Charles Bishop Email & Phone Number

Guelph, ON, CA

683 Woolwich Street, Guelph, ON., CAN

I have the opportunity to volunteer my time to serve a community of seniors by enhancing their technology experience. This should be a fun way to use my years of skills to give back to a wonderful community and meet some interesting people.June 2022 -- decided to step out of my comfort zone and be the Treasurer.. going to be a learning experience!

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for finding and implementing process efficiencies across CSA test laboratories and disciplines
• Design and Development of test systems and automation
• Manage a team of 4 Laboratory Instrumentation Technicians and 5 Metrology Technicians
• Responsible for all Toronto laboratory OPEX and CAPEX assessments
• Create and drive Canadian wide laboratory best practices (Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver)
• Identification, sourcing and purchasing of laboratory equipment, specialized tools

Etobicoke, ON, CAN

• Managing an engineering/certification team of 22 engineers and technologists.
• Responsible for departmental OPEX and CAPEX assessments as well as coordinating certification projects between teams in Edmonton, Atlanta and China.
• Use Salesforce to manage clients & project operations of an average 180 ongoing projects on any given month.
• Ensuring that customer/vendor requirements are met, constantly looking for process efficiencies and that cross functional connections and timelines are valid, considered and met.
• Weekly KPI measurements to ascertain peak performance for 4 teams.
• 3rd tier support to resolve customer actions to a mutually successful result

• Chair meetings consisting of Wireless Operators, Manufacturers and Test Companies from all over the world.
• Guided and Steered conversation and debates to meet the focused target.
• Worked closely with Operators and Manufacturers to focus on certification implementation of Front End RF, protocol and upper layers (RCS, VoLTE, VoWiFi).
• Presented papers and change requests to the GCF for discussion, revision and approval.
• Liaison with other certification forums for collaboration when required (NFC Forum, GSMA, RAN5, RAN4).

Waterloo, ON

• Manage certification laboratory certification functions for RF and protocols for FCC, R&TTE, 3GPP (PTCRB & GCF), CCF (CDMA), BlueTooth, USB, CTIA1725, WiFi (IEEE802.11a/b/g/n), UL/LVD/CE for handheld devices along with.
• Work/coordinate with Asian ODM/JDM sites for product development and certification issues
• Attend Industry compliance meetings in Europe as the BlackBerry Certification Officer.
• Familiar with NB-IoT and other upcoming IoT Technologies
• BlackBerry delegate in the Global Certification Forum Steering Group.
• Executive Director on the Board of Directors for Global Certification Forum in Europe.

• Designed and Developed a Drinking Water Purification System to adhere to Ministry of the Environment’s new law 170/03 called the Process Sentinel. It is a hardware and LabView/C software system consisting of an.
• Responsibility/ ownership of development from inception to commercial release.
• Recently designed three other products, a process auto-dialer, a cost-reduced version of the Process Sentinel called Reporter, a lighter version of Reporter called Guardian.

Dallas

•  Managed development teams in Dallas, France, Italy, India and Poland Created/monitored yearly budgets  Created and monitored design, development and test timelines using MS-PROJECT. Responsible Quality Control of.
• Led teams of hardware and software engineers in design and development of cable-based products (DOCSIS-compliant cable modems, Digital Set-top Gateways and RF Front-ends)
• Demonstrated expertise in cable communications in the areas of design, spectrum allocation and implementation; cable devices were completely tested and verified through Tcl/Tk and LabView test suites as well as IT.
• Focused engineering design and development on the RF front end and its analysis
• Responsible for all outside vendor contacts for circuit board fabrication and contract design
• Tracked development releases and errors using DDTS/Clearcase to allow access of multiple sites to problem listCompliance Test Engineering:

Winnipeg, Canada Area; Dallas TX

• Microwave Laboratory:
• Led a team of engineers in the validation and test of Microwave 24-42GHz PmP Broadband Networking systems.
• Created a field validation laboratory from the ground up. Completely designed building layout, equipment and infrastructure; lab was built to contain 12 engineers for testing of system design issues and verification of.
• Designed and developed a complete LMDS PmP "network-on-a-bench" which had parameters automatically measured and documented through automation. Software Test & Measurement Automation was done through LabView and C.
• Design and implement IT infrastructure for entire laboratory back-end for telecom and telephony.Microwave Compliance:
• Responsible for all national compliance with EU, FCC and Canadian authorities especially Part 101.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Designed and Development Test Systems and performed Product Integrity functions...

Stittsville, ON

• Managed successful transition of a new Fast-Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet product from Engineering through Manufacturing using MS-PROJECT for project management techniques
• Coordinated and interacted regularly with Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement and Upper Management
• Worked with MRP/MPS software to create a process to streamline engineering-to-manufacturing flow to increase TTM and materials ordering accuracy.
• Created, controlled and maintained the Bill of Materials for all products.
• Work with Engineering from concept through design to mass production.
• Director of the Configuration and Control Board which governed the release of product, updates to new and existing customers, inventory control and disposition of product.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Incircuit test engineer... created a automation SW tool that created ASIC vectors for test. the script saved 30 hours/ASIC in test development time.

London, Canada Area

Hardware Technologist, calibrated and troubleshot Telephony Test Systems then moved into embedded software development in Z80 assembly, FORTH and C..