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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Managed the Engineering Lab and supported Engineering, Production, Field Installers, and Marketing wherever needed.• Drilled and tapped enclosures, assembled cables and harnesses, integrated the enclosures, cables, harnesses, and PCBAs, loaded firmware, configured, and tested final product.• Reviewed and edited BOMs, sourced, ordered, purchased, received, inventoried, and kitted components, cables, wire, mechanical parts, fasteners, and raw stock.• Organized the lab and purchased tools and consumables.• Gathered Gerbers, fab drawings, and other files, and ordered and purchase PCBs.• Hand-assembled and reworked prototype PCBAs (SMT and thru-hole on single and dual-sided PCBS).• Remotely monitored and traced issues with our products in the field.• Designed and assembled station for pressure testing our products. • Co-designed and installed a “wet lab” for testing water pressure sensors, valves, flow meters, and depth sensors.• Set up temperature profiles and performed environmental chamber testing.• Developed leak tests for pressure sensors.• Used Jira and Confluence for ticket tracking and documentation.• Updated and created documentation such as test procedures, and assembly, installation, and rework instructions, using Google Suite and MS Office.• Performed failure analysis of Field failures and wrote reports.• Soldering and rework expert within the organization, created or modified rework in coordination with Engineers. Taught others how to solder.• Designed cables, harnesses, cable adapter circuits and PCBs, brackets, jigs, templates, and other practical parts. Generated drawings, and application and assembly instructions.• Fabricated brackets, jigs, templates, and practical parts from metal or 3D printed them where appropriate.• Designed a telescoping antenna/equipment mast consisting of off-the-shelf parts that is adjustable for height and cardinal direction. Patent pending.• Co-designed IP67 rated outdoor gateway power box.

Mountain View, California, Us

Independent contractor.

Contractor via Planet Pharma. • Rigorously following test protocols and procedures, set up robotic surgery equipment in required configurations and recorded scenarios, gathering data to verify that equipment met or exceeded specifications.• Identified problems with the process, equipment, or test articles, and communicated effectively with engineers of various disciplines.♦ See recommendations.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Contractor via Artech.Demonstrated versatility and hands-on skills and the ability to work well in a team, performed the set-up, calibration, testing, and troubleshooting of circuits, components, instruments, and mechanical assemblies. Determined and developed test specifications, methods and procedures from blueprints, drawings, and diagrams. Tested and troubleshot assemblies and/or final systems. Completed rework of assemblies and/or systems as a result of testing. As required, prepared technical reports summarizing findings and recommended solutions to technical problems. Assisted in the development or improvement of test program hardware and/or software.• Building, testing, and troubleshooting proprietary test systems with off-the-shelf components and cabling, modifying the components as needed, and fabricating some components and cabling. • Tracking and sending test equipment out for calibration. • Testing and collecting and charting reliability data of GaN FETs using semiconductor and proprietary test systems and commercially available software.• Assisted managing and maintaining the product investigation and reliability lab.• Updated documentation and created new documentation such as test procedures, rework instructions, and reported test and manufacturing issues. • Created and fabricated test and other fixtures.

Redwood City, California, Us

Contractor via Aerotek, Inc.Evaluated the electrical and mechanical characteristics of systems and/or integrated circuits, components, sub-components and systems to determine the cause of failure, including the verification of analog and digital performance. Analyzed failure reports and recommended corrective action. Developed methods, processes, procedures and equipment that would improve the failure analysis process and/or reduce failures. Demonstrated good listening, verbal, and written communication skills in order to accurately present technical information to non-technical customers as well as good organizational and multi-tasking skills in a fast-paced testing environment.• Managed and maintained the product investigation lab• Collaborated with appropriate technical, Clinical, Field/Sales and/or returned product analysis team members to ensure complaint investigations were adequate, accurate, detailed, and timely.• Analyzed and confirmed product complaints and determined root causes.• Adapted or refined test procedures to properly address customer complaints.• Designed and developed test equipment and test specifications.• Managed and performed decontamination of returned products.• Performed and assisted in board level circuit analysis.• Identified failure modes and root causes.• Wrote failure analysis executive summary reports.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Contractor via Aerotek, Inc.• Provided support in quality control and failure analysis, working with the service and repair department to identify product failures and root cause analysis. • Role in product improvement and worked closely with quality control and design engineers.• Disassembly and assembly of entire product line.

Contractor via Express Professional Staffing• Planned and lead small team in the installation of specialized agricultural lights, power supplies, controls, and wiring, in the bring-up of a new facility ahead of schedule while maintaining quality, collecting data, and producing daily progress reports.• Created prototype of power supply assemblies and lead building of assemblies, having them ready for when new facility was ready.• Estimated quantities, priced, and sourced needed materials for new facility.• Performed and oversaw tear-down of portions of former facility.• Designed and built specialized carts recycling materials on-hand, saving money and avoiding road-blocks associated with limited budget.• Created room for specialized testing by building dividing wall.• Reorganized tool and material room.• Co-designed and created prototype fixture to simplify installation of new facility, making the installation faster, minimized errors, and increased accuracy of placement of vital equipment.• Tuned, troubleshot, and replaced lighting, while collecting data on light levels and power consumption.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Contractor via Volt Technical Services.• Test, calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair production and factory return test instruments.• Generate and update test procedures.• Document failures.• Design and build new test fixtures.

Boise, Id , Us

• Electronic and mechanical assembly of products using hand tools, soldering equipment, stereo microscope, proprietary equipment and processes, schematics, assembly drawings, and bills of materials.• Development and documentation of process for assembling a sub-assembly for one of the company’s products.• Tuning RF portion of power sensors and testing of power sensors.• Created fixtures as needed to better perform my duties.

• Responsible for site survey, customer support, and installation of television satellite cabling, dish, and receivers, as well as phone lines.

Contractor via Adecco Technical.Same duties as Cisco Systems. Cisco outsourced work to Celestica.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Generated scripts to automate download and parameter setting of prototype boards which reduced operator errors and sped up delivery to customers.• Helped identify a difficult-to-find issue with a particular vendor’s SRAMs with potential manufacturing issues that could have caused a line stop with significant customer impact.• Ordered computers, equipment, and reverse-engineered and assembled automated test towers, which allowed for timelier processing of additional prototypes.• Responsible for telecom system verification and test, lab design utilizing established standards, mechanical installation and maintenance, and vendor and contractor management.• Designed and built circuit that removed supply voltage to equipment in environmental chambers, preventing equipment under test destroying itself when chambers failed to cool, saving over $100,000 in lost equipment and time lost testing.• Transitioned from assembling and installing equipment, including, anchoring and mounting telecom racks, benches, patch panels, power supplies, and electronics equipment, in labs, to designing labs and cables, while maintaining and improving the standards set by manager and original designer. Grew Petaluma lab from supporting 10-15 to 100+ testers.• Coordinated with vendors in selection and ordering equipment, hardware, and consumables, needed to grow lab and meet customer (tester) needs and perform software/hardware test without interruption.• Designed and/or assisted in design and installation of labs in Richardson, Texas and Bangalore, India, which involved both onsite and remote design and installation. While not onsite, coordinated installation with resources local to the site utilizing floor plans.• Managed assembly of systems in Petaluma into telecom racks; tested, debugged, and repaired systems; coordinated delivery with shipping and receiving; and installed systems personally, or remotely using locals, enabling system testers to begin in a timely fashion.

Contractor via Volt Technical Services. Became full-time when Cerent was acquired by Cisco.• Responsible for programming and testing new boards in a timely fashion.• Created first pre-programmed flashes for company and coordinated with vendor to create sample, sample verification, and sample approval, which saved production time, reduced errors, and helped throughput to customers.• Responsible for programming and testing new boards in a timely fashion.• Brought on as permanent by Cisco Systems when purchased Cerent.

As (Incomplete), Civil Engineering Technology

Associate Of Science - As, Electronics Engineering Technology