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Lakeville Mn

Production and System Engineering of wireless products. Working with domestic and overseas suppliers on development and manufacturing issues. Travel to China, setting up a quality and delivery program with two way radio manufactures. Manage and qualify key products and vendors.Develop Wireless Monitoring Systems for Health Care and Retail with Engineering team.Product management of new two way radios and monitoring systems. Quality manager for Advanced Wireless product.

Chaska Mn

Developed loss prevention products and systems that were specified by customers, sales force, product management and our engineering team. This would require me to create proposals, schematics and PCBs if needed. Generated the bills of materials, specify and source out components. When necessary, built prototypes for design verification. Worked with and managed the contract engineers. Worked closely with contract manufactures chosen to build and test the assemblies. Created end user and support documentation for in-house assemblies, Managed & qualified key product OEM vendors. Supervised and worked closely with contract manufactures that supply custom and off the shelf components. Managed and actively participated in FCC and UL regulatory testing.I was the manufacturing engineer for all in house products, solving problems and issues dealing with the production of our CCTV PTZ camera system, LCD public view monitors, RF monitoring system and various other products. Developed, implemented and maintained all the assembly, test procedures and test fixtures. Created various automated test processes using VB software programs. Established & implemented AQL and ESD Programs in manufacturing. performed failure analysis and product audits. Created, implemented and maintained barcode tracking and label systems using VB & Access databases. Actively worked with sales and the product management group to solve customer’s problems by developing, modifying our own products along with integrating of off the shelf solutions.Products successes include, but not limited to:- CCTV PTZ camera system- LCD public view monitors- RF control & monitoring systems- Merchandise monitoring systems- ATM & other security productsMore explanation for some projects are documented below.

Burnsville Mn

Engineering Manager (1991 – 2000)Purchased by ATRIX, I managed and assisted a small engineering team in the development of various microprocessor based hardware products. Oversaw software development projects for remote monitoring, reporting and database management for office machine and Industrial control. Oversaw and participated in the installation and testing of equipment at industrial sites, local and federal government agencies in Washington DC. Trained clientele in use and application of the systems. Managed all vendors. Wrote technical specifications, installation and user manuals. Supported sales by meeting with potential customers and participating in various trade shows. Two new Patents were created at this time: Multipurpose Remote Office Machine Management Systems, 5,673,190 (1997) Industrial machine monitoring, 5,870,698 (1998) Product Engineering (1989 – 1991)The company changed its name to Versalink, We acquired an RF telemetry system and developed new hardware. We developed and implemented a phone based utility monitoring product. Field Service Engineer (1987 – 1989)The company started out as Microtel, manged and participated in field trials of Utility monitoring installations.More explanation for some projects are documented below.

Cedar Rapids Ia, Eden Prairie Mn, Waseca Mn.

TELECONNECT – Cedar Rapids IA. 1986 - 1987 Development & field support technician Troubleshot problems with technicians in the field at the installation site and also by telephone. Helped with the development of telephone key systems at and at the manufactures site.ZYTEC - Eden Prairie MN. 1985 - 1986Development technician (contract) Assisted in development of high power switching power supplies. Created engineering and manufacturing documentation and supervised drafting of PC Boards. Worked with Manufacturing in the producing new product.EF. JOHNSON COMPANY – Waseca MN. 1979 - 1985Development technician (1982 - 1985) Worked as part of a design team consisting of British engineers and a small group of Americans, developing a hand-held cellular phone. We Developed manufactured and tested hybrid designs on ceramic substrates. Assisted in the development of a custom power and supervisory IC manufactured for the phone. Manufacturing engineering tech (1979 - 1982) Provided technical support for first generation cellular mobile phone, Cell site base stations, UHF and VHF transceivers and accessories on the line and through production test. Developed and built test fixtures to tune and troubleshoot UHF, VHF transceivers, cellular base stations and repeater systems.

Associate Degree, Electronics

In addition I take have taken Continuing Education classes in Project Management, Technical Management, Technical Writing, Application &.

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