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Portland, OR, US

Redmond, WA

Contract Engineering Program Manager position. Responsible for electronics development in Kymeta’s latest flat panel satellite terminal. Led cross functional teams in development of Antenna Control Unit (ACU), Power Supply, Interface Board, LTE/WIFI antenna Boards and Internal/External Cabling. Lead program manager for compliance testing of the antenna to.

Camas, Washington

• Senior Technical Project Manager in Component Engineering organization. Responsible for development of software tools and processes to save time and resources to bring new products to global markets in an efficient.
• Parts Cleanup/Consolidation: Eliminated and consolidated over 50,000 parts to 10,000 parts in the component database to remove unused, duplicate and incorrect parts and developed an ongoing process to capture accurate.
• Project Tracking Tool: Is an Apex/Agile solution which allows program/project managers and engineers across the company access to the Component engineering internal schedule for component qualification. Defined project.

Milwaukie, OR

• Technical leadership of cross functional teams in the development of power products for commercial and military aircraft and helicopters. Responsible for the technical execution and cost of the product in development.
• Assumed responsibility for an ongoing Permanent Magnet Alternator (PMA) design and led the project through successful completion of Qualification (DO-160) and product release.
• Led development team in design of a 2.3 KW and 1.5 KW inverter for a military aircraft after program had been stalled due to staffing issues. Restarted program and led to successful completion of DO-160 qualification.
• Initiated development effort for an 8 KW inverter for use in a US fighter aircraft. This included initial proposal evaluation, compliance tracking and design up to and including initial design reviews with the customer.

Hillsboro, Or.

• Supervision of a staff of Electrical and Embedded Firmware Engineers and Technicians in consumer security product development. Responsibilities included new product planning, development and introduction, research and.
• Investigated alternate microcontroller solution which replaced existing hardware that was proving hard to find and expensive.
• Upgraded firmware development tools and procedures.
• Released Freedom Micro family, a total of 4 released products within the year.
• Oversaw setup of manufacturing and test facility in China.

Beaverton, OR

• Worked closely with the Regional Sales Managers to define custom display program requirements for customers involving close coordination of the Sales and Engineering teams to generate proposals based on customer.
• Successful introduction of new outdoor, sunlight readable order kiosk for major fast food chain
• Introduction of paint mixing display system with touch for auto body repair shops.
• Other custom product design wins consisting of Freight Tracking display, Coffee Kiosk display and Automotive Diagnostic System display.

Beaverton, OR

• Responsible for multiple product lines: Industrial, Military and PC laptop display products. These programs required extensive customer interface for system specification as well as coordination with offshore resources.
• Successfully completed 4 display system projects for use in the Point of sale and ATM markets.
• Achieved certification to applicable safety specifications (UL, CSA, and TUV).

Beaverton, OR

• Responsible for the coordination of multiple projects in the Medical Business Unit of Planar.
• Led the development of Planar’s first Thin Client workstation (Invitium). The Invitium was a fully functional Thin Client workstation which was fully certified to the applicable medical standards (UL/CSA 2601 and.

Waterbury, Connecticut, United States