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I now work full time as a lover/grandfather/happy camper/mountain biker/skier/handyman.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Research and development of digital die cutting machines used by consumers for arts and crafts. Build engineering prototypes using convection oven reflow technique. Troubleshoot and repair machines that have failed in the field. Analyze failures and provide feedback to manufacturing to minimize future failures. Assist electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers in development of new products.Support EMI/RFI testing.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Build and test prototypes of experimental GPS aircraft landing equipment.• Build and install ground planes for rooftop GPS antennas.• Maintained and made mechanical modifications to prototype DGPS system.• Support flight tests.• DoD security clearance, Secret level.• Hand solder and rework surface mount circuit boards with fine pitch components.• Assist engineer with redesign of DGPS system• Hand wiring of complex chassis using crimp and solder connections• Test and troubleshoot prototypes• Support environmental testing of prototype data link• Cut holes in aluminum chassis using drill press and hydraulic chassis punches.• Document mechanical design of prototypes using AutoCAD and DraftSight.• Order and receive parts, track progress with MS Excel.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Test RF modules in microelectronics lab.• X band and Ku band upconverters, downconverters, synthesizers, programmable attenuators.• Troubleshoot to component level.• Used signal generators, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers.• All work done under microscope.• Assist design engineers in the optimization of RF modules.• Hand soldering and rework of surface mount prototype RF circuit boards.• Bench test X & Ku band frequency converters, troubleshoot and perform rework.• Certified to IPC-610 for rework of surface mount and thru-hole circuit card assemblies.• System test tactical data link systems.• DoD security clearance, Secret level

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Production test of L band frequency synthesizers, L band power amplifiers, 63 MHz IF modules• Production test of digital and analog subassemblies. • Troubleshoot to component level.• Design test fixtures for digital, analog, and RF sub assemblies.• Hand wire complex test fixtures.• Build breadboards of digital, analog, and RF sub assemblies.• Write test procedures for digital, analog, and RF sub assemblies.• Assist design engineers on RF modules at VHF and L band frequencies.• Use network analyzers, signal generators. spectrum analyzers.• Performed environmental temperature testing on numerous RF subassemblies.• Inspection of machined parts using calipers, micrometers, thread gages, optical comparators,surface plate, height gage, etc.• Certified for rework of production circuit card assemblies.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Test digital computer terminals.• Automated test of circuit board.• Manual test of completed assembly.• Troubleshoot to component level.• Used oscilloscope, VOM• Align monitors• Move units in and out of burn in room, test everyday for failures• Occasionally do some assembly work

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Maintenance and repair of customer equipment.• Point of sale computer terminals, electronic cash registers - troubleshoot to board or module level• Electromechanical cash registers - troubleshoot to component level.• Extensive use of hand tools on electromechanical machines - very complex.• Was tasked with occasional sales calls for selling maintenance contracts.

Aas, Electronics

I did very well in college. Got straight A's a few times. Learned how to use a slide rule. The most important thing I learned was Ohms Law.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Ski clubMy career as an electronic technician started in high school where I built a vacuum tube stereo.