Jared Bernal Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Take the engineering lead to ensure that digital voting equipment (ITE) is in compliance to stringent hardware and software compliance standards defined by the EAC, and to guide it throughout the entire certification process.Coordinate, compile, and streamline technical documentation dossiers required for certification. Work with cross functional teams to ensure all documentation, including product manuals, meet numerous certification requirements.Design for, test for, and coordinate EMC, safety, and MIL-STD-810 compliance testing, for product requirements that surpass typical ITE limits (e.g. IEC 61000-4-2 level 4 limits for ESD, FCC Class B with additional margin).Track all certified equipment engineering changer and justify those changes to the certification body.Primary internal driver to design for compliance as part of the NPD/NPI with a phase-gate (tollgate) process, from schematic and PCB layout review, to testing, mitigation, validation, certification, and release.Active industry advocate to standards bodies, regulatory agencies, and working groups.

Austin, Texas Area

Fairfield, Connecticut

• Develop and implement the homologation strategy for all new desktop and rack mount ITE and telecom products within the hardware design team.• Research and maintain product compliance for all legacy products to evolving domestic and international regulations.• Audit and track device changes that have EMC or safety critical implications and work with worldwide approvals agencies to update reports as necessary to maintain certification. Primary contact point for all Nationally Recognized Test Labs and international certified test labs for worldwide standards, submitting all products for certification testing and attending testing as necessary.• Manage and operate a 10 meter EMC Open Air Test Site (OATS) to test for and diagnose conducted and radiated emissions.• Collaborate within product development to ensure compliance with all EMC and ESD standards during the early design phases.• Initiate and maintain all certifications for ongoing compliance to the R&TTE directive, including RoHS, WEEE, LVD and EMC directives. Generate statements of compliance and technical construction files for CE marking.• Work with technical publications group to generate statements of compliance for product manuals. Define and layout regulatory marking labels for all products.• Manage the internal regulatory website to provide global access to regulatory testing reports, records, and certificates for all offices.• Maintain an acoustic anechoic test chamber utilizing a Microtronix test system and B&K HaTS to perform investigations, compliance, and quality testing of handsets, headsets, and speakerphones. Conduct telephony testing in accordance to many international standards for safety and telecom permission to connect.• Created a plan and procedure to determine whether hardware and software products are regulated by the USA Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Determine ECCNs and file all necessary reports to the BIS.

Fairfield, Ct

• Converted parts used on mission critical projects to be compliant with EU Directive 2002/95/EC, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS).• Researched and approved alternative electromechanical component suppliers, which minimized lead-times and reduced cost.• Wrote and processed ECNs, and updated BOMs and AVLs in Oracle 11.5 to the current standards. Updated assembly drawings to call out required standards compliance.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Converted electrical, mechanical, and chemical parts in power electronics to be compliant with EU Directive 2002/95/EC, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS).• Researched and approved component deviations for manufacturing.• Entered new AVLs, Item Masters, and Bills of Material in the MAPICS ERP