Christopher Gagnon Email & Phone Number

Currently employed in the Test Engineering department where my responsibilities included but are not limited to ground-up construction and assembly of production and prototype electronic test equipment while coordinating with senior level engineering staff. Duties also include repair and maintenance of electronic test equipment with minimal supervision. Also participated in the fabrication of test fixtures and various electronic test equipment and devices including various types of cable assemblies, SMD and through-hole pc board assembly, custom fabrication of mounting assemblies for various applications and system designs. Also I am the calibration coordinator for the Test Engineering Dapartment. Software often used: Orcad, Autocad, Microsoft Office and XL.

Calibration and test of precision air pressure / vacuum transducers used in pharmaceutical industry and in various freeze-drying processes. (Contract Position)

(Contract Assignment through Technical Needs.) Visual QA inspection of surface mount, BGA and fine pitch component populated printed circuit boards in an ISO-9002 certified manufacturing facility to IPC-610 criteria. Duties also included solder repair and rework of such product also the use of "Mimics" data collection software and "CIM Bridge" software. (Contract Position)

troubleshoot and repair of electronic video switching control panels. Duties also included but were not limited to solder assembly, rework and inspection of populated through-hole circuit assemblies.

Assembly of mobile cargo storage X-ray surveillance vehicles. Responsibilities also included cable assembly and installation, assembly and installation of other complex electro-mechanical sub-assemblies.PRI Automation; Assembly, electronic test and troubleshooting of microcircuit wafer storage robot equipment used in the manufacturing of microprocessors and other micro-electronic devices. Additional duties included solder assembly, rework and inspection of populated circuit boards prior to installation. Also the manufacturing and installation of various complex cable assemblies and other electronic devices along with the installation of power supplies, computers and various other electro-mechanical sub-assemblies.

Manual and automatic preliminary circuit test, final shock temperature test and troubleshooting of numerous microcircuit hybrid assemblies which required the use of microscopes, oscilloscopes, and other electronic testing and visual inspection equipment. Duties also included laser trimming of screened substrate resistor circuitry on such devices.Electronic Module Assembler/ Reworker: Solder assembly, repair and rework of multi-circuit board assemblies and electro-mechanical module sub-assemblies.Printed Circuit Board Inspector: Visual QC inspection of a variety of populated circuit boards, multiple circuit board modules and electro-mechanical sub-assemblies prior to and after electronic test. Also during and after assembly and/or rework.Connector Cable Assembler: Solder assembly and rework of various cable harnesses and other electronic sub-assemblies.

Pulse

transistor logic circuit analysis.

Personal Computer

troubleshooting, repair and upgrading. Applications Learned: MS Windows, MS Office, MS Word, Excel, Novell Netware, Norton Utilities..