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Woodridge, Il, Us

Electronic Sensor Solutions for Suspension Systems.Hendrickson is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of medium and heavy-duty mechanical, elastomeric, and air suspensions; integrated and non-integrated axle and brake systems; tire pressure control systems; auxiliary lift axle systems; parabolic and multi-leaf springs; stabilizers; bumpers; and components to the global commercial transportation industry.

Precision Circuits Inc is a Total Electronics Solutions Provider to the Specialty Vehicle Industry.Responsible for hardware designs, new and legacy platforms and updates. This includes a variety of technical solutions customized to the customer needs. All designs are with time to market and cost target in mind.Power & Battery Control Systems and Management. Interfaces to vehicle electronics and controls including proprietary and RVC etc..Monitoring systems, Heating & Cooling, lighting, water tank monitoring, AC & DC power controls, Central circuit protection and monitoring etc..

Property Management: Managing employees & contractors in realty operations and Building Rehabilitation.

My objective is a career in Engineering Management, working with a leading firm that can offer a challenging, team-oriented environment with growth potential. I am a highly motivated and self- initiated Leader with Excellent Presentation & Problem Solving Skills. A talented Software & Hardware Engineering Manager with extensive experience developing embedded system controls in mission critical products. Industry experience includes Aerospace Military Defense, Telecommunications, Controls and LED Lighting and energy storage technology. Known for the ability to evaluate complex architectures and systems relative to the customer’s needs while creatively solving challenges. A strong cross functional partner to technical teams. Results-oriented global Technical and Business Professional with proven track record of accomplishments in strategic planning, project management, quality assurance and complex problem-solving. Spearheaded projects and company-wide initiatives, delivering high-quality deliverables while receiving outstanding customer satisfaction ratings. Provided insight to senior executives on business imperatives and execution of measurable, value-added, growth-oriented strategies. Holder of several patents.

Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Nl

Philips Lighting Electronics NA, Lighting Systems & Controls Group. Senior Design Engineer with focus in System Architecture and Design of Embedded Software & Hardware Implementations.Develop, evolve, maintain and apply deep understanding of customer, technology, market and competitive knowledge to enable advance product and market leadership.Demonstrate project leadership by driving product development from concept/specifications to production, such as the LED drivers with programmable Profiles and features such as LumiStep & 0-10 and PLRset (Programmable LumiStep via Rset), AOC (Adjustable Output current), CLO (Constant Light Output), and TC (Temperature Control). Develop and maintain strong relationships with product management, manufacturing management/engineering, quality engineering and purchasing.Build development team's understanding around customer specifications and product/technology implications.Support an integrated project plan that focuses and aligns project team with achievement of product introduction goals.Facilitate appropriate communications between product management, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing and where appropriate, customer to ensure products are built to suite the customer and advance requirements.Completed all goals and addressed each and every issue quick and in a professional manner.Global Team Member, GSCC (Global Software Competence Center) team which are based in Eindhoven. Current focus is on SW & Platform Development for LED Drivers for Philips Lighting, BG Lighting Systems & Controls.Software/Hardware development for the DOE SSL (Solid State Lighting) project: “An Efficient LED System-in-Module for General Lighting Applications”. LED fixture 3 & 4 color control to 0.001 color accuracy while maximizing CRI and efficiency. Wired & Wireless controls as well as protocols (Zigbee, EmberStack & proprietary etc). Design & architecture of user interface (UI) for PC and handheld devices.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Part of a team oriented environment in Research and Development of telecommunications infrastructure systems. High reliability & availability telecom hardware systems & subsystems. Manage projects from initiation to completion. New concept hardware & software design. Small & large SMP based telecom grade hardware architecture & design. Prototype from concept to delivery including NPI (New Product Introduction) to the field. Extensive R&D in ATCA and all PICMG standards. Software integration of 3rd party packages. Software application development as well as driver & BIOS/CMOS development. Hardware specific software drivers as well as test tool development for testing and implementation of the platforms. Design & meet office certification NEBS/CE/ETSI. High availability Network Architecture & Implementations, TCP/IP/UDP/SIP/VOIP/SNMP etc. Design of High efficiency Switching Power electronics as well as power distribution centers. Achieved multiple Accomplishment & High Performance awards. Hardware Vendor Management with IBM, LSI, NMS, PT, Adax, Radisys, Sun, DIGI, Seagate, Hitachi, DPS, C&D, Intel, HP, DTI, MUPAC, Maxtor, etc. Excellent Troubleshooting & Debugging skills as well as suggesting solutions. Customer focused, flexible, resourceful, versatile. Field & Demo support. Demonstrated can-do attitude, self-motivated & take initiatives to acquire new skills to innovate and improve product quality.

Part of a team oriented environment in Research and Development of Military Defense systems. New concept hardware & software design. Microcontroller, DSP, mixed signal, PGA, EPLD and FPGA based hardware design. Hardware specific software drivers as well as windows based GUI development for testing and implementation. Communications protocols, creation and/or implementation for communication within a wide variety of platforms (Wired/Wireless Networks). Design of High efficiency Switching Power electronics. Exposed to a wide variety of experiences do to the nature of the business.

Ms, Msee, Mscs

Master Of Science (Ms), Msee & Mscs

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering