Engineer

Resume for William Rankin **** S. **** W., Salt Lake City, UT, 84128 Ph: 801-***-****, 801-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

CAREER SUMMARY

Senior Electrical Engineer with extensive expertise in product development, testing, integration and life-cycle management. Particularly effective in system analysis, troubleshooting & qualification. I also have a broad base of career experience in other engineering disciplines including mechanical, software, quality and embedded controllers. A certified Project Manager and an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer candidate. Preference for team environments with experience in organizations from 11 to 135000+ employees.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Moog Aircraft, Salt Lake City, Utah July 2006 – Dec 2009 Electrical/Quality Engineer

Provide quality & electronics engineering support for primary flight control avionics systems.

Skills:

Electronics Troubleshooting

Electronic Systems Quality

Mod/Upgrade Testing & Certification

Reliability Analysis & Enhancement

Robust Design

Analog & Digital Design Analysis

Accomplishments:

* Reverse engineered a multi-board analog/digital controller to improve robust operation, reduce failures and speed manufacturing test.

o Identified 41 design improvements ranging from EMI reduction, power supply reliability and several otherwise undiscovered circuit defects.

o Enhanced the board-level and final assembly test coverage.

o Replaced several high-failure components with more reliable parts.

o Reduced production time by 15% (2 hrs) per unit.

* Performed extensive HASS testing to reproduce sporadic controller failure. Created fault trees & drilled down to root cause. Implemented circuit change. Reduced NFF rates by 50%, improved dispatch availability from 98 to 99% - a major improvement in a key customer satisfaction metric.

* Investigated the scorched remains and electronic designs from a catastrophic test flight failure. Identified design flaws resulting in an arcing fault - destroying both primary and backup circuits.

* Trended 7 avionics LRU failure histories. Identified root causes & charted MTBF gains for each. Presented quarterly customer updates on system reliability, failure causes and action status.

GE Medical Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah 1980-1984 & 2005–2006 Electrical Engineer

Design & sustaining engineer performing new product development & sustaining engineering for GE advanced X-Ray imaging systems.

Skills:

Biomedical Systems Design

Embedded Computing

Verification & Validation Protocols

Component Engineering

21CFR820 & ISO13485 Standards

Video And Image Processing

Accomplishments:

* Performed complete ground-up design of the architecture, mathematical modeling, controls and firmware for the Model 902 C-Arm X-ray system (1984). From start to FDA certification in 20 months.

* Reverse engineered 3rd party design parallel bus architecture for interconnecting a master control processor (also my design) with video capture and real-time image processing modules (1984).

* Completed the selection and authored V&V protocols for several dozen electronic devices ranging from passive components to complex LSI arrays and electro-optical sensors. Ensured continued compliance with FDA regulations and ISO standards.

* Resolved > 150 customer complaints as required by FDA regulations with completion of tracking documentation and written customer reply (as required). This lead to:

* Gathered & trended two years of system failure data and created Pareto charts to prioritize design quality efforts. Developed FMEA diagrams and completed Apollo root cause analysis for the top 10 reliability issues. Developed design changes and justified each with cost/benefit analysis.

Consultant - Electronics Systems Support, Salt Lake City, Utah June 2004- June 2005

Unisys Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 1984 – June 2004 Staff Systems Engineer/Mgr

Lead Engineer for new-technology research, program management, new product development and lifetime product support of a variety of mid and large scale computer systems & related products.

Skills:

Complex System Architectures

Project Management

Customer & Vendor Management

Reliability Engineering

Training & Field Tech Support

New Product Development

Technical Writing

High Speed Digital Design

Accomplishments:

* Successfully executed project management duties on 7 different large scale computing platforms containing networking and mass storage subsystems.

* As lead systems engineer, achieved top cost v. performance metrics for these same systems and sustained both technical and customer support objectives for the life of the programs.

* Completed hardware & OS integration certification testing on 8x Itanium (64 bit) enterprise server. Provided hardware support for this configuration for NOAA, CIA and other bids. Achieved ranking of fifth most powerful data processing system and first in cost v. performance market placement.

* Researched and reported advances in new technology for processors, systems and networking. Created curriculum and technical presentations for engineering, program and corporate management.

* Supported technical content and fault isolation theory for product library containing 21 volumes to accompany three families of enterprise server systems. Produced training videos and “trained the trainers” at nationwide week-long classes. Provided top-level tech support for the most challenging repairs for the duration of the programs. The result was a smooth and professional product introduction to market, landing a contract award valued at $3B over the life of the product.

* Defined, managed and documented software quality programs & managed problem tracking for five releases of UnixWare & Linux operating systems with 96% on-time project completion.

* Completed quality certification and problem resolution for Myrinet and Infiniband high performance networking technologies as part of $160M project for U.S. Government.

* Established and managed vendor quality metrics for suppliers including Dell, Intel and other off-site products. Included MTBF, MTTR, FRU, MTSS and Statistical Life modeling.

FORMAL EDUCATION

MSCIS – University of Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Utah

BSEE - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah - Cum Laude

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

* Regulatory agency standards including AS9100, 21CFR820 & ISO13485

* A+ Certification

* IT Project+ Certification (technical project management)

* Candidate – Certified Quality Engineer

* Apollo root cause analysis.

* Graduate courses in electronics design (senior year)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & HONORS

* Member – PCISIG, ASQ, Charter Member - Infiniband Trade Association

* Delegate & Presenter, Intel Developer Forum - 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

* Inventions:

o Computer control of X-ray systems – OEC Medical 902 Mobile C-Arm Imaging system

o Frame-accurate PAL video editing system –Robert Bosch

o PCI/IDE common form factor board – Unisys Corporation

o Motion Control Software – Eaton Systems

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