Engineering Director
Resume:
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David
Sandifer
**********@*****.**
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Richmond TX
SKILLS
• PROFILE
• Collaborative Innovation Engineering
• Professional with demonstrated
success leading the full development
life cycle for groundbreaking
innovations by defining the scope,
managing budgets, developing cost,
waste reduction, adjustments,
directing product definition,
monitoring project schedules, and
conducting system analysis. Set
performance metrics for all
integrated operations maximizing
ROI and departmental resources.
• Expertise lies in engineering
technology, hardware/firmware R&D,
collaborative innovation
management, strategic planning and
forecasting, research and
development management, training
and development, continuous process
improvements, and complexity
management.
• Proven ability to measure innovation
and R&D performance and
requirements by defining
performance metrics, human
resource and capability requirements.
• Leader who can create and
implement advanced technologies to
create value and transform industries.
Excellent analytical and problem-
solving skills. Coordinate with all
departments in the company in
regard to production, sales, and
logistics.
• 30 plus years with C, C+, C++, Basic,
Visual Basic, Fortran, and most other
OOP languages including RTC
systems. 30 plus years with different
databases, both writing database
programs as well as use of them. 20
plus years with Ladder logic PLC and
• Drone Design Firmware/Hardware
• Embedded Hardware R&D
• Real world automation
• Innovation strategy development
• Engineering Management
• Lean Design
• Budget Development & Management
• Knowledge Management
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Embedded Specialist
• Embedded Coding
• Full Life cycle product development
• Firmware R&D
• Training & Development
• Invention-on-demand
• Design Systems – Schematic capture
programs, Protel PCB layout, Circuit
Simulators, AutoCad, Fusion 360,
OnShape & Adobe, Corel, Visio.
• Embedded Systems (extensive
experience); CNC Machine Tools;
Program Languages – C, C+, & C++,
RTC; uP Assembly languages, Allan
Bradley and Siemens Ladder Logic for
PLCs, HMI; Quality Systems;
QuickBooks; Microsoft Office Suite,
Microsoft project, and various other
gant charts and task managers,
precision machining.
• 3D, CAD, Direction, Lathes, Oil,
QuickBooks, Strategic planning
• Adobe, Calibration, Directing, Layout,
Organizational, Radio, System
analysis
• AutoCad, Charts, Electronics, Logic,
Personnel, Real time, Teaching
• Automation, CNC, Embedded
Systems, Logistics, PLC, Research,
Telemetry
• Basic, Hardware, Forecasting,
Machine Tools, Policies, Robotic, Test
Equipment
• Budget Development, Controller,
HMI hardware and software.
• Mentor high school robotics groups
(First Robotics Challenge “FRC”, First
Technology Challenge “FTC”). Have
also mentored high school Rocketry
(Goddard Project – 1mile/1pound 8'
rockets, Transonic rockets 6-8' foot,
and the High Altitude 100K' 24'
rocket)
• Have been teaching STEM/CTE classes
(Engineering, C++ programming, 3D
CAD, 3D printing, etc.…)
• 3D CAD and 3D printing for the last 5+
yrs.
• CORE COMPETENCIES
• Robotics R&D
FORTRAN, Machinery, Problem-
solving skills, Robotics, Visio
• Budgets, Corel, Full Life cycle,
Managing, Programming, Sales,
Visual Basic
• C, Customer support, Human
resource, Mentor, Coding, SCADA
• C++ programming, Database,
Imaging, Microsoft Office Suite,
Protel, Siemens
• C++, Databases, Innovation, Microsoft
project, Quality, Solidworks
• C+, Product development, Knowledge
Management, OOP, Quality control,
Strategy development
EXPERIENCE
Teacher/Engineering STEM - CTE
Washington, HS
HISD-High School Engineering Professions/ Oct 2016 to Jun 2021
• Alternate energy – wind generators.
• Quadcopter Drone design and development – hardware and firmware.
• Rocketry – 1-mile/1-pound (8ft rocket), Transonic (8ft rocket), and High Altitude
(100,000ft – launch at White Sands New Mexico Missile Range).
• Robotics – First Technical Challenge, First Robotic Challenge, and military Ten80.
• 3D CAD (Fusion 360 & OnShape)
• 3d-printing and CNC coding and operation.
Chief Engineer
Richmond, Tx
WATTS Inc/ Jun 2015 to Jan 2017
• Offers consumer an option to main power grid cost by offering off grid power options - Wind and Solar, In charge of R&D Engineering and Manufacturing Departments.
• Primary designer (hardware and firmware programming - mostly C++) for all control systems company offers.
• Primary systems are PLC systems including some proprietary embedded control systems.
• Including HMI and radio link telemetry.
• Responsible for full FATs, and CATs.
Engineering Manager
Houston, TX
Rose Electronics/ Jan 2000 to Mar 2015
• Rose Electronics offers the industry's most comprehensive range of local and remote server management products, In charge of R&D Engineering and Manufacturing Departments.
• Responsible for full life cycle of a product which includes engineering design & development, customer support, manufacturing test and assembly methods.
• Projecting capacity, costs, personnel, equipment, reagents and time requirements.
• Test procedures and/or technology platforms being developed or implemented, including ongoing calibration and maintenance.
• Identify quality control metrics useful for the initial and ongoing evaluation of new test procedures and technology platforms, and provide a preliminary range of acceptability.
• Hands on embedded system programming for all systems by Rose Electronics including some PLC/SCADA units.
• Assembler, C, C++, FORTRAN, etc….
Consultant/Manager
Houston, TX
Innovative Electronics, LLC/ Jan 1995 to Jan 2000
• Engineering Design Firm Oil field instrumentation.
• In charge of R&D Engineering and Manufacturing Departments.
• Responsible for full life cycle of a product which includes engineering design & development, customer support, manufacturing test and assembly methods.
• Responsible for projecting capacity, costs, personnel, equipment, reagents and time requirements for test procedures and/or technology platforms being developed or implemented, including ongoing calibration and maintenance.
• Developed and evaluated alternative courses of action; made decisions based on correct assumptions concerning resources and guidelines; defined and implemented solutions to problems.
• Motivated and provided direction in the activities of others to accomplish goals.
• Displayed knowledge of the roles, responsibilities, and duties of supervisors and managers; accurately assessed the impact upon others of role performance; and supported and promoted organizational decisions, policies, programs, and initiatives.
Engineering Director
Delta X Corp Jan 1992 to Jan 1995
• Oil Well Pump off embedded controllers and flow meters. Engineering Manager
Elliott Technologies Inc Jan 1986 to Jan 1992
• Embedded uP Commodity control flow meter/controllers and water shed flow/control instruments.
Product Manager
GeoSource Inc Jan 1983 to Jan 1986
• 3D ocean / land seismic system.
• TI uP embedded controller.
Project Engineer
reduction, in
Texas Instruments/ Jan 1979 to Jan 1983
• Seismic instrumentation.
• TI uP embedded controller.
Schlumberger, Vector Design / Development Engineer Jan 1972 to Jan 1979
• Ocean Telemetry systems for SubSea habitats and BOPs, Pioneered Fiber optic telemetry for down hole tools and computer aided data logging (pressure, temp, angle, magnetometer).
Consultant
NMR Inc Jan 1986
• Magnetic Resonant Imaging control system.
• Bit-Slice embedded controller.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Educate and train Zimbabwe Ryder College Students Wind Generation design and construction.
• IMPACT: Provide students with knowledge base to increase quality of life in their home country.
• Lecture for HISD High School for Engineering Professions – Teaching design and development of Quadcopter Drones for lifting and moving small to large items, Multi-level Robotics, and large-scale Rocketry.
• Also included in my teaching repertoire, I teach 3d-printing and CNC programming and development.
• IMPACT: Increased student knowledge base in programming, hardware design, and mechanical design.
• Executed the development of a fully automated ballast control system for semi- submersible oil platform for deployment off the coast of Brazil.
• Developed and implemented the system using embedded measurement devices, PLCs and Fiber optics.
• Very large SCADA/HMI system.
• IMPACT: Standardized upgrades and conversion of semi-submersible oil platforms; improved rough water safety Led the development of an innovative and industry-changing product.
• Developed a silicon based embedded motor controller with PWM speed control.
• Created a feedback system to monitor flow rates, temperatures, viscosities, and densities.
• IMPACT: Increased production and reliability; lower operating costs of oil production Led the development of new digital flow control system for a large watershed oil field project.
• Conceived and designed uP embedded system including Large Gate Arrays (LGA).
• The system monitors water quality, pressure, volume, and the status of the pumps.
• IMPACT: Standardized the system; increase oil production Spearheaded the development of the Seismic fiber optic multiplexed sensors for 3D exploration and reservoir management.
• Developed a 1024 channel x 32bit seismic data acquisition system.
• This system utilized bit slice micro technology for increased speed and reliability.
• IMPACT: Created effective high-definition reservoir characterization; increased amount of oil production Hardware designer for the 1st Magnetic Resonant Imaging (MRI), images by using collaborative innovation through oilfield technology.
• Proposed and recommended a Bit-Sliced controller - magnetic pulse sequencer.
• Developed the unit to oscillate the human molecules to be monitor and collect data for digital imaging.
• IMPACT: Enhanced the image and data of the human body Oilfield expertise applied to a medical challenge.
• Created and developed an pressure control for cataract eye surgery.
• Tested and controlled the pressure and fluid flow through a computer to maintain set parameters during surgery.
• IMPACT: 0% eye damage due to pressure and proper flow rates during surgery.
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