Objective:
I am seeking a contract, part or full-time senior level engineering position in electronic and
electrical circuit design, PCB layout and firmware development.
Summary of Qualifications:
I have thirty years of engineering experience in analyzing, designing and packaging of analog
and digital electronic circuits from concept to complete functional printed circuit boards and
systems. I am an engineer with hands-on experience in designing commercial, industrial and
radiation hardened space electronic systems. I have extensive deign knowledge digital signal
processors, microprocessors, programmable arrays, A/D and D/A converters, power
conversion controllers and devices. I am an excellent team worker with management skills of
electronic engineers, PCB layout designers, assemblers and fabricators.
Design Skills:
· Texas Instrument and Analog Devices DSP’s
· Texas Instrument and Microchip microcontrollers in embedded control applications.
· Analog and digital system modeling, analysis, and design.
· Linear and PWM power amplifier design.
· Motor’s motion controller and DC/DC converters and switching power supply design.
· Stepper, DC brushless and AC motor sizing and hands-on design experience.
· Position, velocity, acceleration, torque and RTVD transducers.
· Logic Devices and Field Programmable Gate Arrays.
· Programming in VHDL, Visual Basic, C and assembly language.
· Lattice, Altera, and Actel CPLD and FPGA devices.
· Mentor Graphic, Cadence, Altium and Multisim schematic capture tools
· Hyperlynx, PSPICE and Multisim simulation and analysis tools.
· Design PCB layouts in Mentor Graphic’s Pads, Cadence, Altium and Ultiboard.
EMI and RFI noise reduction techniques in printed circuit board layout design.
· BGA and low pitch surface mount multi-layer printed circuit boards design.
· Analyze the electrical stress and FMEA
· Relex reliability and failure analysis tools.
Professional experiences:
Novodyne Microelectronics, Sun Valley, CA Feb 2007 through June 2013
Established and managed Novodyne Microelectronics as a start-up company providing the
following engineering services to the industry:
· Designed PCB layouts using Mentor Graphic’s Pads, Cadence, Altium or Ultiboard
CAD tools per customer design requirements.
· Actively involved in product engineering and development of several commercial
products such as motor controller, LED strips power driver, water filtering controller ,
multi-cell battery stack charge/discharge controller, hot swap and OR-ing power
controller.
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· Embedded software design and development services in ISR and Eclipse Integrated
Development Environments.
· In-house assembly and production of surface mount and through-hole printed circuit
boards using automatic pick and place equipments.
· Providing functional electrical testing services for designed printed circuit boards.
Boeing ,West Hills, California Feb 2006 through Nov 2006
Contract electronic design engineer at Boeing/Directed Energy Systems. Actively involved in
designing a single PCB to provide three independent isolated DC/DC converters using an 8-
bit microchip controllers as its supervisor.
Volt Information Systems, Orange Aug 2004 through Feb 2006
Contract electronic design engineer at Rockwell Collins in Pomona, California, designing
audio and video for in-flight entertainment electronic systems. I was actively involved in all
aspects of new product failure analysis and Federal Aviation Administration qualification
and certification programs.
Key achievements:
· Failure analysis of airline in-flight entertainment systems per Federal Aviation
Administration requirements.
· Design of 16-channel audio and video printed circuit board assembly for audio and
video distribution box.
· Design of 8-port Ethernet hub PCB.
· Design of Video Projector Controller PCB.
Electronic Systems Innovation, Los Angeles June 2003 through Aug 2004
Contract electronic design engineer at Boeing Satellite Systems, in El Segundo, California.
Designed radiation hardened electronic circuits for satellite systems and space applications.
Key achievements:
· Designed radiation hardened DC/DC converters.
· Designed motor controller printed circuit boards.
· Analyzed electronic circuit performance to determine its survivability in space under
worst-case stress conditions.
Manpower Professional, Cypress CA April 2002 through May 2003
Contract electronic design engineer at HR TEXTRON in Santa Clarita, California. Lead
electronic engineer in charge of designing Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Electro-
Hydraulic actuator automatic test-station controller PCB.
Key achievements:
· Designed SSME Electro-Hydraulic actuator automatic controller and calibrator board.
· Supervised printed circuit board layout, prototyping, debug and test.
· Designed linear analog and digital circuits to interface with temperature, rotary
encoder, Rotary Variable Differential Transformers (RVDT) and load cell and
various other transducers.
· Using IT9010, the VXI interface chip, from Interface Technology to provide actuator
controller VXI backplane interface.
· Revised and received NASA approval for new SSME Electro-Hydraulic actuator test
station acceptance test specifications.
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Electronic Systems Innovation, Los Angeles Oct 2001 through April 2002
Contract electronic design engineer at Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, CA. Designed
radiation hardened electronic circuits and printed circuit boards for satellite telemetry and
command control applications.
Key achievements:
· Design of 12-channel multiplexed solar sensor trans-conductance pre-amplifier.
· Design of digital control and interface circuitry for solar sensor 16-bit A/D converter.
· Design 50 Watts linear voltage regulators with closed loop feedback control to output
3.3V and 2.5V DC voltages with under and over voltage protection and computer
interface monitoring its performance in real time.
· Design of MIL-STD-1 553 based transformer coupled redundant serial
communication channels.
· Design of 192-channels analog and digital cross-connect switch matrix utilizing
analog and digital multiplexers, glue logic and UART.
· Performed worst-case stress and space survivability analysis using Microcap circuit
simulation tool.
· Performed signal integrity and worst case timing analysis for the digital PCB layouts.
Integrated Micromachines, Inc., Monrovia, Ca Nov 2000 through Aug 2001
Supervised an electronic design team as chief electronic engineer. Designed and developed
electronic system architectures for 144X144 cross-connect optical micro electro mechanical
(MEM) switch.
Key achievements:
· Designed temperature stabilized analog closed loop for 1X1 and 2X1 add/drop optical
switches...
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