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Key Skills
Ten years of team building & managing small technical groups. Well versed in R&D, Manufacturing environments. Authorship of Procedures, Work Instructions, Policy, Corporate Goverance,Process Maps, related documents. Strong communications skills.

Summary
Electrical Engineer, 10 years total experience, emphasis on Leadership,
Technical Writing & Prototyping. Thorough knowledge of components.
Technical lead on many system. Wide network of product and service reps.


Experience
Supervisor, Engineering Document Control, Component Engineer
Confidential Contract Equipment Manufacturer, Chicagoland, Illinois
July 2007-Present
- Expanded the responsibilities and expectations of Document Control
- Improved ECR/ECO/Prototype/Change Control Systems
- Assisted Clients with Design For Manufacturing analysis
- Supporting Quality, Sales, Purchasing, and Engineering Teams
- Authorship: Procedures, Work Instructions, Policies, Guidelines, etc.
- Implementation of Lean concepts

Section Supervisor, Engineering Support Group
Shure Incorporated, Niles, Illinois
July 2003 - August 2007
- Supported Wireless/Product Development Teams (D/A/RF/Power)
- Hand-build any SMT circuit. Prototype development. BGA rework.
- Component-Level troubleshooting, Test and Analysis
- Authorship Test Procedures, Data Analysis, A3-style briefs, ECR/ECOs.
- Parts procurement/quoting from prototype to production volume quoting

Systems Engineer I
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona
April 2002 - May 2003
- Supervised a Flight Data Analysis Group as Lead Analyst.
- Analyzing and qualifying missile flight data, verification of software builds.
- Coordinated with systems, hardware and software development groups.
- Supported Hardware-In-The-Loop testing
- SM 2 BLK iVA TBM interceptor , Exoatmospheric Weapons

Systems Engineer I
Boeing Space and Communications, Huntsville, AL
Sept 2001 - April 2002
- Supervised Technicians and conducted tests on Space Flight Hardware
- Maintained an SGI IRIX based Telemetry Control Room
- Authored and updated highly detailed Product Acceptance Tests
- Coordinated with the rocket design team & launch operations teams
- Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program


Education
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
DeVry University, Chicago, Illinois
May 1999 3.24/4.0 GPA

George Washington University:
Project Management; Risk Management
Administered through ESI International

American Management Association:
Leading With Emotional Intelligence

Targeted Convergence Corporation:
Lead Product Development

Software
MRP / PLM Agile, Arena Solutions, Made2Manage,
Partminer, Stellant, Eigner. Office MS Office Products (All), Framemaker, OpenOffice, iWork Google Docs. Operating Sys MS Vista, XP, Mac Leopard, Tiger. UNIX/LINUX. Graphics Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, GIMP, HTML

Memberships
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Other
Public Speaking: Interfacing with local schools, lecture about the career
marketplace. Student of The Toyota Way, Lean Concepts.

Saxophone Player, Recording, MIDI Hardware/Software, Reading, Dogs