Electrical Engineer

Kelly Drake

Fremont, CA

510-***-****

*****.*.*****@*****.***

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

SUMMARY

Extensive experience as an Electrical Engineer and Creative Problem Solver in prototype and production environments including commercial, industrial and defense industries. Strong technical skills, from Analog designs to electrical vehicle propulsion designs. Outstanding record of success in guiding and performing complex electrical designs and high voltage/power systems. Mentored engineers and designers the art of doing a superb PCB layouts by hand routing. Dedicated to get the job done right the first time.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

•Creativity: Problem Solving, New Products, Cost Reduction, Brain Storming

•Design: Analog, Digital, Interface, PCB, EMP, Lightning, PLC, Video, Surge Survival

•Hands on Support: Field Service, Lab Testing and Verification, Trouble shooting and debugging systems, Beta Testing, Reviewing Designs, Fiber Optic, Mentoring, Simulations, Team player and solo if needed.

•DoD Clearance: Secret

EXPERIENCE

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. Morgan Hill, CA 2010-2011

Electrical Engineer (2010-2011)

Redesigned electrical boards, then laid out various PCB's for different products. Cleaned up existing designs and BOM's for production. Interface with suppliers.

• Designed multiple tight PCB's, added Altera Cyclone III FPGAs with added memory. Updated designs for a more powerful FPGAs. Mentor Graphics tools were used. Designed and built test equipment for the production line. Designed analog and digital circuits for some of the new boards.

BAE Systems, Santa Clara, CA 2005-2009

Principal Electrical Engineer Staff (2008-2009)

Oversaw and designed electrical equipment and sub systems, including scope definition, cost estimates and engineering timetables. Developed safety critical circuits for hazardous systems (hardware and hooks for software) for military applications. Provided complete system design, and start-up support for many projects.

•Designed, oversaw construction and validated system control panel for large defensive system as well as negotiating a fault tolerant design in the larger system including fiber optic interfaces. High voltage and high current system.

•Led a motor drive controller design on a tight schedule and corrected faults in the design to ensure on time delivery and reduction of debug time.

•Personally designed the PCBs by hand routing using a Mentor Graphics product to make sure they were according to company standards and satisfaction.

•Supported other engineers, performed design and peer reviews. Trained other engineers to design quality PCB designs.

Senior Electrical Engineer Staff (2007-2008)

•Designed and supported various military equipment including the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, MRAP and JLTV.

•Served as an interface liaison between BAE engineers and subcontractor engineers to provide a smooth design with near flawless results.

Member of the Technical Staff 2 (2005-2007)

•Designed and supported multiple products including analog, digital and interface circuits. Frequent travel to other states to support products at various test sites.

UDLP Santa Clara, CA 1997-2005

Member of the Technical Staff 2 (2000-2005)

•Electric Drive Vehicles, M8 Armored Gun System, Various military tracked vehicles

•Defensive systems, Classified projects

Member of the Technical Staff 1 (1997-2000)

•Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Video Switcher, External Training system, Others

OTHER EXPERIENCE

FMC-CTC Santa Clara, CA

Member of the Technical Staff 1 (1987-1997)

•Ultrasonic electronic orchard profiling agricultural tree sprayer

•Autonomous vehicles and Robotic vehicles: AVTB, AGVT, TMAP

•Personal Micro Climate control (See patent)

•Crane cable feedback system (See patent)

•Classified projects (System and electrical designs)

•Tomato, Apple, Orange and Peach Sorters (color, weight, size, pits, dirt)

•Oil well controllers (lightning survival & visual display)

•Track Shoe Straightener (PLC control) high speed cylinders, electrically controlled

•LNG (liquefied natural gas) loading and unloading equipment

•Cannery sterilizers (PLC program control)

•Video, USB, Ethernet, RS422, Processor PCB design for Enjoyweb (Start-up)

EDUCATION

MS in Electrical Engineering – UC Davis

BS in Electrical Engineering – UC Davis

Numerous seminars on technical skills

PATENTS

•Micro-climate conditioning unit, US Patent 5564276

•Drum Rotation Indicator unit, US Patent 4809857

OTHER ACTIVITIES

•ERT (Emergency Response Team) Medical/Fire Fighting/Decon

•Hazmat Technician, state certified (recertified 10/2009)

•First aid, current certification and AED training,

•Ham Radio licensed, Amateur Extra Class license WA6GHH

•First Class Commercial Radio License

•Beta testing of various software programs

•Seminars on many technical fields including Electro Magnetic Interference, vibration failures, High Speed Transmission lines, PLC designs, and others

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