PC Board Designer

**** *. ****** • NORRIDGE, IL *****

PHONE 708-***-**** • E-MAIL ************@*****.***

MICHAEL GARBACZ

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Seasoned design professional with extensive experience including television channel frequencies, PC board design for Oscillators, Modulators and Amplifiers, and in PC board design for Power Protection and Communication circuits. Three years experience in management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ONEAC Corporation/POWERVAR Libertyville/Waukegan, Illinois

PC Board Design Engineer 2001-2012

POWERVAR is a manufacturer of Uninterruptible Power Conditioners and Power Conditioning products that purchased ONEAC, a competitor, on September 20, 2011.

Designed PC boards using ACCEL’s EDA, P-CAD and Altium Designer programs.

Redesigned an 8 layer outsourced board with excessive vias to a 6 layer board with 20% fewer vias and significant cost reduction.

Converted current products to RoHS compliance.

Designed product specification and information labels using EASYLABEL program.

Developed and maintained a library of schematics, PC boards and labels for 2,500+ files.

Oxford & Associates Schaumburg, Illinois

Contract Worker 1999-2001

Contracted to work for a UPS company in Libertyville, IL. Designed PC boards using ACCEL’s EDA program. A 6-8 week contract developed into a full time position.

IntraAction Corporation Bellwood, Illinois

Design Engineer 1992-1999

IntraAction is a manufacturer of Acousto-Optic Products

Designed, built and tested Oscillators, Modulators and Amplifiers used to drive Acousto-Optic cells to control a laser beam. Used TangoPro and ACCEL EDA to develop schematics, PCB layouts and artworks for in-house projects and files for PCB manufacturing houses for Production boards.

Production Team Leader / Electronics Department 1989-1992

Managed 6-8 employees responsible for final assembly and testing of RF control units used to drive Acousto-Optic cells. Assisted the Engineering Department.

Zenith Electronics Glenview, Illinois

Design Engineer 1979-1989

Promoted to Design Engineer from Engineering Associate. Designed Surface Wave Integrated Filters. Design software included WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3, and QuickBasic.

Received patents for a Surface Wave Filter with Reduced Substrate Size and a Multichannel Surface Acoustic Wave Encoder/Decoder.

EDUCATION

DeVry Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois

Associate Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology 1977-1979

MILITARY HISTORY

United States Army Fort Knox, Kentucky

SPEC 4 1971-1974

PATENTS

Patent # Date Description

4,764,701 Aug. 16, 1988 Multichannel Surface Acoustic Wave Encoder/Decoder

4,422,057 Dec. 20, 1983 Surface Wave Filter With Reduced Substrate Size

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