Design Engineer Electrical
Resume:
Professional Experience:
August **** – April **** Ocean Optics Inc. Winter Park, Florida
Industry: OEM, Optical Sensing, Spectrometry.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Analog and digital circuit and PCB design using Altium, and FPGA design in VHDL using Xilinx ISE.
Design of analog and digital circuits and associated circuit cards for spectrometers, including analog frontend cards for various detectors, and CCDs, and circuit cards for accessories interface and digital I/O.
VHDL code for Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA’s to incorporate new detectors and CCD’s.
October 2014 – December 2015 Medtronic Surgical Technologies Jacksonville, Florida
Industry: Medical.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Circuit and PCB design using Altium Designer and Cadence OrCad:
Design of rigid and flexible PCB’s, and associated circuits, for Nerve Integrity Monitors, Debriders, and Meniere’s instruments.
FPGA design for research subjects, and VHDL code review for a Radio Frequency generator.
September 2013 – October 2014 Synergetics USA Inc. St. Louis, Missouri
Industry: Medical.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Circuit and PCB design using Altium Designer, Xilinx ISE, and Microchip MPLAB:
Design of a Spartan3E PIC24 based PCB for a bipolar electrosurgical RF generator with applications of cautery and coagulation.
Design of VHDL code for Spartan3E FPGA.
Design of an analog circuit and associated PCB for pressure sensor evaluations.
March 2012 – February 2013 Jabil Design Engineering St. Petersburg, Florida
Industry: OEM, Medical, Military, Automotive.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Circuit design using Cadence OrCad:
Design of an i.MX257 based Graphical User Interface circuit, for a medical instrument used in arthroscopic surgery.
Upgrade design of a NXP-LPC2768 based digital circuit, with 3G telephony, global GPS, WLADN, and Bluetooth, used as vehicle locator.
Circuit design and simulation, layout review, board bring-up, parametric and functional tests, and design documentation.
June – October 2011 Meggitt Training Systems Suwannee, Georgia
Industry: Military.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Subsystem design for interfacing target carriers to the range controller.
Design of junction boxes and associated cables to interface touch panel range controllers to radio controlled (802.15) target carriers, and daisy-chaining adjacent lanes withRS232-RS422 converters.
Flowing of the carrier embedded C software (ATmega644) for documentation.
June 2008 – July2009 Technological University of Esfahan Iran-Esfahan
Industry: Telecommunication - Information and Communication Research Laboratory.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Digital hardware design for microwave communication system using PADS 2007:
Design of a 2 GHz Digital up Converter circuit for converting baseband 125 MHz digital data to a quadrature modulated analog signal for amplification and transmission over a microwave link.
Circuit design and simulation, board layout, and documentation of PCB requirements and design analysis.
September 2007 – February 2008 Wayne-Dalton Corp. Pensacola, Florida
Industry: Consumer Electronics.
Position: Contract Firmware Engineer.
Task: Embedded software design in C and Assembly for radio operated servo-controlled door openers:
Software design, simulation, emulation for Microchip MCU’ in C and assembly languages.
Software design and software test documentation.
December 2006 – April 2007 Harris Microwave Communications Systems Morrisville, North Carolina
Industry: Telecommunication.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Hardware design for the TR6000 communications system using PADS DX Designer:
Design of front-end switching circuit for switching DS1 and Ethernet tributaries for a microwave communications system.
Circuit design and simulation, and test procedure documentation.
2006 – July-December Smiths Industries Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Contract Embedded Software Verification Engineer.
Task: Embedded software verification of an aerial refueling system’s Hose Drogue Controller per DO-178B and DO-254 standards:
Scripting for C software verification, per DO-178B, on a fueling system simulator.
Documentation of software verification by code inspection.
VHDL test bench development for FPGA code verification per DO-254 standard.
September 2005 – January 2006 L3 Communications Sarasota, Florida
Industry: Aerospace:
Position: Contract System Design Engineer.
Task: Design and development of a system for environmental and electromagnetic compliance testing for product certifications per DO-160D standards for P3 Flight Data Recorder:
Design of MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, Audio, Strain sensors and Analog inputs interface hardware, and flight data recorder memory configuration.
Configuring the MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 bus simulators for system control using:
Condor1553 for MIL-STD-1553 bus simulations.
Condor429 for ARINC 429 bus simulations.
Design documentation and operation procedures.
2005 – June-August Impeva Labs-DVA Group, Inc. Panama City, Florida
Industry: Military.
Position: Contract Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Design and development of mixed signal printed circuit boards for functional testing of cargo container security system’s CPU using Zuken Cadstar:
Circuit analysis, circuit design and simulation, component selection and schematic capture.
Design and requirements documentation.
2000 – 2004 Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino, California
Industry: Consumer Electronics.
Position: Sr. Hardware Design Engineer.
Task: Design and development of V.90/92 modems and EMI filters for various laptop and desktop computers:
Design and verification of modems using analytical and empirical evaluation tools.
Schematic and Printed Circuit Board Layout verification.
Verification of manufacturing and certification test procedures.
Documentation of requirements, design and verification data.
1999 – 2000 Honeywell International, Inc. Redmond, Washington
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Contract System Design Engineer.
Task: Design and development of systems for automatic testing and characterization of Silicon Micro-machined Accelerometers:
Design of test system interface circuits, interconnect cables and panels.
Design of test system software using Visual Basic and Visual C++.
Test system documentation using AutoCAD, OrCad, and MS Word.
1998 Eldec Corporation Lynnwood, Washington
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Contract Electrical Engineer.
Task: Development of certification test procedures for MD95 proximity sensing electronics unit and associated proximity sensors, proximity switches and targets:
Preparation of the certification test procedures in accordance with commercial and military standards applicable to avionics instrumentation.
1996 – 1998 The Boeing Company Seattle, Washington
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Sr. Specialist Engineer.
Task: System and software design:
Proximity Sensor System design validation for Boeing 777-300 airplanes.
Interior lighting design for the 737-NG series airplanes.
System definition, design validation, and factory functional tests.
System documentation and validation of supplier’s designs.
Electrical load calculations and preparation of interior lighting schematics.
1994 – 1996 Computer systems Development Corporation San Diego, California
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Sr. TPS Engineer.
Task: Development of a Test Program Set (TPS) for the S3 Drum Power Supply Unit Weapons Replaceable Assembly (WRA) on CASS ATE system.
Circuit analysis and failure analysis of analog circuitry resulting in the development of a Functional Test Program used in isolation of system failures.
Test program design (documentation, flow charts, coding, and integration) for the Drum Power Supply Unit WRA.
ARINC-416 ATLAS coding.
1991 – 1994 The Boeing Company Seattle, Washington
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Specialist Engineer.
Task: System and software design:
Simulation system hardware and software design for FAA certification of the 777-200 Proximity Sensor System LRUs.
Simulation system software maintenance for the 777-200 Fuel Quantity Indication LRU.
Definition of system hardware, electrical and mechanical.
Design of switching subsystems for DC power distribution.
Design of Interface Panels for control and monitoring of discrete digital I/O, proximity sensors, ARINC 429 and ARINC 629 busses.
Design of Proximity Sensor simulator subsystem.
Simulation software design in ANSI C.
1989 – 1991 Industrial Data Link Corporation San Diego, California
Industry: Aerospace.
Position: Sr. TPS Engineer.
Task: Test Program Sets (TPS) design for AN/ARC-182 avionics.
Interface Device (ID) design (electrical and mechanical).
Microcontroller based ID for background BIT (hardware design and assembly programming).
Circuit and failure analysis of digital, analog and RF circuitry resulting in the development of TPSs for depot level isolation and repair of system failures.
Utilization of Automatic Test Program Generators (ATPG) to develop stimulus patterns for a microprocessor based SRA (RCA1802).
Test program design (documentation, flow charts, coding, integration) for four SRA' (frequency synthesizer, processor/memory, power supply and indicator).
Programming in ARINC-716 ATLAS.
1989 Linear Corporation Carlsbad, California
Industry: Consumer Electronics.
Position: Contract Firmware Design Engineer.
Task: Design and development of a Pulse Position Modulated (PPM) transceiver for use as a medical alert device:
Design of a 6805 based demodulator for receiving PPM radio signals (circuit design and firmware).
Design of the circuitry and firmware for a COP800 based modulator.
1986 – 1989 IVAC Corporation San Diego, California
Industry: Medical.
Position: Electrical Engineer I.
Task: ATE programming, and CAD librarian:
Design and development of an ATE for automatic testing of prototype fluid delivery and pressure monitoring devices.
Library maintenance for VALID Logic schematic capture and simulation tool.
Designing and programming microcontroller (8051 and 8748) based fixtures for testing new product prototypes.
Performed worst-case design analysis of analog circuitry in support of new product development.
Performed analog and digital simulations on the "SUN/VALID/ADVANTAGE" engineering workstations.
Developed VALID IC models for use in simulating digital circuits.
Developed programs for the ATE station using "C" and "ASYST" to perform data acquisition, data reduction, filtering, FFT, IFFT, convolution and statistical calculations.
Summary:
CAD Tools:
- Altium for schematic capture and PCB design.
- DX-Designer and Pads-layout for PCB design. .
- ISE for FPGA design.
- Multisim-Ultiboard for PCB design and simulations.
- OrCad for schematic capture and PCB design.
- Matlab-Simulink for filter design.
Programming Languages:
- ANSI C.
- Atlas.
- Visual Basic.
- Microchip, Motorola and Intel Assembly.
-VHDL.
Certification Standards:
- UL safety standards.
- DO-160D Environmental and EMC standards.
- DO-178B software verification.
- DO-254 firmware verification.
- Six sigma process development (Green belt).
Education:
BSEE: Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, 1984.
Emphasis: Electrical and Computer Engineering.
MSEE Course Work: San Diego State University 1997.
Emphasis: Computer Engineering and Communications.
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