User talk:Cliffybaby

== EXPERIENCE ==

Electrical Engineer/Project Manager, Siemens Water Technologies; May 2005 – Present

Vineland, NJ – Senior Electrical Engineer for the Research and Development group. My engineering background has been diverse from industrial to biomedical engineering. I have worked as an engineering team member in design and development and perform hardware and firmware development and testing. Currently I am the Senior Hardware Design engineer for the New Products Development group Of Siemens Water Technologies. My duties here are defined as: Develops very complex material specification, schematic preparation and follow-up to ensure proper and effective implementation. Develops very complex design, development, testing and modifications of solutions. Guides explanations and clarifies information to enable proper interpretation and evaluation of very complex specifications, performance characteristics or other technical data. Guides communication of very complex technical and commercial issues. Develops recommendations for very complex new designs, new processes, or design changes to meet requirements. Performs advanced areas of work for the professional field. Applies advanced skills to resolve complex problems not covered by existing procedures or practices independently. Displays a high level of critical thinking in bringing successful resolution to high-impact, complex, and/or cross-functional problems.

Electrical Engineer, Instruments for Research and Industry Inc.; June 1998 – March 2005

Cheltenham, Pa – Product Engineer for a line of laboratory equipment used in the wet chemistry field. These instruments include Temperature controllers, vacuum controllers, over temperature protection devices, water flow alarms, and temperature sensors. Duties not only include research and development of products but also production control, sales and marketing, Website creation and management, and customer service. Electrical Engineer, Cytometrics Inc.; February 1997 – June 1998 Philadelphia, PA - Hardware development manager responsible for selecting and approving all hardware for a non-invasive medical device. Designs are being executed using both fixed and floating DSPs from Analog devices and embedded microprocessors from Microchip. The front end is real time digital video based. Programming at my level is restricted to maintenance of the main C code, embedded assembly language programming, and test code.

Electrical Engineer, DA-TECH Inc.; August 1995 – February 1997

Ivyland, PA - Project engineer responsible for various phases of customer design, implementation, and support in a contract-manufacturing environment. The hardware and software packages used in this position vary from customer to customer. My main responsibility was hardware and firmware design and designing and implementing ATE and GENRAD in circuit testing. These test included both functional and in circuit testing. The Test fixtures for the GENRAD machine were design and specified by me and built by local houses. Functional test fixtures were designed and built by me using standard machine tools, quick release methods, and wiring wrapping techniques. Programming was done in C, PASCAL and LAB VIEW. Simple manufacturing jigs were also designed and made by me to assist in the quick and accurate manufacturing of systems and subsystems.

Electrical Engineer, EIT Inc.; April 1994 – August 1995

Exton, PA - Project engineer responsible for the design of water quality monitors and flow meters In this position I performed hardware design, prototyped, Prototype debugging, circuit analysis using TOPSPICE, assembly language coding, production cost estimates, and C language debugging. Functional test fixtures and production fixtures were designed and produced by me to assist manufacturing in the test and assembly areas. These fixtures were designed using AUTOCAD vl2 and standard shop machine tools. Electrical Engineer, Stokes-Merrill; January 1992 – December 1993 Bristol, PA - Project engineer responsible for the design and implementation of PLC, computer control, and drive components for rotary and single punch tableting press system. Because the machines were customer manufactured for each customer they were fitted to suit the customers needs and requirements. Using AUTOCAD vl2 I designed control panels and the production was assisted and directed by me for the orders in my charge.

Electrical Engineer, Pro-Tech lnc; February 1986 – January 1992

King of Prussia, PA - Product engineer responsible for the design and management of the product line of ultrasonic water flow monitors and level meters. The flow meters were 8051 based with all programming done in assembly language.

Electronics Engineer/Technician, Site Microsurgical Systems; March 1984 – January 1986

Horsham, PA - Participated in research and development projects of ophthalmic surgical systems. Reviewed and submitted designs for domestic and foreign agency approval such as UL, CSA, and VDE. All functional test and test fixtures were designed and maintained by me for the product line. These included fixtures for fiber optic assembly and test, Light source test and assembly, and subsystem test and assembly. These fixtures were produced using standard machine shop tools and techniques. Most projects employed virtual instruments generated in LABVlEW for windows.

Electronics Engineer, The Fredericks Company; March 1981 – March 1984

Huntingdon Valley, PA - Redesigned vacuum gauging equipment from analog to digital and microprocessor-based designs. Test Fixture development was also my responsibility. I also designed and constructed several fixtures that allowed the consistent assembly of thin wire thermocouple gauge tubes.

Engineering Technician/Junior Engineer, K.L.I. Inc.; July 1975 – March 1981

Newtown PA - Assisted senior design engineers in the development of equipment used in gynecological medicine. Several projects I worked on were designed around our core processors the MC6800, MC6809, Z80, and the 6502. These were all programmed in assembly language.

Airframes and Power Plants Technician; April 1971 – April 1975

United States Marine Corps - Maintained, inspected, and tested F4-B and F4-J type aircraft.

== EDUCATION ==

Villanova University, Villanova, PA, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Devery Institute of Technology, Electronics Technology