Soni Sherman

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Middle River, MD ***20

301-***-****; Home:301-***-****

Email: j771ye@r.postjobfree.com

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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