Electrical Engineer Senior

***** ****** ***** **. • RICHMOND, TEXAS *****

PHONE 832-***-**** • E-MAIL ***********@*****.***

CHRIS KERN

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position that will utilize experience, skills, and creativity as a computer engineer. I prefer working with motivated people in a growing environment.

EDUCATION

University of Houston Houston, Texas

2000, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University College Station, Texas

WORK EXPERIENCE

2017 - Present Atec, Inc. Stafford, Texas

Senior Electrical Engineer

Redesigned Pressure Test Set System: Implemented PIC code for data acquisition of 18 pressure channels, saved data, recalled data, and designed comms protocol.

Redesigned RL10 control system rack: Designed PLC code including PID controls for operating valves and various other controls to test 3 different valves for the RL10 engine.

Designed and implemented Thrust Frame Controller: Wrote PLC and HMI code to ensure safety lockouts for hanging an engine for test.

Designed and implemented PLC, HMI, and NI DAQ code for various engine test cells.

Traveled domestically and internationally to engine test cells to test prototype system designs and troubleshoot issues with existing systems.

Responsible for maintaining and sustaining engine test cell equipment from design level to component level.

Mentored junior electrical engineers.

Responsible for setting new standards for system drawings and templates.

Maintained shared Altium library.

Maintained SVN code repository.

Followed AS9100D standards to output the best products for our customers following their deadlines and budgets.

Designed and prototyped a flowmeter system based on torque of the flowmeter’s shaft.

Responsible for product choice in test cells based on environmental conditions. These included pressure transducers, camera systems, and various other sensors.

Responsible for writing ATPs (Acceptance Test Procedures) for the Quality Control group to ensure the product was fully qualified for customer use.

Redesigned, tested, and implemented an air in-take louver control system that utilized a 4Q (four quadrant) control board, relay logic, and AC/DC power supply.

Printed Circuit Board Design: Designed, tested, and oversaw the lifecycle of multiple PCB’s. Schematic capture and PCB layout completed with Alitum.

PIC programming: Designed and recoded various 8- and 16-bit PICs (MicroChip)

2006 - 2017 Schlumberger (Pathfinder Energy Services, Inc.) Katy, Texas

Senior Electrical Engineer – (New Product Development and Sustaining)

Designed, built, and field tested dual 32-bit A/D interface board for mud-pulse telemetry which resides in rig floor HMI. Board utilizes micro-processor and measures down to nano-volt levels.

Worked on redesign of downhole battery monitoring device.

Designed, built, and field tested Rig Floor Display Interface Adapter using USB interface.

Designed, built, and field tested Electromagnetic Downlink Telemetry system needed to talk to downhole tools. Design utilized Cortex-M device with USB capability.

Designed and built high-powered Magnetic Field Generator controller to manage large inductor coils for EM ranging of downhole tools. Design utilized Cortex-M device with USB and Ethernet capabilities.

Redesigned PCI-based tool communications interface with High-Speed USB interface, operating under and MCU and off-chip SRAM.

Controlled BOMs for all designs under my control.

Responsible for writing test procedures for all designs under my control.

Wrote VHDL code for Xilinx FPGA modules.

Designed and prototyped test fixtures for proprietary logging systems.

Developed schematic and PCB designs for prototyping boards in PCAD.

Responsible for redesign of PCB’s and overall system designs due to obsolescence of existing parts and technological advances in parts.

Responsible for operational and environmental qualification, testing, and analysis of all surface systems for field release.

Hands on experience troubleshooting various proprietary cards during and after R&D.

Traveled domestically and internationally to oil rigs in order to test prototype tool communications and troubleshooting of existing tool communications.

Maintained Engineering control and responsibility for all surface data acquisition devices worldwide for Pathfinder Energy Services.

Considered one of two Hazardous Area classification experts within Pathfinder. In this role, I designed and verified systems that met the appropriate levels of safety for use in hazardous areas of an oil rig.

Center Advisor for CE, RoHS, and WEEE; I have analyzed and qualified numerous designs for these directives.

Support InTouch Engineers (liaisons between field users and internal engineers) with issues regarding design and best practices of device use.

2000 - 2006 Halliburton Energy Services Houston, Texas

Test Engineer II

Production Engineer III

SCHLUMBERGER INTERNAL MEMBERSHIPS

SETC Senior Level II (Schlumberger Eureka Technical Careers)

Active participant in Eureka, Schlumberger’s knowledge sharing interface.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES

C / C++

Java

Sysmac Studio

Altium

Crimson

PCAD

Xilinx Foundation/ISE

Verilog/VHDL

Python

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