Profile:
Engineering professional with design experience in electrical, analog and digital electronics. Industries including, IT, metrology, process control instrumentation, industrial controls, computer control interfacing, mail processing systems, automation, networking, telecommunications, microwave, healthcare and electric vehicles. Skilled in power electronics development, and signal interfacing. Extensive involvement with new product design, development, test, safety and regulatory compliance, technician management, existing product and customer support. Well versed in component engineering, vendor and manufacturer interface. Known for innovation; effective hands-on problem-solving and results-oriented achievement. Experienced in Account Management and Field Applications Engineering for multiple principals and customers.
Professional Experience
Advisory Engineer, Bowe Bell Howell, Research Triangle Park , NC 11/07 – present
Responsibilities: Hands on sustaining and new product development for component to systems level motion control engineering for automated mail processing systems. Single and multi-phase power, electrical, digital and analog electronic controls, CAN Open and Ethercat bused I/O, sensors, motors, Industrial Equipment safety and regulatory compliance.
Product Development Engineer, NACCO Material Handling Group, Inc., Greenville, NC, 12/03 – 10/07
Responsibilities: Hands on development of electrical, electronic and electro-hydraulic controls and power circuitry for Electric Vehicles. CAN Open control bus functional analysis, system and software integration. Component to system level controls engineering including all IO, multi-axis, 3-phase ac hoist/traction/steering motors and controllers, man-machine interfaces CCTV Camera/Monitor, Displays, joysticks and sensing circuitry including strain gage, impact, optical, hall effect, and pressure transducing, SMT PCB design, development and release. Laser application and, automated manufacturing consultant, UL approvals engineering. EE lead for the AC Reach Truck Product Family, which was the first company product, released to market with all integrated accessories designed in, many first time to production. Resulting Reach Truck production increased 23 %. Currently Electrical Lead Engineer on Largest Product Development program in the companies history involving multi-national and international Product Design Teams.
Independent Electrical Engineer Contractor, Multiple Client Companies, Raleigh, NC, 08/00 - 11/03
Development Engineer, 06/02 – 07/03
Responsibilities: Electrical engineering contractor for a variety of clients including EMC Corp, Bowe Bell Howell and Hill-Rom Comlinx. Work included Failure Analysis of Multi-processor 1GHZ Storage Processing Circuit Board Assemblies employing Fibre Channel 2 GHZ Fiber optic ports and 250 GBit Hard Drives. Design and development of Digital and Analog IO signal interfacing, power distribution, Interbus S, and pneumatic control circuitry for component to system level development of computer based high speed scanning camera vision products. Created UL 1069 Compliance Testing Traceability Matrix for the Composer Patient-Nurse Computer Network Communications System.
Manufacturer’s Representative, Account Manager, Field Applications Engineer, Rep One Associates, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC, 06/01 - 02/02
Responsibilities: Represented Samsung Semi, On Semi, General Semi, Amphenol Canada, Amphenol RF, Lite-On, KOA Speer, Fujitsu, Broad Circuits, South Bay Circuits, Aerovox, Cardinal Components, Precision Devices, E&E Magnetics, and Lambda to Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Sony Ericsson, Tekelec, Alcatel, Visara, Redback Networks, and Virata. Brought principals into customer R&D centers where prior to they had been unable to enter.
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Electrical Engineering Contractor (Manpower Technical), Bell and Howell Mail Processing Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC, 04/96 – 08/00
Responsibilities: Designed and developed digital signal control circuitry, single, and three phase power distribution systems for the Automated Mail Processing Systems. Included the BH4000 Base Inserter, A, B and F Zutu AIMs, AUI, DCS, PCs, Bar Code and Vision Systems, CAN and Interbus S control bus, user interfacing including X-terminals and VGA monitors, PIC micro-controllers, optical motion sensing, DC motors and controllers, I/O, Power and control. Types of items designed and or developed included:
• Solid State Brake for 1/8-3/4 HP DC Motors employing safety agency compliant design techniques including redundant IGBTs, opto-isolated drive circuits and signal conversion.
• ISMC2 System Interface using InterbusS control node for mail system networking via Linux and Windows NT.
• Interface circuitry to convert, and integrate different machine control logic platforms for use as computer-controlled real time I/O. Logic circuitry technologies included relay, diode, TTL, CMOS, and embedded controllers.
• Interface circuitry for system integration of competitor Mail Processing Systems with the BH Site Manager Product.
• Interface circuitry for system integration of allied Mail Processing Systems including the Autotray to BH6000 MDS, and Stralfors Roll Unwind to the AIM Cutter Module.
• 208/240 VAC 90 Amp 3 Phase, and SELV DC power distribution system for the BH 4000 Mail processing modular family of products.
• System integrated the Base Inserter control signals, Modular Delivery control signals, and DCS interface signals for material motion control.
• Developed the Safety Interlock and Emergency Stop Systems interfacing the Base Inserter, the Aim Frame and AIM Modules for the BH 4000.
• Networking connectivity experience including RS232, RS485, and UNIX.
• Directed and assisted Integraphics, AutoCAD, and PADs Designers on schematic, control diagrams, wiring diagrams, PCB design and fabrication.
• Wrote and released product technical documentation, including BOMs, schematics, wiring diagrams, theory of operations, manufacturing and test procedures.
BH 4000 product tied two R&D Centers together synergizing the company and helped detach the union labor.
Resulting BH4000 Product line transformed a 20-year-old industry workhorse system into a state of the art modular product family that was the number one volume product for BH for next eight years.
Senior Development Engineer, Square D, Knightdale, NC, 11/93 – 02/96
Responsibilities: Designed and developed analog signal and power circuitry for the industrial control and automation product lines including SyMax Programmable Logic Controllers, TBX Logic Distribution and Seriplex Component Network.
• AC input/output and ASIC interface circuit design and development for the Seriplex Component Network Input/Output Modules.
• SyMax I/O Product Line Engineer responsible for product safety, customer support, manufacturing support and program management.
• Designed and developed CRM275 DC/DC converter featuring dual isolated outputs, 100 kHz switching, magneticall...
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