BRENT GUISE

adu0hc@r.postjobfree.com 971-***-****

*** ** **** ***, *** 417 Portland, OR 97205

Objective

Seeking employment in a company with a solid history of success that my years of experience in Electronics & Engineering performing a wide range of roles would greatly contribute greatly to that success..

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

*Designed over 20 CCAs used to simulate a Cellphone or Test Boards for Software Development, SOC validation, New Feature Verification, Current Measurements, RF Performance, Compliance Testing, & used as a Reference Schematic for External OEMs on their new Phone Designs.

*Vast knowledge of CCAs from Schematic Design & Layout, Bring-up, Design Verification Test, Troubleshooting, Supporting NPI Production till moving it to High Level Manufacturing.

*Rework of defective components & installing modifications for Engineering Experiments

*Validation Testing of Intel Broxton & Skylake CPUs running Python Test Scripts & Windows based testing. Logging results into Jenkins Database Results of Test Case Passes & Failures with logs of results as deemed necessary.

*Loading OS, BIOS, FPGA on Intel & Qualcomm Reference Boards

*Sr Support Manager of Engineers & Engineering Techs as Direct reports at Qualcomm.

*Lead Contract Validation Engineer at Intel of UST Global Engineers.

*Lead Project support engineer on new SOC & Hardware

*Provided Customer Service to Departments in San Diego, Offsite in US locations & abroad on Hardware related Issues and Upgrades

*Repair Lead for High Volume Phone Production with oversight of up to 85 Technicians, Re-Workers, & Operators.

*Familiar with Wireless Standards such as CDMA, UMTS, GSM, LTE, 3GPP & TCP/IP, 802.11

*Streamlined repair process while working in Customer Repair Department to reduce bone-pile of over 1 million failures to greatly reduce repair time & repair cost since Customer Returns were being outsourced.

*Streamlined repair process while working with Mexico Manufacturing plant to reduce excessive bone-pile since Factory was moving to China.

*Outstanding Interpersonal Skills with a Strong Mathematical Aptitude. Remarkable ability to deal with problems involving several Concrete Variables in Standardized Situations.

*Major strengths include Strong Leadership, excellent Communication Skills, Mentoring, Competent, Attention to Detail and dutiful respect for Compliance in all Regulated Environments (ROHS, EU, etc...)

EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL SKILLS

Schematic Design, Routing & CCA Layout / Stack-up

Component Level Troubleshooting of Digital, Analog, Power & RF Circuits

Use of Oracle/Agile for BOM Creation, BOM Updates & ECO releases

Capturing Signal Plots using Oscopes, Spectrum, Logic & Network Analyzers for DVT Document

Expert with the use of test Equipment:

Oscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Logic Analyzer, Signal generator, Power Meter, TDR, Anritsu & HP Call Boxes, etc

Bring-Up of new SOCs & CCAs, & Associated Hardware

Soldering

Management & Lead of both Personnel & Projects

Use of Windows, OSX, Linux / Unix

Excellent in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, & Access

Familiar with DBMS, VBA,Visual Basic for MS Office Excel & MS Access

Use of MS Visio & Acrobat Pro

Use of Python Scripts for Testing, & Loading OS Builds

Loading BIOS & NVROM, FPGA, CPLD with Xilinx & Altera

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Insight Global, (Contracted to Lam Research) Tualatin, OR Oct 2021- Aug 2022

RF Technician,

Running experiments on Hardware, Collecting and analyzing data

Troubleshooting Field returns & production units

Running Full calibration & Validation of units

Vanguard EMS, Beaverton, OR April 2021- Oct 2021

Technician

Assigned to Nortrup Gruman Project

Performed testing & troubleshooting of products

Collecting & analyzing data

UST-Global (Contracted to Intel), Hillsboro, OR Nov 2015 – Nov 2016

Senior Validation Engineer

Lead of UST Global Engineers working in the same Intel Campus Building.

Verification Member of Performance Testing of Broxton & Skylake CPUs.

Submitted Defects, Compiled Yields & Logs of Failures.

Analyzed JTAG & Kernel Dump logs for Common Failures & reported to Proper Department for Debugging Crashes.

Assembled & Maintained Racks by wiring Multiple Power, Video, Ethernet Wires, etc to support 10 Computers to be tested Simultaneously on the same rack using NOCon.

Mentored & Trained Personnel.

Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, CA Aug 1996 – Apr 2015

Senior Support Engineer

***Joined Qualcomm in 1996, Department sold to Kyocera in 1999, Resigned from Kyocera & rejoined Qualcomm 2005***

Supported Bring-Up, Repair, Verification & Sustaining of new Chipsets & associated Hardware.

Designed over 20 CCAs in Qualcomm's IPS Hardware Department, Was responsible for Schematic Capture, Routing, & Layout

Direct Manager of Jr Engineers & Engineering Techs.

Tested & Repaired Digital, Analog, & RF Failures to Component Level to ensure Functionality & Compliance as needed. Compiled & Analyzed Data & Provided Detailed Reports, and Fixes when appropriate of Results.

Worked extensively with LTE, CDMA, UMTS, GSM, BT,WIFI,& NFC.

Project Support Lead on multiple pieces of Hardware.

Debug Lead & had up to 85 Technicians, Reworkers while working in the Cell Phone Manufacturing Repair Department.

Monitored Yields & would go to Manufacturing Floor to investigate Failures causing line down or high fail rate to see if they were hardware issues that needed repaired, if not worked with other departments (i.e. SMT, Assembly, Software, Test, QA, Etc…) for resolution.

Worked in the NPI Lab to support Bring-Up of New Products & prepare for high volume manufacturing.

Mentored & Trained personnel.

MILITARY HISTORY

UNITED STATES NAVY ● Avionics Technician 2nd Class Petty Officer Aug1990 – August 1996

Honorable Discharge with Protected Veteran Status

Aviation electronic technicians troubleshoot and repaired number of complex electronics systems including the latest test equipment and procedures, ATs put that training to use repairing systems such as communications, navigation, infrared detection, radar, laser, electronics, fiber optics, digital computers, installing field changes, alterations and modifications to avionics systems.

*Shop lead of Avionics Automation Repair Lab on USS Constellation while deployed

*Desert Storm Veteran while serving aboard USS Kitty Hawk during Gulf War.

*Held Secret Clearance

*Troubleshoot to Component Level Radar, Communication, Navigation, IFF, & Crypto Systems

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

San Diego Mesa College Business Classes

Completed Qualcomm Training Courses: Agile, Oracle, CDMA, WCDMA/UMTS,

Completed Advanced First Term Avionics in Navy

LTE, GSM, SVLTE, Jitter Analysis, High Speed Frequency Analysis, Schematic Design, Routing, & Layout Courses.

Completed Avionics A1 School in Navy

Call Testing using Agilent & Anritsu Call Boxes,

Competed Intro to C++ Programming

KY-58 Secure Speech System, AN/USM-429 Automated Test Station, AN/ARN-84/155/156 TACAN School in Navy

Completed Intro to Labview

Oregon Unarmed Security Guard PS20 Private Security Certification

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