Electronic Engineer And Owner
Winco Llc
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WINCo LLC
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Electronic Engineer and Owner
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San Diego, California, United States
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Rand Willard is listed as Electronic Engineer and Owner at WINCo LLC, based in San Diego, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Rand Willard.
Rand Willard previously worked as Electronic Engineer/Owner at Winco Llc and Sales Engineer at Kisters Ag. Rand Willard holds Major Bsee from San Jose State University.
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Engineering;Rand Willard is currently consulting for Aerocontrol, Inc. as an Electronic Engineer, embedded programmer, and an MSC++ programmer. In the past seven years Rand has been a principal engineer involved in Satellite Simulation Equipment design, Autopilot embedded programming & simulator design for T38 & WB57 jets, UAV Autopilot hardware & software development, and Ballistics Systems design & test. His responsibilities included some pcb design & layout, embedded programming, simulator system design, embedded sensor characterization and selection, system testing & debugging, and field testing. As with most small companies, Rand is also called upon to perform technician and assembly work.In the 1990's Rand helped design and wrote the firmware for an 80C51 based hand held water flow computer, AquaCalc, that is still used by the USGS, state, and local water agencies today. Rand came from the magnetic media industry where he was involved in the design of high speed tape transport systems, hard drives, and test equipment.Management;During his years in the diskette, tape, and disk drive industries, Rand has managed following departments; Product Engineering, Failure Analysis, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing, and Warranty Repair.Sales;Rand was the North American Sales Rep for Kisters North America. Kisters offers a water mgt system named WISKI. His responsibilities included RFP generation, making prospect contacts, sales presentations, on-site demonstrations, and trade shows. He also assisted in the installations.Screenplay writing;Rand has a passion for writing feature length screenplays. He has written several scripts and in 2008 he sold a 2-year option for his crime drama, "By Their Rules." The option was not exercised. With his latest screenplay titled "Freaky Friday Night Lights", Rand has formed 8-Point Productions, LLC to produce it.
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Winco Llc
12 roles · 22 years
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Electronic Engineer/Owner
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Winco Llc
Jul 2008 - Present
Sales Engineer
Responsible for North American sales of KISTERS’ Hydrological database software products.Perform sales presentations, demonstrations, and customer configurations.Assist in generating RFP submissions.Host Kisters booth at trade shows.
2004 - 2008
~4 yrs
Electrical Engineer Consultant
Jbs Energy, Inc.
Hardware and firmware design engineer for hand-held computer that measures and computes water discharge measurements for USGS, state, local, and private water management agencies.
Aug 1992 - Jan 2003
Business Unit Manager
Sequel, Inc.
Responsibilities included direct management of 30+ repair personnel including engineers, technicians, and assemblers. Develop repair processes that provide in-house repairs in less than 72 hours. Present monthly and yearly business reviews including all financials to the executive staff. Presented weekly production reviews to executive staff.
Sep 1997 - Jul 1998
Manufacturing Manager
Sequel, Inc.
Managed 3.5” Hard Disk Drive manufacturing department ($15M annual revenue)Managed 3 Disk Drive and 2 PCB repair departments ($7.5M annual revenue)Responsibilities included direct management of 200+ employees includingengineers, technicians, and assemblers. Presented monthly and yearly businessreviews including all financials to the executive staff..
Apr 1996 - Sep 1997
Engineering Manager
Sequel, Inc.
Engineering liaison with OEM design teams providing sustaining engineering assistance to new production lines transferred to Sequel for contract manufacturing.Manage manufacturing engineering department responsible for generating ISO 9001 process improvements as well as maintaining all manufacturing equipment.
Apr 1994 - Apr 1996
Department Manager, Failure Analysis
Manage the F/A Lab responsible for all San Jose designed drives.Manage the MXT Continuation Engineering; Maxtor’s high performance drives.
Jan 1992 - Apr 1994
Senior Electrical Engineer
Terabank Systems Inc., (Xerox Owned Startup)
Coordinate electronic design for high performance RDAT tape drive systemHardware/Firmware design for tape drive servo systemProduct design team member for 4MM RDAT drive system
Jul 1989 - Jan 1992
Electrical Engineer
Coordinate engineering tasks related to redesign, product enhancement, and test criteria of ST506 drive productsProvide EE Sustaining Engineering for ST506 productsProvide engineering support to OEM customers and controller suppliers
May 1987 - Jul 1989
Engineering Manager
Manage the development of the 3.5” microdisk product and mfg. processDesign Stand-alone 3.5” microdisk test equipmentManage Sustaining Engineering of 5.25” productCoordinate the qualification of new 5.25” products and mfg. processes
Oct 1982 - Jun 1986
Electrical Engineer
Electronic hardware and firmware design for new and existing flexible diskette certification equipment
Jan 1979 - Oct 1982
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Major Bsee
Major Bsee
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Rand Willard works for WINCo LLC.
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Rand Willard is listed as Electronic Engineer and Owner at WINCo LLC.
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Rand Willard is based in San Diego, California, United States while working with WINCo LLC.
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Rand Willard has worked for Winco Llc, Kisters Ag, Jbs Energy, Inc., Sequel, Inc., and Maxtor.
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Rand Willard holds Major Bsee from San Jose State University.
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