Engineer Project Manager
Resume:
Thomas L. Flack
PO BOX **
Lawnside, NJ. *****
OBJECTIVE___________________________________________________________________
Seeking a Senior Electronics Engineering position within a technically progressive company. The work I seek encompasses Hardware Designing for Analog and Digital designs. Positions of interests include Project Leader, Hardware Designer and Software support.
PERSONAL SUMMARY________________________________________________________
Very experienced, results-oriented professional with excellent communications and problem-solving skills. My credentials combine academics, project management, hardware designer and software development. I have managed projects and personnel throughout my career. My electronic knowledge and design skills are presently up-to-date and very active using the latest and most sophisticated hardware devices and development tools.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE________________________________________________________
Excellent Digital-Analog Hardware design skills
20 Years PCB Designing & Schematic Capture (Protel Inc., now Altium Inc.)
Excellent Power Supply designer, thermal management and EMC/EMI Compliance.
Excellent knowledge of FPGA (Xilinx) – Programmable Logic, DSP (Simulink) and Embedded Designs (EDK) tools.
Software experience in “Assembler”, “C” and VHDL for Embedded Systems & FPGAs
Lead Project Manager.
Customer & Vendor Relations including Contract Manufactures.
Experience with RF/Microwave – Advance Avionics, US Navy Advanced Schools
Excellent Mechanical Skills
Compliance Engineering & Testing for FCC, UL, CSA, CE, VDE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_________________________________________________
PowerAquatics LLC/ Lawnside, NJ.
Electronic Design Engineer-Hardware and Firmware 2008 – Present
PowerAquatics LLC is an OEM Consultant for Analog & Digital Consumer Products.
Product engineering responsibilities included:
Designer of analog and digital hardware and system integrator, ability to setup a microprocessor environment, this also includes FPGAs as well (Xilinx Tool Suite), Protel ™ PCB Design Suite, designed several Power Supply topologies (AC-DC, DC-DC) Linear and Switchers from light to high power; includes BUCK, BOOST, SEPIC and more. Designed ultra small packages for ultra small units with high power requirements. (100 watts in less than 1.0 cube-in @ 96% efficiency).
Designer of Solid State HB-LED lighting systems for super high efficiency. Systems require batteries for video and Scuba diver assistance along with waterproofing (enclosures) and thermal relief for power electronics.
Experienced in telecommunications, RF and other associated peripherals such as memory, sensors (pressure, optics, temperature, etc.)
Experienced in video electronics, Digital Signal Processing (DSP - Digital Signal Processing), and all associated programming tools (VHDL, MATLAB ™ and Simulink ™)
Excellent mechanical skills, milling machine, metal work for final product integration.
NuHorizons Electronics/ Millville, NY
Field Applications Engineer (FAE)/ Senior Sales Electronic Engineer 1998 – 2008
NuHorizons is a top supplier of advanced digital and analog electronics.
FAE responsibilities included:
FAE's were assigned OEM customers in their home district (Tri-State Area for myself), demonstrating and designing new OEM products and tools into local area customers. Product introduction and design support that encompassed 53 semiconductor lines including embedded, communications and power supply designs.
As an FAE, we supported all peripheral devices and system integration into customer products such as LCD displays, memory, ADC- DAC, sensors, microprocessors, and communications chips.
Highly experienced in teaching high-end Programmable logic within Xilinx ™ FPGA and Simulink ™ for DSP (Digital Signal Processing) design flows.
Experienced with using MATLAB (TM) and implementation tools for Embedded 32 RISC Processors, Xilinx ™ soft core – MicroBlaze, Xilinx hardcore IBM 450 (TM) and Linux OS.
Experienced with software coding for Assemble, C and VHDL.
Merit Industries / Bensalem, PA.
Project Manager / Senior Electronic Engineer 1988 – 1998
Merit Industries, OEM of Video gaming products and technologies.
Senior Electronic Engineer responsibilities included:
Designed hardware interface boards for computer motherboards (Intel-Microsoft based) ranging from custom ISA I/O boards, Bar Code Scanners, Touch Screen Controllers, Audio and Video Electronics.
Power supplies designer for AC-DC and DC-DC, Linear and Switchers. These power systems where designed to fit into video products requiring low noise results.
Expertise in transducer and sensor engineer; systems include ultrasonic, passive and active infrared, pyroelectric and piezoelectric sensors, capacitive touch, vibration sensors and SONAR.
Wrote in Assembly and C-software for microprocessors such as Intel 8051.
Designed many printed circuit boards using Protel ™ PCB Inc., now Altium Inc.
Very experienced in EMC-EMI Engineer, implementing FCC and CE Compliance procedures.
Mars Electronics / West Chester, PA.
Product Electronic Engineer 1978 – 1988
Mars Electronics, an OEM of Electronic Coin\Bill Validation Equipment for the vending.
Electronic Engineer responsibilities included:
Designed hardware analog sensors for validating money composition using high-Q Colpitts oscillator using inductive methods through magnetic fields for characterization of metallic and paper currency.
Designed super compact AC-DC Linear power supplies to fit into tight spots for vending machines.
Earned a place on patent 4,460,003 outlining ways to block external magnetic noise from coupling into adjacent magnetic circuits.
Possess excellent knowledge of metal content and the reactions to a host of external affects. This knowledge is very useful for shielding and thermal designs.
Wrote software (assembly) code for the Intel 8051processor.
United States Navy, RVAH-6 Reconnaissance Squadron / Key West, Florida
Aviation Electronic Technician, Second Class Petty Officer 1975 – 1978
This Reconnaissance Squadron consisted of three RA-5C Vigilante Aircraft. This aircraft was primarily outfitted for reconnaissance utilizing infrared cameras and microwave electronics.
Aviation Electronic Technician duties included:
Performed flight line and lab troubleshooting directly on the F14 Tomcat, F4 Phantom and RA-5C aircraft avionics systems including, Power Distribution, ECM (Electronic Counter Measure), UHF radio, TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation), ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) and IFF (Identification friend or foe) systems.
I was the senior ECM leader in my squadron maintaining “Electronic Counter Measure” aircraft systems (Secret Clearance), ALR-45 and ALQ-126 ECM radar receiver; I received a special two-year training for this position.
Experienced in aviation maintenance: TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry), waveguide sweeping, field strength meters, oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. Excellent knowledge of microwave-waveguide theory and maintenance
Earned 2nd Class Petty Officer within two years by mastering Naval Avionics (top 10% US Navy Test).
Collateral duties included Training Petty Officer and maintaining shop records for squadron members.
EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________
DREXEL UNIVERSITY, BSEE – 1987, (Philadelphia, PA)
Military Schools (United States Navy – Orlando FL) – Promoted to 2nd Class Petty Officer.
40 trips to Xilinx Inc for training in DSP design (San Jose, CA)
Fundamentals Electricity & Electronics (Memphis, TN)
Advanced Aviation Electronics (Memphis, TN)
Electronics Countermeasures School (Memphis, TN)
Corrosion Control School (Key West, FL)
Advance Certified Scuba Diver, Certified for Nitrox Breathing (32% oxygen), dry suit certified.
US Coast Guard Power Boat Certified (Philadelphia, PA)
Avionics Fundamental School (Memphis, TN)
HOBBIES_______________________________________________________________________
Electronics, Scuba Diving, Boating, Fishing, Saxophone, Machine Shop, Artist.
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