Retired Aerospace Engineer

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ROBERT A. ARNOLD

Broomfield, CO 80020 720-***-**** ****************@***.*** SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Dedicated, driven retired design professional and military veteran with significant and successful experience in architectural, mechanical and electrical/electronic design engineering, Program & project Management, production, & manufacturing including but not limited to: space systems, missile systems, high speed data communications, covert surveillance systems, and medical equipment manufacturing.

Skilled in organizational and product realization

Proven success in CAD systems management and administration

Competently provide CAD systems and library management, writing design guidelines, and procedures

Ensure design form-fit-function to engineering specifications, Military, NASA, MIL, DOD, IPC, IEEE, ANSI standards

Seamlessly interface and collaborate with vendors, PWB fabricators and assembly shops; complete ordering

Experienced in supervising designers and drafting personnel; successfully schedule workloads

Ability to successfully lead projects: planning, strategy, status reports, performance reviews, cost reduction

Proficient in: Mentor Graphics Design Capture, Mentor Graphics Expedition, Zuken CR5000 & CR8000, Downstream Blueprint, SolidWorks, AutoCad, AutoCad LT, Mechanical Desktop, Polar SI8000, Pads PowerPCB, Pads Powerlogic, Auto Lisp, Architectural Desktop, OrCad, Mentor Graphics Design Architect/Boardstation, Pro-E 2000, Valor Enterprise, CAMCAD Professional, PWB GerbTool, Viewmate Pro Electrical / Electronic Design Disciplines:

circuit design

printed wiring boards

schematic capture

wiring diagrams

cabling

block diagram high-speed

microwave/RF design

controlled impedance calculations

CAM tool operation

electrical site diagrams

(architectural/civil)

facility and system wiring

Mechanical Design Disciplines:

electro-mechanical packaging

rack and panel

injection molding

robotics

3D solids modeling

architectural/civil/structural

tooling

structural

motor vehicle equipment

sheet metal

aluminum extrusion

castings

machining

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Retired 2020-Present

Staff Mechanical Engineer – PWB Design Group, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies 2003-2020 Projects: Meteor Controller, Viking, Gemini, IRAD Projects, DPP, GSK, Wander, ASRG, INSIGHT, Orion, CASA, T4 & Lorax

- Awarded numerous Certificates of Appreciation and High Five Awards

- Member of Zuken CAD Tool Integration Team providing: CAD system management, Mentor CAD systems administrator, EM packaging, and printed circuit design

- Many PWB Designs involve space flight qualified, RF, controlled impedance, high speed, high voltage/high current, power supplies, mixed signal, analog and digital design specifications

- Schematic capture, interfacing and coordinating PCA assembly and ordering

- Order PWBs from fabrication vendors

- Provide management/supervision and task scheduling of designers and drafting personnel Owner/Engineer, Cadvanced Designs, Consulting Engineering 1996-Present Provide as needed, contract services to the following companies:

- Keysight Technologies, 2015 & 2016: Electronics packaging design for Rack Mounted Equipment

- Steve Karakitsios, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020: Architectural site and floor plans for Single Family Homes and Office

- Hewlett Packard, 2012: E/M Packaging Design for Power Conditioner Chassis Personal Information

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- SM2K, 2010: Schematic & Printed Circuit Design of R&D Alternative Fuel System for Toyota Prius Vehicle

- Zolo Technologies, Inc., 2009 & 2010: Printed Circuit Design of Laser/Photo Diode Circuits

(R. Arnold PG 2 720-***-**** )

PWB/Mechanical Designer, CIELO COMMUNICATIONS 1998-2002 Project: 1.25 Gigabaud Fiber Optic Datacom Transceivers and 2.5 Gigabaud (OC48) & 10 Gigabaud (OC192) Fiber Optic Telecom Transceivers and Transponders

- Provided CAD system management and printed circuit design

- Mechanical design and 3D modeling of injection molding, extrusion designs, packaging product and fixtures

- Many PWB Designs involved: RF, controlled impedance, high speed to 40Gbit, mixed signal, analog and digital design specifications

- CAD Electronic Library management, design standards & design checking

- Schematic capture, interfacing and coordinating PCA assemblies

- Ordering PWBs from fabrication vendors

- Supervised and scheduled tasks of designers and drafters ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Zuken System Designer/Board/Lightning/Scenario/Realize Solidworks

Capacitance, Inductance and Impedance

Embedded passives

Reflections and Transmission lines

RF/Microwave PC Board Design and Layout

ProE

Base Material for High Speed, High Frequency PC Boards Mentor Design Capture and Expedition

High Speed Design and Signal Integrity

3D Model Design AutoCad & Mechanical Desktop

Pads PowerPCB & Powerlogic

Valor

Designers Certification Preparation (IPC)

PWB Design for Assembly and TEST (IPC)

Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies

Acceptability of Printed Wiring Boards

Advanced Principles of Land Pattern Design, IPC

Plastic’s Design for Injection Molding, Borg-Warner Solar Energy Technology

United States Navy Aviation Fire Control Systems

United States Navy Advanced Electronics

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

CAD Printed Wiring Board/Schematic Capture Design Guideline, Hughes Aircraft Co. PWB Files Numbering & Identification Document Control Procedure, Cielo Communications PATENTS

#6888169 High Speed Optical Subassembly with Ceramic Carrier

#7045824 High Speed Optical Subassembly with Ceramic Carrier

#7181099 Fiber Optic Module Packaging Architecture for Integrated Circuit and Optical Subassembly Integration. MEMBERSHIPS

Past Member Electronic Documentation Technology Committee, Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits

Past Honored Member, America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Computer Aided Engineering, Trinity College & University 2002 Personal Information

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