SAHIN EMRE
Address: **** *. ***** ****. ****: *** Long Beach, CA 90803
Home Phone: 562-***-****
Mobile: 661-***-****
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CAREER SUMMARY:
– Solid engineering experience in hands on design of power electronics, electro-mechanic,
motion control and pyrotechnic systems
– Analog and digital electronics, sensors, test and measurement circuits system designs
– Expert in modeling and simulation tools
– Creative problem solver at any level, individual or team environment
– Manage multiple projects and allocates resources for rapid product development
– Team builder, team leader, team member, teacher and motivator
– 6 Sigma specialist, QFD, FMEA, Fault Tree, Root Cause Analysis
– Experience with ISO 9001, Kaizen Events, Lean Production, DFM, TPM, and 5S
– US Citizen
– DOD “Secret” Clearance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Intelligent-Energy
Long Beach, California
Principal Power Electronics Engineer Dec/2011-May2012
– Hardware design for PEM fuel cell operation at extreme low and high temperatures
– Sensors and actuators for fuel cell operation and safety
– Fuel cell / Lithium battery hybrid automotive powertrain applications with Japan car
manufacturer (30kW, 60kW and 90kW range)
– Analog and digital pulse width modulated controllers
– 1.5kW 48V digital DC-DC converter for PEM fuel cell
– 7.5 to 9 kW output with protection for 48V DC telecommunication applications
– Back-up power management module that controls parallel 6 fuel cell units
– Battery charge management system
– CHP, H2 generation equipment.
– Sequential controllers, CAN BUS communication systems
– Altium, Matlab /Simulink, Autonomie PSIM, PSpice simulation software
– Process P&ID diagrams
Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company,
Advanced Technology Center Valencia, California
Lead Electrical Engineer Oct/2007– Dec2011
– Analog, digital hardware designs for pyrotechnic applications
– Switch Mode Power Supplies (3 to 5 volt, 28 volt, 28 to 1500 volt DC-DC)
– Solid rocket motor igniters, TFB, SCB, EFI firing systems, fire-sets
– Sequential controllers, Safe by Wire, Controlled Area Network systems
– Advanced Divert Modules, Thrusters, Rocket fire-sets and controllers
– Gas generator, Boost motor, POM igniter fire-sets
– High energy capacitor charge/discharge systems
– Laser firing systems, smart ignition,
– Radiation hardening and exoatmospheric designs
– Analog modeling, simulation and test of pyro-operations and sensors
– Safe By Fire ASIC chip and MEMS G–Switch for missile diverting control
– Missile control mechatronics, drives
– Leadership or team member to many missile and aerospace projects
– Military Standards (Mil-Std-810f, 461, 498 and more)
– Orcad / Pspice, Simulink / Matlab simulation software
Aveox Inc.
Design engineer, project manager Aug/2006 – Oct /2007
– Hardware design for power and motion control systems and aerospace applications using
Microchip PIC and dsPIC microprocessors
– Brushless DC motor (speed and torque) controls up to 50kW for pumps, fans
– Mechatronics design for UAV applications
– High Power AC-DC, DC-DC and DC-AC Switch Mode Power Supplies
– Electric motor design and thermal protection (Single phase, three phase)
– Single and three phase Power Factor Correction Systems
– EMC, EMI filter design, magnetic design and EMI testing
– Aircraft lightning protection systems for power drives
– 28 volt DC and 400 Hz AC power systems
– UPS systems battery chargers
– Digital controlled distributed power system
– Boeing 787 landing gear hydraulic pump motor controller
– AirBus 380 motion control modules
– AS9000 and RTCA/DO-254, DO-178 procedures
– Protel99SE, Altium Designer, PSIM, Saber, Speed, MotorPro, Motor-Cad, design and simulation tools
Raytheon
SAS, Trident Advanced Engineering
SR. Electrical Engineer,
Project team leader, module designer Dec/2003 – Aug/2006
– Power Electronics, Switch Mode Power Supply designs for Navigation systems :
– Radiation Hardened design for aerospace and missile systems
– Navigation CCD circuits
– Magnetic Designs, inductors, transformers, magnetic amplifier circuits
– PWM chip design
– PWM motor controls using DSP, vector control
– Self Diagnostic control and Build In Test systems
– EMI, EMC, EMP, signal integrity design and thermal design
– RF front end design, filter design
– Raytheon 6-Sigma Specialist
– ORCAD / PSpice, DX-Designer, DX-Sim (ELDO), Microcap, Power 4-5-6, Psim, PE-Mag, PE-Expert,
Magnetic Designer, Sonnet, EMSight, Maxwell, TAS and AutoCad
Consultant High voltage power supply design for xenon thrusters 2003-2004
Pechiney
Technical Center, Neenah Wisconsin
Corporate R&D Expert,
Manager Process Technology
Team Leader for Control Systems 1998- 2003
– Developed, designed sophisticated electronic, pneumatic and hydraulic flow, pressure and
thermal control and measurement systems
– Plasma coating systems
– Laser processing systems for special polymers
– Motor speed, torque, pressure and flow control for the co-injection and co-extrusion
– Implemented Design Of Experiments to improve the process capability
– Extensively used electronic design, mechanical CAD and FEA tools for the P&ID design,
simulation and analysis of the systems.
– Visual Basic, Visual Fortran, Labview and Matlab
Vorwerk International,
Plaxicon Company, California
R&D Manager 1990–1998
– Designed electronic, pneumatic and hydraulic process control systems
– Full support to marketing, manufacturing and engineering from concept to the successful production
– One of the major players who brought the company from $4 million to $50 million revenue level
– Invited to United States for technological improvements
EDUCATION:
MSEE
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Electric, Istanbul, Turkey
TRAINING:
Some after school work related training and experience:
– Fuel cells, electrical cars
– Inertial Navigation, Kalman Filtering, GPS systems
– Digital Power Electronics,
– Brushless DC Motors and controls
– PIC microprocessors, embedded systems
– Motion Control Systems
– Inverter Drives, GE Speed Variators
– FPGA Design, VHDL software courses
– Radiation Hardening design
– Rocket motor, thruster ignition/control systems
– Communication systems, Modulation, noise, transmission theory
– EMI, EMC design and testing
– Passive, active analog filters, digital filters
– PCM (Pulse Code Modulation), PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), Delta modulation
– Analog, Digital, DSP (Digital Signal Processing) design
– Design and Process engineering
– Engineering design and creative thinking courses
– Quality, team building, lean operation, continuous improvement and team management courses
BASIC TOOLS:
– Mechanical Design: AutoCAD, Basic SolidWorks, ALGOR
– Electronic Design: OrCad / Pspice, MicroCap, Multisim, DX-Designer/ DX-Sim, PSIM, Protel,
Altium, Saber, Some FPGA tools
– Analytical: Matlab - Simulink, MathCAD, Tecplot, LabVIEW, Computer Visualization Techniques,
Image processing, Thermal / stress imaging, Visual Array, illustration software
– Process and Design Related: Design Expert DOE, SPC tools, QFD tools
– Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, Project, Access, PowerPoint and Visio