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Grandville, Michigan

Embedded software development

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Designed test stations, printed circuit boards, interface adapters, and cables along with the development of software tools to support test equipment for acceptance test and environmental stress testing of avionics.• Met cost and schedule constraints designing EMI resistant test interface PCBs including audio filtering, SPI bus, I2C, and signal regeneration for product design qualification.• Supported automation of test equipment using SCPI commands over IEEE-488 and TCP/IP commands over Ethernet.• Replaced complex spreadsheets by designing databases with MS Access and Visual Basic for cost estimating, multiple project tracking, and best practices.• Met billing milestones resolving difficult and unusual project issues.• Completed development of interface hardware ahead of the simulation software for an aircraft simulation station via collaboration with a competitor to learn their product in a less than cooperative environment.• Proactively lead product teams and collaborated with outside customers to discover testing requirements for multiple projects.• Corrected design issues with test stations within budget for product acceptance use.• Achieved high level customer satisfaction facilitating a network change to large lab.• Export control tagged of test equipment designs and assemblies.• Constructed project cost proposals including TINA compliance.

South Bend, Indiana Area

Research and designed of new product prototypes that are directly or indirectly related to multifunctional structure or smart structures• Designed a printed circuit card to control metal deposit of a positive vapor deposition process.• Designed test and control software using LabVIEW and SCPI commands for fabricating and testing prototypes.• Prototyped wireless sensor nodes based on the 8051 and Zigbee transceiver chipset.• Projects include concept and develop include a residential electrical distribution system, an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), wireless sensor network, a battery power distribution system, and a conformal load bearing antenna.• Research antenna design concepts for a Conformal Load-bearing Antenna System (CLAS) for a UAV, and developed simulation tools for a hybrid power source (mainly focused on Li-poly batteries).• Awarded and highly scored Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) proposals:o Power manager system for special operations teamso UAV for humanitarian reliefo Integrated battery power system for a UAVo Smart transducer interface module design for container protection• Developed presentations for Air Force officers at Write-Patterson AFB.

Greater St. Louis Area

Consultant position supporting Boeing's Common Low Observable Verification System (CLOVerS) controlling the motion of 12 axes on a cart system utilizing LabVIEW National Instruments PXI chassis, Flex Motion control, and Kollmorgen servo drives.• Created a successful collaboration and software lifecycle documentation that worked well with a dynamic team from General Dynamics in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Boeing Engineering of Seattle and St. Louis.• Successfully developed TCP/IP based software control solutions for new functionality within project plan.• Test and document simulations to software changes.

Elkhart, Indiana Area

Developed hardware / software and provided integration support of manufacturing equipment and environmental test lab equipment for the production of analog automotive sensors.• Created low EMI circuit card designs using Altium Designer for non-contacting position sensors.• Wrote Visual BASIC, Visual C, and RSLogixs software for data acquisition test equipment, laser resistor trimming, and production line automation within budget and schedule.• Successfully lead build support of internal build technicians and outsourced.• Successfully troubleshot product related issues by request from Product Engineering.• Provided test equipment training to the Environmental Lab and Product Engineering.• Reduced test software development time by 30% due to standardization.• Improved accuracy and reduced downtime by 25% with development of positional calibration procedure for sensor element testing.• Reduced data lead-time from remote manufacturing facilities from 3 weeks to one day by creating data file viewer software for lot file data over network connection.