Senior Electronics Technician

Fernando Schwegler

Experience Summary

Six years of experience in calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing Electro-Mechanical Medical Devices; five years of experience in preventive maintenance, calibration of Electronic Test Equipment, and Test Fixtures; five years of experience in testing, and troubleshooting Electronic Boards to the component level; four years of experience in troubleshooting Analog, Digital and RF Systems for Telecommunication, Alarm Relaying, and Power Supply Systems; ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance

Additional Skills:

Digital Multi-Meters Pull Kanban Systems

Oscilloscopes ISO9001 and ISO13485

Function Generators 5S Lean Manufacturing

Spectrum Analyzers cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices)

Ability to read Electronic Schematics 21 CFR 820 (FDA regulations for medical devices)

SAP Manufacturing In-house soldering thru-hole components

Visual Basic C++ LabView

Fluent Languages: English and Portuguese

Professional Experience

High School Math, Chemistry, and Physics Tutor

9/2020 – present Online Tutoring Website (part-time) Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Tutoring Responsibilities: My goal is to ensure all my students, for the hour session, have all their questions answered and learned the material so they succeed in school; I follow the school and teacher’s curriculum and lesson plans and notes; I am not satisfied with the tutoring session until I am confident the student learned their material within our session time; was a college tutor for math, physics, chemistry, and electronics for Queensborough Community College Instructional Support Center

Senior Electronics Technician

3/2014 – 11/2019 Getinge Group Mahwah, New Jersey

Technical Responsibilities: Tested the Medical Devices I.A.B.P.'s (Intra Aortic Balloon Pumps), and Spares (boards for customer service) to meet Company, Customer, and FDA requirements following procedures; calibrated the pressure and vacuum regulators, the transducers, and the bimba (temporary storage of helium) pressure and sensors; troubleshot and repaired the Compressors, Pneumatic Systems such as the Drive, Shuttle, PIM (Patient Interface Module), and Fill Manifolds; troubleshot and repaired the Electro-Mechanical Medical Devices to the system and sub-assembly levels including the Touch Screen Monitors; followed sub-assembly procedures if unit had to be completely rebuilt from a repair; performed scheduled preventive maintenance on Test Fixtures, Electronic Test Equipment used in the production floor, and Protocols for the R&D Engineering Department; can read schematics, service manuals, assembly drawings to interpret towards test procedures, reworks, and repairs; lifted forty to eighty pounds three times daily

Quality Control: ISO 13485 was executed to manage quality throughout the life cycle of the Medical Devices, and carried out ISO 9001 to ensure our customers got consistent good-quality products and services in a clean, organized, standardized production process both domestically and internationally; Part 21 CFR 820 was used to make sure we were compliant with FDA Regulations; was involved with Internal audits to ensure we were compliant with quality procedures and pass FDA inspections; performed root cause analysis on defective boards and components by generating non-conformance failure tags to verify and duplicate component failures for the Engineers; inspected weekly maintenance documents to ensure Manufacturing procedures were followed; minimized CAPA's on Device History Records and documented test results by utilizing GMP standards; collaborated with quality, production, manufacturing, design, and test engineers to have meetings on document or revision changes, discussed multiple failures of the same component on the production floor, reported protocol abnormalities, and protocol results

Time Management: Quickly and effectively learned how to disassemble and reassemble units under test in a fast paced Lean Manufacturing Environment; worked a minimum of 3 hours per day overtime including Saturdays and Sundays to fulfill deadlines

Hiring Status: Was offered a permanent position after being a defined-term employee for fourteen months

Manufacturing Technician

10/2013 – 1/2014 Catheter Robotics Inc. Ledgewood, New Jersey

Technical Responsibilities: Tested, calibrated, assembled, and upgraded Electro-Mechanical Medical Device to meet procedure specifications; experience using measurement devices, including Calipers and Gauge pins; worked in Production Environment meeting quality standards

Quality Control: Paying great attention to detail was required when working with mechanical assemblies of medical devices; when unit was upgraded to new revision, a new procedure had to be written to include those changes, and reference specific manufacturing procedures sections when tasks were repeated

Electronics Technician

5/2013 – 7/2013 Telemetrics Inc. Mahwah, New Jersey

Technical Responsibilities: Tested and repaired the Pan, Tilt, Zoom (P.T.Z) cameras and its supporting systems to the component level; improved testing and modified procedures by re-evaluating the products to meet company standards; repaired customer service returns and was communicating with customers the cost of repair and duration of time to repair their product

Quality Control: Quickly integrated Camera Control Units with system drawings to meet customer specifications

Hiring Status: Was offered a permanent full-time salaried position with a full benefits package after three weeks during a six month contract position

Electronics Technician II

2/2008 – 1/2012 RFL Electronics Inc. Boonton, New Jersey

Technical Responsibilities: Tested Transmitters, Receivers, Filters, Alarm Relays, and Power Supplies following procedures; troubleshot Electronic Boards to the component level in a fast paced Manufacturing Environment; calibrated notch frequencies and bandwidth gain of the Filtering Boards to less than one decibel using a spectrum analyzer; calibrated power supply outputs under load conditions following procedures; calibrated test fixtures and electronic test equipment to meet System Engineering and Quality Control specifications; transformed the work areas of each product line into Lean Manufacturing Work Cells and structured the Work Cell's based upon my experience with each board; evaluated prototype boards, reported data, and results to the Engineering Department; helped Engineering redesign the boards for lacking performance or for not meeting customer specifications

Quality Control: Inspected electronic components for Quality Control and developed new test fixtures to accurately separate functioning components from defective components

Database Recording: Customer Service boards and repairs were kept up to current revision using the Engineering Change Order (ECO) database; took notes concerning board test time, board failures, and reasons for failure into system schematics to enhance future testing

Time Management: Worked in a fast paced Lean Manufacturing Process independently; re-designed test fixtures and rewrote test procedures to improve the manufacturing process by reducing the time taken to test boards

Hiring Status: Was a contract-to-hire employee by quickly learning the company’s technology, ISO 9001:2008 procedures, and showed efficient completion of daily tasks including, but not limited to, repairing boards in the manufacturing floor, customer returns, and testing and repairing boards to the component level

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

12/2009 The City College of New York

Associate’s Degree in Engineering Science

12/2004 Queensborough Community College

42 Richardsville Road Cell Phone: 973-***-****

Ogdensburg, NJ 07439 *****************@*****.***

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