Randall Hoffman **********@******.**
Newport Beach, Ca
Over 10 years experience with leading manufacturers in Orange County in Product Design, testing, drafting, documentation, and precision assembly.
Custom Power June 2022 – July 2023
Produces Battery assemblies, specializing in Li-Ion for Medical, Military and Aerospace customers. Hardware Engineer
• Designed electronic testing hardware using safety critical design process control.
• Created Test instructions for manufacturing and validation testing of Fuel gauging, Li-Ion fault protection, cell balancing, CAN communication and testing equipment. Balt USA Jan 2022 – Mar 2022
Produced EndoVascular micro Catheters for medical purposes Precision Assembler
• Microscopic Welding tasks on stainless steel braided sleeves used for micro-catheters using a spot welder.
• Clean room environment, extensive microscopic level tasks to assemble catheter constructions. Deutsche Bank Dec 2019 – Jun 2021
DB is a 250 year old international bank that specializes in custodial upkeep of the home mortgage industry records. Software Validation Technician
• Validation activities included, data capture authentication, database editing application “Embtrust” verification and problem reporting, and proposed preventative corrective actions to improve job tracking. Balboa Water Group Aug 2012 – Aug 2016
BWG is 33-year-old company that specializes in touch panel displays, electronic control systems, motor controls and heaters for the leisure water industry.
Electronic/Software Project Engineer
• Created Gateway module WiFi/Zigbee/BLE/Ethernet for our new IoT product platform, using NXP Cortex M3 CPU, Wi-Fi (WAN), Ethernet (LAN), RFID (motors), BLE (sensors)
• Wrote software/designed hardware for touch screen controller modules utilizing graphics IC Solomon SSD1826 and processor PIC24FJ256
HOB Custom Power Apr 2006 - Feb 2012
Produces Battery assemblies, specializing in Li-Ion for Medical, Military and Aerospace customers. Engineering Manager
• Designed hardware and software using safety critical design process control.
• Designed custom microprocessor based applications for Fuel gauging, Li-Ion fault protection, cell balancing, SMB communication and testing equipment.
• Designed Li-Ion/polymer battery packs from 1 to 48 cells, for everything from 48 volt power source for portable medical operations platforms to military flashlights. Leach International Dec 2004 – Feb 2006
Produces Solid State Relays and contactors for the Military and Commercial aircraft. Senior Electronics and Software Engineer
• Developed hardware and C software for embedded micro-controller for fault tolerant power distribution products in compliance with FAA's DO178b guidelines for airworthiness.
• Developed plans, procedures for development lifecycle, UML modeling, verification and traceability. WORK EXPERIENCE
Filger Manufacturing Jan 2004 – Nov 2004
Machine Shop produces aerospace parts for Boeing and Parker Hannifin. Maintenance Manager and Quality Assurance consultant
• Developed quality assurance department by implementing enterprise software “Job Boss” and established AS9100 policy and procedures by organizing the company to comply to the new policies and procedures.
• Performed maintenance and PM tasks to the companies 2 dozen CNC milling machines and Lathes. Tekin Electronics Feb 2002 – Jan 2004
Produces Speed controls, Battery chargers, and radio control systems. Senior Engineer
• Solely developed an OEM manufacturing process controller/workstation that was monitored remotely through a RealTek Ethernet, SI2400 modem, with a firmware TCP/IP stack. It included graphics display, Dallas MicroLan proms, PIC18F6720, VB application and user website.
• Designed Futaba style remote controller for RC car models with 32 parts, 5 Pcb’s, using Solidworks and Pads. Rorhback Cosasco Systems, (Corrpro) Jan 1999 – Feb 2002 Corrpro is a $200 million company specializing in corrosion instrument products and services. Electrical Engineer
• Developed remote monitoring instrumentation products utilizing Orbcomm satellite, cell modem
(GSM/CDMA/AMPS), 2-way pager (Motorola Creatalink) and landline modem.
• Projects involved instrument grade measurement, data recording and reporting, CAN bus communication, GPS implementation, and RF communications.
Knight Inc, Unit of IDEX Apr 1994 – Dec 1999
Knight is a $29 million a year industrial equipment manufacturer. 200 person company with 6 branches world- wide.
Electrical Engineer
• In charge of developing 3 product platforms that fostered 15 derivative products. I contributed most of the software development and electronic designs.
• Projects included AC/DC motor controls, data reporting, sound recognition flow switches, proprietary communication protocols, custom displays, case designs, and membrane switches. Cal-Polytechnic at Pomona 2 years
University of California at Santa Barbara 3 years
Performed Generated forecasts, budgets, and business plans; wrote manuals, procedures Environment Work: ISO AS-9100, precision assembly, clean room and ESD competence Documents Schematics blueprints Proposals Plans Specifications Procedures Standards Tools Altium Pads Autocad SolidWorks LabView
Electronics Analog: Battery Management Instrumentation Graphic displays Digital: Renesas RZA1L (ARM A9), NXP LPC1788(M3), Redpine RS9113 Software Assembly: Intel 8051 x86; MOT 68HC11/05 PIC 24/18/16 High Level: C# C++ Java
Communication SMB CAN Ethernet WiFi 802.11 Bluetooth4.0/BLE EDUCATION
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