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David

Sandifer

832-***-****

adn7ab@r.postjobfree.com

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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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