Steven Korzenowski
Summary:
Steven is a result oriented Electrical Engineer with extensive experience in component engineering and PCB design within medical device, and military industry. In his work experience with CareFusion-Pulmonetics, he provided support for component engineering/purchasing and redesigned the main board for the LTV Series Ventilation Product including Microprocessor architecture, PCB layout, and EMI/EMC Mitigation. He also oversaw HW/SW interface integration circuit design using ARM-based processors and upgraded it to highly integrated peripherals. With Medtronic, he designed debugged and verified electronic designs for the next generation implantable pulse generators (pacemakers) and implantable cardioversion defibrillator (IPG’s and ICD’s). He is a local candidate and available immediately.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
Associate of Digital Electronics, Dunwoody Industrial Institute, Courses: Embedded Systems
Associate of Analog Electronics, Dunwoody Industrial Institute, Courses: Industrial/Analog Electronics
Qualifications/Skills:
OrCad, PSPICE, Altium, C and Assembly Languages
Embedded Systems- HW, SW and FW, R&D and NPD
Digital, Analog, RF and FPGA Design; EMI/ EMC Compliance testing and DVT
Maintained the DHF, ESO and ECR; SOPs Writing
Specializing in Embedded Systems, R&D, NPD and Change Process.
Drove day by day design and troubleshooting efforts for all electrical/ computer issues for multiple manufacturing lines and coordinated with management for facility realignment
Coordinated with outside contractors and internal resources to ensure quality standards
Drove research requirements and specifications for sensors and provided technical guidance for proposals
Delivered Design of Experiments proposals for fluid control systems and created mitigation strategies for circuits
Drove updates for instrumental platforms for testing medical devices and proposed LabVIEW Virtual Instruments utilizing GPIB drivers and analyzers
Performed schematic capture duties.
Delivered simulations runs and design investigations for HVAC controller board and drove development for board prototypes
Authored 6 white paper recommendations for F-15 electronic warfare platform
Work History:
Reason of Gap: Took Time off or semi-retired due to medical leave between 03/17 between 12/19. Situation is resolved
Resideo (formerly Honeywell) Golden Valley, MN
Test Engineer II (Contract) 12/20 to 01/22
Analyze test requirements and allocate resources
Design/create/build HW test fixtures
Responsible for documentation and presentation of test outcomes
3M, Maplewood, MN
Electrical Engineer (Short-Term Contract) 01/17 to 02/17
Researched requirements and component specifications.
Provided technical guidance and proposals for 6 different sensor proposals
Responsible for supporting component engineering and purchasing
Reason of Gap: Took Time off or semi-retired due to health issues.
Ingersoll Rand Thermo King, MN 11/15 to 12/15
Senior Electrical Engineer (Short-Term Contract)
Delivered DOE (Design of Experiments) proposals for fluid control system
Becket Performance Products, MN
Senior Electrical Engineer (Short-Term Contract) 06/15 to 09/15
Delivered simulation runs and subsequent design investigations for HVAC controller board.
Drove the development of the board prototype (Freescale microprocessors to analog interfaces)
Designed sub-nanoamp flame sense implementation
Honeywell ETS, MN
Senior Electrical Engineer (Short-term Contract) 02/15 to 03/15
Was responsible for 6 white paper recommending technology mitigation strategies for the F-15
American Medical Systems, MN
Senior Electrical Engineer 07/14 to 08/14
Drove updates and development of an instrumentation platform for testing medical devices.
Aided in component specifications and selection.
Olympus Surgical Technologies America
Senior Electrical Engineer (Contract) 01/14 to 06/14
Coordinated between manufacturing, development and management for facility
Performed DFMEA, Risk Assessment and SOP development
Developed validation and verification procedures for electronic (RF ablation) surgical products
Drove day-by-day design and troubleshooting efforts for all electrical/electronic/computer issues for multiple manufacturing lines including taking care of component engineering and purchasing
Maintained the DHF, ECO and ECR
Wrote SOPs and used Documentum for Requirements Management
Minnetronix
Senior Electrical Engineer (Short-Term Contract) 09/13 to 10/13
Designed laser driver, isolated RS-485 and motor driver circuits for medical devices
Utilized Altium and company database for design schematic capture
CareFusion-Pulmonetics Division
Senior Electrical Engineer 05/08 to 05/13
Redesigned the main board for the LTV Series Ventilation Product:
Created the Microprocessor architecture, PCB layout, EMI/EMC Mitigation and mechanical interfaces
Took charge of HW/SW interface integration circuit design using ARM-based processors and upgrades to highly integrated peripherals
Championed packaging upgrades to BGA-based components and provided support for component engineering and purchasing. Coordinated with outside contractors (China based manufacturing)
Drove cost and space savings for FPGA digital designs and wrote the code for multiple Altera IC’s- upgraded and partitioned designs for increased efficiency
Designed in circuit mitigation strategies at the prototype level. Was Team leader for compliance testing for both Emissions and Susceptibility (EMI/EMC) and IEC60601 (+ ISO 13485, 11607 and 21 CFR) of the LTV series ventilator
Provided documentation support for all ECO’s, EVA’s, specification and requirement documents
Maintained the DHF, ESO and ECR. Wrote SOPs
Entegris-Sensing and Control Division
Senior Electrical Engineer 09/07 to 05/08
Pioneered the completion of the latest FW design for Integrated Controllers
Technical leader responsible for compliance testing for both Emissions and Susceptibility (EMI/EMC) of industrial controls
Drove and designed PCB layout, FW modifications and component engineering
Coordinated with outside contractors and internal resources to ensure quality standards
Provided technical guidance concerning product development and support to engineering technicians, peers and managers
Medtronic
Senior Device Engineer for Hardware Design, Integration and Test 05/03 to 09/07
Team leader for the circuit design, debug, testing, verification and releasing of the emulator platform for custom IC characterization and design verification (DVT)
Senior Device Engineer leading team of test engineering and DVT technicians for Design Verification Testing of the next generation platform
Designed circuits and debugged, tested and verified electronic designs for the next generation implantable pulse generators (pacemakers) and implantable cardioversion defibrillator (IPG’s and ICD’s) specialized in electro gram and input protection circuits
Designed and debugged procedures and test plans for incremental DVT (LabVIEW virtual instruments)
Performed lab experiments and testing of next generation mixed signal IC’s from the millivolt level up to high voltage (800 V) levels. Circuit evaluated proprietary RF noise rejection, EMI/EMC filtering and IEC60601 (+ ISO 13485, 11607 and 21 CFR) compliance (Wireless medical device environment)
Maintained the DHF, ESO and ECR
Wrote SOPs and used Documentum for Requirements Management
General Dynamics
Engineer 09/02 to 05/03
Utilized SW tools (MathCAD, PSPICE and statistical analysis) to predict the theoretical end of life behavior of electronics modules for aerospace applications. Both Analog and Digital architectures analyzed. (DFMEA, Risk Assessment.)
Authored technical reports and provided recommendations during high-level design reviews for changes in design and architecture both at the system level and at the component level
Drove the design of the circuits for a high current (3 Amp) analog drivers and flight computer circuits and subsequently analyzed, debugged and corrected the designs
ADC Telecommunications
Senior Design Engineer 01/92 to 08/02
Designed the circuits and debugged, tested and verified electronic designs for CMTS products.
Designed, debugged, tested, verified and released 1.5 Gigabit pseudo-PECL backplane for a CMTS product, adding a low cost CMTS solution to the product portfolio. Blade-to-blade communications with proprietary protocol
Designed/Debugged Ethernet 10BASET octal interfaces and PHY implementations
Designed Beta Test Plan for beta customers allowing a methodology for customer feedback and subsequent product improvements
Performed lab experiments and testing of next generation advanced phy chipsets for DOCSIS 2.0
All processors in all circuit designs were MIPS based embedded systems
All designed were designed ahead of time to meet all EMC/EMI specifications
Both wireless and LAN networking protocols developed
All designs met UL and CE requirements