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Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Proposes, creates, and analyzes concepts and requirements in existing and next generation premium car audio amplifier by considering architectural system level down to each sub-functional domains, such as HW, SW, Mechanical, Acoustic, Transducer, etc.• Evaluates the needs of customer RFI/RFQ and map it toward Harman platform roadmap itemsto derive customized solutions.• Generates and maintains detailed system block diagram under consideration of Harmanguidelines, best BOM cost, low power consumption, thermal design constraints andenvironmental conditions.• Work experiences shown in Senior Engineer, System Architecture role still applies.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Supported architectural design on systems, platform, and modules for car audio systems from basic idea up to product launch.• Coordinated technical cross functional team (HW, SW, ME) design review to ensure feasible and cost optimized product design.• Reviewed system definition based on analysis of customer requirements in RFI/RFQ phase.• Developed verification plan and content for designed system to secure fulfillment of key requirements.• Performed design reviews for each development stage about compliance of development parts to system design requirements to secure maturity.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Led hardware development of premium vehicle audio class D & Class AB power amplifier system.• Allocated hardware team resources effectively and pointed out clearly which resources are allocated when and where for which project to achieve planned milestone or meet customer gate timing.• Generated detailed hardware block diagram of function block(s), performed schematic design, HW Block integration in target application under consideration of Harman guidelines, best BOM cost, low power consumption, thermal design constraints and environmental conditions.• Created and maintained mandatory quality improvement and prevention documentation: DFMEAs or DRBFMs.• Supported the manufacturing team reviews and technical build issues.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Designed premium high-end discrete Class AB & Class D amplifier, switching and logic power supplies, SEPIC, track power supplies design, also covering the major Bus Systems like I2C, SPI, I2S, TDM, CAN, A2B, MOST and AVCLAN, etc.• Supported PCB layout engineer to optimize PCB layout with respect to EMC, review with supplier and manage the fabrication.• Assisted and solved in the mitigation of radiated & conducted emission issues associated with EMC/EMI conformance testing.• Worked on the design development with schematic tool (Mentor Graphics design capture, Xpedition Designer & DxDesigner), layout tools (Mentor Graphics Expedition PCB and Xpedition Layout), and signal/power integrity simulation tool (Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx).• Designed, analyzed, specified, and characterized electrical circuits and determined their performance characteristics using Saber Sketch, Multisum, LTSpice and other engineering CAE analysis tools.

Gillingham, United Kingdom, Gb

• Designed ignition control system Development of schematic(SCH) and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout by using ECAD tools (DxDesigner & Expedition PCB).• Experienced creating detailed PCB assembly output documentation and PCB fabrication output deliverable including gerber data, nc-drill data per Delphi's standards.• Supported electrical design engineers in activities from circuit design, and circuit simulation.Updated Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test plan and validation test plan based on customer requirement.• Performed Worse Case Analysis (WCA) and Monte Carlo circuit simulation by using Saber Sketch tool.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

• Simplified and delivered printed circuit board (PCB) design solution for remote vibrating device project by using CadSoft Eagle.• Generated, verified and validated Gerber data of PCB design and prepared for use in fabrication and assembly of the PCB as required by established procedure.• Contributed to project development and performed the device functional tests.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Graduate Certificate Program, Program And Project Management

Graduate Certificate Program, Telecommunications Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering