Engineering Assistant Service Representative

LESLY P. LACOMBE

**** ******** ****** *********: 954-***-****

Hollywood, FL 33024 E-mail: ******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Trilingual Electrical Engineering Professional with over 20 years of extensive hands on experience in the electrical and electronic industries with emphasis on Controls and Instrumentation. An exceptionally keen and detail oriented troubleshooter. PLC and HMI wiring and programming. A flexible, reliable, self starter and innovative team player who works well with others and also functions well independently. Skills include:

GE Fanuc 90-30 series PLC

Variable Frequency Drives

Electrical Panel Design and Wiring

Equipment Designing and Commissioning - Control Systems Designing – Fibers

Servo Drives - Sensors

Omron CS1, CJ1M and C200H-Series, AutomationDirect PLC’s, RFID - Self Directed Work Teams

Servo Motors and Controllers

Sankyo, Motoman (six axis) and Epson Robotics-I/O Wiring and Programming

Performance Improvement of Machine

Pneumatics – Instrument Calibration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BOSCH THERMOTECHNOLOGY/FHP MANUFACTURING, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2014 – Present

Automation Test Technician/Quality Control Auditor

HVAC controls related experience including troubleshooting and diagnostics of complex control applications on the manufacturing Plant. Participated in the design, development, installation and commissioning of the new Testing System for product reliability. Redesigned all the peripheral control cables for Test System applications. Supported and assured proper operation of testing equipment including Decay Test, E-Box subassembly testing and end of line test at Run Off. Used piping schematics, electrical wiring diagrams and work instruction layouts to assure 100% unit compliance with quality standards and engineering designs. Performed different tasks as a Quality Control Auditor (A-Test, Q-Test, Dry ) on the manufacturing floor and testing area. Process software used TestBuilder, SQL Data Processing and WebCTRL for OEMs.

TYCO INTERNATIONAL/SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS CORP., Boca Raton, FL 1997 –2013

Electrical Controls/ Commissioning Engineer

Worked on design and development of Dual Technology RFID Automated Machines. Travelled to China for installation and commissioning of thirteen RFID Work Cells and reached the 30 million tags/month output milestone goal set. Designed, custom built, commissioned, and installed the automated machinery needed for Boca Raton plant manufacturing processes and production lines.

Identified need to step forward and took over part of major project due to loss of two important players in machine design team and brought rotary table part of $2 million Roll Cell up to par.

Developed and commissioned complex peripheral machine needed for process, which resulted in Cell being in production line, and met deadline. Production was increased 20%.

A leader in projects for transfers of Roll Cells and rotary sheet tables to Mexico, Puerto Rico, China and Ireland facilities and accomplished seamless transition in the setting of their manufacturing plants.

Performed successful complex modifications of machines from one version to another as needed by manufacture.

Played major role in accomplishment of putting five additional Roll Cells in Boca manufacturing facilities, which resulted in achieving best output in history.

AMERIKEM LABORATORIES LTD, Orange, NJ 1995 – 1997

Technical Field Service Representative

Installed, wired and commissioned state of the art dispensing systems for the hospitality, healthcare and food industries.

Performed programming, modifications of formulas, programming changes and troubleshooting of systems. Traveled throughout Dade, Broward, Palm Beach Counties and the Bahamas Islands.

VESTA TECHNOLOGY LTD, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1992 – 1995

Instrumentation/Controls Field Engineer

Worked as an Instrumentation Controls Field Engineer (I/C Field Engineer) both in the United States and Canada, burning hazardous waste materials.

Installed, wired, cabled, calibrated and commissioned electrical and electronic systems on the Vesta-200 Mobile (propane gas combustion) Incineration unit plant (start-up and PID Loop checked included). Purchased instrumentation for the automation of the incineration process. Supervised up to six operators helping during set up and clean up.

Calibrated field devices with various test equipment including Druck pressure generator, Transmation temperature generator, Honeywell Smartfield communicator programmer, Omega PH meter, Lancom portable gas analyzer, 4-20 mA analog signal generator, DC power supply, Dwyer manometer, insulation voltage tester (Megger), VOMs, Amprobe, oscilloscope and digital testers.

Worked with Modicon PLC. Interfaced PLC to machines and peripherals. Software used included Taylor–Modicon Ladder logic and process windows.

EASTERN AIRLINES INC., Miami, FL 1990 – 1991

(Commercial Airlines Company)

Electro-Mechanical Technician

Troubleshot various systems such as CSD (constant speed drive), VSD (variable speed drive), Randtriever, Mannesmann Demag, and other electrical systems. Also gained valuable experience as a plant operator of utilities and a thorough improvement of mechanical skills.

NEW ENGLAND ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS, Westwood, MA 1987 – 1990

(Engineering contracting company)

Electro–Mechanical Technician

Assignments at LTX Corporation, Westwood, MA. Built, modified, tested, and troubleshot circuit boards to the component level from schematics. Performed electro-mechanical assembly of ATE (Automated Test Equipment) systems.

Assignments at Engelhard Corporation, Milford, MA. Technician in Photo-patterning Division involved with photolithography processes (photo-resist chemistry, wafer alignment and exposure, development of printed circuits on substrates, etching and sputtering).

DATEL INTERSIL, Mansfield, MA 1984 – 1985

(Data conversion and acquisition company (Semi-conductor technology))

Sustaining Engineering Assistant

Gathered and coordinated Datel’s hybrid data conversion and acquisition test definitions and standards for government facilities approval. Investigated and characterized the performance of Datel’s hybrid thick and thin film substrates for a better product. Assisted in the concept guidelines for designing Hybrid Resistor Networks (thick and thin film). Participated in photo masking technology (sputtering, etching) and laser trimming of resistor networks. Performed various testing on components, hybrid, modular and board level data converters. Designed, built, tested, and troubleshot burn-in boards for industrial applications. Negotiated with vendors/manufacturers.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Fluent in French and Creole, some Spanish

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