Dean J. Petrella

834 Monaca Road 

Monaca Pa, 15061 

Petrellad@gmail.com

(724)378-0721

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

RoPro Design                                                                                                         1/2012 –12/2014

Electronic Engineer / Consultant           

·   Consultant on unique application specific robotic designs

·   Wiring, layout and installation of robotic sub assemblies

 

Community College of Beaver County             3/2011- present

Continuing Education Instructor

·   Alternate Energy for The Beginner:

o   Course Description: Students learn Alternate energy production methods and build small working models of large scale energy producing devices and equipment including working wind machine, solar panels, LED lights and current regulator circuits etc.

·   Electronics for the beginner:

o   Course Description: Students learn electronics by building simple circuits and using electronic components to evaluate the function of the components in action.

·   Karate/Martial Arts:

o  Students learn martial arts and self-defense techniques and exercises that develop strength, coordination, discipline, vitality, and self-confidence.

 

Second Chance Electronics/P&S Designs                                                                12/93 - present            

Project Management / Consulting firm:                                                              

·   Purchasing components, repairing electronic equipment by trouble shooting down to the component level; designing and fabricating specialty circuits on demand, requiring circuit design, circuit board design, circuit board creation, including  printing and etching of circuit boards and soldering components, including: surface mounted components, component selection and purchasing.

·   Program and use microprocessors (PLC’s) for embedded firmware system designs.

·   Introduce new technology to satisfy new and emerging markets.

·   Marketed products are “The DO-Flicker”, “The Pet Flicker”, “Turbo Glow” and the “Turbo Glow” controller.

·   Design, build and market LED street lighting.

·   Design application specific Robotic systems

 

NFF Avionics        8/2001 – 6/2010

Engineer

Responsible for:

·   Guide, train and lead technicians in trouble shooting difficult problems to cultivate and develop their troubleshooting skills.

·   Design / Development / Build of sophisticated electronic test equipment for aircraft electronics and aircraft mechanical hardware.

·   Design / Layout of PCB circuit boards for testers and other electronic equipment.

·   Implementation of OEM tester designs.

·   Design / Build of interfacing wire harnesses for testers.

·   Consult and provide technical support for enhancing customer satisfaction and our reliability as a repair station.

·   Produce all technical documents related to test equipment built (i.e. schematics, bill of materials etc).

·   Troubleshoot test equipment that has been inadequately engineered and provide options to overcoming these issues; implement solutions per management’s review of my findings.

·   Integrate work being done at outside facilities for my employer.

·   Program and use microcontrollers (PLC’s) for projects requiring embedded designs.

·   Work with soldering equipment – SMT and LCC packages, component level trouble shooting and test equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Frequency Generators, ATE equipment etc. in an ongoing basis.

·   Work with power tools, drills, grinders, and cutting tools, and perform light welding when needed.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

·   Wrote the employee electronics technical test used to test prospective employees.

·   Designed and built a secure access keypad system to enter into our facility.

·   Developed and taught an LCC package removal technique that brought FMC LCC removal time down from over ninety minutes to approximately two minutes per LCC IC.

·   Designed and built a Cabin Pressure Controller simulator enhancing testing and trouble shooting of customer Outflow Valve drive issues.

·   Designed and built Aircraft Emergency Battery charging and discharging test apparatus. This charging discharging circuit also graphs the discharge rate via computer interface as discharge curve validates batteries integrity.

·   Designed and built a portable Arinc 429 data receiver. A host of Aircraft equipment uses Arinc 429 communication to interact with other aircraft equipment.

·   I designed and built a Flight Management Computer card tester that is used to identify faulty IC's within the FMC, allowing the FMC to successfully be repaired.

·   In 2008 I developed and now head a new division of  NFF with two primary goals, new business development and alternative energy research.

 

Sony Electronics Corporation

Technician                                                                                                       3/97 - 4/01

·   Analyzed and repaired problems with electronic equipment trouble shooting down to component level, including: Discman CD readers, Playstations, and car radios, home theater; ordered parts and related paperwork. 

 

Mowad Music

Technician                                                                                                        6/95 - 3/97                                                                                                              

Responsibilities include:

·   Repairing video games and pinball machines which required trouble shooting to component level, delivering machines to locations, maintaining good rapport with customers, and collections.

 

Mine Safety Appliance Company 

Electronic Technician                                                                                     4/93 - 11/93

Responsibilities include:

·   Testing and repairing electronic circuit boards and soldering components to boards.

 

EDUCATION

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Duquesne University                                       Dec, 2012

BA/BS Computer Science/information technology

 

Community College of Beaver County                                                                    2010- 2011

Agile Robotics

Develop and implement robotic solutions to complex problems through programming software finesse and hardware implementations                                                                                                                  

 

Texas Instruments Day:  Cleveland                                                           June 2010

Power supply design

Op Amp Circuits

Rechargeable Batteries and Their Optimized Chargers

Low power designs- MPS430

 

Microchip: Cleveland            Summer 2007

Microcontroller Applications

 

Texas Instruments Class                                                                                           Spring 2009

16 bit microcontrollers- MPS430       

 

Community College of Beaver County8/2002

Course: Visual Basic I

                                                                                                                                             Beaver County Vocational School                                                                      2000-2001

Certificate: Welding Technology 1&2                                                                              

 

Community College of Beaver CountyMay 1992                                                 

A.A.S., Electronic Technology

Relevant courses: Basic Electronics, Communications Circuits, Logic Circuits Circuit Analysis, Design & Fabrication, Electronic Devices, Microcomputers & Microprocessors.

G.P.A. in Major - 3.63

 

Institute of Security and TechnologyDecember 1986

Act 235 Certification

Leadership Development

Retail Security, VIP Protection      

 

Nuclear regulatory security clearance 1987-1988

 

FAA security clearance2009

 

Certified Pa auto inspection mechanic1990 - present       

 

Honors / Achievements

·   Senatorial recognition certificate from Senator Elder Vogel  2010

·   Congressional recognition certificate from Congressman Jason Altmire               2010

·   FAA Diamond Excellence award 2007 and 2008

·   Inducted golden key society 2009

·   President's List: fall 1990, spring 1990, fall 1991. 

·   Dean's list: fall 1989, spring 1992, spring 2009, fall 2012.

·   Patent application: filed for patent on “Do Flicker” 1995 – 1997.

·   Ongoing “patent pending” research: planned filings to be initiated.