Name: Ernest Gregory D'Agostino

Permanent Address: 1349 Mark Street N.E.

City,State: Grand Rapids, MI Zip Code: 49525 E-mail: adf8fo@r.postjobfree.com

Cell Phone: 616-***-****

To secure a position with a firm that will challenge myself and enhance my

Objective: experience, knowledge, and skills. That will have the possibility to lead to further development

Summary of Skills:

Vast field experience in domestic and foreign PLC Programming, Maintenance and Design Unmanned/Manned Avionics systems Providing field support to flight test operations experimentally aircraft

Daily, weekly and monthly maintenance on Aircraft, Ground control stations and Ground support equipment

PLC Installation, maint. and C++ w/ FORTRAN programming Working with Various PLCs including Allen-Bradley, Siemens, ABB, FANUC, GE & Omron.

AB Drives including DC, Servo, AC High Voltage and AC Low Voltage.

AB Network & Infrastructure Systems including ControlNET & DeviceNET.

Being highly adaptable to an ever changing technology based world and being a personal passion as well as a career.

Experience:

Managing Satellite offices both domestic and foreign

Operating Systems- Windows, Mac OS X, Linux VX Works

Managing budgets, workforces and parts to insure tasks completion and under budget

Field engineering on various equipment and supporting remote embedded machines development teams.

Supporting remote personal by email, phone and fax communications. Most of my work was with the Allen-Bradley SLC-50, RS-Logix 500, RS-Logix 5000, HMIs, GuardPLC Safety Control Systems, ControlLogix Control Systems, RSLogix Guard Software and IntelliCENTER software.

Software Development for over 25 Years using such software packages as C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Basic, Java and using Creo based software packages inside of AutoCAD.

November 2018 – January 2020

ASI A Division of Thermal

Green Bay, WI.

Technologies, Inc.

Electrical Engineering Department Manager: http://www.asitti.com/

ASI has been an industry leader in providing custom ricaldrying solutions for over 30 years. ASI designs, engineering and manufacturing custom drying, curing and cool solutions for the converting and graphic arts industries. Also overseeing the Electrical Department with new designs, use of Altium Designer and interfacing with the customer on those designs. Part of my responsible is to oversee a very talented group of engineers and their custom drying equipment, customer software programs which included and writing new & customer software code in such programming languages as: C, Turbo C, C++ w/ FORTRAN,MATLAB, CREO and other External Programming Languages. I would assist factory engineering staff from department with resolving issue found in the field and issues the customer would be experiencing. Also to insure and make use of the latest EMI/EMC Technologies. Electrical distribution equipment work at 13.8kv, 4160v, 480v & 120v also instrumentation (pressure, flow & temperature). I would also work with Electrical Engineers in my department to design DSP, FPGA and VHDL based systems. The systems based on these designs were for other customers that were DoD based and my years of design experience with these systems was of great help.

ing July 2017 – February 2018 Maden Technologies Inc. Pocatello, ID

Design Engineer: http://www.madentech.com/

A design engineer in the field, my prime reasonability was to work redesigns and updates to Military Systems. The two main projects I worked on was updating end -of-life components for the Air Forces’ Ground based AN/TPS-43 & AN/TPS -75 Radar Systems. The main component was a Bolo-meter replacement. I designed a completely new unit from the ground up while meeting all the Air Forces requirements and providing full documentation, drawings and electrical schematics. Also, I managed another project which involved a complete rewiring of a blast-proof laboratory from 480 VAC @ 60Hz to 208 VAC @ 400 Hz. Also worked on LED based targeting systems light wave transmission and reception based on both target and weapon moving.

January 2017 – July 2017

Applied Research Associates

Randolph, VT.

Electrical Engineer I: http://www.ara.com/

Part of a Global Team dedicated to supporting the scientific research and engineering development. My position in research and development of the national security and defense systems and equipment. Also supporting their current unmanned land and aerial systems with the deployment of the Altium design system.

January 2016 – January 2017

Progress Rail Services

Kansas City, MO.

Electrical Engineer I: http://www.progressrail.com/

Being Part of a Global Team dedicated to supporting the Railroad industry in Maintaining, Upgrading and modernizing out Rail infrastructure. Deploying new technology to further the rail, relay rail, rail welding and track materials. To lead the industry in developing advance Track work technology and producers. To always surpass production quotas and quality criteria.

January 2012 – May 2015

FMC - Schilling

Davis, CA.

Product Support Engineer: http://www.fmctechnologies.com/Schillingrobotics.aspx

Performing project development and support for various clients in the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and manipulator arms. Assisting clients with software upgrades, hardware issues and upgrades to various systems & components. Aiding various departments with research & development of a new system release of the UHD-III ROV system and the 150-hp ISOL -8 Auxiliary Pump. Assisting clients with PLC and software issues, updates. Troubleshooting PLC and other priority programming languages and providing final system testing. Providing client support of the ROV & Tether Management System (TMS) Simulator including software updates, upgrades and installation support. Providing 24 / 7 support for all clients and all systems. Also interrogate the latest EMI/EMC technologies into the latest manufacturing forms. Also 2 years of software process and management of DI2E toolset experience. Also was part of the underwater Deep Sea LED Light projects, I aided on the design and field testing of our new designs and also aided in any issues that developed in the field. Provided feedback to in house Engineering teams to keep everyone up to date and assist with solving design issues and providing the customer`s view point.

December 2010 – April 2011

Northrop Grumman Corp.

St. Indigoes, MD

Field Technician 4: http://www.NGC.com

Performing maintenance and flight tests on Northrop Grumman’s Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle system. Performing daily, weekly and monthly maintenance on the MQ-8B Fire scout UAV. Performing engineering modulations of air vehicle, ground control station and ground support equipment. Assist engineers and 3rd party vendors in installation of various aftermarket and custom system to the aircraft. Station with naval personnel at various NAS CONUS/OCONUS and worked with the navy to complete daily testing and mission flights. Completing all necessary naval and NGC flight log books and paperwork. Insuring complete complaisance with all US Navy and NGC regulations. I would also work vendors to ensure compliance with all testing precedencies including EMC testing.

June 2010 – December 2010

Eaton Aerospace, Inc.

Galesburg, MI

Engineering Technician: http://www.eaton.com

Assist engineers in addressing customer concerning vehicle control systems. Testing various system components to isolate failures to the component level. Assisting with various resolutions plans and confirming complete complies with Company and industry standards. Interfacing with customers and engineers to resolve all outstanding issues. Worked on Boeing 737 aircraft to integrate various vendor systems into aircraft systems.

June 2007 - November 2009

General Atomics - ASI

Palmdale, CA

Avionics Technician: http://www.ga-asi.com/

Field and state side Avionics technician some of my duties included Servicing, maintained and daily production of unmanned aircraft systems including the MQ -1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, Sky Warrior UAS and others. Performed daily maintenance, Software and hardware updates, Engineering support, Customer systems support and various other duties as needed. Support the LYNX SAR/GMTI Radar System both in the field and production. Deployments worldwide including the middle east. Completing all necessary Air Force and GA paperwork and log books.

Insuring complete complaisance with all Air Force and GA regulations. Also assisting with the devolvement of embedded machine tools, EMC test fixtures and custom machines with designs from the ground up, Installation, Repair, Service and customer programming using C, C++ and other customer program languages. Also designing, manufacturing and maintaining ATE (Automated Test Equipment) to run automated testing on various products in various stages of testing including Static testing, Environmental testing and vibrational testing. These test stands would run multi 24 hour test s and maintain test logs of any faults for debugging.

GE Aerospace, Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI

Tester/Analyzer: http://www.geaviation.com/

Testing and support of various Military and Civilian Aerospace Product Lines. Troubleshooting systems to the Circuit Card Assemblies Level and to the component level. Interfacing with various departments, engineering resources and ensuring the products meet all standards, customer delivery dates and all customers’ standards. Assisting other engineers with installing and configuring production software such as labview. Would also design EMC testing programs and test fixture to comply with customer requirements. Finding defective vendor part trends and providing timely and cost-effective solutions to this and various other manufacturing issues. Worked on various systems on the Boeing 727, 737 and 787 as far as integration in to aircraft systems. I worked with other engineers in the design, maintaining and operation of the test equipment. These test stands would test at static conductions, Various temperature testing conductions and vibrational test conductions. For any faults that were found and debugged and passed on the manufacturing and design engineering departments to aid in the manufacturing process.

October 1991 – November 2001

Various Companies

Grand Rapids, MI

Various positions with various companies.

Working in various position from bench technician to field service engineer for companies like Northern Telecom, LECO Corp., Prime Technology and Rofin – Sinar Laser. Installing and maintaining various systems such as Analytical laboratory instrumentations, Installing and servicing central office telephone equipment, GSM Cellular equipment installation, configuration and repair, Various commutations systems, High power CO2 laser systems, Unmanned ground vehicle systems and various industrial equipment and plc-based systems. Performing various system interfacing between control systems and plant control networks. Working with low voltage systems to high voltage systems more than 50, 000 volts. Working with various gas, liquid and solid mixing controls and systems. Installing and servicing various communication systems from copper to fiber optics. Testing of Ethernet and other cabling troubleshooting test equipment. Have worked with various RF antennas and tower systems.

Education:

October 1991

National Education Center

Tampa, FL

Bachelor's of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

Analog Circuit Design

Electrical Circuit Fabrication

Physics I & II

Microcomputer Design

Feedback Control Systems

Microwave Circuits

Communication Engineering

Linear Integrated Circuit

Business Law

Advance Technical Writing

Computer Aided Design

Analog Circuit II

Microcomputer Design

Communication Engineering

Microwave Design

Feedback Control System

Control Electric Mach. Lab

Series Math

Power Supplies with Lab

Strength of Materials

Business law

Fiber Optics

Fiber Optics Lab

C Programming Lab

Academic Achievement Awards, Perfect Attendance Awards

.

April 1989

National Education Center

Wyoming, MI

Associate’s of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

Read Electronics

Intro Electrical Circuit Fabrication

Electronics Theory

Electronics Lab

Technical Drawing/CAD

Applied Math II

Technical Drawing/CAD

Microelectronics Circuits Design

Electronics Lab

Technical Writing

Computer Aided Design

Analog Circuit II

Industrial Electronics

Industrial Lab

Microprocessors

Academic Achievement Awards,

.

Advance Training and Experience in following:

Federal Communications Commission

- General Radiotelephone Operator License plus Radar Endorsement.

Over 30 Plus Years of Troubleshooting experience

Deployment to foreign location for extended deployments

Basic & Advance Hydraulics Troubleshooting Certificate from the NASBA (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy)

DuPont STOP Safety Awareness Training

15 Plus years’ experience with 3D CAD Design Software AutoCAD 2010, 2018, Solidworks 2012, 2015 & 2018

Advance troubleshooting both Hardware & Software systems, PLCs, Ladder Logic, C++, HTML, Wiring Harnesses, Input / Output interfaces.

20 plus years’ experience with 2D & 3D CAD Design Software.

Experience with generating, creating, updating and dispatching Service, Upgrade and Safety Bulletins to various customers and maintaining the customer bulletin databases.

Maintaining an Online Interface, Phone and E-mail between Customer Support Department and clients.

Maintaining and assisting clients with their software request and updates for various operating systems and firmware components.

7 Plus years expense in design PCB from initial concept to final product delivery to customer. This includes meeting and acceding customer requirements. I have used Altium (PROTEL), OrCAD, Autodesk and many others software platforms for designing PCBs.

Over 25 Years of combined Aerospace field in Software programming languages such as: C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, C and Visual Basic. This experience includes but not limited to: Development, Debugging, embedded programing, custom program development, interfacing between customers and project engineers and also working with other Engineers on hardware and software reequipments for said project.

My Vast experience of software and hardware deployment from the early 1980’s to current embedded systems components means be able to draw from a vast knowledge base spanning over 30 years of direct experience.

Working in various fields including Gaming Interface Protocol (GIP) in the Nevada based gaming industrial for combined experience of over 10 years.

Gaining valuable field knowledge on such Programming utility languages as PowerShell, Visual Basic and Python.

Over 10 years of wiring hardness design and repair. Most of the design work is in the Aerospace field.

Over 30 years of field support, From the office, in the field or remotely, It has been my job to support workers in the field and solve their issues and fix their problems. I have a great deal of experience in solving what ever customer’s I am working with issue. There is an answer to ever issue.

Years of experience in Allen Brandley VFDs, HMIs, PLCs, Flex I/O, RSLogix 5, SLC500, 5000 and Device net.

Also experience PLC troubleshooting, DeltaV and HART Instrumentation.

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