Experience

Utility Relay Company

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Electronic Design and Development Engineer

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Design the electronics for a High Reliability Remote Display and controller. Includes Renesas Processor, R7S5D9 172 pin processor. BT840 BLE module, 3.5” TFT Color Graphics display. Power source from 120vac, 24Vdc, USB, or Rechargeable Battery. Relays, LEDs, Buttons.Managed the complete project from design and procurement of parts and prototypes to documentation.Completed the schematics and layout in-house using PADS Logic and Layout tools.Deigned a custom Power Supply, with input range of 20V DC/AC to 120V DC/AC.



AKRON BRASS COMPANY, A UNIT OF IDEX CORPORATION

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CIrcuit design consultant.

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  consulting on the circuit design of a wireless battery operated hand help unit. to be operated by fire fighters to control operation such as the water flow out of a fire truck. multiple sensor interface to an m4 cortex micro. schematics entry using Altium consulting on the circuit design of a wireless battery operated hand help unit. to be operated by fire fighters to control operation such as the water flow out of a fire truck. multiple sensor interface to an m4 cortex micro. schematics entry using Altium



The Genie Company

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• electronics circuit design consultant

  • Jan 2018 - Nov 2019

  design a circuit and a PCB for a receiver with sub-ghz, bluetooth, and wifi. Analog, digital, pic processor, LED driver. Low production cost requirements. design a circuit and a PCB for a receiver with sub-ghz, bluetooth, and wifi. Analog, digital, pic processor, LED driver. Low production cost requirements.



Spectre Sensor

• Wireless Services

• electronics consultant

  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2019

  Enhancing the signal integrity of automotive industry line of pressure sensor electronics. Analog signal interface to a2d and microcontroller. Reducing output noise, driving longer cables, improving sensor input signal acquisition, and evaluating options for temperature compensation technique. Enhancing the signal integrity of automotive industry line of pressure sensor electronics. Analog signal interface to a2d and microcontroller. Reducing output noise, driving longer cables, improving sensor input signal acquisition, and evaluating options for temperature compensation technique.



IHOD

• electronics designer

  • Jul 2016 - Jul 2018

  consultant for the development of a fuel cell stand alone power generator. EnergyPOD.will be featured on HSN by TechCrunch:https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/31/hsns-first-pitch-off-competition-goes-in-search-of-the-next-big-consumer-product/Designed, built and tested a switching power charger for bank of Supercapacitors. Designed a buck boost Lead acid charger with trickle charge. Evaluated and designed a GFCI discrete circuit breaker to meet UL-943. evaluated and enhanced the system safety to make it safe from ignition in case of a hydrogen leak. it is a hybrid between Intrinsic safety and Class1 Div2.



HydroPro, Inc.

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• electronics development designer and consultant.

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2018

  principal electronics consultant for the electronics used on a hydraulic tube expansion system.involved the control of a pump, pressure sensor, LEDs, BCD converter, LED numeric display, and basic IO's.firmware and hardware review and redesign. principal electronics consultant for the electronics used on a hydraulic tube expansion system.involved the control of a pump, pressure sensor, LEDs, BCD converter, LED numeric display, and basic IO's.firmware and hardware review and redesign.



Tornado technologies

• Technical Consultant

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Custom Battery charger: Turnkey Design, develop, and produce, a custom battery charger for24V Lead-Acid and Lithium (Li-Ion) battery bank. Input from 15 to 50V. current limit of 1.5A.Evaluating different chip set options. Building a test prototype, Circuit design.• Hydrogen Fuel Cell system. Researching optimal system architecture for a hazardous areaclass1 div2 and Increased Safety. Evaluating spark free design for 100Amps relays, mechanicalswitches, lights, pumps, solenoids, inverter, and DC/DC power supplies.



Emerson's Automation Technologies & Solutions

• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Principal Engineer

  • Jan 2003 - Sep 2015

  Projects:• Oxygen analyzer electronics: Concept, design and production of the electronics hardware. Intrinsically Safe, Zone 0. 150W heater with PWM driven IGBT. Pressure sensor feedback measurement. AC Line voltage detection. Explosion Proof. Solenoids. Universal Power supply. Entity and FISCO. LT Spice simulation. Foundation Fieldbus. zirconia oxides sensor interface. Sensor impedance measurement. Isolated Continuous Flyback power supply. Analog Devices ADUC361 cortex micro controller. 24bits A2D. PWM DAC. CE Mark. CSA 61010 Certification. IEC 60079 standard. • loop powered high temperature Oxygen Probe PCB Hardware: -50C to 125C. Isolated, Discontinuous Flyback Power supply. 4/20ma. IS HART. Orcad spice simulation. ADUCM845. Thermocouple interface. Supporting operation, and production testing architecture in a Mexico factory. Patented Isolation technique.• IO board: multiple IOs on a single PCB. 4-20ma, Hart Master, Hart Slave, Relays, Digital inputs, Digital Outputs. Analog Voltage and Current outputs. Assigning design and tests, and coordinating activities to a resource pool in India.• Firmware for Operator Interface: Wrote the firmware for an industrial CO System Local Operator Interface. Assembly Code programming. HC08. Vacuum florescent Display. Infrared touch screen through ½ inch glass.• PC104 ISA/PCI interface board: Code for SpartanII Xilinx FPGA. Included UART Core, SPI, VFD display, timers and counters. VHDL using Aldec and ModelSim.



ABB

• Switzerland
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instrumentation development senior engineer

  • Jan 1996 - Jan 2002

  Projects:• 100 Mhz redundant Ethernet card Hardware design: 33Mhz PCI slot of a PC. Utilized PowerPC (8260), PCI core from Xilinx and TCP/IP protocol. VHDL using Aldec Active-HDL.• 1.5A/5V redundant power supply module: for an industrial IO system. Involved load sharing and glitch-free switchover to the redundant unit using Xilinx 9572 CPLD. • Peripheral daughter interface board: for a Motorola 68060 processor motherboard using a PCI 33/32 bus. Included Altera 10K20 FPGA using MaxPlusII schematics and AHDL.



Bailey controls

• Design Engineer

  • Jan 1989 - Jan 1996

  Projects:• Temperature smart transmitter: Received Product of the Year Award from Control Engineering Magazine. HC11, intrinsic safety, Thermocouple & RTD. Patented D/A PWM.• Pressure smart transmitter: HC11, custom AtoD ASIC, intrinsic safety, Strain Gage, Coordinated development projects with affiliates in France, Germany and Italy.apacitive and inductive cells, temperature compensation, software filtering technique.• Low power mixed mode ASIC: Designed and patented a digital FSK modulator/demodulator modem, HC11 digital interface glue logic and digital watch-dog. • Communication modem: FSK to RS232 and RS485. Designed the hardware and firmware. FSK communication protocol. Firmware written in C language, Introl compiler and PVCS.• Battery operated hand held terminal: Designed the electronics to be used to configure Pressure and Temperature devices. Built test fixture. Wrote diagnostics in Assembly using HC11 emulator. • Infi90 analog input module: Designed the electronics. Included 15 analog inputs and FSK instrumentation field bus.• Author of a proprietary FSK communications protocol: used for instrumentation products.• pH sensor electronics interface: Designed the Analog interface for a high impedance pH sensor of a 4/20 ma transmitter.