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Lake Mary, Fl, Us

Lake Mary, Fl, Us

Benning is a privately-owned German company with subsidiaries in over 20 countries that provides custom-designed power conversion equipment such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), rectifiers, and battery chargers to some of the largest industrial and telecom corporations in the world for specialty applications that require ultra-high reliability.Responsible for engineering and field service departments in the North American subsidiary.► Identify and obtain relevant UL, CSA, and IEC standard certifications for battery chargers and UPS' by working with NRTL's (UL924, UL1778, UL1564, CSA 22.2, IEC 62477-1, etc.).► Increase technical competence and autonomy of staff through mentoring in the design, testing, and troubleshooting of power electronics products.► Reduce design and manufacturing mistakes by leading hardware design reviews and production handover reviews.► Resolve difficult technical and commercial issues with customers and vendors by establishing trust and demonstrating deep understanding of problems.► Eliminated dropped customer service requests by creating online ticketing system to track resolution.► Improved project status visibility and reduced project management overhead by implementing collaborative online scheduling tool shared across departments.

Warrendale, Pa, Us

MEPPI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Company in Japan that manufactures capital equipment including high voltage circuit breakers, transformers, Static Var Compensators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, and subway/locomotive equipment.Supervised and provided technical guidance to electrical, mechanical, and project engineers for HVAC, motor drive, power supply, and communications equipment for subway cars in the Transportation Systems Division.► Created and implemented engineering quality, design, and documentation processes to meet ISO/TS 22163 rail standard.► Achieved approximately 40% cost reduction of VVVF traction motor drive by leading product redesign specifically for US rail market.► Reduced production test time by over 50% for power supplies by leading development of hardware and software to automate testing; personally designed PCB for IGBT gate drive interface.► Successfully managed R&D effort to convert HVAC refrigerant from R22 to R407C on-schedule and under-budget.► Reduced time for BOM implementation from weeks to days by writing VB scripts to automate creation of items and hierarchies in Syteline ERP system.

Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-De-France, Fr

Alstom was a French conglomerate that made infrastructure equipment such as light rail and utility equipment. General Electric acquired most of Alstom in November 2015.Supervised and provided technical guidance to teams of 19 power systems, software, hardware, and mechanical engineers for Static Var Compensator (SVC) projects. An SVC is a 50 to 500MVA variable reactive power source that regulates the voltage on transmission lines using thyristor-switched inductors and capacitors.► Collaborated with project and bid managers, developed proposals, forecasted workload, determined priorities, and scheduled resources.► Decreased engineering hours required for RTDS hardware-in-the-loop software/hardware V&V by 50% by analyzing workflow and reassigning roles.► Improved workflow and reduced errors on project designs by implementing formal documentation, design, and review processes.► Turned around previous poor performance for Factory Acceptance Tests of control system hardware/software by introducing and tracking detailed test schedules.

Helsinki, Fi

Greensmith makes battery-based energy storage systems primarily used by utilities for voltage and frequency regulation, peak shaving, and solar PV. They use a variety of battery and inverter vendors with their custom software, electrical, and mechanical designs to produce turnkey systems. Acquired by Wartsila in June 2017.Managed day-to-day operations including product design, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, field service, project management, etc.► Increased annual revenues from $200K to $20M in 2 years, beating out ABB, S&C, and LG Chem in competitive bids due to superior proposals, on-time delivery, and system performance.► Completed design and installation of 20MW PJM frequency regulation system in 9 months.► Eliminated need for test facility equipment by implementing back-to-back inverter testing.► Achieved 99% voltage regulation accuracy by advising ABB engineers on modification of inverter control software.► Executed projects using batteries and inverters from Samsung, LG Chem, Kokam, Aquion, ABB, Eaton, and Parker-Hannifin; traveled extensively in US and Asia to work with vendors.► Worked with Johnson Controls to modify EV Li-ion BMS for stationary applications.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

ITT was a Top Ten defense contractor. Our division focused on TS/SCI special projects for intelligence agencies. The defense business was spun off as Exelis and acquired by Harris in May 2015.Managed DoD projects, wrote proposals, conducted business development, formulated novel concepts for new products, and performed embedded systems software/firmware and PCB design optimized for low-power consumption, minimal size, and reliability.► Completed Project Management Professional (PMP) training classes.► Designed extremely small ARM-based PCB with Ethernet and 802.11 WiFi capabilities used as wireless access point and built embedded Linux OS from scratch.► Designed RF analog and digital PCB used as AC power line modem and implemented FPGA-based digital tuner and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum QPSK receiver in VHDL.► Designed digital PCB for extremely low-powered audio recording device and wrote C and Verilog software that transmitted data over Ethernet using UDP or TCP.► Analyzed various electronic devices to discover and exploit security vulnerabilities.

Austin, Texas, Us

Active Power was a NASDAQ-listed company that built flywheel-based energy storage systems as an alternative to lead-acid batteries for industrial UPS applications. Acquired by Piller in November 2016.Led control system R&D for new 75kW product that combined flywheel with compressed air and thermal energy storage as a replacement for UPS batteries. Made real system hardware work while planning for cost and manufacturing optimization. Completed product launch, UL certification, and patent awards.► Achieved design objectives of 1% voltage and 5 deg F turbine outlet temperature regulation.► Implemented speed and power control of induction motor-based flywheel by developing C and Assembly DSP code for IGBT inverter.► Controlled micro turbine speed, power, and exhaust temperature simultaneously through development of C and Assembly DSP code.► Developed C code that controlled heaters embedded in thermal mass.► Designed DSP and analog circuitry for system control and voltage, current, pressure, and temperature feedback measurements.

Satcon was a NASDAQ-listed company founded by MIT alumni that made grid inverters, DC motors, and shaker tables. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and liquidation in 2013.Managed local and remote embedded systems engineers and wrote DSP control algorithms in C for line side of bi-directional IGBT inverter motor drive for R&D UPS project (315kW and 2.2MW) that consisted of flywheel coupled to diesel generator shaft and custom single wound-rotor induction machine.

Munich, De

Originally a new division of Westinghouse's Power Generation Business Unit created to commercialize Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) technology, later sold to Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution. Siemens eliminated the division in 2002.Worked with other engineers in the R&D center to design, build, install, and maintain some of the world's largest (at that time) voltage-sourced multi-level inverters (up to 160MVA) connected to transmission lines to regulate voltage and power flow. Executed projects for major utilities such as TVA, AEP, NYPA, and PG&E, including the USA's first commercially installed STATCOM.► Repaired and tested Gate Turn 0ff (GTO) thyristor gate drives.► Designed digital PCB's for system and inverter control, protection, and network communications.► Designed analog PCB's for precision measurement of voltages and currents.► Wrote extensive microprocessor and CPLD embedded software and firmware in C, Assembly, and AHDL for supervisory control, data collection, HMI, network communications, protective logic, SCADA interface, etc.► Developed DSP closed-loop control algorithms for independent magnitude and phase control of a voltage-sourced inverter connected to a three-phase AC transmission system.► Performed troubleshooting of problems in all aspects of equipment including circuit boards, wiring, fiber optics, logic, software, and control algorithms during commissioning and upgrades.

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering