Jacinto Patrick Carrera

** ******* **** – Newton MA 02460, Phone: cell 617-***-**** E-mail: adwyw3@r.postjobfree.com

United States Citizen

Objective: Product Safety and Worldwide Certification/Compliance

Summary: “Hands-On Compliance-Quality-Reliability-Testing manager/Engineer, out-of-the-box thinker”, Product Safety Certification (FCC-UL-CSA, CE, NOM, CCC (IEC/EN, GB-Chinese, and Automotive standards, RoHS, WEEE, REACH, PAH, ISO9001, IPC A 600) for electronic consumer products worldwide. Ordinary, Hazardous Locations and ATEX certification for Electrical Equipment (Distributed Control Systems IEC61010-1, IEC61010_2-201) – FS (Functional Safety engineer-TUV Rheinland ID-No 9924/15). UL508A Industrial Control Panels and Short Circuit Current Ratings. Six Sigma Black Belt with strong electromechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical design, Reliability testing, and administrative skills. This includes Reverse Engineering, Testing Lab management, HALT (Highly Accelerate Life Testing), a problem solver, who performs well under pressure, always learning, applying new technologies and processes. Fluent in Spanish. Communicate well at different corporate levels and with other cultures in Asia, Europe and South America. Very familiar with Product Management from inception, development, manufacturing and merchandising. Proficient knowledge of Chinese Contract Manufacturers. Work well in a matrix environment/organization.

Professional Experience:

Shark Ninja, Needham, 02494 April, 13, 2020 – to October 21, 2022

Manager for Safety, EMC, and RF for robotic Vacuum Cleaners (Wet and Dry), standard Vacuum cleaners (corded and cordless), Air Purifiers, Air Purifiers combined with heaters and Fan., Vac-Shops, Steam-Mops, Steam-Vacuums. Expertise for Lithium Batteries. Applied UL Safety Standards, IEC Safety and EMC Standards, FCC, Laser, RED (Radio Equipment Directive RoHS, REACH, and Pro65. Approver for ECN and VEEVA.

Foxboro by Schneider-Electric (former Invensys), Foxboro, MA 02035 – March 17, 2014, April 6, 2020

Principal Compliance Engineer

Safety, EMC and Environmental Compliance for Intelligent Automation (I/A) products (distributed control systems) for Ordinary (IEC61010-1, IEC61010-2-201) and Hazardous locations (IEC60079-1, IEC60079-15) ATEX certification for Europe, including approval of EMC/Safety, RoHS for all I/A, SCADA and Field Device products, including Intelligent Enclosures. Vital participation to obtain Foxboro testing lab accreditation by UL for Ordinary-Hazardous Locations, ATEX certification and UL Data Acceptance Program, including ISO/IEC 17025.

iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 November 2010 – February 2014

Principal Compliance Engineer

Safety, EMC and Environmental worldwide Compliance management responsibility for all products (consumer-robotics-dry & wet vacuum cleaners, outdoors and medical), Rechargeable batteries Ni-MH, and Li-Ion (IEC 62133) for the Home Robot Division (HRD) covering North America, Europe, APAC and Latin America. Audit all Contract Manufacturers in China and enforced compliance to RoHS, REACH, WEEE, PAH, Packaging, Safety-Low Voltage Directive, EMC Directive, Battery Directive. UL and FCC Certification. Audited and visited iRobot distributors in Europe. Organized UL Flammability Workshop for iRobot product development engineering groups. Established a database for Certifications and a Process to obtain worldwide certifications. Interact on daily basis with Operations, Marketing, Quality, Sustainability engineering and Product Development in several programs to bring new products to market, i.e. Roomba 700 -800 series, Scooba400- 200 series, Mint, Braava, OSMO, RP-Vita(medical), Looj, Integrated Dock Charger, Swimming pool cleaners, Li-Ion battery, Robot Lawnmower, and FirstLook.

LoJack Corporation, Canton, MA 02021 June 2009 – June 2010

Sr. Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance responsibility for all LoJack products, compliance with ISO/TS 16949/ ISO 19001/ ISO 9001. Accomplished: Quality Management System – Quality Manual, Supplier Quality Manual, Vehicle Locator Unit 7 (VLU7) QA Plan, Annual Product Validation (PV) Plan and Monthly PV Plan for VLU7, QA Plan for V7E, FCC certification for V7E, and Network Repeater Unit (NRU), Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) for VLU7 and V7E. Audited Clarion in Malaysia, a Contract manufacture for LoJack and directed efforts to solve Quality issues with product VLU5 and V5E using Six Sigma methodology. Led efforts to solve Quality issues in Boomerang, a division of LoJack in Montreal CA achieving a cost saving of $300K using Six Sigma methodologies. Accomplished QA plan for PCB based on IPC 610 and MIL-STD-105E standards-compliant with RoHS/WEEE. QA Plan for Persons at Risk (PAR) new product, QA Plan and Environmental Testing for Network Repeater Unit (NRU) including the process/application for obtaining FCC certification, Presenter of Quality Management System to LoJack International Licensees at the Boston-09 Global Technical Advisory Council (GTAC) and Quarterly to the LoJack Strategy Management Product committee (SMP). Supply Chain contributor achieving the operational manufacturing schedules, and supplier assessments. Improved LoJack RMA data analysis. Reviewed product design ideas, schedules, Quality Plans, certification and testing. Series of Plastic designing seminar by Sabic (MME-Maxuni-Sabic LoJack plastic molder).

Pollak (Stoneridge division-automotive OEM), Canton, MA 02021 August 2005 – December 2008

Testing Laboratory Manager for World Class Systems (WCS)

Lab management testing responsibility for switches, sensors and actuators, including 12 lab personnel, budget, compliance with ISO/TS 16949/ ISO 19001/ ISO 14001 Third Party Audits, NCN lab responses and Safety. Accomplished: Lab expansion from 6K sq-ft to 9K sq-ft, added more EMC, new Sound chamber, added Magnetic, and general testing capabilities. Devise and approved testing plans for Design Validation (DV) and Product Validation (PV). Improved lab test request-data base intranet web page, lab intranet web page, and Capacitance testing for detecting water ingress. Contributor to Magnetoelastic project for steering applications. Six Sigma Black Belt certified by the Air Academy Associates of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Attended ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation, and Introduction to Measurement Uncertainty training by A2LA (The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation), ESD Training by Dangelmayer Associates for the automotive industry. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GDT) certificate by Worcester polytechnic Institute.

Polaroid Corporation, Waltham, MA 02451

Senior Engineer (1979 – 2005)

SQ&R (Systems Quality and Reliability): Achieved AFS (Approval for Sale) for Film recorders, Camera-Printer, and a Digital

Printer. Applied HALT (Highly Accelerate Life Testing). ESS (Environmental Stress Screening), and HASS (Highly Accelerated

Stress Screening) to components & boards, and cycling.

Hardware Product Safety & Compliance: Expert in Conformity Assessment, Product Safety, and regulatory agency

Certification for USA (UL, FCC, ETL), Canada (CSA), Europe (CE mark), Latin America and Asia. Supported product

Development for worldwide regulatory safety compliance. Performed preliminary in-house testing applying IEC60950/UL60950

for Safety, Low Voltage Directive, EMC (electromagnetic compliance), and IEC60285 for Laser Safety. Achieved compliance for

for amateur and industrial cameras, including LED attachment applications.

Motor Laboratory supervisor: Expert in design, evaluation and testing of motors, solenoid, steppers and linear actuator. Achieve

A cost reduced motor and solenoid for instant cameras. Reduced cost of motor from $0.72 to $0.42, and solenoid from $0.60 to

$0.44 savings a total of $13 million in 5 years.

Reverse Engineering: Reviewed patents to establish infringement in Instant Photography and Conventional Photography 35 mm

That contributed $60 million in 3 years. It covered optics, acoustic sensors, electronics and mechanical disciplines.

Infrastructure supervisor: Designed Metrology and Optical experiments to maintain Polaroid calibration standards and supported

Product development in characterization measurements.

Licensing support for Branded Products Business: Devised test plans of competitive analysis to establish Pro/Con for

Approval/licensing new electronic branded products vis-a-vis consumer video electronic products in the market.

Product Modeling for Product Development: Implemented a camera shutter with SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY to substitute the

Shutter solenoid (disclosure 5).

Additional engineering Experience at Polaroid: Successfully progressing from Electromechanical Engineer to Research &

Development engineer then to Product Design engineer (1996).

Other experience

Northeastern University – Boston, MA

Invited Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department since the Fall-81 to the Spring-89 quarter. I organized and taught:

Electromagnetic field theory I and II, Circuit Theory and Systems I, II and III, Communication Theory I, Computer Architecture

(Digital I), Electronic Lab 2 and 3, Electrical Engineering.

Education

Master of Science in Business Administration (1987) Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA

Electrical Engineer Degree (1981) - beyond the MSEE Northeastern University, Boston MA

Thesis: Analysis of Bi-directional Linear Motor using SmCo magnets. Area of studies: Fields, Power systems.

MSEE and BSEE (1979) BS-MS combined program Northeastern University, Boston MA

Thesis: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Area of studies: Control Systems-Communication Theory.

Activities: Honor Society ETA KAPPA NU member, Student member of IEEE. Tutor-grader for FORTRAN IV.

PATENTS

United States Patent number 4,496,921 Electromagnetic actuator having adjustable plunger

United States Patent number 4,514,065 Thin blade members having magnetic repelling forces there between

United States Patent number 6,008,834 Bouncing ball scanner

DISCLOSURES

June 12, 1986 Linear actuator, bobbin rides along a rod having spaced magnetic segments

September 16, 1988 Compact motor spindle mechanism and keeper for optical disk

September 27, 1993 Reciprocating platform incorporating a looped flat spring

June 3, 1997 Multipositional and bi-directional limited torque motor and method

January 27, 2000 Low cost shutter using Shape memory Alloy Springs

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