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Irvine, California, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Lead and influence decisions in both test development and product engineering activities.➳ Develop test strategies for ICs, including implementation of characterization, qualification and production test solutions.➳ Improve yield and reduce costs while maintaining excellent product quality.

Richmond, California, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Lead the SunPower's test team for MicroInverters and Equinox ACPV End-of-line test system from development through production.➳ Design and manage all aspects of SunPower's next generation test station including research, system and PCB level development, procurement, contract negotiations and project management.➳ Lead and influence decisions with internal and external (CMs) stakeholders resulting in low-cost, high quality (6 sigma) and flexible test process.➳ Provide guidance to R&D and Design Verification engineers on testing techniques and improvements.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Reduced MDT (Mean Downtime) for MicroInverter test systems to less than 5 minutes through design and process improvements.➳ Improved MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) for all major components of test systems to 10 months through system analysis and redesign.➳ Reduced BOM cost of next generation test system by 20% through alternate parts resourcing and contract negotiations.

Richmond, California, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Lead SunPower's MicroInverter test development effort from development through production.➳ Develop test processes that can accommodate multiple test stages (Hi-Pot, Functional, HASS …etc) and product maturity (qualification, prototypes, production, RMAs …etc) across geographic zones (China, Mexico and USA) that provides comprehensive test coverage and data analysis (SPC) capabilities.➳ Standardized factory automated test systems to improve system redundancy, reduces spares inventory and lower mean down time to less than 10 minutes.➳ Expanded factory test systems to allow testing of multiple products on a single system design with a standardized user interface.➳ Work closely with the Director of Production Engineering and Quality to quickly make the test team “world class” through innovative solutions and mentoring of existing talent.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Increased MicroInverter factory capacity from 9000 to 338,000 units/quarter with a 99.5% yield through system design improvements, process improvements and standardization of test platforms➳ Awarded SunPower Prism Award for beating all milestones for product launch of the SunPower 96-Cell ACPV MicroInverter.➳ Directed to manufacture, certification and deployment of 22 automated test systems using SunPower, Contract Manufacturer and Third-Party Vendor personnel within a 10 month period to beat all product milestones.

Richmond, California, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Lead SunPower's MicroInverter test development effort from development through production.➳ Develop a test process that can accommodate multiple test stages (Hi-Pot, Functional, HASS …etc) and product maturity (qualification, prototypes, production, RMAs …etc) across geographic zones (China, and USA) that provides comprehensive test coverage and data analysis (SPC) capabilities.➳ Work closely with the Director of Production Engineering and Quality to quickly make the test team “world class” through innovative solutions and mentoring of existing talent.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Modified legacy test system hardware test executive software to accomodate new product launch in less than 1 month to meet company milestones.

Haslet, Texas, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Oversee all aspects of the Software Engineering Department for Austin Operations including software research and development through all phases of the software life cycle, software policies and procedures, product management and strategies, requirements management, budgeting, scheduling, proposals, quality, customer service.➳ Manage 10 direct report software engineers in an agile environment.➳ Recruit, mentor and train additional engineering staff.➳ Chief architect for test system software for AAI Austin’s product lines.➳ Performed BOE metric based analysis for ROM, RFP and RFQ submittals✰ Achievements ✰➳ Recognized Excellence by corporation by receiving the 2012 Winn Barr Award for Innovation for the development and implementation of a TPS conversion tool that is more capable and extensible than any product available on the market. Only one individual receives this per year out of a company of over 2000 employees.➳ Assumed development of new product line in WaveCorePTS for satellite payload test systems after principle architect left company and successfully delivered product on time and budget.➳ Lead Software Engineer for the Iridium NEXT satellite RF Test Stations. Four unique systems designed to work with customer control systems. Project Value – $15M.➳ Lead Software Engineer for B-1B ARTS Program – Developed complete testing platform in C and C#.NET for testing B-1B Electronic Warfare instrumentation. Project Value – $35M➳ Recognized for ability to develop and execute on research and development projects. Lead Engineer on 5 R&D projects in a 2 year period of time. All completed on time.➳ Recruited and mentored new-hire junior software engineers resulting in growing the software engineer department 250% to meet emerging sales opportunity deliveries.

Haslet, Texas, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰ ➳ Oversee all aspects of software development projects valued at less than one million dollars. This is both as an individual contributor and as a lead of a small team.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Pending US Patent 13/606,277 for “Graphical Conversion between Test Program Languages.”➳ Received the AAI 2011 Third Quarter Outstanding Achievement Award for performance as the team lead for developing an advanced TPS conversion Tool and successfully demonstrating it to the armed forces representatives at AUTOTESTCON.➳ Received an AAI Spot Award for successfully completing the B-1B ATLAS Parser IR&D effort ahead of schedule.➳ Served as Project Technical Lead for the BAE systems CHKRS ATS, supervising six personnel. The project required reverse engineering poorly documented software and hardware and designing custom FPGA routines and boards to meet original specifications. Due to outstanding extensibility of the system design, the customer purchased six additional systems and three additional UUT re-hosts valued at $4M in non-forecasted revenue.

Haslet, Texas, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Perform software and hardware development tasks for designing and integrating automated test systems and equipment.➳ Oversee all aspects of a software or hardware development project valued at less than one million dollars.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Developed embedded LabVIEW FPGA routines to perform satellite communication protocols (BiPhase-L and PSK TLM, ESA Serial, Sensor ESA Serial, Uplink Serial, RS-232) to allow test systems to interface with customer satellite control boards without necessitating using expensive communication chipsets within the test system.➳ Developed UUT manual control user interface in Eldec proximity sensor test systems that allow the customer to concurrently develop the engineering units earlier than anticipated. This directly contributed to the customer purchasing 3 additional systems valued at $3M in non-forecasted revenue.

Haslet, Texas, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Perform software and hardware development tasks for designing and integrating automated test systems and equipment.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Promoted to Project Engineer II within less than one year when the average time in position is two to three years.➳ Created and integrated reference design for standardized communications boards used on all company relay board products as a junior engineer. The design is used in over 30 different systems.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰ ➳ Develop applications and test routines using LabVIEW and to automate all aspects of the environmental laboratories.✰ Achievements ✰ ➳ Developed Perl and LabVIEW test subroutines and implemented improved PLC ladder logic flows for streamlining burn-in test routines for LINUX CPU Burn-In testers reducing part test times by 5 min/part.➳ Developed new and optimized existing LabVIEW applications for the automated testing, monitoring, and evaluation of PC and server thermal characteristics. This included automated operations for DC power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, strain gauges, thermal chambers, flow chambers and data loggers This resulted in complete automation of the thermal lab data gathering process reducing the need for full time support by one technician.

Austin, Tx, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Develop automated test solutions for manual test processes.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Developed and implemented new evaluation boards, support circuitry and software for RF mixed signal synthesizers using OrCad, LabVIEW, and GCPreview.➳ Performed testing and evaluation of prototype IC chips.➳ Wrote automated test software and drivers for vector analyzers, power meters, spectrum analyzers, DMMs and oscilloscopes utilizing LabVIEW and HP Basic.➳ Worked with customers and vendors to develop specific application implementation of product evaluation boards.

Washington, Dc, Us

✰ Responsibilities ✰➳ Managed twelve personnel responsible for the safe operation and maintenance of a pressurized water reactor and its support systems during extended oversees deployments.✰ Achievements ✰➳ Received Secretary of the Navy Personal Award for direct responsibility for a naval command receiving a never-before-achieved three consecutive excellence awards during annual Operational Reactor Safeguards Exams.➳ Secretary of the Navy Personal Award for supervising the development/installation/testing of new digital nuclear control systems during the 1997 USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) Depot Post Modernization at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ahead of schedule and under budget.➳ Graduated top of class in all schools and courses in the nuclear power program. The naval nuclear program is widely acknowledged as the most demanding academic program in the U.S. military.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Certification, Nuclear Propulsion Plant Operator - Reactor

Certification, Nuclear Engineering

Certification, Nuclear Engineering Technology/Technician