Project Manager Engineer

FLORIN NITA

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Applied-Physics Engineer holding a Masters degree in Measurement and Automation

• Architect and Integrator of Test and Measurement Systems, I & C systems, developer of complex ATE s/w applications including multi-threading, interprocess communication and synchronization

• Proficient s/w developer using LabVIEW, TestStand, WindowsCVI, C, Visual Basic, SQL, Pascal, Fortran, Assembler, Image processing libraries, relational database modelling and interfacing

• Highly experienced in implementing digital filtering algorithms on large data collections

• Proficient in selecting and integrating instrumentation, data acquisition equipment, sensors and transducers, robotic arms and machine vision elements; RF, PXI, SCXI, DAQ, GPIB, USB, S232/422/485

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

May 2011-present

CIMTEK Automation Systems – Oakville, Ontario

Engineering company focusing on supplying electronics manufacturers with turn-key test solutions, end-of-line functional testers.

Senior Systems Integrator – contract position

• System integration and test software development for functional tester of microprocessor based PCBs. Rack based tester contains I/O multiplexer, power supplies AC and DC, DMM, Function Generator, communication interfaces: RS485, RS323, USB, GPIB; bed of nails fixture. Designed and developed LabVIEW and TestStand based software performing parallel testing in a multi-process / multithreading mode.

2006-2011

Psion Teklogix Inc. – Mississauga, Ontario

Public company, Computer Hardware industry, 400M mobile computing company

Test Engineering Specialist – test systems design and implementation

• Designed and implemented less expensive and faster functional testers for rugged mobile computers

• Designed and implemented test systems measuring the accuracy & linearity of touch panels used in mobile computing devices

• Developed innovative test procedures and s/w application to control 4 and 6-axes Robotic Arms used to

• life-cycle and determine the force profiles on computer user interface components

• Designed and implemented innovative keypad life-cycle actuation fixtures using electrical coil cylinders

• (SMAC). Assembler level programming

• Debugged and upgraded a complex test system used for configuration and characterization of narrow band radios

• Developed LabView application to safely control via GPIB bus four environmental chambers simultaneously, allowing engineers to improve their productivity by easily configuring their test cases

• Selected Achievement: Innovated less expensive test systems allowing quicker and more precise components validation and allowing faster functional testing of the final product, bringing significant productivity increase

2005 (contract)

Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. – Cambridge, Ontario

Public Company; Oil & Energy industry; a world leader in the design, engineering, manufacture, construction and service of steam generation equipment

Application Consultant: Nuclear Reactors Automated Cleaning System

• Provided consulting expertise for LabView application controlling an automated installation for nuclear plants steam-generators inspection and water-lancing

• Improved and upgraded S/W application communicating with embedded controllers; found communication problems and implemented solution; designed and implemented new, more functional user interface;

• Added parallel process in charge with safely stopping the procedure; proposed new hardware implementation to provide increased operation safety

• Improved Vision system LabVIEW application to allow better control of analog cameras connected to an IP based Indigo Vision system

• Selected Achievement: A significantly safer water-lancing system due to strategic control application improvements

2004 (contract)

CoreOptics, a Cisco company – Nuerenberg, Germany

CoreOptics GmbH designs and manufactures subsystems for ultra high-speed optical networking applications in the telecommunications and information technology industries worldwide

Senior Test Engineer

• Defined, designed and developed the automated calibration & characterization system for the 10G fault tolerant DWDM transponder

• Developed the test software application: LabVIEW and HP-VEE modules under the control of a sequencer developed in LabVIEW. S/W modules developed in LabVIEW were: DSP serial communication module, relational dB access modules using SQL, temperature controller Modbus communication module, voltage levels acquisition using NI data acquisition board

• Integrated the test application with manufacturing relational database for component tracking, automated data sheet generation and statistical process control

• Selected Achievement: An integrated, reliable calibration & characterization system, extremely useful to the operations department

2003 (Contract)

Axela Biosensors – Toronto, Ontario

Privately held, providing protein detection, characterization, and monitoring products used in life science, health, and clinical research

Applications Consultant, Automated Instrument Control

• Developed Data Acquisition, Control and User Interface System for the automated protein bio-sensor based on diffractive-optics technology

• Designed and developed control and data acquisition LabVIEW application

• Selected and purchased system components for data acquisition and control

• Created point-by-point signal digital filtering functions allowing real-time processing and monitoring of the

• laser-light detectors signal

• Performed optical measurements and hardware components qualification testing (photo detectors and

• laser sources)

• Selected Achievement: A functional prototype of the new instrument for protein detection and characterization

2001-2002

Photonami Inc, Richmond Hill, Ontario

Information Technology and Services industry

Senior Software / Systems Designer - Electro-Optical Control Systems

• Designed and developed LabVIEW Applications for testing and controlling the DWDM Optical Burst Switch displayed at OFC (Optical Fibber Communication Conference) in Anaheim, CA – 2001

• Designed and developed applications utilized for optical components characterization, for the alignment of AWGs (optical mux/demux) and controlling optical amplifiers

• Responsible for interfacing the hardware and software design teams to ensure that the two groups communicate effectively

• Selected Achievements: Important contribution in designing and testing subsystems of the new DWDM burst switch, contributed ideas at the system level

1998-2001

Microsys Technologies, Toronto, Ontario

Privately Held; Advanced Test Systems for the Automotive industry

Lead Test Systems Design Engineer

• Developed the PowerPlay® application - Data Analysis Software for automotive safety-features test systems, including charts and high speed camera video footage; application is presented at SAE auto industry show since year 2000 (multithreaded application with interprocess communication, synchronization and Excel automation, using LabVIEW & C (http://www.microsys.com/news/news_powerplay.htm)

• Developed the Summit Series-Prober LabVIEW Integration Toolkit jointly offered from National

• Instruments, Microsys Technologies, and Cascade Microtech, used for the integration and automation of semiconductor wafer test processes. Editor's choice in Semiconductor Newsletter, Vol.3/8 (http://www.micro-sys.com/news/news_toolkit.htm)

• Debug and upgrade of the Control & Data Acquisition System for the Impact Studies Facility (sled track) at the Defence and Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine, Downsview-Toronto: 128 high speed DAQ channels, 32 DIO, SCXI, PXI, high speed imagers

• Selected Achievement: Significant revenue increase due to sales of the PowerPlay s/w and the Summit Series-Prober LabVIEW Integration Toolkit

1994-1997

Petrostar SA, Romania

Privately held; oil and gas engineering and R&D company

Automation Project Manager

• Managed the multi-disciplinary R&D project "Gas Compressing Station - Automated Supervision System"; elaborated technical solution and system architecture; designed and developed the control software using LabVIEW

• Managed the "Sliding Sloped-Terrain Supervising System" R&D project; designed software and hardware solution, developed the data acquisition and user interface application using LabVIEW

• Management, design and s/w development for the "Pipeline Leak Detection System" R&D project

• Elaborated conceptual design for the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for several pipeline projects:

• Russia - Greece Transit Gas Pipeline, Romanian segment

• National Rehabilitation Project for Romanian Pipeline Transport System for Domestic and Imported Oil

• Designed and implemented automated temperature control system for the well-site crude-oil heater.

• Selected Achievement: Successfully finalized a series of R&D projects

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering in Applied Physics, specialization Measurement and Automation - University

of Bucharest, 1984. (Canadian degree evaluation available). Dissertation thesis: "Digital-Electronic

Simulation of Basic Neural Networks" selected for the national phase of the inter-universities scientific contest

Specialized-Mathematics program , National College "Mihai Viteazul”, 1974-1978

Computer Systems Engineer Certificate , six months full time post-university course, National Training

Centre for Informational Systems Professionals, 1987

Computer Networks Certificate , one-month full-time post-university course, National Training Centre for

Informational Systems Professionals, 1989

IAR-Embedded C for Professional Use - Hitachi H8 Microcontroller, Certificate, 2001

Self Employment Development Program, Certificate . Centennial College, CBRC Toronto, 2002

Sales and Marketing Clinic Certificate . Toronto Business Development Centre, 2003

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