Engineer Engineering

SASWATI DAS

Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: ***********@*****.*** Phone: 289-***-****

*** ******** ******, ********, *** 1J1, ON, Canada

Electrical Engineer

QUALIFICATIONS

4 years electrical/hardware design/product development experience.

Creative problem solver with high degree of design aptitude, comfortable working independently and with a team.

Effective leadership and management skills, comfortable working in a fast paced and changing environment.

Proven analytical skills with oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, highly client oriented.

Strong attention to detail and proficient in technical writing and graphical presentation.

Experienced in hardware and software simulation, CAD, verification and validation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ZukenDS-2, EAGLE, AutoCAD: Proficient with multi-layered PCB design and layout and BOM generation.

Cadence: Conversant with design, analysis and simulation of analog, digital circuit, analog-mixed-signal.

Altium Designer: Certified Altium Designer for Multi-layer PCB layout at McGill University.

Microsoft Visio: Proficient and used to generate audio electronic circuit design blocks.

MATLAB/Simulink, LabVIEW: Understanding of solving multi-variable problems for data analysis and testing.

C, VHDL, PLC: Experienced with programming concepts and their application developed through projects.

MS Office: Extensive knowledge and experience with Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2003-2013.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Structured Silicon Inc. Waterloo, ON

PCB Design and Layout Engineer (R&D) (Part-time) OCTOBER 2016 - PRESENT

PCB design and layout, testing the manufactured board on various lab equipment to check the board performance.

Studio1Labs Toronto, ON

Hardware Engineer (Part-time Volunteer) JAN-MARCH, 2016

Working with the development of a baby play mat (de caf mat) that encourages infants to learn and communicate faster.

Hands-on work on speaker amplifier and circuit to enhance the audio output of the baby mat.

BlackBerry Limited. Waterloo, ON

Touch Panel Developer/Optoelectronics Intern (R&D) JUNE – DEC 2014

Hardware and software testing, debugging and verification using various equipment (oscilloscope, function generator, optical scanner) in resolving test failures in field return devices, investigating their root cause analysis.

Worked on improving the uniformity and aging of OLED using LumiCam and Radiant Zeemax Imaging Colorimeter.

Work effectively with different senior engineers and other cross functional engineering teams to prepare test setup and experience performing product qualification testing for failure mode analysis and collect the post process data.

Assisted team members in PCB- level design and development of touch solutions by analysis and testing of products.

Conducted research for different kinds of biometric sensors for implementation in future handheld devices.

BlackBerry Limited. Waterloo, ON

Audio Electronics Engineer Intern (R&D) SEPT 2013 – JUNE2014

Researched and assisted designing multiple circuit blocks, extensive PCB schematic capture and layout experience with the team for project SoundWire using I2C protocol and participated in its hardware bring up product development.

Designed and developed prototype speaker protection’ test PCB circuit and conducted thermal chamber testing to establish device limits with demonstrated skills in debugging and verifying analog circuitry in the component level using bench equipment like audio precision and oscilloscope and hands-on skills for electronic bread-boarding.

Brain stormed with engineering teams, documented project details and supported technical design reviews and updates.

Reading and interpreting electrical schematics and hands-on design experience in creating and assembling board-level designs, circuits with component specification and electronic bill of materials (BOM) using Zuken DS-2 and Microsoft Visio to achieve and further optimize the acoustical properties and performance of the handheld devices.

Designed and developed a prototype and optimized microphone positioning through iterative testing on a Head and Torso Simulator (HATS) in the anechoic chamber, reviewed vendor supplied datasheet, interpreted and extracted data and self-managed the project deliverables.

EDUCATION

McMaster University, University of Waterloo – OVGS Hamilton, ON

Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA 3.6/4 Graduated, JUNE 2015

Designed and verified analog circuits in RF using Cadence in the analog-mixed-signal (AMS) environment.

Developed optical waveguides and fibers with MEEP and produced associated hardware.

Graduate Projects

Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) MAY 2013

Successfully designed Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO), D-Flip Flop (DFF), Charge Pump, LNA in SpectreRF

Coded Frequency Divider in Verilog-A, simulated and analysed the PPL circuit (in RF) in AMS Cadence

Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) MAY 2013

Transistor level design of component blocks of the ADC in SpectreRF

Verilog-A design of various components of the ADC

Cognitive Dynamic Systems MAY 2013

Research on Cognitive Radio – a transceiver for the best wireless channels in its vicinity.

Detection of a portion of the RF spectrum not currently in use, so it may be used for transmission without interference.

Energy Efficient Topology Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) MAY 2013

Elaborated study on Topology Management via Power Control, Energy Enhancement using Hybrid Topology Management and Energy Efficient Balanced Clustering Algorithm.

Researched about the associated failure identification and recovery mechanisms of the schemes.

North Eastern Hill University Shillong, India

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering, GPA 3.12/4 Graduated, SEPTEMBER 2011

Final Year Design Project

Intelligent Gas Sensing Using Smart Gas Sensors 2010 – 2011

Designed and constructed hardware for a wireless gas sensing system for continuous monitoring of concentrations with leakage notifications (depending on flexible threshold).

Implemented intelligent protocols for sensor nodes in C using MPLAB IDE and CC Studio to compile.

Created the final presentation for the group and performed live demonstration at the NEHU symposium.

INTERESTS/VOLUNTEERING

Volunteered in WE Day (Free the Children) handling student registration and seating plan arrangements.(OCT 2013)

Cultural Committee student head member for the Annual Engineering festival. (SEPT 2010)

Training at All India Radio (AIR) and Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) for Networks and Communication Systems. (2008, 2009)

Participated in collaborated effort in organizing event on the National Program on Micro and Smart Systems.

Awarded First position in Dance Competition University Level – NEHU, India (2011)

Received Gold Medal in Badminton Doubles Tournament University Level – NEHU, India (2010)

Awarded Gold Medal in Drawing Competition National Level – India (2005)

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