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9/2012 - Present

Senior Electrical Engineer

*Design ultra-low power analog, digital and RF circuits for medical implant devices. *Develop coin cell powered epilepsy detecting devices with USB, Bluetooth BLE and MICS communications. *Layout PCB circuit boards and resolve fabrication issues with the board manufacturer. *Calculate MTBF, MTTF and useful life for new products. *Perform MTBF, reliability calculations, and accelerated life test (ALT) to study product service life. *Conduct ESD, EMI/EMC and safety tests to comply with IEC60601. *Use failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) to predict product failure risks and preventions. *Create subsystem and technical requirements for product development. *Perform verification and validation (V&V) tests to confirm technical requirements. *Supervise overseas contractors in design activities and technical issues. *Tools: PSPICE, LTSPICE, MATHCAD, CADENCE, ORCAD PCB, ALTIUM

7/2009 - 9/2012

Senior Staff Engineer

*Designed FPGA based data acquisition and communication space flight hardware for soft X-ray spectrometer in NASA Astro-H telescope. *Designed space flight qualified power inductors and magnetics for on-board power circuit hardware. *Implemented LVDS interfaces between flight boards. *Performed PCB designs, layouts, and prepare gerber files, assembly and fabrication drawings for PCB board manufacturing. *Created board-level, box-level and system-level test plans for hardware testings. *Performed circuit board testings and debuggings. *Investigated hardware reliability for flight requirements. *Supported EMI and EMC design issues in MIL-STD-461 standard. *Interfaced with part vendors, scientists, NASA and foreign government space agencies. *Tools: PSPICE, MATHCAD, ORCAD and Power PCB.

10/2007 - 6/2009

Industry: Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg

Senior Hardware Engineer

*Designed DC-DC flyback power supplies for mass flow controller (MFC) in semiconductor instrumentation industries. *Designed high resolution analog to digital circuits with ARM 7 and DSP processor for gas flow applications. *Designed CAN, I2C, RS232 and SPI circuits for inter-devices communications. *Performed PCB designs, layouts, and prepared gerber files, assembly and fabrication drawings for PCB board manufacturing. *Tested and certified new production units and hardware. *Supported manufacturing processes and related issues. *Interfaced with part vendors and board fabrication facilities. *Debugged and analyzed failed units from factories to improve productivity. *Resolved EMC compliance issues. *Tools: PADS, LTSPICE, ORCAD and Power PCB

6/2006 - 10/2007

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Hardware Design Engineer

*Designed high speed digital network diagnostic boards with FPGA and DSP for telecom industries.*Performed unit testing on high speed (100Mbps) circuit boards with PCI, T1/E1, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and ISDN interfaces.*Modified and tested existing VHDL codes with Modelsim.*Provided manufacturing support in an ISO-9000 environment on board fabrications and component populations.*Debugged and repaired field return units.*Tools: PADS, Cadence and Power PCB

9/2003 - 8/2006

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Electrical Engineer

*Designed on-board AC-DC, DC-DC power supply, microcontroller board with I2C and CAN communications for telecom rack-mount powers.*Designed analog power circuits and analog opamp circuits.*Managed multi international projects and monitored the whole product cycles from start to finish.*Performed system integration testing and product installation.*Analyzed field return units to improve product quality and maintainability.*Resolved EMC compliance issues.*Predicted product Mean Time Between Failure to improve reliability.*Helped field application engineer, customer and telecom equipment installers to resolve technical problems from unit to system level.*Wrote unit test requirement, manufacturing test requirement and system test plan to document product testability.*Supervised and trained technicians and drafters in critical design process locally and overseas.*Tools: Cadence, OrCad, PADS and P-Spice

8/2000 - 10/2002

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Microcontroller Hardware Engineer

*Researched and developed microcontroller board and mixed signals interfacings for telecom power system.*Designed analog circuits, opamps, power circuits and filtering circuits.*Performed system integration testing in rack-mount power system.*Prepared unit and manufacturing test requirement for production.*Provided post –product support for telecom installer and customers.*Tools used: Cadence, OrCad, P-Spice

8/1998 - 8/2000

Industry: Education

Teaching Assistant

*Taught courses in microprocessor programming and system interfacings.*Assisted professor in homework grading and exam preparation.

9/1997 - 8/1998

Industry: Manufacturing - Other

CO-OP PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER

*Assisted manufacturing engineers with ignition tester development.*Performed product quality testing.*Designed ignition measuring unit for production.*Prepared product test procedure.*Trained factory workers to perform product test.

8/1996 - 1/1997

Industry: Computer/IT Services

Technical Support Specialist

*Provided presale technical support for mainframe computers and subsystem to resellers. *Responded to worldwide mail and phone correspondence.

EDUCATION:

8/1998 - 8/2000

Master's Degree

Master of Science, Computer Engineering GPA: 3.4

8/1993 - 5/1998

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Major GPA: 3.9, Overall GPA: 3.8, Cum Laude

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Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Tau Beta Phi National Honor Engineering Society

Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society

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