Manufacturing Engineer - Electronics Test Devices

Bhavin Patel

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Wilmington, Tel (M) : 302-***-**** Delaware – 19810 E-mail : *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Strategic Electronics Design/ Test/ manufacturing Engineer with solid 7 years of experience and expertise driving quality and manufacturing process improvements for electronics designs, PCB layout & validation, Manufacturing tests development, Spice simulation, Thick-film & SMT technology, RoHS compliance, ECO process and Quality issue resolution. Full product lifecycle ownership from design through sustaining and end of product life. Excellent communication & presentation skills. IPC-610 certified.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Standards: ISO 9001:2000, IPC/JEDEC standards

Languages: C, C++ and assembly

Software/Tools: OrCAD, Relex, Flow-Therm, Microsoft office with Visio, Excel, power point and Access, Lab View

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, DOS

Equipment: Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Power Analyzer, Function Generator, Reflow Owen, Juki automation system for multi component placement.

Other Hardware: RS232, USB, EEPROM, Modem, Routers, A/D, D/A, IrDA, SRAM & FLASH

Micro-processors: Intel 8051, 8086, MC68000, 68HC11, Atmel, TI & microchip controllers

EDUCATION

Master of Science: Electronics Engineering (First Class), Sardar Patel University, India 2004

Bachelor of Science: Electronics Engineering (First Class), Sardar Patel University, India 2002

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CARDINAL HEALTH UK LTD 2008 – 2009

CARE FUSION UK LTD – (Formerly Known as Cardinal Health) 2009 – 2010

Manufacturing Engineer – Electronics Test Devices

• Develop test specifications, test procedures & manufacturing Test plan to provide 100% test coverage by combination of ICT, JTAG, flying probe, AXI and functional test for class-3 electronics products.

• Authored design verification plan, developed test strategy & execute DVT & system level tests according to product requirement document (PRD), conduct design and technical reviews.

• Monitor Obsolete components and approval of new/alternative parts, FAI’s, carrying Engineering/Product Evaluation, RFI/EMC testing.

• Monitor Weekly yield, product line statistic and quality issues and process improvements.

• Provide day-to-day management of projects with regular status reports, running and documenting project review meetings as necessary.

• Defect management through various phases of testing.

• Identifying improvement opportunities that reduces defects in production and increase efficiency and quality, hence increasing product yield.

• Carrying out quarterly and annual business reviews with vendors.

• Design and build new Test Equipments and Maintenance/calibration of existing test equipment, keep all controlled documents in current issue level.

CHEMIGRAPHIC LTD, Crawley, West Sussex, UK 2006 – 2008

Electronics Test Engineer & Supervisor

• Test planning and execution of high. medium and low complexity of test scenarios.

• Prepares and perform new Test Plan/Strategies walkthrough with project team and matrix partners

• Manage team with five, direct reports. Monitor SMT placement process.

• Authored test scripts to automated test execution and various test cases for environmental test & final functional tests for class 1,2 &3 products.

• Developed Digital & Analogue test methodology for PCB and met quality goals.

PANTHER UK LTD, London, UK 2005 – 2006

Electronics Engineer

• Debug hardware and performed tuner setup for Plasma Television

• Investigated issues found during product development & manufacturing and implemented corrective actions.

• Optimized complex PCB layout by resolving DFM/DFT violations using Valor DRC check.

• Performed Environmental Tests: Halt, HASS, four corners, shock, vibration and drop tests

• Design Hardware & Software for USB, IrDA link, Li-ion Battery Charger & power monitoring circuit.

• Performed circuit simulation & analysis, noise analysis and physical design verification.

SHEFALI CHEMICALS LTD, Nadiad, India 2004 – 2005

Maintenance Engineer

• Configuring and trouble shooting PCs and Networking.

• Organizing LAN in the area and Maintenance of printers.

MICRO SCAN SYSTEMS, Anand, India 2002 – 2004

Trainee - Electronics Engineer

• Developed & debugged software using JTAG for real time embedded system using C/C++ & assembly. System level Integration & verification of DSP firmware.

• Developed & Implemented low level device drivers.

• Wrote software using C & assembly programming to generate test code for various products.

• developed new products using 8 & 16 bit micro processors.

• Designed schematics & layout using Or CAD schematic & Layout tool from Cadence.

DESIGNS

PLC base Elevator Controller:

Design Hardware & Software for three Floor Elevator controller using PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) with various functionality like open/close door, selecting target floor, sensing up/down direction and Serial communication using RS-232. Develop embedded software with ladder algorithm using C & assembly programming. Develop firmware for serial communication with PLC using RS-232 protocol.

Temperature Sensor Application using LM-35 & LCD Display:

Design temperature sensor circuit using LM-35 to measure temperature over the range from -50 C to 1250 C. Develop software using C programming to measure temperature-using look up table technique and display it on LCD display.

Thick Film Resistor design:

Design wide range of resistors (1ohm to 4.7K ohm), using think-film technology.

Key Board Interface:

Develop software for keyboard interface for Matrix keyboard with key de-bounce technique using C programming.

HOUNOURS

Won first prize at state level science fair”GUJCOSTINDIA-2004” for the PLC Based Elevator Control project.

Note: References will be provided on demand .

Willing to relocate as possible.

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