Principal Electrical Engineer

VICTOR BOYADZHYAN

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La Crescenta, CA. 91214 818-***-**** Home

818-***-**** Mobile

Summary of Qualifications

Strong technical aptitude

A self-starter capable of building and leading strong multidisciplinary teams in the execution of division-level strategic goals

Possess excellent communication skills

Ability to prepare and deliver effective presentations to customers and internal management

Negotiation skills and ability to successfully and positively influence the program team

Understanding of how to balance the needs of the customer while keeping teams engaged, motivated, and aligned

Exceptional decision-making skills identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities

Strong track record of employee development

Drive for results, setting goals for personal and group accomplishment, using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals

Tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals

Accomplished at gaining commitment and using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans

Modify one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved

Ability to originate action to improve existing conditions and processes

Identifying improvement opportunities

Generate innovative ideas, and implement solutions

Strong customer focus, be able to quickly react to business opportunities

Open and willing to change

Bias for action, and an orientation toward a simple short, decision-making infrastructure

Manager, Developing and delivering Power Converter Units to Avionic market customers

My designs were delivered and were sold in thousands to Boeing 757, F5 Falcon, Dassault Business Jets, Embraer 400 Cargo Jet, CH45 Chinook Helicopter, LiIon Battery with smart charger and CAN BUS interface to BAE systems. Also JPL’s Cassini spacecraft RF radio Frequency subsystem – Hybrid circuits – WTS, Analog Telemetry Hybrid, Analog Mux Hybrid, within RF Subsystem Bay; mission successfully ended in September 15, 2017; 19 year mission.

Experience qualifying units to RTCA DO-160

In Flight Entertainment Systems (IFE) Power Supply development and delivery for Boeing, AIRBUS A-350, A-380 Commercial Airlines. 360-800 Hz input PFC and DC-DC Converter Development with Power Factor of 0.9995 to meet DO-160, BOEING, and AIRBUS Requirements.

Significant experience in Integrated circuits and components that include Power Electronics, Electric Drives, motion controls; DC:DC converters and power supplies; IGBT and MOSFET based inverters, gate drive circuits, power factor correction, efficiency optimization, high voltage safety and designs (to 1000V), air and water cooled systems, frequency range from 2-500kHz.

Delivered 100 Watt PFC for Avionic in-flight entertainment systems with double fault protection, OVP, UVP, OCP and thermal protection; DO-160H qualified.

Delivered 100 and 160 Watt DC-DC Converter for Flight Avionic systems with 95% efficiency, 190 to 400 VDC input to minimize PFC output Hold-up Capacitor count with 500 millisecond hold up time, +5V, +12V, +28 Volt synchronous outputs.

Designed and delivered Battery Power Management System BMS controller for lithium Ion batteries for military vehicle.

Delivered “System on a Chip” Low Power converter design for Avionics System R&D Delivery submitted to Lincoln Laboratory Chip foundry to be implemented at 0.25 micron SOI Technology. Clusters included low power operational amplifiers at low and high frequency of operation with 2Volt DC Power Supply. Clusters also included 2Volt Low Pass and Band pass filters, High Frequency Mixers.

Cognizant Engineer – Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA, STM (Spacecraft Transponding Modem) BoeSTM Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).

Design and Development of 0.25 micron technologies in CMOS CCD Driver circuits and systems (MARS ’05 mission)

EDUCATION:

PhD Candidate, USC, Los Angeles, California

MSEE 1995, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

BSEE 1991 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Analog Electronics/Computer Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

ANCRA Aerospace

2023- current Senior Electrical Engineer

Developing power driver unit electronics for freight airliner specifically in the area of Auto Transformer Rectifier Unit converting

3-phase 400 Hz power into 270VDC, for airborne electronics.

SpinLaunch

2022-2023 Senior Design Engineer consultant

Designed EPC Battery Management System for CubeSat satellites, S20 & S200.

2016-2021 AiTech Defense Systems

Analog Design Engineer, MTS-IV

Delivered Power Converter Circuit Cards to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Collins Aerospace, etc. Developed and delivered support equipment hardware.

Delivered PDE 7 Chanel Circuit card for SmallSAT project for DMT/Collins

CONSULTING/MANAGING WORK EXPERIENCE

2001-2016 ARSECO LABS, INC.

Principal Engineer and Director, Senior Manager

WET DESIGN

Developed LED Constant Current Source Power Supply

Characterized high power Cree LEDs for modern water fountains

MONOGRAM SYSTEMS

Delivered Timer Controller for Avionic Water and Waste systems

Developed system control for Water level sensors, system faults, and for Flush and Rinse valve systems

Avionic power electronics & motor Drive systems (Induction motor and BLDC {Brushless} Motor drives)

Delta-Wye TRU development (1000 Watt)

ATRU (Auto transformer Rectifier Unit) development for three phase power input controller

PANASONIC AVIONICS

Advanced Analog Circuit Design Research & Development of Flight Entertainment Systems

Development of advanced PFC (power factor Correction) modules operating at 360 to 800 Hz variable line input frequencies with Power Factors of 0.99957

93 % efficient DC-DC switch mode power supplies for AirBus and Boeing Airlines meeting DO-160 Airbus and Boeing Requirements G

Glitch free Opto-isolated line Low Voltage Detect circuit development for 360-800 Hz variable AC line voltages.

Quallion, LLC.

Smart Battery Management unit/ charger design

Hardware Design /circuit design

Full cycle PCB design

Embedded microcontroller project PIC33 Microchip micro-controller for Battery Power Management projects

Designed and delivered Power Management System BMS circuit Boards

Circuit Design analog and Digital (hands-on)

Developed Battery Management System (BMS) with a charger circuit

Battery monitoring and protection systems

Environmental, thermal, vibration, electrical and safety testing

Designing electrical and mechanical test fixtures

Performed Li-Ion Battery component and system testing

Performed the detailed analysis, design, and test of signal processors & control for various systems.

Performed (from concept through design) prototype, manufacture, test, and support.

Participated in crisis resolution and lessons learned activities involving working on multiple projects.

Skills Expertise in analog & digital circuit design, embedded micro-controller design Software programming such as C, C++ etc.

Analog and digital control electronics.

Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting skills, familiarity with ESD and EMI practices required for CE compliancy.

Excellent written and oral communication

Additional PC applications i.e. LTSPICE, interfacing sensors and actuators to a microcomputer/microcontroller in television and other industries.

Delivered AOPET SMART BATTERY ELECTRONICS Battery Management System (BMS)

ARMY/Helicopter

US DOE

NASA BOEING

LADWP

SBIR proposals

Consulting on FIAT Battery project

Extensive knowledge of ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 26262, and SPICE processes.

Moore Industries, International

Analog Controls Engineer/embedded circuit designer

Switch Mode Power Supply design Development & consulting

Design and Development of ‘Field-bus’ analog sensor control electronics with embedded systems for industrial electronics market.

Temperature sensor interface electronics

Pressure sensors interface

Alarm sensor interface

Full automation of industrial systems

Developed Power supply operating 20-300VIN for both AC and DC inputs

Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1990 - 2001

Cognizant Engineer – STM (Spacecraft Transponding Modem) BoeSTM Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).

BoeSTM is an Application Specific Integrated circuit incorporating all of the D/A and A/D converters for Spacecraft Transponding Modem (STM) Processor module built at Boeing, Seattle, hence the name BoeSTM.

Responsible for Cassini spacecraft’s Flight Telemetry Control Unit Radiation Hardened analog Hybrid IC design, development and implementation.

Control system development for electric power systems

Delivered “System on a Chip” Low Power converter design for Avionics System R&D Delivery submitted to Lincoln Laboratory Chip foundry to be implemented at 0.25 micron SOI Technology. Clusters Include low power operational amplifiers at low and high frequency of operation with 2Volt DC Power Supply. Clusters also include 2Volt Low Pass and Band pass filters, High Frequency Mixers.

Delivered: Flight qualified radiation Hardened Tunneling Accelerometer Multi-chip Module and related power converter integrated circuit using commercially available parts for Space Technology Research Vehicle-2.

Delivered: Cassini TCU three different radiation hardened Flight Hybrid ICs (i.e. Analog Telemetry Mux Hybrid, Telemetry Modulator Driver Hybrid, Wave guide Transfer Switch Driver Hybrid). Analog Mux Hybrid circuitry collects all telemetry data and multiplexes these gathered data to A/D converter. This Hybrid also incorporates circuitry that has very accurate current sourcing capability to spacecraft’s temperature sensors (thermo-resistors). The purpose of Telemetry Modulator Driver Hybrid is to convert 8 bit data lines (digital data) into an analog equivalent data signal to drive three separate channels within the Hybrid itself. Each channel performs as an adjustable gain impedance transformer, providing power gain and the ability to drive outputs into 100-ohm loads. Furthermore, each channel may be individually enabled or disabled via a CMOS level control input.

Wrote technical proposals for extremely reliable hardware designs. Defined test procedures for testing flight qualified hardware. Strong presentation skills.

Delivered “Golay Cell” - Micro-machined and micro-fabricated, an un-cooled Infrared (IR) Detector and support electronics in multi-chip module form. Golay Cell also known as Un-cooled IR detector consists of three components that are fabricated from silicon wafers. Photolithography, micro-machining and metallization techniques were used to fabricate the components.

Expert in implementing Radiation Hardened analog electronics.

NASA SBIR REVIEWER

JPL/NASA SBIR Reviewer for 1999 Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) task on VLSI, Nano-Technology Sensor development and on solid-state electronic development topics.

PUBLICATIONS

Victor Boyadzhyan, “Wave guide Transfer Switch Driver Multi-chip Module for Cassini Spacecraft Telemetry Control Unit”, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Rodos Greece, 1996.

Victor Boyadzhyan, “ Tunneling Accelerometer Multi-chip Module (Integrated Sensor): Thin film Technology Radiation Hardened MCM, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Guimaraes - Portugal.

Victor Boyadzhyan, “ Automatic Tunneling Controlled (ATC) Electron Tunneling Accelerometer Integrated Sensor Circuitry for Space Application”, NASA Tech Brief NPO-20013, June 1998 issue, Vol 22, No. 6.

Victor Boyadzhyan, “Golay Cell (IR) Automatic Tunneling Controlled (ATC) Integrated Sensor Circuitry for Blood Glucose Level Detection”, NASA Tech Brief NPO-20035.

Victor Boyadzhyan, “Telemetry”, John Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publishers, January 2000.

Victor Boyadzhyan, “ High Temperature Reliability Radiation Hardened Spacecraft Micro-machined Tunneling Accelerometer Multi-chip Module (Integrated Sensor)”, IWIPP (International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging), September17-19, 1998, Chicago Illinois, USA

Victor Boyadzhyan, John Choma Jr., “Multichip Module Technologies”, Chapter 12 in “The VLSI Handbook”, editor-in Chief, Dr. Wai-Kai Chen, CRC Press & IEEE Press, January 2000.

V. Boyadzhyan, S. Krauthamer and J. Choma, Jr., “Silicon Germanium Technologies for System on a Chip’ solutions (Integrated ‘On Chip’ RF/microwave & Sensor Technologies)”, Invited Paper, PATMOS ’99, KOS Island, Greece.

Krauthamer, V. Boyadzhyan, A.O. Bulawka, Dan Ton, J. Choma, Jr., “PEBB Reliability and Performance impacts on PV Power Conditioning Systems”, DOE Technical Publication, Fall 2000.

PATENTS

“ Automatic Tunneling Controlled (ATC) Electron Tunneling Accelerometer

Integrated Sensor Circuitry for Space Application”, NPO-20013.

“Golay Cell (IR) Automatic Tunneling Controlled (ATC) Integrated Sensor Circuitry

For Blood Glucose Level Detection”, NPO-20035.

HONOR SOCIETIES

TAU BETTA PI (Engineering Honor Society)

ETTA KAPPA NU ( Electrical Engineering Honor Society)

GOLDEN KEY (Academic Excellence Honor Society)

PHI KAPPA PHI (Academic Honor Society)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

Research Staff Supervision in the area in advanced VLSI/SOI technology

Principal Investigator for MAGTRAC Project (PH sensor chip to track livestock health)

Task Manager Micro-Gravimeter/Micro-Barometer

Conducted research on JPL GOLAY Cells (Micro-machined IR Detectors).

Extensive experience in proposal writing and interfacing with NASA customers.

Constantly worked with JPL Technology office (i.e. TAP office) on science proposals.

Utilized JPL Micro-Devices Laboratory to perform Research and Development activities on micro-sensors and micro-actuators.

Interfaced with customers on all Research and Development projects

experience with battery monitoring and protection systems

Environmental, thermal, vibration, electrical and safety testing

Designing electrical and mechanical test fixtures

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