William Ehlers

**** ******** ****, *********, ** 95363

H: 408-***-**** C: 408-***-**** acy4tm@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wm-andrew-ehlers-5919a986

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have worked as a technology professional as a technician, lab manager, design engineer, and

most recently test engineer while working on a variety of products:

Head-Up displays

Communication and defense satellites

Laser targeting systems

State of the art medical equipment

Solid state lighting

Embedded systems for aerospace, defense and automated test systems

Consumer electronics

This broad experience has given me the ability to quickly adapt to changing processes and environments.

SKILLS

33 years technology development, complete product lifecycle

Experience: Managing:

R & D Labs

Test Labs

Lab personnel.

Facilitate the transfer of designs from engineering to manufacturing

MFG test plan development and implementation

Specify and design for MFG and production

Design verification testing strategies

Test apparatus design

Automated test systems for manufacturing

Experience using National Instruments Lab View

Experience using PLM software and system

Software experience: embedded C (Microchip and Atmel)

System-level electronic design and integration

VHDL Experience using Altera, Xilinx, and Lattice semiconductor

PCB design and layout experience (Altium, Mentor Graphics, Cadence tools)

Personal factors: High energy achiever with strong track record of timely delivery of

product

WORK HISTORY

LUNERA LIGHTING

Manufacturing Test Engineer Santa Clara Ca February 2014 - January 2017

Performed layout of circuit designs for the creation of all Lunera Generation 3 CFL and Generation 2 HID

replacement LED Lamps.

Created a field service task to give customer base an easy online contact point for questions and installation

issues.

Traveled throughout the continental U.S. to customers sites solving problems and creating a smoother path

to LED replacement lamps by training customer base on the new technology.

Designed and implemented an automated ballast regression tester for Lunera lamp products utilizing

Microchip PIC firmware, Labview software, and custom switch matrix to control and monitor the

performance and compatibility of Lunera Lamps and the electronic ballast used by the marketplace.

Collaborated with operations on design and manufacturing issues and resolved problems with form, fit,

and procurement changes.

Mentored other engineering staff on proper test setup.

Developed an industry standard component library using Altium Designer allowing Lunera's design

development to have a base to work from for present and future products.

RYVEAR DESIGN

Consultant Morgan Hill, Ca May 2012 – February 2014

Design of microcontroller circuits for control of LED lighting utilizing Cypress PSOC3 system on chip devices

and Microchip PIC microcontrollers.

SORAA

Test Engineer Fremont, Ca August 2010 - May 2012

Created flex circuit design for MR-16 LED replacement lamp. This design allowed Soraa to create their first

lamp product.

Designed and Setup of the engineering and product testing lab for Soraa lamp products.

Created several Labview automated test software applications for the control and acquisition of design

parameters on Soraa products.

EXCLARA

IC Verification Engineer Santa Clara March 2008 - May 2010

Designed and implemented Labview applications for the control and acquisition of test parameters for the

Exclara LED Control IC.

Designed and implemented test fixtures, Microchip firmware, and Labview software for the control and

data acquisition of Exclara split winding power supplies.

Train manufacturing personnel in Chinese factory

XICOM TECHNOLOGY

Digital Test Engineer Santa Clara, Ca April 2006 - March 2008

Mentored engineering staff on the use and implementation of programmable logic.

Created test strategies for the testing on the manufacture of Traveling Wave Tube amplifiers.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP

Digital Design Engineer San Jose, Ca September 2000 - April 2006

Design of digital PWB's used for aircraft radar warning systems. These designs were utilized in military

aircraft for foreign and domestic air forces.

Implemented a digital design for the Fire-Finder incoming weaponry detection system. Design updated existing

system removing obsolescence and updated with new programmable logic technology.

EDUCATION

Associate of Science Electronic Engineering Technology

East Los Angeles College

Awarded 1984

Monterey Park, Ca 1984

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