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Sanford, NC, US

United States

Morrisville, NC

Promoted to Team Lead of a continuingly growing Hardware Test team of what is now, 10 highly skilled Hardware Test Engineers, 8 Full-time Hardware Technicians, and 3 Contract Technicians. Responsibilities consist of leading the team in Professional Development, Test Plan Development, Test Project Management, Test Methodology Improvement/Development, and.

Morrisville, NC

One of only 2 engineers in Reliability Engineering at the time responsible for all New Product Introduction (NPI) and Sustaining Product Test support, that covered every Smart Grid Technology product in the company for water, gas, and electric. Responsibilities included Project Management, Test Plan Development, Test Fixture/Station Development, Test.

Morrisville, NC

One of 2 contract engineers brought on to establish the first functional component qualification group for Sensus, with its sole responsibility devoted to qualifying components for second source, end-of-life, and cost improvement projects for all of its Conservations Solutions products. Developed Qualification and Reliability Test Plans for proposed.

One of 2 engineers devoted to qualifying hardware and software for the entire 7342 GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) system product line from proof of concept and new prototype design to pre- and post-field deployment. Performed environmental temperature testing, HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening).

Handpicked to join a small operations team that supported 5 factories (3 international, 1 contract, and 1 onsite) and resolved customer satisfaction issues through FMA (Failure Mode Analysis) and development of PAT (Product Audit Test) systems for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), BPON (Broadband Passive Optical Network), and GPON product lines.

Performed hardware qualification and FMA on the 1603 SMX SONET product line. Supported onsite manufacturing facility in resolving system, functional, and in-circuit level testing failures. Oversaw technician support for manufacturing of the 1603 SMX product line.  Singlehandedly qualified a 4-port OC3 line card (LIFF01) instrumental to future product line.

Conducted installation, turn-up, and system testing for Fujitsu, Nortel, and Cisco SONET-based systems used in central offices and served on numerous hot cuts and system rolls. Interfaced with customers to successfully complete installations and resolve customer issues. Trained and mentored by senior-level technicians. One of 3 contractors (out of 100.

Bachelor Of Science In Electrical Engineering Technology

Associate In Applied Science In Electronics Engineering Technology

Graduated with Honors.