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Senior Electronic Design Engineer @ Robert Bosch LLC Adaptation of platform hardware designs for ultrasonic parking assistance systems for automobiles made by North American vehicle manufacturers. Tasks included schematic design, planning and support of validation testing, production test script development, DFMEA, etc. From November 2011 to July 2017 (5 years 9 months) Plymouth, MichiganSenior Electronic Design Engineer...

Senior Electronic Design Engineer @ Robert Bosch LLC Adaptation of platform hardware designs for ultrasonic parking assistance systems for automobiles made by North American vehicle manufacturers. Tasks included schematic design, planning and support of validation testing, production test script development, DFMEA, etc. From November 2011 to July 2017 (5 years 9 months) Plymouth, MichiganSenior Electronic Design Engineer @ Robert Bosch GmbH Platform and vehicle application hardware designs for ultrasonic parking assistance systems for automobiles made by North American vehicle manufacturers. Tasks included schematic design, planning and support of validation testing, production test script development, DFMEA, etc. Leonberg, GermanySr Electrical Engineer @ Masco Corporation Masco is a Fortune 200 supplier of home improvement products.Performed design engineering of electronic subsystems to be embedded in products such as faucets, windows, spas, lighting controllers and utility monitors. Evaluated designs of subcontractors. Evaluated new technologies for their applicability to Masco’s products. Coached younger engineers.• Developed the hardware for an ARM-9 based controller to serve as a USB host and digital media player embedded in a spa (patent pending).• Integrated an embedded-Linux based utility monitoring system in a trade show home (International Business Show 2011).• Developed hardware and embedded software (in C) for a RF remote control unit.• Design oversight and validation testing of the Verve Living Systems 10-channel lighting controller.• Participated in kaizen events for product and process development. From March 2005 to November 2011 (6 years 9 months) Taylor, MISr Electrical Engineer @ Brooks Automation Brooks Automation provides tools and automation to the semiconductor industry.Performed sustaining engineering and new product development of the control electronics for Brooks line of semiconductor wafer sorters. Developed architectural alternatives for new sorters and modifications to standard products to meet customer specific requirements. Extensive interface with software, purchasing and production departments.• Developed ESD immunity improvements to wafer sorters that quadrupled system-level MTBF.• Created a conceptual design of the control electronics of 300mm semiconductor wafer sorters. • Oversaw redesign of ISA 4-axis step motor control board to eliminate obsolete parts and improve reliability.• Designed an intelligent embedded controller for a servo-driven wafer indexer. • Designed a PC104 interface board for Windows NT based motion-control applications. From 1999 to 2003 (4 years) Sylmar, CASr Electronics Engineer @ Geospace Research Geospace Research is a very small company (3 employees) performing government-funded basic scientificresearch, primarily in atmospheric physics.Designed and fabricated specialized radar systems for experiments in atmospheric physics.• Designed and implemented a 139 MHz phased array radar system currently deployed at the HAARP facility(www.haarp.alaska.edu).• Designed a 300W 139 MHz radar power amplifier circuit board.• Designed a digitally controlled phase shifter for scientific UHF phased array radar.• Designed and implemented digital and RF experiment-specific interface circuitry for the Arecibo Observatory’s (www.naic.edu) HF atmospheric heater. From January 1997 to December 1999 (3 years) Electrical Engineer @ Standard Communications Corp. Standard Communications manufactures receivers, modulators and other products for the cable television industry.Developed new products and performed sustaining engineering of existing product lines. Extensive interface with software, purchasing, production, production test and marketing departments.• Lead the systems design teams for the revolutionary “Stratum” television modulator system, ALM1000 modulator system and CAM830 satellite receiver remote control. • Initiated numerous improvements in the configuration control procedures. • Designed the backplane for the "Stratum" TV modulator system, routing digital control, analog video, TV IF (45 MHz) and RF (55 - 550 MHz) signals including signal switching for automated backup for 8 cable TV modulators. • Designed a reference oscillator PCB for "Stratum" modulator system. • Designed PCBs used to send and receive FSK digital data on the aural subcarrier of an analog TV signal.• Corrected production test methods for measuring spurious emissions from modulators. From 1991 to 1996 (5 years) Torrance, CAAvionics Project Engineer @ Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company Developed and negotiated specifications for development or modification of avionic systems for integration into US Navy aircraft. Supervised development, test qualification and production of this equipment by subcontractors. Extensive interface with the customer representatives and the program, procurement, reliability, electrical, EMI and document control departments.• Integrated the communication systems on the ES-3A aircraft including HF, VHF, UHF and SATCOM radios, IFF, link-4 and link-11 data links and digital intercom. • Found & fixed a design flaw in S-3A wing rack driver, preventing inadvertent weapons release. • Designed radar-blanking system for ESM receivers (ES 3A aircraft). • Investigated the feasibility of using hard-wired T connections for bus couplers on 10 MHz Manchester LAN (ES-3A aircraft). From 1986 to 1991 (5 years) Burbank, CA