Product and quality design engineer

RUBEN FERNANDEZ

Cell: 480-***-**** Email: ******************@*****.***

PRODUCT / TEST/ QUALITY ENGINEER

ELECTRONICS MEDICAL MANUFACTURING AEROSPACE SOLAR UTILITIES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND DESIGN ENGINEER/DESIGN ENGINEER 2

ABB/Fimer, Phoenix, AZ, 02/17 to Present

Provide field and back end customer support functions for inverter failures and customer related concerns for both string and utility scale inverter product

First level failure analysis of returned product and provide root cause and design improvements

Project manage field, design and company project pertaining to both new product implementation and legacy products

WARRANTY ENGINEER II

First Solar, Tempe, AZ, 06/12 to 12/16

Coordinate and maintain repair schedules including vendor coordination of FS EPC site equipment failures

Perform Root Cause Failure Analysis of field equipment failures

Perform failure remediation schedules in alignment with EPC, supply chain and Project Management in alignment with projected schedules and within allocated budget

Provided insight for yield improvements, trend history and overall quality improvement

Maintained sole customer warranty support for Arizona, California, Maryland, Australia, Central and South America First Solar solar sites

Supported site system design and reviews during EPC cycle and provided continuous improvement opportunities at all levels of design, construction, warranty support and quality improvements

TEST ENGINEER

Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Tempe, AZ, 10/11 to 1/12

Coordinated and maintained schedules, tested and all reporting of product qualifications

Performed Root Cause Failure Analysis of test and production related failures for aerospace components

Developed and designed production tooling and test equipment including circuit board design and coding

Supported all levels of 2nd shift production including test, manufacturing and quality roles

TGCM TECHNICIAN

Air Liquide, Chandler, AZ (Intel Fab 22 Ocotillo location), 8/10 to 12/10

Maintained and installed gas and chemical equipment during the upgrade of Fab 22 at the Intel Ocotillo site

Coordinated equipment availability to meet project and customer demands

Support contractors during equipment installations as per Intel Standard Operating Procedures

PRODUCT ENGINEER

Medtronic Microelectronics Center, Tempe, AZ, 9/02 to 7/10

Performed Product Engineering/Management responsibilities for multiple Medtronic development activities including Test release and new hybrid releases – i.e., all associated IC and components

Hybrid Product Engineering responsibilities of multiple Medtronic development projects from inception to completion (IC, PWB, final assemblies)

Established number of product hybrid failure analysis dispositions for test failures and transferred to released product engineering

Performed root cause analysis down to component level for all development build test failures through development cycle to production release (IC, hybrid and final device)

Communicated between MMC and multiple sites for product releases and also for yield improvements

Performed Product engineering responsibilities (test equipment boards design and coding support) for numerous NGHT/IC and Device test releases

Drove Fully Allocated Product Cost (FAPC) development opportunities along with Continuous Improvement and Lean opportunities across all aspects of the project

Supported multiple projects, hybrid, IC and device prototype development builds

EDUCATION

B.S. – Electrical Engineering, ASU

U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO

PMP Certification July 2012 – July 2015

COMPUTER SKILLS

Extensive knowledge of general office software tools, MAC OS & Windows

Programming Languages: BASIC, C++, LabView, Project Management Tools: MS Project

AutoCad, MiniTab, SpotFire, Designsync, Zuken, Solidworks

RUBEN FERNANDEZ

Cell: 480-***-**** Email: ******************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: An accomplished, “hands-on” Electrical Engineer with extensive experience in electronic manufacturing, medical devices, and aerospace industries. Proven success in identifying failure analysis, determining root causes, testing, and implementing corrective actions.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Product Development Design for Manufacturability and Reliability Project Management

Build/Process/Test Hybrid/Device/IC Test Yield/Process Improvement

Time Management Initiative/Integrity/Ethical Solar EPC Warranty Services

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

Project management of company North American field retrofit activities. Coordinated material, manpower and customer communications for almost 3500 string level solar inverters

Coordinated emergency switchyard fire remediation including multiple transformer repairs and successful verification testing in half the time of current anticipated repair schedules

Investigated and resolved excessive failure fallout during product qualification. Investigated, evaluated, designed, tested, and implemented corrective action. Product was validated with successful qualification rebuild. New updated process/procedure was validated and implemented across all company products.

Maintained solar site warranty management for approximately 4 Gigawatts of Utility Scale Solar facilities

Excessive capacitor leakage failures were occurring during product development. Investigated, characterized, determined root cause to implement correction action. Solution reduced failure rate from 8% to less than .08%.

Persistence on multiple investigations resulted in minor impacts to improve failure yields with the major contributor determined after more than a year of diagnosing and testing.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Extensive knowledge of general office software tools, MAC OS & Windows

Programming Languages: BASIC, C++, LabView,

Project Management Tools: MS Project

AutoCad, MiniTab, SpotFire, Designsync, Zuken, Solidworks

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