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Indianola, Iowa, US

Woburn, MA, US

Designed electrical power and signal distribution for flight avionics, communications, drive control interfaces, and HMI for a flying car project; Followed ASTM 2245 and FMVSS specifications, resolved conflicts between the specifications; Worked with mechanical designers to resolve wiring path conflicts, vehicle operation improvement; Thermal analysis of.

St. Louis, MO, US

Designed and tested electronics for high temperature (150C) commercial vehicle and industrial applications; Designed and tested permanent magnet BLDC motor controller using Microchip microcontroller; Embedded C code development; C# code development for system test; Worked with test engineers for hardware testing; Used Doxygen for code documentation.

St. Louis, MO, US

Hawthorne, California, US

Analysis and modification of existing designs for experimental satelite; Worked with test engineers for testing hardware and systems; Worked with system engineers for CAN communication; Wrote test plans for board and system test; Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer; SPICE analysis; Mentored interns; Version control using VisualSVN.

Pella, IA, US

Designed and tested electronics for downhole, horizontal drilling application; Designed and tested permanent magnet BLDC motor controller using Atmel microcontroller and embedded C code development; Designed and tested 480Vac / 3-phase input, variable DC voltage output power supply; FPGA design using Verilog and ModelSim; Designed and tested communications.

Göteborg, Sweden, SE

Designed, built and tested tested digital and analog electronics for motor insulation testers; Designed, tested electronics for the measurement of voltages to 15KVand currents from 10nA to 800Ap; Lead Design Engineer for high voltage product line; Interfaced high voltage to high speed ADC for data processing and display; FMEA documentation; Wrote Verilog.

Surco, Lima, PE

Wrote ‘C’ firmware for Microchip microcontrollers; Developed MS Visual Basic 2008 and C# 2008 applications for data processing using CAN interface; Developed configurations for vehicle data logger and data collection; Schematic capture and PWB layout using OrCAD; Analog and digital circuit design; Software version control using VisualSVN.

Designed, built, and tested hardware and firmware for ultra-high vacuum measurement gauges; Designed, built, and tested analog electronics for measurement of current to 50pA; Designed, tested universal input, flyback SMPS with variable output between 0VDC to 10VDC and 80W; Magnetics design for flyback SMPS; PID control development, implementation.

Designed, built, and tested prototype of vortex shedding and ultra-sonic type flow meters using DSP techniques, digital filter design; DSP firmware written in ‘C’ and assembly for ADSP-BF53x family, VisualDSP; Wrote Verilog code for Altera and Xilinx FPGA designs; Simulated FPGA code with ModelSim; Wrote ‘C’ firmware for MSP430 and 8051 microcontrollers.

Denver, Colorado, US

Designed, built, and tested prototype of flow meter Data Logger using a ModBus communication protocol over RS485 or RS232 connections; Developed Windows application for user interface that allowed data display and graphing using Excel; Wrote test software in Visual Basic 6.0 for automated production testing of Data Logger; Data Logger firmware written in.

Designed, built, and tested prototype for 5KW, 120V/240V portable, permanent magnet generator; Designed 15W, universal input switching power supply; Wrote electrical test specifications; Designed, tested engine governor utilizing a PID control loop; Designed, tested automated test fixtures using an 8051 microcontroller, Visual Basic 6.0, RS-232, storing.

Designed, built, and tested digital and analog control circuitry for a credit card controlled, self-service car wash application; Wrote ‘C’ and assembly code for 80C51 derivatives to control hardware, and RS-485 communications; Test, debug using MetaLink in-circuit emulator; Infra-red sensor circuit design; Schematic entry and PCB layout using OrCAD.

Universal off-line 100W switching power supply analysis, design; Industrial power amplifier design; Testing of amplifier and power supply designs; Power supply designs to IEC 601 and CISPR 11 specifications; Reliability analysis to MIL-HDBK 217; Designed temperature compensation for a pressure transducer amplifier; Designed motor control and drive.

Bethesda, MD, US

Designed and tested digital control system and power electronic drive circuitry for 3-phase motor drives and decode of optical encoder signals using an Actel FPGA; Designed single card redundant module for the independent control of 4, 3-phase stepper motors; Designed RS422 interface; Designed optical encoder electronics; Mentor Graphics schematic design.

Designed, built, and tested series and parallel resonant mode switching power supplies with outputs to 1 Megawatt, from frequencies to 100Khz; Worked with transistor and SCR based power supplies for 3-phase, 480Vac input, single-phase output; Designed mixed signal control systems with an 68HC11 embedded controller board; Designed, tested single-phase.

Designed, tested analog circuitry for CRT applications; Wrote product design specifications; Wrote test specifications for circuit board production and manufacturing; Supported existing designs.