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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.•Experience in designing field programmable logic devices using VHDL, and Verilog.

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