· Heading all EMC and Safety compliance efforts on all products per IEC/EN/UL standards such as IEC/EN 60601-1, IEC/EN/UL 62368-1· Managing all product safety and environmental stewardship per REACH, RoHS, EPA TSCA, CA Prop 65, and other international regulations.· Conflict Minerals reporting per the US Dodd Frank Act.· Leading product safety audits on US production line

· Created System Verification Test (SVT) procedures for manual product testing· Performed requirement-based firmware tests on machines at a system level· Oversaw and assisted test execution by technicians · Reporting bugs in issue tracking system, following up, testing, and verifying bug fixes

• Completed EMC and Safety compliance efforts on two medical and seven educational/IT products per IEC/EN, UL standards: IEC/EN 60601-1, IEC/EN 62368-1, and UL 1678• Performed design review and inspection for potential safety and EMC issues.• Communicated findings to US engineering and China manufacturing teams• Coordinated projects at UL, TUV SUD America, Element Materials, and Intertek• Evaluated risk management and usability per IEC/EN 62304, IEC 62366, and ISO 14971• Assisted on product safety audits on US production line

Product Verification and Validation for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group.• Created Verification & Validation test plans to John Deere Quality specifications• Wrote plans for GPS receivers, auto-steering motors, embedded systems• Organized with V&V, Design, and Reliability teams to plan and execute hardware verification testing: EMC, electrical safety, power electronics, transients & steady state loads, and environmental• Facilitated test execution, and analyzed results of: electrical safety, and industry compliance tests at labs: TUV, Intertek, and Nemko• Expedited, in person, many offsite compliance tests to IEC/EN, & ISO standards• Presented test analysis & comparisons in PowerPoint

• Led V&V efforts for HART, Fieldbus, Profibus, and wireless temperature transmitters• Supervised Temperature Product Test Team• Communicated with teams in Pune, India, and Beijing, China• Planned electrical, environmental, mechanical, and software testing of embedded systems • Developed requirements based testing, incorporating black box and white box test methods• Headed RoHS, REACH, and environmental stewardship tasks for the Temperature division• Performed due diligence on BOMs for use of SVHC (substances of very high concern)• Contributed in the Software Test Process Improvement Team• Shared test results slides at new product design reviews • Provided sales, marketing, and customers with test reports • Managed Hardware Verification Testing • Tested EMC for CE mark – to EN61326 / IEC 61326 standards• Executed RF Immunity testing on a prototype using “quiet box” and signal generator• Recommended design alterations to improve EMC performance• Organized and evaluated EN60770 Vibration testing and Humidity per MIL STD 810-G• Investigated environmental and performance tests for new component qualifications

Card Designer, RAID storage adaptersIBM Systems & Technology Group, Development• Owned designs: three iSeries & pSeries adapter add-in cards for eServers and blades including SAS(Serial Attached SCSI), PCI-express and PCI-x interfaces• Delivered on schedule: 3 complex multilayer PCB designs and documentation • Completed power-on, and bring-up lab testing in a timely fashion• Coordinated board layout, mechanical design, and reported on schedule status to project management• Contributed to validation tests, physical design (PD), and power monitoring design• Supported regulator design, signal integrity, ASIC, and firmware teams in lab testing• Reviewed ASIC spec’s and wiring guides, PCI-express spec’s, and board validation plans• Provided test support for DRAM (DDR2), NVSRAM, and Flash

• Completed design and oversaw fabrication of PCB test units • Supported Boeing contract: GIT-1-B gyrocompass test station for Minuteman III ICBM• Headed component research and requisitioning for test station development• Designed custom cables, and developed cable accelerated life testing• Interfaced with vendors of components and assemblies• Created schematics, concept drawings, assembly drawings, wiring diagrams, ECO’s, and BOM’s• Led wire harness design and assembly for R&D projects• Owned R&D tasks on experimental inertial instruments: test plan development, test execution, troubleshooting, data analysis & presentation• Selected COTS heater and tested for an inertial instrument fixture• Developed and executed tests utilizing inclinometer and autocollimator data to verify stability of piers to be used for inertial instrument testing• Contributed in debugging and troubleshooting of analog controls• Initiated design reviews in accordance quality engineering and Life Cycle Management plan• Consulted colleagues on connector selection

• Designed and built analog circuits for calibration equipment• Created design documentation• Designed analog/digital circuit prototypes for hardware test units • Provided Schematic and PCB layout documentation