OBJECTIVE: To secure a challenging H/W signal integrity, EMI test or validation Test Engineering position in the field of electronics or related area with a company that will offer growth and make effective use of my hands-on training.
EMC Test Engineer Consultant February 2013 to May 2013MEGGITT-INC － Corona, CA.
Working closely with H/W design team to get EMC certification for PSC (Pneumatic Control System) unit base on RTCA-D160-F Standard using DNB test lab.
Test for Magnetic Effect, Power input, Voltage Spike, Induced Signal Susceptibility, RF Emission, Lightning Susceptibility, and ESD tests.
Run HALT and Shock environmental tests.
Design Verification Test Engineer Consultant May 2012 to December 2012STEC-INC － Santa Ana, CA.
Working closely with H/W design team for new or existing SSD (Solid State Disk), (PCIe, SAS, uSAS, SATA and Fiber channel drives) 8-16 channels up to 6Gig data rate.
Complete Serdes/PHY interface qualification on new SOC controller for SAS and PCIe interface drives.
DVT test and verification for user interface, power consumption, power supply regulator efficiency testing, in-Rush current, Hot Swap controller function and Vback charging.
Use IOMETER for performance testing.
Full signal integrity compliance testing using JBERT Test setup for 3G & 6G for TX/RX sensitivity testing.
Flash memory output drive strength setting using Lauther bauch JTAG interface to generate memory Schmoo plot.
Labview, 8-Corners Automation testing to improve the product performance to meet all the compliance requirements.
Sr. Hardware Reliability Test Engineer April 2011 to April 2012Pace America PLC Lay Off － El Segundo, CA.
Working closely with H/W design team for new or existing DVR set top boxes to find any design, EMI/EMC or manufacturing related issues on Power supply, mainboard and peripherals.
Run failure analysis on return units for any reliability and quality issues down to component levels.
Work closely with part vendors to monitor their failure rate and improving their test process.
Work closely with manufacture test engineers to improve their test methodology.
Work closely with DirecTV engineers regarding their field failure units to find the root cause of the issue.
Brown-out, power glitch and power cycle test using test automation on Agilent AC power source 6814B.
Coordinate signal integrity, Reliability, EMI/EMC and Labview Automation testing to improve the product performance to meet all the compliance requirements.
Run Full signal integrity compliance testing On Broadcom, STMicro and Entropic SOC's for SATA, HDMI, USB, including RF output levels.
Work closely with customer related issues for design or reliability.
Sr. Principal Signal Integrity / EMI, Reliabilit June 2007 to February 2011Western Digital Corp Lay Off － Irvine, CA.
Full Signal Integrity Analysis Serdes / PHY interface for SATA & SAS 1.5/3.0 and 6Ghz drives, using Marvell and STMicro SOC controller, including USB3.0, 5G high speed and SSD ( Solid State Disk , Flash Base drives ).
Validating Rx & Tx signals for RT-Eye and full Jitter measurements (DJ, SJ & TJ).
Measuring Return Loss for Near / Far End sensitivity test using Agilent VNA and DCA6100A test equipment for S-Parameter measurements.
Working closely with PCB layout designers and EMC engineers to verify proper PCB layout, stack up and trace routing for differential pairs, including impedance matching to comply with EMC radiated and immunity testing.
Working closely with SRE (System Reliability Engineering) team, to complete all system level Temperature cycle & Shock/Vibration testing.
Validate full signal integrity qualifications on different range of OEM Servers, Mass Storage system, DVR, Satellite Set Top boxes, Notebooks and desktop PC, using Tektronix TDS8000 and Agilent BERT scopes.
Full FCC, CE class A& B.
Sr. EMC / Validation Test Engineer June 2004 to May 2007Magtek Inc － Carson, CA.
Take all new products to EMC Test Labs and debug all radiated and conducted emission issues for FCC part 15, CISPR 22, class B certifications.
Fix any issues with USB and Ethernet interface ports.
Build and setup Pre-Compliance kit using Agilent E7405 Spectrum Analyzer.
Validate USB 1.1 & 2.0 (full speed / high speed ) using TDS7404 and USB2.0 software to measure eye diagram, chirp, J& K Tests, suspend, resume and current tests.
Check jitter measurements on D+, D- , differential lines, plus rise and fall time.
Using CATC, USB protocol Analyzer to debug transaction issues.
Full PCB layout, Signal Integrity/ EMC simulation using CADENCE Allegro & EMSAT tools.
Board level and system level MTBF, MIL-217 & Bellcore reliability analysis using "items" software.
Developed DVT Reliability tests and validation procedures for new products.
Using Labview 8, for reliability test automation.
Sr. H/W Design & Validation Engineer September 2000 to May 2006DSS Networks Inc － Irvine, CA.
Schematic Capture, using ORCAD & McCad for board level design and PCAD for layout.
Test development, Troubleshooting, Debug and Signal Integrity on all new PCI, PCI-X, PMC and cPCI Gigabit Single/Dual Ports, Including Copper and Fiber boards up to 8 layers Network Cards using Intel PCI Bridge, National, Intel and Broadcom Gigabit MAC / PHY plus Marvell, Vittesse or Agilent SERDES.
Complete FCC (Part 15), CE and UL Test certification using third party test labs.
Contract Part time long term position.
Sr. Mfg Test Engineer January 2003 to July 2004Balboa Instruments Inc － Tustin, CA.
Generate board level ICT test program and test fixture design on HP3070 ICT tester.
Design functional test setup and develop test program using National Instrument PXI, and Labview 7.1 to generate functional test programs to test all Pool and SPA system control boards.
Working closely with manufacturing and quality engineers to improve board level and system level yield and product qualities.
Working with Design engineers from start to end of NPI design cycles for full DFT & DFM related issue on new and existing products.
Sr. H/W Validation Test Engineer March 2002 to January 2003Irvine Sensors Corp Six Months － Costa Mesa, CA.
Full ASIC Validation on Laser Guided Imaging Die, running at two 500MHz internal Clocks.
Design Test Fixtures using ORCAD and PCAD for PCB Design and using Xilinx FPGA for implementing test logics into the test fixture.
Generating test automation using National Instrument PCI DAQ and Labview 6.1 to test and validate all new Die's using Micro probing technique and Chip on Board for Vth, Mux, full FIFO and End to End functional test.
Sr. Mfg Test Engineer November 2001 to June 2002STM Wireless Inc － Irvine, CA.
Support manufacturing floor for all board and system level test setup and configuration on C-Band, L-Band and Ku-Band satellite modems and network Hub's.
Writing production test / debug procedures, plus test automation tools using National Instrument Lab View 6.1 for Windows and RF Switches DC-18GHz.
Working closely with H/W design team during design phase to design test fixtures using ORCAD to validate and debug Digital, Analog and RF boards for new design, complete DVT test procedures.
Extensive knowledge of RF design, Phase noise, and spurious measurement.
Using Spectrum Analyzer, Power Meter, Signal & RF Generator, BER Tester and Logic Analyzer.
RF Test Equipments Calibration and Rental Scheduling.
Supervise and train all Mfg Technicians.
Contract, Full Time Position.
Six Months.
Sr. H/W Test Engineer September 1999 to November 2001Rainbow Technology, Inc － Irvine, CA.
Working closely with Sr.
H/W Design Engineers to develop and troubleshoot all new PCI, CPCI and PMC Cryptographic SSL accelerator boards in Linux and Windows NT Platforms using Catalyst PCI Bus Analyzer.
Evaluate test equipments and furniture's to layout Hardware Engineering Lab.
Complete DVT Test Procedures and reports for full characterization and validation of all new designs.
Complete FCC (Part 15), CE and UL Test reports using third parties test labs.
Complete full DVT and Compliance tests on Cryptographic SSL Network Proxy Accelerator server.
Complete troubleshoot and debugging USB low and full speed iKey Tokens using USB Bus Analyzer, Tektronix USB Compliance test package.
Full DVT and Environmental test reports, plus Compliance tests on USB ikey modules.
Automate DVT Test procedures using National Instrument Lookout and Labview software interfacing Fieldpoint Analog I/O, Data Acquisition and Relay modules to control programmable power supply Test Chamber.
Monitor and logging data for all electrical pa.
Sr Test Engineer November 1997 to January 1999Viking Components Inc － Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
Design SDRAM, PC100, PC133, DDR and Rambus memory modules for PC's and Servers.
Schematic captures and board layout for test fixtures using ORCAD &ACCELL EDA.
Develop test procedure to test all different type of high-speed memory modules using HP83000 F330I and Advantest Rambus ATE and GenRad in circuit tester.
Develop DVT test procedures on all new memory modules for signal integrity and AC-DC characterization using Tektronix TDS694C Oscilloscope and HP 10674, logic analyzer.
Troubleshoot and analyze all field failure returned modules from OEM and write corrective action reports for all failures and developing new test using ATE testers.
Supervise & Train technicians.
Sr. Validation Engineer September 1996 to November 1997Western Digital Corp － Irvine, CA.
Test and Validate R/W Channel Chip for Analog and Digital Blocks.
Design the Test Bed to simulate hardware environment using ICE (In Circuit Emulator, Intel 8xc196 NU & NP) using NOHAUE Software for mapping memory Blocks of the Test Bed.
Using Altera and Lattice FPGA (7000 & 8000) series to design logic's and ORCAD tools for schematic capture.
Writing and translating Sims in Verilog and using Visual C++ on UNIX to simulate and correlate the Sims against Test Bed.
Troubleshoot and upgrade the test Bed according to the latest changes to the R/W Channel chip specification.
Using Arbitrary Waveform Generator, HP and Tektronix Logic Analyzer (16550C & TLA 700), Lecroy 10G Sampling Scope and Microprobing for Validating the analog Blocks.
Component Test Engineer October 1994 to September 1996LATTICE CORPORATION － Hillsboro, OR. CA.
Test and debug devices for characterization and validation of all GAL, pLSI and PLD parts.
Using Credence ATE, Semiconductor Analyzer, Pulse Generator Tek HFS 9003, Sampling Scope Tek 11801A,.
Data Generator HP800A, DC Power Supply and DVM to analyze signals level for Tpd, Tco, Tsu, Fmax,.
Input translator and Glitch.
Write test programs for ATE.
Collect and Graph data using MS Word and Excel.
Hardware Engineer Assistant May 1992 to October 1994INTEL CORPORATION － Hillsboro, OR.
Build Prototype Board PCI Card for 486/Pentium base Processor, Fax /Data and DSVD Telephony internal board.
Draw Schematics using ORCAD and CADANCE, Debug and troubleshoot the Prototype 1and 2, in order to pass FCC and LU Test.
Build test station for Functional test and reliability test.
SMT Soldering and repair the boards for Remote LAN Access network Server product.
Build, Test and configured systemsfor LAN/WAN network using network and ISDN Cards.
Build Test setup for the server to pass FCC and EMI Test.
Using SPEED, MAX and EXCEL Spreadsheet for BOM and Data Collections.
