Principal Engineer, Chief Hardware Engineer , Consultant

Ron Trepka

Principal Electrical Engineer

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Cleveland, OH 44109

E-Mail: *****@*********.***

Phone: 216-***-****

JOB OBJECTIVE: Utilize my broad-ranging engineering and life experience to promote a win-win outcome for a company that offers me challenging objectives.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Electrical Engineer-Hardware, Research & Development, Safety/Compliance , Sales and Marketing

EDUCATION

BEE Cleveland State University 1983. Dean's List three of last four quarters.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Project Management Team Leader

Electrical Hardware Design CAD/CAE

Digital/Analog/RF

Embedded Controls / Software & Firmware

6809 Motorola Family

8051 Intel Family

FPLA,PAL, PIC Design

Process setup and optimization

Instrumentation

Automation

Low and High Voltage

Low and High Power

Solid State and Tubes

Sales and Marketing

Technical Writing

Mechanical Design

Physics

Chemistry

Welding

Switch mode Power Supply

CE Certification

Statistical Analysis

MANAGEMENT/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Leader

Small Business Partner

Inventor

Amateur Radio (W8RON)

WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2008 to Present:Engineering Consultant, Self Employed (Unemployed)

Using my earlier contacts to find small contracts with Tri-Weld, a local welding house, and Kyron , a local plating and polishing house. Ebay, instrument, radio and other electronics home repair.

Results: Installed an ROHS compatible chrome plating line for Kyron including designing and implementing adding 3 phase power distribution for DC plating supplies and bath heating and control. Designing and implementing custom control panels. Installation made while shop was still operating.

Maintain in house equipment for both Kyron and Tri-Weld including Large 3 phase to DC plating supplies, dryers, lighting, 3 phase polishers, electric and natural gas heating equipment, Large 3 phase and single phase Spot welders, MIG and TIG welders, Plant air compressors, air driers, chillers and in-house computer systems.

Implementing my U.S. Charging Patent on my Prototype Electric Vehicle (Custom 1994 Honda Civic) for demonstration to interested car manufactures with a target to get my system into new Plug in Hybrid or all electric vehicles.

Feb 2003 – June 2008: Principal Engineer, aVanzo Specialty Products, LLC

Start Up R&D/Manufacturing company involved in producing spherical powders for industry. Company folded in June 2008 due to lack of sales.

Responsibilities: Started as an employee and moved into minority partner. Complete responsibility to run laboratory and design process for manufacture of spherical powders used in cosmetics, electronics, and yet to be determined use.

Results: Share disclosure with partner for a breakthrough process idea to manufacture spherical powders. Scale up of prototype design yielding grams of powder per day to 25 pounds per hour.

Mar 1998 – Feb 2003: Principal Engineer, Zinc Air Power Corp.

Privately-held, self-financed research and development company involved in producing a rechargeable Zinc-Air chemistry electric vehicle battery. Second in charge after President. Company folded after death of primary investor.

Responsibilities: Initially responsible to design, implement, and test an embedded control system to manage a rechargeable Zinc Air battery system for use in an Electric Vehicle. Charging, discharging, packaging, air management, CO2 management and re-watering.

Results: Successfully designed and implemented the Charging/Discharging prototype system and managed one Software Engineer. Included Software design ,PCB design and manufacture using PADS

Additional Results:

Filed a patent for a novel charging system to charge balance a series of three electrode cells as well as other claims. US Patent #6586909

Filed to other disclosures for air management and cell structure

Directly involved with team effort to choose business path

Developed new QC methods, improved old QC methods, implemented automated testing, re-designed mechanical cathode test fixtures, implemented breakdown testing of separators, current collector analysis of anisotropic resistivity, heat imaging of active cell to determine chemical activity and improve power density, mechanical swelling analysis.

1992 – 1998 Contract Engineer, Paramount Technical Services

Responsibilities: Fixed-time contracts for GE NELA, Network Technologies Inc, Picker X-Ray and Chiron Diagnostics Inc. with the following results:

Chiron Diagnostics Inc.: Lead Electrical hardware engineer on the Quantiplex System, a Branch DNA analyzer used to measure viral load of Hepatitus C and AIDS. Unit centered around an embedded INTEL 386 with hardware to heat and manipulate blood samples, add chemicals and measure light response. Unit was required to pass CE certification and was ready for preproduction when the project ended.

GE NELA: GE released a 25 watt compact florescent light into production. Work included thermal and environmental testing as well as failure analysis.

Network Technologies Inc.: Completed a paper design of a classroom video system into a final product. Designed and completed into production a 300 Mhz video switch. Completed a paper design for automatic Video/ Keyboard/Mouse switch for a SUN Microsystem PC.

Picker X-Ray: Work was centered around reducing Field service costs and included Redesigning an X-Ray table motion control system, an X-Ray auto exposure system, and writing a technical manual to aid field service to replace the suspension cable in a support column. Include updating drawings as well as obsolete parts.

Sept 1985 – Feb 1991: Engineering Consultant, Self Employed

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:

Part time Applications Engineer at LXD Inc. Technical adviser to LXD Inc. customer base including military customers. Designed and manufactured the electronics portion of a large area display system. System uses Intel 8031 embedded microcontroller linked with a Phillips/Signetics PCF8576 LCD driver IC. Purchased home CAD system with Schematic capture and autorouting as well as 8031 In circuit emulation hardware to aid in designs. Provide complete support for LXD Inc. in house QC test systems. Completed successful designs for LXD customers. Provide outside engineering service to prospective LXD customers whom did not have the capability for design, test and production.

Project Engineer for The Computer Place Inc. Completed one new product design for The Computer Place Inc. and improved hardware and software of existing products used as add-on peripherals to the IBM PC. Manufactured the completed assembly. Involved in feasibility study for new products. Implemented paper designs for Special Control Systems Inc. Projects involved debugging analog and digital electronic hardware and software.

Manufacturing Engineer for three local and one out of state metal fabrication companies. Improved reliability of Tri-Weld Inc. welding process and decreased downtime. Directly improved (modified) TIG welding equipment circuitry as well as implemented improved air dryness and water quality. End result in consistent resistance welds and vast improvement in down time of spot welders. Represented Tri-Weld during qualification testing for successful military contract. Repair various NC control systems for other metal fabricators.

Dec 1983 – Apr 1985: Project Engineer

Responsibilities: Total responsibility of engineering project at Ardac Inc. Supervise work of technicians and draftsmen. Engineering in the areas of circuit design, mechanical design, software, testing, product support, manufacturing support, components and UL approval.

Results: Released to production a cash acceptor for vending gasoline. Designed test equipment to aid in the production of the latest microprocessor based currency changer. Improved circuit design in existing products for worst-case enviromental conditions. Solved erratic behavior of cash acceptor due to Electrical noise conditions.

Aug 1980 – Apr 1985: Technicare Electrical Engineering Technician

Responsibilities: Involved in cutting edge research and development of Technicare's Magnetic resonance imaging system. Work includes troubleshooting and suggestions of improvement in hardware both mechanical and electrical systems. Training of fellow technicians

Results:Magnetic Resonance imaging is a huge success and preproduction is released to manufacturing in 1983.

Dec 1978 – Aug 1980: Technicare OEM Repair Technician

Responsibilities: Support or field service group with repaired OEM equipment and information to minimize hospital down time. Night Student at CSU.

Results: Became familiar with the repair of a wide variety of OEM equipment such as Digital Equipment Corp. PDP11 series of mainframe computers and associated peripherals, hard and floppy disk drives and controllers, tape systems, video and xyz displays, power supplies and motor controllers. Developed superior assembly language program to trouble shoot memory arrays that would pass engineering's test but would still not work in a system. Received promotion, Letter of Recommendation.

Apr 1975 - Dec 1978 : Technicare Production Technician

Responsibilities: Final assembly, troubleshoot, and test of nuclear medical data system used to acquire and enhance images from a scintillation camera.

Results: Learned troubleshooting techniques of digital and analog circuits including Motorola's 6800 microprocessor. Developed superior assembly language program to troubleshoot memory arrays that would pass engineering's test but still would not work in a system. Reduced troubleshooting time of these memory arrays from days to seconds. Senior Technician. Received Letter of recommendation.

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