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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Certified industrial control products to global safety standard.
• Evaluated product to meet product safety requirement.
• Managed project resources, and schedule to deliver product safety certification.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Manage projects in transmission line, substation, and telecom for power transmission.
• Create funding requests, project charters, project planning and control documents.
• Manage project resources, optimize and utilize project staff, disciplines effectively.
• Plan project material and contract requirements.
• Manage project estimating, scheduling, planning, scoping, cost control and overall project management.
• Maintain and establish quality process to achieve project quality objectives and performance metrics.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Guided a team of regulatory specialists responsible for the development and execution of the compliance program.
• Established and maintained a compliance policy and program for EMC, safety, mechanical and environmental standards.
• Reviewed and interpreted new global compliance requirements and assessing their impact on product compliance.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided electrical expertise to develop electrical components and systems for thermoelectric generators.
• Focused on designing cost effective systems and maximize efficiency.

• Manage a CDMA base station hardware design team for product sustaining.
• Represent design team to Marketing/Product Line Management and Wireless Service Operators.
• Interface with a global contract manufacturing system to maintain service to the customer.
• Sustain and evolve the CDMA product to maintain a competitive edge.
• Responsible for product sustaining process and product field performance metrics.

• Manage CDMA base station product safety certification and compliance.
• Resolve schedule and resource conflicts among competing programs.
• Provide technical guidance in product safety for design team.
• Liaise with safety regulatory agencies (UL and CSA) to resolve regulatory.
• Establish and maintain an ISO-17025 accredited laboratory.
• Prime the Supervised Manufacturer Test Certification program with UL and CSA.

• Manage a TDMA base station hardware design team for product development.
• Provide technical leadership for the development team.
• Formulate the product evolution road map.
• Develop project scope, managing project schedule and costs.

• Team leader and technical prime in a digital hardware design group.
• Provide technical assessment and project schedule to program manager.
• Provide technical leadership within development team
• Deliver design from conceptual stage to production.
• Interface with manufacturing and product integrity to provide a manufacturable and reliable product.
• Design and develop high speed digital circuit modules.

• Software designer in the IRIS High Frequency (CNR-P) radio team.
• Perform object oriented analysis for the IRIS HF (CNR-P) radio software design.
• Develop real time multi-tasking software to implement the Radio Physical Layer.
• Design and implement radio link protocol and algorithm with C and assembler code.

• Product development for the Single Channel Access Radio in the Canadian Arm Forces IRIS Communication System.
• Analyze system level performance in radio propagation, RF co-siting, and radio link protocol.
• Conduct electro-magnetic compatibility analysis to ensure system is inter-operational.
• Evaluate performance and throughput of a wireless voice/data local area network.
• Benchmark circuit switch and packet switch (TCP/IP) performance.
• Manage product development schedule and subcontractor deliverable.

• System designer in the Packet Radio Base Station. Team leader for the hardware development group. Member of the NovAtel Technical Advisory Committee for the Wireless Digital Network.
• Design and implement the packet radio network physical layer.
• Define and develop hardware requirement for the packet radio modem.
• Baseline field measured channel performance with system level simulation on the theoretical model.

• System designer in the communication and navigation system for the Canadian Navy Minesweeper program.
• Analyze performance of HF/VHF/UHF shipborne System.
• Optimize the path loss, range of reliability, and intermodulation.
• Evaluate shipborne navigation systems which include conventional and satellite navigational equipment.

• Hardware design prime in the high speed data link between the dipping sonar and the sonar processor for the Canadian Navy airborne dipping sonar system.
• Responsible for technical design, project plan and schedule on the dipping sonar interface circuit module.
• Digital circuit design: - microprocessor, memory interface, FPGA, signal integrity and digital filter design.
• Analog hardware design: - phase lock loop, frequency synthesizer, analog filter, and power supply module.

• Hardware design for circuit cards in Key Telephone Systems. Specialize in central office and subscriber interface.
• Achieve cost improvement and increased circuit density.
• Experience in computer-aided design packages for digital and analog hardware design.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering