Electrical Electronic_System Engineer
Resume:
Soni Sherman
Middle River, MD ***20
301-***-****; Home:301-***-****
Email: *********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: Electrical Engineer / System Engineer
WORK EXPERIENCE:
October 2012 -
Sea-Fire Marine, Metalcraft Inc.: 9331 A Philadelphia Road, Baltimore, MD 21237
Electrical Engineer
Drawing wiring diagram for Fire Alarm System consisting of Fire Control Panel, Smoke sensor, heat sensor, horn/strobe, Manual Call Point and Adapter Panel.
Employ Ship General Arrangement to layout the Fire Alarm Components.
Inscribe Test and Assembly procedures.
Generate Fire Alarm System Quotation Package Base on Customer’s Request.
Assist Manufacturing with their Product Drawing Request.
Diagnose Customer’s Fire Alarm System issues over the telephone.
Assist Sale Representatives with their quotation packages and customers’ requests.
Research Fire Alarm Components for Sale Representatives base on their Customers’ Request.
November 2010 - October 2012
Lay off from previous employer. I diligently searched for new employment opportunity during the two years hiatus.
November 2008 – November 5, 2010
Thales Communications, Inc.: 22605 Gateway Center Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871
Supervisor: Mike Hess
Product Support Engineer
Prevented and minimize problematic issue/s from reoccurring to improved production yield.
Found less expensive parts and prevented the changing of expensive IC components without proper investigations to help reduced production cost.
Found drop-in replacement parts or parts that required minimum circuit modification to replaced obsolete part.
Modified system circuit to improved system performance
Wrote Engineering Change Notice documents
Converted a 20 watts power amplifier design to a 50 watts power amplifier design
Design low pass filters for different frequencies bands.
Liaison between manufacturing and the RF design engineering department
November 2006 – January 2008
Thales Communications, Inc.: 22605 Gateway Center Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871
RF Design Engineer
Design low pass filter, loop filter and VCO circuits for the AD9874.
Designed PLL (Phase lock loop) circuit
Worked with Frequency synthesizers by modifying the biasing components
Used OrCAD for schematic capturing, generating Bill of Materials and transferring captured schematic to PAD PCB design tools (Mentor Graphics)
Field tested UHF band, VHF band, BFT band and wideband handheld radio antennas for field strength
Field tested high gain portable SATCOM antennas for field strength
Verified antenna VSWR and Specification,
Researched antenna miniaturization techniques and how they can be applied to Thales handheld radio antennas
April 2001 – November 2006
Thales Communication, Inc.: 22605 Gateway Center Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871
June 1998 – April 2001
Symbol Technologies, Inc.: One Symbol Plaza, Holtville, NY 11742-1300
June 1997 – June 1998
Narda Microwave-East: 435 Moreland Road, Hauppauge, NY 11788
Electrical/Electronic Diagnostic Technician
Worked with design engineers, test engineers and manufacture engineers on solving many different problems, from prototype design, released prototype design and manufactured products.
Worked with diagnostic software written in Agilent VEE, Labview and C++.
Build diagnostic fixtures to troubleshoot some of the new release products.
Solder and de-solder of surface mount and through-hole components on printed circuit.
Diagnose RF transceivers to components level:
L Band Circuit, UHF Band Circuit, VHF Band Circuit, Fine Locks Circuit, Phase Lock Loop, Transmit Circuit, Receiver Circuit, Up/Down Converters, FPGA/CPLD and Microprocessor, SRAM, Flash, Transmit Circuit, Mixer, VCO, Transmit Circuit, Receiver Circuit, Oscillator Circuit, Filter Circuit, and A/D and D/A Converter
Maintenance and diagnose production equipment:
ATE System (Automatic Test Equipment) - Signal Generator, VXI, Power Supply, Spectrum Analyzer, PCI, ATE Fixture, Attenuator Switches, GPIB, Personal Computer, Verification System, Production Firmware, Pinging System and Align Sonic Welder
Sept 1992 – Jan 1997
Thom McAn – Div of Footstar Corp.: 933 MacArthur Blvd, Mahwah, NJ 07430
Second Assistant Manager
Supervise and ran selling floor.
Maintain productivity’s book works.
Advised management as to inventory levels of specific products
Aug 1986 – Sept 1992
Sale Associate
Assisted customers with selections and purchases
Verified delivered merchandise against packing slips.
Stocking of Shipments
EDUCATION:
May 2006
Capitol College: 11301 Springfield Road, Laurel, MD 20708
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
December 2000
Stony Brook, State University of New York: Stony Brook, NY 11794-0701
Bachelor of Engineering Degree, in Electrical Engineering
June 1994
QueensBorough Community College, Bayside, NY 11364
Associate in Applied Science in Electrical Engineering Technology
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
Applied RF Techniques I, Besser Associates, 10/18/2010 to 10/22/2010
Far-Field, Anechoic Chamber, Compact and Near-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques - Georgia Tech, October 22-26, 2007
Introduction to Agilent VEE Pro 6.0 – Agilent Technologies – December 4-7, 2006
MatLab and Simulink for Control Design Acceleration – MathWorks Trainings Services – November 12-13, 2008
Simulink for System and Algorithm Modeling – MathWorks Training Services – November 10-11, 2008
Lean Manufacturing 2-day Seminar _-American Management Association October 4-5, 2004
8920 Course – Agilent Technologies – completion on November 21, 2003
2002 Back to Basics Seminar – Network Analyzer Basics – Agilent Technologies - 2002
Basic Microwave Theory Certificate (L3 communications Narda Microwave-east), 04- 1998
COMPUTER SKILLS:
ADS (Advanced Design System), Genesys-2007, MatLab, OrCAD (Schematic Capture), PADs PCB Layout, MathCAD, Windows (9x, 2000, NT and XP), Intermediate C/C++, Microsoft Office, AUTOCAD
EQUIPMENT USED:
Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Multi-meter, Modulator Analyzer, Audio Analyzer, Signal Generator, Vector Analyzer, Function Generator, Frequency Counter, and Oscilloscope
PERFORMANCE RATINGS, AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITIONS:
Dean’s Honor List 2-94;
Dean’s Honor List 2-93;
Dean’s Honor List 9-92
Certificate of Excellence (Thom McAn Footwear), 8-93
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