Electrical Engineer Design

CHAITANYA SALAKA

**** * ******* **, # ****, Houston, TX 77027 214-***-****

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HARDWARE ENGINEER

Results oriented Engineering professional with two years of experience working closely with product development, manufacturing and quality teams to make sure a high quality product is delivered to the customer. Good fundamentals of electronics, PCB board design and integrated circuits gained through the course of graduate and undergraduate level study. Hands on experience working with several EDA for PCB design/verification and circuit design such as Or-cad, Allegro, PSpice. Able to work effectively in a team and go the extra mile to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Good communication, problem solving, and decision making skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cross Functional Team Support

Analog Integrated Circuits

Sustaining Engineering

Failure Analysis

EDUCATION

MASTERS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ▪ University of Houston ▪ Houston, TX ▪ 2007▪ GPA 3.5

BACHELORS IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING ▪ Osmania University ▪ India ▪ GPA 3.7

ANALOG INTERESTS

Linear regulators, DC-DC converters, charge pumps, White LED Drivers, operational amplifiers, differential amplifiers and data converters

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

EDA: OR-CAD, PSpice, Cadence Virtuoso, Altium Designer

Languages: C, Python, Shell scripts

Instrumentation: Agilent Single/Dual Power Supplies, Tektronix Oscilloscopes, Digital Multimeters, Soldering Stations

MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project

OS: Windows (XP, Vista), UNIX, DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MCC Computer Company ▪ Houston, TX JAN 2008-JAN 2010

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

> Collaborate with VP of Engineering to provide assistance with all aspects of the development life-cycle of a ruggedized handheld device

> Component selection, PCB board design/ verification, system level bench testing, and board bring up

> Orcad schematic entry and BOM generation

> Track production progress, interface with overseas manufacturing facilities/customers, and participate in mass production ramp up activities

> Design fixtures for testing motherboards; provide engineering support to contract manufacturer in developing cost-effective solutions to improve quality and reliability

> Assist in resolving customer issues related to product performance, prototypes and other critical support needs

> Work with quality teams to analyze RMA’s to reduce failure rate and cost of ownership

Key Accomplishments:

1. Contributed in debugging the IBM architecture based modular computer

2. Spearheaded the integration of biometric software for face, eye and fingerprint recognition into the system

3. Established efficient electrical characteristics that increased product yield from 65 % to 78 % while saving $60,000

DESIGN PROJECTS

Research Project

Tools: Cadence Virtuoso (Layout, DRC, Analog Environment, LVS), Magic, PSpice, Ngspice

Involved in a research project of five-member team to design an Integrated Chip functioning as a voice record and play back device. Utilized AMI 0.6 micron C5 technology for Common Centroid layout of an 8 bit A/D Converter, Magic for extraction, Ngspice and Nutmeg for Circuit Simulation were employed.

Circuit/Physical Design

Tools: Cadence Virtuoso, PSpice, OR-CAD, Ngspice, Spectre

Op-Amps & Feedback circuits design, study of frequency response, voltage swings, CMRR’s

Transistor matching, routing, Common Centroid layout, latch-up phenomena, parasitic extractions, and spice simulations

> Designed a CS Operational Amplifier in PSpice and implemented the design in Cadence Virtuoso layout environment.

> Designed a CS Differential amplifier with a gain of 100 to study voltage swings, CMRR’s.

> Utilized Common Centroid methodology for Layout of Capacitor (100μf), 3 bit Ripple counter, sub-tractor circuit; the sub tractor circuit was fabricated by MOSIS in June 2007

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Rice University / University of Houston ▪ Houston, TX JAN 2006-DEC 2007

GRADUATE ASSISTANT

Worked on Connexions, an online database for Rice University; managed and maintained student database, graded reports and documents for Department of Education

Defense Electronics and Research Laboratory ▪ Hyderabad, India DEC 2004-MAR 2005

STUDENT INTERN

Set up a micro-controller based system through AT89C2051-24PC Micro-controller that facilitated the conversation of a signal from a light sensor to a 6 bit digital value and interface to a Dallas 1620 temperature sensor

AWARDS AND HONORS

Graduate Student Fellowship for 2 years ▪ University of Houston, Houston, TX

Granted scholarship for outstanding academic performance during junior and senior years ▪ Osmania University, India

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, IEEE

Member, University of Houston, Alumina

Mentor, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston

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