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O'Fallon, Mo, Us

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

San Francisco, California

Influence the direction and growth-path of hardware quality.Imagine and implement innovative ways to stress and prove the hardware functionality our customers care about.Create and document test plans and test cases.Review technical specifications and interfaces for conformity to design guidelines and functionality.Efficiently execute test cases across all functional areas of our products.Enhance our test automation capability through scripting and other software tools.Find, isolate, document, regress and track bugs through resolution using our tracking tools.Interpret and report testing results and am a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.Work with other Development Engineers across the hardware, software teams to understand the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented and best validated.Mentor and train junior QA Engineers in test methodologies.

Complete failure analysis to locate root cause and eliminate design and manufacturing defects for smart watches.Interface with vendors and contract manufacture in China to qualify parts and SOPs .Develop hardware-electrical test documentation, PFMEA’s and APQP for every stage of development and mass production. These incorporate HALT, HASS, Arrhenius lifetime, environmental, functional, electrical, regulatory and other various test procedures. Construct resourceful processes for eliminating defects, lowering return rates and BOM costs. Work in partnership with other Pebble teams to lower and eliminate quality related faults.Integrate proposed hardware features into product and built prototype units. These included touch sensitive buttons, RGB backlight assembly and Qi wireless charging.Develop relationships with various parts houses and vendors to rapid prototype parts and assemblies.Outline regulatory testing and verified compliance to make sure Pebble continually met certification requirements on our units. Eliminate various long standing quality issues that plagued past products.Contribute to multiple weekly status update meetings with our contract manufacture, China team and problematic vendors to lessen current defect issues and obstruct any possible future defects.

Newark California

Perform root cause analysis on robotic autonomous vacuum cleaning units.Implemented multiple procedures and outlined documentation for the RMA rework line. Work directly with our contract manufactures and vendors in China to sort reliability and build issues.Design, build and write software for testing fixtures and methods. Devise efficient methods for lowering build cost, unit/part defects and RMA units. Collaborate with mechanical, electrical and software engineering to eliminate quality related defects.Perform on location technical product training for our call center staff. Cooperate with vendors for rapid prototyping and fabrication.Revised and authored several QA related documents that Neato was lacking. These include OBA reports, training and repair handbooks, failure analysis guidelines, SCAR report templates, battery testing and validation for rework facilities, standards documentation and many others.Design and implement testing and validation fixtures for units or individual components.Assisted in verifying continuation of certification requirements on our units. Pushed to get AQL table usage used for modules and components that had past defect issues.

Palo Alto, California

Engineered, designed, built, and tested tactical robotic units.Troubleshot electrical & mechanical components and assemblies.Made design modifications to consistently improve products reliability, cost and performance.Authored detailed technical build instructions for manufacturing of product.Created production procedures for robot assembly and outlined QA checks.Designed mechanical and electrical test fixtures for individual robot components.Sourced difficult to find components and parts while meeting all price points and budget constraints.Executed visual design, programmed and moderated a customer support forum for technical issues.Communicated resolutions, customer issues and vendor problems to manufacturing.Designed, 3D modeling, and simulation analysis of mechanical parts and assemblies.Full QA resolution. Reported on failure modes, did solution proposals, prototyped, sourced parts,budgeted solutions and finally implemented solutions.Acted as liaison between technical and non-technical departments.Helped layout manufacturing space. This included tool selection, work spaces, new tooling development, time saving fixtures and more.Met, selected and provided assembly drawings and documentation for cable manufactures and contract manufactures. Co-author on the following patents for innovative robotic payload and component designs that madesignificant impact to define and improve the company product.8,100,205: Robotic system and method of use, covering form and functionality of product (Granted)2011/0240,382 Amendment describing method for ejecting foreign bodies from track (Granted)2011/0240,383 Amendment describing release coupling to prevent excessive force (Granted)2012/0175,173 Amendment describing method of force transfer to the tracks (Published)2012/0152,626 Amendment describing pulley mechanism for improved mobility (Published)2012/0152,627 Amendment describing trailer mechanism to be towed by robot (Published)

O'Fallon, Missouri

Helped to design and implement an automated reading system, that communicated via wi-fi and sent water meter reads from water tower positioned cell antennas to the home office.Assisted in field to address customer related issues.Managed and performed maintenance on company machinery. (Heavy machinery, water towerpumps, lift pumps, chlorinators, etc.)Handled computer related problems at office.Obtained Missouri DS-III, Collections C and OSHA water district administration licensing.

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