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Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Washington, D.C., Us

Leading Powertrain team which includes Propulsion, Thermal Systems, Powertrain Integration, High Voltage Systems, Power Electronics, Battery Pack, and Battery Management Systems teams.

Washington, D.C., Us

Leading Rotor Systems, Thermal Systems, and Propulsion teams.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Executive Management of multi disciplinary engineering teams of 125 engineers, 14 Directors, and 4 VPs and Program Management Office. Released Karma’s first electrified class 4 truck, commercial vehicle. Developed product roadmap for next gen EVs. Lead design and development of 800V traction system making Karma a tier1 OEM supplier. IP generation of 26 patents in one year. Lead design of a hypercar with carbon fiber body, 3D printed chassis, powertrain, and battery pack. Optimized budget and heads allowing to kick start development of in house powertrain system, motor, inverter, and PT controller board with no new head and no investment. Established design process, Fishbone, 5Y, 5D and DFMEA for quality and failure mode improvement.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Kick started in-house development of complete 800V Powertrain.Enhanced PT SW on commercial vehicles adding 15% to range with same battery.Released Karma's first Electrified Class 4 buses and Trucks.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Directing a multi disciplinary team of ME, EE, DRE engineers on EV, HEV, and PHEV vehicles.Conducted inverter improvements considering vehicle range and acceleration.Doubled the regen braking with a novel AI software.Patented a charging platform for ultra fast 400V and 800V onboard charging.Patented a novel algorithm decreasing inverter loss by 75%.Honored by my team in two consecutive months as employee of the month.

Irvine, California, Us

Lead product development strategy on satellite powertrain.Lead cross functional teams of ME, SE, EE, GNC, thermal and controls in development of three new lines of products.Ansys RMxprt and Maxwell 2D/3D FEA analysis on permanent magnet motor design.Powertrain vibration analysis and control, shaft bent, misalignment, runout, static and dynamic unbalance and bearing. Spacecraft qualification tests including HALT, HASS, vibration, radiation, Kistler, and TVAC.Collaborate on Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) to achieve NASA’s mission requirements.PMSM 5W-300W accurate position control for aerospace application.Power Electronics design of DC-DC. bidirectional power supplies and DC-AC motor drives.Hardware selection including current sensor, encoder, MOSFET, SiC, and GaN FET.Filter design for PWM noise rejection considering EMI/EMC interferences.

Built up a team of Engineers, Bis Dev, Finance and marketing.Completed Series A first all-in-one home smart gym.Agile project management and lead scrum master for rapid product development.Conducted market analysis for consumer product.Targeted product for physiotherapy application and patients.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Hyperloop EV train’s powertrain design with Linear Induction Motor, Doubly-Fed LIM, and PM LSM.Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle control design.Firmware Model-Based Design programming of TI F2837x for active maglev.Model Based Design Firmware programming of TI C2000 DSP.6DOF vehicle motion control, propulsion, magnetic levitation, guidance, and navigation.Sensor fusion of IMUs, gap sensors, hall sensors, GPS, and position sensors.Sensorless airgap estimation, Extended Kalman Filter as System Identification.Hybrid Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor control design and modeling.Invented switchless LSM switching algorithm between inverters.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Blue Origin LLC: Next-Gen satellite propulsion Cryogenic Fluid Management.Capstone Turbine Inc: VDE4110 Unbalanced Fault Ride Through (FRT) inverter control.Intellipower Corp: Control of PFC rectifiers, 500W-4kW DC-DC converters and AC-DC-AC UPS.Happiest Baby Inc: Motion and vibration control of autonomous infant bed.Matterport Corp: Design frame capturing control of 3D Laser sensor and video camera.Performance Motion Devices: Developed motor drive functional safety to IEC 61800/61805.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Design, modeling, and control of motor drives for 3 phase and 6 phase medium voltage Permanent Magnet Synchronous, Induction Motors and Linear Motors range 750kW-16MW. Architecture of controls for carrier based PWM, vector controls, encoder based speed measurement, and sensorless, flux, voltage and torque estimation.Diode Front End (DFE) and Active Front End (AFE) rectifier modeling and control. Control of 2MW induction motor drive on Hybrid Electric, EV Caterpillar mining trucks.

Van Nuys, Ca, Us

Parallel inverter controls in voltage and current source for Micro grids and Smart grid applications.Microturbine dynamic identification and control (SIL, HIL) with Kalman Filter and Model Reference Adaptive Control.

Van Nuys, Ca, Us

Control of 30kW, 65kW, 200kW and 250kW Low Voltage (LV) inverters, battery, DC bus, brake, and SV PWM IGBT control of PMSM and generators. HEV control of Walmart trucks equipped with Microtubines, ISO26262.Failure analysis (FMEA), finding root cause and solution report. Development of control algorithm and preparation of Software Design Description (SDD), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Development Test Plan (DTP), Development Test Report (DTR). Product development satisfying UL, VDE, CE, CEI and IEEE requirements. PWM control of AC to DC and DC to AC inverters in Standalone and Grid Connect.Texas Instruments DSP firmware programming in C. Microgrid stability and control analysis.Modelling, identification and control of fuel system, speed and combustion of microturbines.Multivariable control design of single spool and dual spool variable speed turbines.

Irving, Texas, Us

Torsional and vibration analysis of 2MW induction motor connected to the shaft of mining HEV trucks.Encoder and Sensorless speed estimation and control of induction motors and PMSM.Leading design and modeling of Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) for Electric Motor Driven (EMD) application.Dual fuel control of gas turbines 2MW-25MW.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Managing development of software modules of motors soft starters, VFDs, motor drivers, inverters and converters.Creating Marketing Requirements Documents (MRD) and Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) based on trade analysis of existing wind turbines.Development Management of all kinds of Wind Turbines, e.g. DFIG, Full converter, and PMSG, into ETAP.Conduct ETAP trainings on transient stability, Load Flow, and Real Time. Preparing documentation and running Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Test (SAT).Design, troubleshooting and networking between SCADA domian's OPC servers, ETAP HVAC power system management Servers and SQL Servers. ETAP Power Management software developer of exciters, governors, PSS, motor drives, wind turbine modelling and their related controllers in object oriented languages like C#, C++ and Fortran. Independent Verification & Validation (V&V) testing planer and executer. Testing ETAP Real-Time modules, servers and networking. Executing product qualification test plans (QTP). Develop test plan and testcases for HVAC Real-Time modules, State Estimation, Economic Dispatching, Automatic Generation Control and Intelligent Load Shedding.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Achieved Statistical Process Control (SPC) skills.Examined and evaluated my new System Identification and Iterative Adaptive Robust Control method on multivariable processes.Developed adaptive system identification and robust control design technique.Optimized H_infinity loop shaping, H_2 and nu-gap methods for nonlinear MIMO paper and thin sheet manufacturing processes.Innovated new iterative adaptive robust control technique on multiple sensors and multi mechanical actuators.

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Designed, constructed and controlled a robot arm with 6DOF, equipped with robust stereo-vision system, embedded with innovated object detection method and designed and constructed motor drives.Invented new novel robust 3­D object detection method for mobile robots.Designed and constructed PWM motor drive to control movement of the robot arm through parallel port of PC. Communication programming was done in C++ and image processing was done in Matlab.Achieved superior time-management skills with pursuing M.Sc. in less than 16 month.Obtained strong background on DSP developing and integration of servo and step motor hardware drivers.

Munich, De

Prepared material cost and timing estimates, reports and design specifications on different projects of oil and gas.Conducted project into the feasibility, design, operation and performance of control boards.Directed group of automation engineers and electrical technicians on SCADA projects.Developed supervisory skills. Appraised and analyzed contracts. Evaluated proposals for automation projects. Best marketing and sales person of the Siemens on mini-PLC LOGO in the world. Persuaded customers and promoted Siemens automation products. Experience in Low-Voltage switchgear, AC/DC Motor soft starters, Protection relays, MCC.Experience in the inspection and installation, modification, repairing, remodelling, testing and operation of PLC automation panels. PLC programming, instrumentation and control.Trained hundreds of professional engineers with PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI and automation.Developed superior time-management skills balancing full-time work with full-time studies.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

M.Sc., Electrical Engineering

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering