Engineer Engineering

WITOLD VITEK SOSNOWSKI

Cell: 706-***-****

Home: 334-***-****

E-mail: *****.*********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Dynamic leader with a strong blend of technical, people, project management, and leadership skills. Accomplished Sr. Electrical Engineer with experience in product development, systems engineering, test and manufacturing. Design experience with computer-based automatic control and data acquisition systems, camera/machine vision and automatic test systems. Strong working knowledge of PCBA manufacturing, microcontroller and motor control systems, power conversion technology and automotive electronics.

Analytical, Creative, Results-Oriented, Problem Solving individual with versatility to integrate new skills into the current skill set.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Test Engineering Leadership

Test Systems Development

Circuit Analysis

R&D Test & Instrumentation

SMT

PWBA Failure Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

IPC Certified Specialist

Textron Green Belt / Six Sigma

WORK EXPERIENCE:

DONGHEE Alabama, LLC Jan 2016 – June 2016

Auburn, AL

Production Technology Assistant Manager

•Supports Company manufacturing process, the equipment, and PT maintenance personnel.

•Analyzes product failures to determine the root cause. Investigates manufacturing equipment involved, its documentation, required spare parts inventory, and the maintenance schedule.

•Makes recommendations for technical process improvements, including additional hardware installation and software changes.

•Primarily worked on bottlenecks in assembly-Reduced Helium Tester operation cycle by 3 sec.

•Analyzed Plant wide scrap/rework-provided accurate inventory methods and flow back in current process. WIP inventory in Scrap/Rework improved to > 30%.

NEPTUNE Technology Group Inc. Jan 2015 – Feb 2015

Tallassee, AL

Evaluative Consultant

•Reviewed company ECM manufacturing process and equipment to evaluate their Quality factors effecting PCBAs reliability and company finished products life in the field.

•Analyzed product failure data to determine different factors, their nature and correlations.

•Analyzed PCBA schematics and design information on the component level, evaluating robustness of used components and looking for any stress related vulnerabilities.

•Made recommendations for improvements, along with implementation strategies.

VT MILTOPE CORPORATION April 2009 – Oct 2014

Hope Hull, AL

Electrical Test Engineer

•Served as a Test Engineering Department leader of test technicians, charged with supporting their day to day testing and troubleshooting activities.

•Conducted meetings reviewing daily test and troubleshooting results, resolving problems, technical issues and directed disposition of PCB assemblies at MRB sessions.

•Personally reported weekly the summary of manufacturing test results, process, and quality data to company top management. Participated in quality oriented meetings with customers.

•Visited ECMs to review their SMT process, process controls and test/inspection equipment.

Documented and tracked failing assemblies using company non-conformance data base system.

•Developed and applied highly effective PCBA failure analysis methods and generated corrective actions addressing hardware, software, system build and testing abnormalities. Worked closely with PCBA manufacturing engineering, quality and program management, measuring effectiveness of requested improvements. Increased rugged computers reliability, production yield from 65% to 98% and company profits.

•Provided leadership, engineering support and expertise in electronic technology for technicians, quality, manufacturing and management personnel.

ELECTROLUX MAJOR APPLIANCES- COLD TECHNOLOGY CENTER Oct 2006 –Oct 2008

Anderson, SC

Senior Project Engineer

•Developed electronic controller (ECU) for the new high-end refrigerator platform. Participated on and provided leadership to a global team focused on revolutionary high-capacity ice-maker within a fresh-food environment.

•Ensured ice maker ECU compliance with regulatory agencies requirements and its integration with the user interface and the main system controller. Generated ECU HDW/SFTW specification.

•Led team in patent submission process.

E-Z-GO DIVISION OF TEXTRON CORPORATION, April 2004 –Sep 2006

Augusta, GA

R & D Electrical Test Engineer

•Designed and Implemented new E-Z-GO Electronics Lab – Six Sigma project.

•Managed Electronics Lab. Performed Electric Vehicle and Components testing and developed Design Verification Plans.

•Made design changes and implemented hardware and software corrective actions to vehicle AC & DC Electric Motors and Electronic Motor Controllers test systems (PC/PLC/Lab View based).

•Invented, designed, built and implemented five PWM Systems for Precision Energy Dumping - US Patent 200******** A1, saving E-Z-GO critical project from failure and $ 500,000 in yearly savings.

•Received "Above and Beyond" E-Z-GO President’s Award for stellar job performance.

•Completed Textron Green Belt training.

ENG. CONSULTANT – Jan 2003 –Feb 2004

Custom Stage LLC, Tijeras, NM and CDS Modules LLC, Scottsdale, AZ

Member of the small development engineering team fabricating two advanced prototypes of

specimen cell extraction equipment for medical research and biotechnology sector.

Performed thorough systems evaluation and defined required improvements for international marketing.

POLLAK AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS DIV. of STONERIDGE CORP. Aug 1988 –May 2002 El Paso, TX & Juarez, Mexico

Test Equipment Engineering Manager and Product Line Manager

•Managed line of advanced electronic instrument clusters and other Pollak/Stoneridge electronic products for heavy duty commercial trucks (2000 - 2001).

•Pioneered "Line Sequencing" (Attribute-based Release) project. Researched and developed project functions, IT interface, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), specified hardware and software and supervised project implementation.

•Managed all automatic functional testers’ designs and fabrication in 19” rack stack up form, controlled by PC with custom test software written in Basic and Pascal.

•Created and implemented advanced software concept for the LCM automatic testers, increasing ATE speed and throughput 400%. Saved $450,000 eliminating need for four additional functional testers.

•Developed and implemented quality improvement plan which reduced product failure rate from thousands PPM to hundreds PPM by introducing automatic machine vision test system.

•Introduced standardized modular hardware and software. Reduced ATE development time by 50% and ATE down time by 70%.

•Added automatic statistical and SPC data generation to each factory built ATE system.

•Designed and implemented budgetary Machine Vision / Camera Automated Systems. Researched, developed and implemented hardware and software. Produced Vision ATE with the state-of-the-art inspection capability.

•Presented Principles of Machine Vision Technology for Industrial Applications to Stoneridge Corporation. Received President's award for excellent job performance and professional contributions.

•Developed production test requirements, test procedures and test equipment cost estimates.

•Advanced TE Engineering Dept. elevating its engineering and technical abilities. Managed Test Equipment Maintenance Dept. and Troubleshooting & Repair Dept. supervisors.

•Served on Engineering Change Review Board, Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction Teams.

Participated in the SMT, Assembly and Test related problems investigations.

OTHER Previous work experience:

Project & Test Equipment Engineer at General Instrument – (Designed Custom ATE and keyboards)

Test Engineer at General Electric Co. – (Increased Power Supplies production yield from 60% to 97%).

OTHER

•PC: MS-DOS, Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, MS Outlook, MS Office, MS Project,

MS Visio, MS Power Point.

•Weibull Analysis, TRIZ-Problem Solving Applications, JIT, Minitab.

•Computer programming languages: Assembler, Basic, Pascal.

•Lab View I & II Training.

•Some Siemens (S7) hands-on experience and A-B PLC and HMI online course.

EDUCATION:

Technical University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland - MS and BS in Electrical Engineering

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas - Coursework in Computer Science

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