Product Engineer Technical Lead

SELAMU SAID, MBA

Long Beach, California ***** 847-***-**** *******@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/selamu-said-54308920/

PROFILE

Highly-experienced engineer, a technology and business leader 20+ years of experience as senior engineer, electronics product engineer, technical lead and principal investigator

Strategic business developer in consumer electronics, renewable power engineering.

Aerospace and Defense microelectronics research and development.

Concept, design, prototyping, testing, validation, production.

Global supply management, smart manufacturing, modeling, and analysis.

Building strong partnerships with government subcontractors, manufacturers, vendors.

Power systems engineering, renewable power, battery and power management. SKILLS

RF, Baseband, Analog, digital, mixed-signal design, printed circuit board (PCB), schematics and layout

Power management and distribution, battery storage, power supplies, regulators, converters, controls, sensors

EMI, ESD, safety, quality, electromechanical, environmental, reliability test, verification, evaluation

DFA, DFM, DFT, DFMEA, fault tree analysis, extreme-value/worst-case/tolerance and failure and variation root cause analysis, risk management, debug and corrective actions

Compliance and certification (IEEE, UL, CSA, FCC, IEC), scopes, analyzers, dataloggers

AutoCAD, Cadence, Synopsys, Alegro, Mentor/Siemens, Altium, OrCad, Capture, PowerLogic, PowerPCB, PADs, C, P-Spice, Matlab, high-speed interfaces, I2C, SPI, USB

Motor Drives, DC-DC, AC/DC Power Converters, Controllers, Rectifiers, Filtes, Gate Drives, Sensors, Transimpedance amplifier designs, linear electrical/electronic components (resistors, capacitors, relays), electro- mechanical components (actuators, AC/DC motors, VFD or VSD, motor controllers), serial and parallel communication protocols (I2C, Modbus, CAN bus), sensor equipment (pressure, flow, voltage, current), analog and discrete inputs/outputs (I/O), Ladder logic/PLC programming, computer networks. EXPERIENCE

Nimbis Services, Inc.

Senior Product Engineer, Product & Platform Experience Team, Evanston, IL, 01/2023- 08/2024

Completed capital projects to accelerate technology transitions, facilitate design tape outs and workforce development in microelectronics, manufacturing, and aerospace.

Ensured rapid deployment and integration of a secure DoD-wide cloud- hosted collaborative microelectronics ecosystem for supply chain risk management, modeling, simulation, analysis, digital- twin capabilities, radiation effects and thermal analysis.

Assessed business opportunities and led proposal development for government, academic and commercial microelectronics lifecycle management, collaborated with government agencies and the Defense Industrial Base.

Served as Subject Matter Expert and Technical Lead for microelectronics and emulation thrust areas transition and optimization, and as Principal Investigator for federated assured cloud transition of microelectronics verification and manufacturing projects and data protection, quantifiable trust and assurance activities.

Coordinated program budgeting, scheduling, planning, implementation, and quarterly and monthly status reporting, high-level programmatic reviews, coordinated with DevSecOps teams for product support and responsive operations-based management.

Microelectronics Design Engineer, 11/2019-12/2022

Demonstrated and expanded the capability of a trusted and assured microelectronics collaborative cloud platform.

Accelerated research and innovation by facilitating fast, high-quality product development through a portfolio of commercial and open-source state-of-the-art design automation tools.

Managed government-funded advanced technology transfer programs and critical relationships with DoD partners.

Led the development of and government training on a common design framework, shared intellectual property library and threat analysis models.

Cultivated partnerships with multiple vendors to advocate for our cloud platform and provide technology access to underserved laboratories and research institutes and reduce time to market and cost.

Grew in-house and domestic expertise in technology roadmaps and expand custom product offerings on our high- performance computing platform.

S&C Electric Company 2017-2019

Senior Engineer, Power Quality Products & Energy Storage Group and Feeder Automation Electronics and Controls Group, Franklin, WI and Chicago, IL

Led continuous improvement projects to achieve reliability, cost reduction, ease of sales and application of storage management system and uninterruptible power supplies for government, medical and renewable power facilities, and utility companies around the world.

Actively interfaced with cross-functional marketing, project management and regulatory agencies toward reliability and quality certification of our portfolio of products.

Initiated and executed new product inspection processes to reduce troubleshooting time and increase customer satisfaction.

Designed Low-Voltage Microprocessor-based Power Conversion systems: DC-DC converters, high-speed interfaces, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR4.

Motorola Mobility, Inc., a Google company (2012-2014), a Lenovo company, 2005-2016 Senior Staff Engineer, Chicago, IL

Proposed, built, and brought novel solutions in power circuit integration for the design and launch of over ten mobile phone models -- Moto Z Force, Moto MODs, Moto X, Droid Turbo.

Improved mobile device battery safety and life, power management, and charging performance; optimized thermal and power distribution, battery metering and user experience; oversaw battery charge system safety and quality checks and regulatory agency certification

Traveled extensively to provide production and process quality oversight at vendor and contract manufacturer sites in China and Thailand.

Motorola Energy Systems Group, Lawrenceville, GA, 2000-2005 Senior Electrical Engineer (promoted in 2004 from Junior Electrical Engineer)

Designed and developed battery electrical circuits for smartphones and personal computers; received Motorola Bravo! awards for product launches and exceeding customer requirements.

Worked extensively on portable power product design, quality, and safety.

Trained in project management, Ford Global 8D problem solving and Six-Sigma foundations. EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame, Executive Master of Business Administration, May 2024. State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.E. Electrical Engineering, May 2000.

College honors and awards: Sigma Beta Honor Society, PaineWebber Science and Technology Scholarship Award, Dean's List, National Society of Black Engineers Scholarship Award and Torchbearer, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Scholarship Award, IEEE Student Chapter Vice President and Treasurer, Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Grant

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