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West Chicago, IL, US

Elgin, Illinois, US

Customer and supplier quality technical issues occasionally arose in the factory and assembly areas, and I evaluated and troubleshot them, which was then used to drive manufacturing partners to improve their processes and decrease defect rate.There are occasions where a product has a defect or customers want to modify a part for their particular.

Palatine, Illinois, US

• This was a newly-created position to support the electronics quality for a recent business venture, requiring creation of a Quality Assurance lab electronics test bench, and root cause analysis of factory defects and.
• There was no established means of tracking supplier or assembly defects in the factory, and therefore I researched, created and implemented a factory defect tracking system to record product data, improving the.
• I worked in collaboration with R&D and Product Management to create the VoC, Product Reqs., Engineering Specs., DFMEA, and CTQs, creating the structure (in Excel) to synchronize them and the traceability between these.
• When hardware or software updates were needed in the factory, I created multiple rework procedures and PowerPoint slides for factory personnel to explain software updates and packaging changes for several electronic.

Burlington, WI, US

I collaborated daily with manufacturing engineers, analyzing returned field failures and preparing failure analysis reports for the customer, and implementing corrective action reports (CARs) and preventative action reports (PARs).I improved the monitoring of two Mydata pick-and-place machine yields, and created an Excel-based tracking and statistics tool.

I provided well-researched and analytical solutions to technical problems for a client in the commercial HVAC controls industry, who needed a method to perform calculations and curve-fitting in a reliable, repeatable manner, using standard office software (i.e. Excel). The spreadsheet tools enabled the client's sales personnel to accurately estimate.

Chicago, IL, US

I researched, designed, developed, and tested various aspects of public-safety Base and Land Mobile Radio products, including receivers (RX), RF Distribution Systems, and Transmitters (TX). I performed various analyses, circuit and receiver and transmitter lineup optimizations, and PCB layout work, performed using the Keysight ADS simulation tool and.

Chicago, Illinois, US

I simulated, optimized, created schematics and PCB layout, and prototyped sections of a low volume, QPSK repeater, including a 2W, class AB amplifier, low noise amplifiers (MMIC), LC filters, and PLL.In the process, I reduced manufacturing time and product quality by improving the connector/board interface using a board-mounted connector.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• I served as the technical lead engineer on a next-generation transceiver design for a 2-way public-safety transceiver, quickly learned Mentor Graphics schematic capture tool, and created all receiver-level schematics.
• Using a new researched technique in the department, I designed a N-way Wilkinson splitter for a diversity receiver.
• Because short-term engineering head-count was needed for the project, I coordinated design efforts with an internal design group in Chandler, AZ.
• While mentoring a younger engineer, I resolved Maintenance-of-Line (MOL) issues in the factory, enabling continued production or eliminating field failures.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• This was the most exciting projects I worked on at Motorola Solutions. A vendor was selling Motorola their custom-designed duplexer for the 800MHz band, and Motorola was seeking to reduce product cost. Because the.
• I reduced the number of VCO individual designs and bill of materials from 4 to 1, saving Motorola $3M in manufacturing costs.
• I created a factory-ready duplexer, and accompanying Schottky diode-based power monitor, reducing purchasing costs by 1/3, resulting in $70M savings.
• I led a team, consisting of a mechanical designer and 2 junior engineers, in development of a duplexer.

Master’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering