Erik Morales Email & Phone Number

Carson, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

● Performing project based Freelance Electrical Engineering work for local engineering consulting companies in Los Angeles County.● Performed soldering reworks on PCBs for small scale projects that supported the Army Corps of Engineers’ Geophone project. ● Created OrCAD Capture models of TRIAC dimmers for the purposes of simulating various inductive loads. ● Designed High-Side Switch and Current Sense Circuit for the purpose of switching and monitoring voltage across inductive loads.

Westlake Village, California, United States

● Collaborated with senior electrical engineers, electronics technicians, and programmers to design, test, and validate programmable LED power supplies through hardware/software redesigns via iterative testing and validation methods.● Examined circuit prototypes to ensure compliance with design specifications and provided technical assistance in the areas of hardware and software optimization and debugging.● Increased compatibility of product with existing off-the-shelf phase cut dimmers, and improved dimming performance by implementing dynamic filtering for LED drivers that earned the company one new patent and other patent pending designs.PATENTS:- Mohan, Morales. 2022. Dynamic Filtering of Dimmable LED Drivers. US11924934B2. Filed June 7, 2022. Issued March 5, 2024. - Archer, Krattiger, Chen, Mohan, Morales, Javadian, Nakazawa. 2024. Lighting system with integrated power supply and light source. US20240302031A1. Filed March 7, 2024. Patent Pending.- Archer, Krattiger, Chen, Mohan, Morales, Javadian, Nakazawa. 2024. Integrated light engine having a low-power standby mode. US20240334566A1. Filed April 1, 2024. Patent Pending.- Archer, Krattiger, Chen, Mohan, Morales, Javadian, Nakazawa. 2024. Lighting system including a fast low-power startup circuit. US20240334569A1. Filed March 28, 2024. Patent Pending.

Moorpark, California, United States

Technical Writer & Electronics Technician:● Reworked LED power supply units by hand soldering SMD components, implemented preliminary circuits to PCBs, and validating changes based on redline diagrams and BOM changes.● Performed design validation testing to verify performance of modified samples with existing product specifications by using oscilloscope, digital multimeter, power meters and other test equipment to troubleshoot circuits and systems.● Translated complex technical concepts dictated by senior level engineers into accessible language for the purposes of writing patent disclosures and Created system block diagrams, circuit diagrams, and figures to illustrate/highlight functionality of new products/features while ensuring accuracy and completeness of technical content.

Carson, California, United States

● Conducted functionality testing of pre-production samples and quality inspections of consumer product imports to ensure compliance with the company’s quality standards.● Documented inspection results while identifying and reporting abnormalities or non-functionality that was observed.● Worked with production teams to address reported issues and implement corrective actions to enhance product quality and minimize/reduce RMAs.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: IHS Marching Band CO-OP Upward Bound