Test Technician Lead
Resume:
CRIS A. RABE
PINCONNING,MI 48650
EMAIL:****.*****@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: To have a challenging career again
EXPERIENCE:
*/**** – 4/2008 ON SEMICONDUCTOR, East Greenwich, Rhode Island Cherry Semiconductor was purchased by ON Semiconductor Design/Test Technician
Responsible for supporting all aspects of IC product design and development. From bench device evaluation, ATE test correlation to applications evaluation.
5/95 – 2/2000 CHERRY SEMICONDUCTOR CORP., East Greenwich, Rhode Island Final Test Technician
Responsible for the repair and maintenance of the ATE’s (Teradyne A360, A510, J259) and the associated IC handlers (Aetrium, MCT, Delta/Delta Flex)
3/89 - 5/95 DATA APPLICATIONS INC., Dallas, Texas
Lead Technician
Responsible for component level repair of 3270 based network equipment, from controllers to printers and terminals. Also repair all types of IBM PC’s, clones and laser printers.
9/87 - 3/89 INFOMEDIA, Dallas, Texas (no longer in business) Lead Technician
Duties included component level repair of PC motherboards and their peripherals and all types of monitors and printers. 2/83 - 9/87 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Dallas, Texas
Technician/Test Sustaining Engineer
Transferred from the Lubbock site with responsibility for component level repair of linear and digital test systems such as Teradyne(A360), LTX, TL
-1 and HSM. I evolved into sustaining a few 8 bit A/D flash converter products.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Lubbock, Texas
Technician
Responsible for component level repair of the 99/4A home computer in a production line environment.
EDUCATION: OHIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Columbus Ohio Associates Degree, October 1982
BAY-ARENAC SKILL CENTER, Bay City, MI
Electronics Program, Graduated June 1980
ACHIEVEMENTS: As a design tech I needed to design custom hardware and software to achieve the desired goal. This includes PIC microprocessor design and programming. Most times interfacing to a PC running VB or C++ program’s I’ve written. In assisting other groups which lacked my skill set I designed an addressable SPI bus capable of controlling 255 slave boards (PC master). Also wrote VB code to interface to devices under development with SPI ports. To expedite evaluation I designed and programmed a stack of 8 high resolution power supplies (+-16 volt 500uv resolution --- 16 bit), of course with a VB control program. In a personal project I designed and built an electric vehicle including the design of the motor controller and battery charging system
(functional).
In the time spent with Cherry Semiconductor I have been involved in the upgrade and modification of several handlers and testers. Some of which being the relocation of the sensors on I have redesigned some of the sources for the VERY old Teradyne J259 testing system. This is needed to make the system less susceptible to noise and to eliminate spikes generated when the source was ramped. This also increased system reliability.
While employed with Texas Instruments there was a need for a logic board tester. The logic boards(when defective) would cause the programmable source that they control to destroy themselves. I designed and built a PC-based tester for those boards with the ability to be adapted for use with many other types of logic boards. I transferred to the LTX probe and final test area where I had the duties of technician and assistant product engineer. While in this capacity I was sent to Taipei Taiwan to assemble the new LTX equipment sent there and to start up three products for testing. I also developed and taught a class covering the machine and products.
As a personal venture I designed a PC-based curve tracer meant to compete with the Huntron Tracker 5000. This design is capable of trouble shooting and board(analog of digital) in a powered down mode(on the bench). With this design and a partner who wrote the program and performed the salesman function we formed a company called Professional Digital Components. This product met with limited success due to our limited advertising budget. Patents were applied for but we decided not to proceed when sales did not meet our expectations(we had patient pending status).
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