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Greeley, Co, Us

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Accepted promotion into software design, electrical engineering, IT and documentation management. Software:- Designing and maintaining hardware control GUI applications.- Upgrading older and outsourced GUI applications to allow for in-house maintenance and support.- Creating small software utilities that streamline general testing of new products.- Designing even smaller Microsoft VBA utilities for processing data into report formats.- Development of from-scratch software utilities for hardware control using Modbus FC-23, RS-485, RS-232, and the MIL-STD-1553 communications buses.IT:- Setting up and maintaining internal network infrastructure including resources for electronic employee time tracking, product but tracking, file-sharing servers and electronic documentation backup.- Upgrading and maintaining company website.Engineering:- Assembling and testing multiple R&D and engineering models of a wide-range multi-phase resonant converter design for use in aerospace applications (http://c-pwr.com/images/stories/JANNAF-1435_Wide_Range_Multi-Phase_Resonant_Converters.pdf).- Supporting electronic and programmatic aspects for TWT test stations.Document/Database Librarian:- Building and maintaining quality-management system framework to assist company in aligning with ISO-9001 practices and procedures.- Writing source-controlled drawings for custom parts and assemblies in accordance with MIL-STD-100G- Maintaining aerospace parts databases to ensure accurate electrical data, sourcing, and QPL compliance for both product design and materials procurement.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Wiring, chassis and electrical assembly of high-voltage TWT test systems.- Assembled various-sizes and types of bulk cables and wiring.- Prepped cabinets with shelves and shelf supports.- Labelled pertinent areas and sub-assemblies of unit with various safety and informative markings.- Fully prepped and assembled sub-assemblies including installation of fans, pre-built printed circuit boards and aforementioned wiring.- Soldering and potting of Amphenol connectors of various sizes and pin counts.- Litz prep and final assembly of various-sized, high voltage transformers.- Final PCB assembly including larger, board-level soldering.Assumed duties of updating and maintaining company website including:- Streamlining company products page to be more intuitive.- Creating a Google company profile to provide more accurate search engine information.- Updated many website images with more recent, more accurate and better quality editions.Took primary role of creating and maintaining a third-party project management system in order to further keep clients apprised of current project status, and to better provide them with estimates of time-to-completions.Created and maintained an up-to-date inventory system to track current shop floor stock.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

- Laid flexible surface ditch tubing and installed plastic slide gates within it for flood irrigation of corn rows.- Installed gated aluminum pipe along surface ditches where required.- Cleared head gates as well as concrete and dirt irrigation ditches of debris, increasing water flow and in turn pressure so that installation of resulting surface was both efficient and effective.- Distributed aluminum siphon tubes along fields and started them as the watering schedule required.- Enabled and disabled various sets of gates and pipes for both night and day watering.- Removal of plastic surface irrigation ditching.- Painting truck boxes used for storage of harvested and processed silage.- Greased and tuned up corn cutter.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

-Transferred to a more product-focused engineering department and worked with both Reliability and New Product Development teams.-Collaborated with Reliability Engineering for a Quality Improvement Program (QIP) on an older product, including highly accelerated life testing (HALT) and development of a highly accelerated stress screen (HASS) profile, which resulted in increased durability and stability of the product as well as a better estimation of field life.-Provided an extensive database entry of company-determined deratings on the individual components of the product which assisted the Quality Improvement team in determining the mean time between failures.-Provided testing and reporting for new product development, specifically in the area of thermal stress. This uncovered numerous before unseen, now foreseeable problems with the product and thus helped eliminate them before the design reached the field.-Designed the mechanical construction of a simple electrical assembly modification initiated by an Enterprise Change Order (ECO) which resulted in higher reliability and foreseeable life of the product.-Assisted in the construction of a mock chassis of the new product which allowed the team to test different component configuration without the added effort of taking apart the unit.; -Obtained knowledge in the basic theory and application of compliance testing and reporting.-Updated an in-house database driven website to reflect CE certification which provided various product departments with easy access to these documents. This in turn reduced the amount of time spent searching the intranet portal.-Learned various safety and EMC testing procedures which effectively increased my own knowledge of the numerous safety and radio frequency transmission problems along with some of their solutions.-Provided heavy labor cleaning the compliance laboratory which provided a faster and more efficient workflow.

-Provided labor for loading of Mylar sheet into the main robotic web machine for coating with photographic emulsion.-Assisted with maintenance of schedule database, which was parsed by the robotic machine for an accurate coating procedure.

-Duplicated audio and video media for sale during weekend church services and for filling of orders. Maintained summary database of all mastered media.-Quick and efficient work duplication which resulted in turnaround rate of less than a week even for some orders which had been lost for over a year.-Accurate database maintenance allowed for easy-to-find mastering system which even led to some duplication of fifteen to twenty-year-old archived audio messages.