Electrical Engineer Technician

PHONE 316-***-**** • E-MAIL **************@*****.***

MARK ESSLINGER, BSEE

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished Electrical Engineer with almost 20 years’ experience in manufacturing industries with skills including

but not limited to the following: training, troubleshooting, documentation, Root-Cause-Analysis, assessment, quotation,

functional testing, and vision. My focus in my professional career as an engineer has been to provide legible, concise

documents, support for departments as needed, and to instruct people: electronic technicians how and what to look for within a circuit, soldering technicians how to monitor their machines, sales people how to use the lookup tables, and

customers how to operate what they have purchased. Ability to easily transition between departments.

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

Documentation

~20 years in documentation beginning with learning how secured documentation is created, recorded, and

controlled and ending with creating and controlling the documentation.

Training documentation: in order to begin technician’s career on all the same information.

Documents to train customers how to use their equipment for the exact use for which it was purchased.

Very clean documents full of pictures and diagrams in which to clearly get the information across.

Use of indices to provide access for the workers to get to the correct document quickly.

Proficient in Windows 10.

Prototyping

Prototyping of new product: units and systems

Prototyping all test equipment for parts and subassemblies

Charging of Ni-MH batteries

Testing of dot matrix: digits and panels

Training

Training materials created, such as documentation, training fixtures, etc.

At one time, trained almost all new Electronic Technicians, roughly 1 every three months.

Trained salesmen on features of the product.

Write documentation to assist customers in the use of the product and/or the use of the product.

Root-Cause-Analysis

Work with Production to gather information for each incident.

Use troubleshooting to locate the problem; verify on several units.

Find the fix for the issue; verify on several units.

Document the final fix for the problem, and alert the individuals affected.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2010 – October 2016

BRG Precision Products

Electrical Engineer

Architecture

Extremely proficient in EagleCAD by CADSoft; used to layout 2D versions of all parts, placed in a library, and used to create 2D layouts of product insides. This information is used by the Machining Department to cut

the unit’s plates.

Many of the production units would be laid out and any questions of possible conflicts inside or outside would be investigated.

After said units were laid out, there would be meticulously documented so that every technician can build.

Documentation

Documents of various types:

Board Layout for Soldering Department with Microsoft PowerPoint

1-2 per week

Bill of Materials for Soldering Department with Microsoft Excel

1-2 per week

Production Build document for Production with Microsoft PowerPoint

5-10 per week

New Clock layout for Machining Department with EagleCAD

2-5 per week

Technical Bulletins for Production with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

1-2 per week

Each and every document included many photos and diagrams to provide easy-to-follow instructions for

technicians at any proficiency level.

Extremely proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint; used to provide the Soldering Department documents that give direction in board construction. Production Department also receives documents about unit construction, unit repair, etc.

Extremely proficient in Microsoft Excel; used to extract and display of each board’s bill of materials, a master

inventory list, etc.

Extremely proficient in Microsoft Word; used to create indexes in html format, one for the Soldering Dept.

and one for Production Dept.

Prototyping

Using breadboards to create and test circuits such as battery charging circuits.

Taking a prototype blank from Chief Engineer, hand-building, and testing every possible function and

combination of features.

Experimenting with different layouts, various parts, all methods of manufacturing in order to provide the best manufacturing method or product that we can.

Root-Cause-Analysis

Given an issue with a product, an investigation would begin.

After an intense physical examination, measurements, tests, etc. and the cause has been identified, a repair is

applied.

Documentation would then inform everyone how to deal with the issue, if necessary.

If something needs to be addressed, i.e. issue with a board layout, part needs to be swapped, etc., then the

entire engineering team is alerted.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Other Responsibilities

Providing daily support for Soldering Dept. from documentation to programming and/or repairing machines.

Also providing daily support for Production: assisting technicians with their troubleshooting skills, answering

build questions, and questions concerning the processor’s modes.

For the Sales Dept., answering questions concerning product functionality and statistics is a weekly occurrence.

May 2000 – October 2010

BRG Precision Products

Lead Electronic Technician

Lead technician over the Small Clocks Department immediately over up to 3 technicians and 2 assemblers. In charge of everyone’s training, workload and quality.

Composed all training materials and standardization documentation.

Worked with the Timezone Clock lead in standardizing all aspects of the build process.

We build digital clocks, timers, and counters.

Clocks could have labels, alarm devices, signal lights, multiple zones, and be differing colors and/or sizes.

They might attach to the Internet, Global Positioning System’s satellites, etc.

They could attach to each other using serial wire (RS-422) or wirelessly (2.4 GHz, UHF, or 900MHz).

These clocks might have many sizes (0.5”, 1.8”, …, 24”) and colors (red, yellow, blue, green, white).

And lastly, they could be numeric, or bar segment, and they might be alphanumeric, or dot matrix, displays.

This can all mix and match, making the number possibilities seem endless, truly customizable.

Worked with the Soldering Department to address any problems that arose.

April 1997 – May 2000

Electromech Technologies

Electronic Overhaul Technician

As entire Electronic Department, I took the backlog from over $200,000 to $18,000 in about a year.

The procedure was as follows: review part, write a quote to be sent to customer, repair part, test part, send it to the Functional Test department, close it up, and send to Shipping department.

Parts varied from motor speed controllers, fuel level sensors, lubricant level sensors, system filters, autopilot

controllers, and various other aviation-type devices. Neat ones went on things like tanks and warships!

Most of my electronic troubleshooting skills were gained and honed here. I learned to follow schematic drawings

up to 8 layers deep.

Was trained to use the environmental test chambers as well as the “shake table” in the repair and functional test

venues.

Trained as a Functional Test technician for the electronic components. Was trusted with and given an FT stamp. I worked at this capacity when the need arose during staffing crises.

Worked with the Electrical Engineer and his department when they were short an engineering technician and when they were trying to update systems deemed obsolete by time and lack of analog parts. Parts may go obsolete, but flying does not go obsolete.

EDUCATION

Dates

School

Degree Earned

August 2000 – May 2002

Cowley County Community College

Mulvane, Kansas

Associate in

Pre-Engineering

August 2002 – May 2008

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas

Bachelor of Science in

Electrical Engineering

August 2002 – May 2008

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas

Master of Science in

Electrical Engineering

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