, and software for testing and product tracking. Primary responsibility for Iridium Satellite test systems and software platform which includes portions written in HTBasic (formerly HP BASIC), and LabVIEW. Heavily involved in the product design process, including writing of test code design and programming of parametric tests for Iridium 2nd generation products.

• Collaborated with design team in Cambridge, England to bring next generation product to market.

• JTAG Technologies hardware and software to implement product programming and testing, including device programming and Boundary Scan.

• Relocated product to Malaysia, with several months working abroad designing new test platform for additional new Iridium L-Band data modules.

• Former member and active contributor to Celestica In-Circuit-Test Council. Software Design/Test Engineer

Motorola - Mount Pleasant, IA - 1994 to 2000

Mount Pleasant, IA

Software Design/Test Engineer

• Design, maintenance, and software support of rf product test systems.

• Design of various test fixtures, test control systems, custom vision systems for AOI, and software for testing and product tracking. This includes but is not limited to MS Visual Studio and NI LabVIEW software and TestStand.

• HP3070 In-Circuit Test development and production implementation.

• JTAG Boundary Scan development was emphasized, as well as integration of software with in-house software and database systems.

RF Product Analysis Engineer

Motorola - Mount Pleasant, IA - 1992 to 1994

• Supervise analysis and repair of UHF, VHF synthesized radio products using automated and manual communications test equipment.

• Test case creation for analysis of production debug and ALT testing.

• Test analysis, and inspection of LD8, HDII, and NAMPS cellular equipment at Motorola, Arlington Heights, Illinois facility.

SMT Technician

Motorola - Mount Pleasant, IA - 1991 to 1992

• Operation and maintenance of screen print solder paste equipment, surface mount chip placement machines, IR reflow oven.

• Testing of battery charger and radio option products. EDUCATION

Computer Science, Psychology

Iowa State University Extension - West Burlington, IA Associate in Automated manufacturing

Southeast Community College

LINKS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-nelson-4793788

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Training in and familiarity with a wide range of electronics equipment and programming languages.

• Skilled at working independent or management roles.

• Able to manage multiple deadlines and projects simultaneously Computer Skills

Windows NT Administration

Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/XP/7

Unix/Linux

Quickbooks Pro 2006

Rational Clearcase

Docushare/Subversion/Arena

SAP

MS-Office including VBA. Certification in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access. AutoCad, Intellicad, Pro/E

CadSoft Eagle, Mentor Graphics Pads2004/2005/2007/9-9.3 and EPD(DxDesigner) - Extensive experience porting and replicating designs between products

Microsoft .NET-VB2013, HPBasic, HTBasic

Proficient in Visual Studio and integration of multiple software languages FoxPro, Access, Dbase, Paradox, and MS-SQL/MySQL with emphasis on data mining LabView, TestStand, and add-on Toolkits

Java/ Javascript/VBSript, Perl, PHP

Various embedded control languages

C/C++, various other C based languages

Assembly Language

JTAG Technologies software integration with NI LabView. Well versed in Software Metrics, Statistical Process Control, and Lean Manufacturing. Former member Southeastern Community College Technology Advisory Committee

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