Allan M.

Grant 5030 Firelight Lane, Alpharetta, GA 30022 0

ag11efcea@westpost.net

404-518-390

US Citizen, MSEE. Experienced Electrical R&D Engineer. Firmware Programmer. Analog, Digital, Microcontrollers, RF, Power Electronics, Sensors, Motion Control. Seeking stable full-time permanent job. May consider 1099 or W2 contract. Can START IMMEDIATELY without relocation assistance SUMMARY Multi-Skilled Energetic Fast Thinking hands-on Electrical Engineer. Resourceful, Start-Up Type, very Active Entrepreneurial Mind. Quick with Extraordinary, Highly Profitable Solutions. Excellent Problem Solving and Analytical skills. Good mentor. Team player and builder. Effective in multi-cultural environment. Excellent interpersonal skills. Friendly & reliable. 15 years Electrical R&D Engineering experience in the USA. 30+ years total exper ience. 10 years various Microchip's PIC embedded microcontrollers firmware programming. Continous learning new active and passive electronic components and microcontrol lers. 4 years Motion Control Cards programming in Borland C for Yaskawa AC Drives. CAD: DX Designer, PADS, ViewDraw, Altium Designer, OrCAD, PCAD, Eagle. MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook. MS Project, C/C++, Visual Basic, PICBasic. Interfaces: RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI, CAN, USB, ProfiBus, FieldBus. Practical knowledge of Six Sigma, DFSS, DFM, DFT, Stage-Gate, and TRIZ for inven ting. Experienced in supervising outsourced development, and subcontractors. Vast experience with power tools, multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, f requency synthesizers, signal generators, power loads, power supplies, test chambers etc. MSEE. US Citizen. US and International business experience. Can travel, and work overtime. EXPERIENCE 8/1995-Present Engineering Consultant and Contractor, Owner Sapov Inc At lanta, GA Ideas generation. Projects definition. Hardware and Software design. Technical problem solving. Circuits and systems electrical and electromechanical design, programming, valid ation, and test. Tolerance, stress, failure and reliability analysis. BOM components selection and evaluation.

Electronic circuits schematics capture. PCB layout supervision. Prototypes assembling and test. Microcontrollers firmware programming. Developing all required technical documentation. Full time hardware R&D contracts and part time consulting in Electrical Design a nd Programming. Designed assembled, and tested many electronic and electromechanical devices and systems with various interfaces, linear LDO and switching AC/DC and DC/DC converters and powe r supplies: buck, boost, flyback; Power HB-LED Drivers and control circuits; lighting contro ls, battery monitors and battery chargers, PFC, UHF and RF receivers and transmi tters, welding equipment and mobile robots with video circuits; temperature, pre ssure, position sensors; Stepping, VFD, and BLDC motion control circuits; motors , actuators, valves, transducers, encoders; PLC Interfaces; HMI with LED, LCD & VFD displays, infra-red and ultrasound motion detectors, active and passive cool ing and thermal management solutions, EMI and EMC standards compliance. Most remarkable electrical hardware R&D jobs: 01/2008-11/2008 Cooper Lighting (1099 Corp-to-Corp) Peachtree Ci ty, GA Invented and implemented new power supplies and battery chargers with PIC microc ontrollers. Improved and designed controller boards for emergency lights with advanced failu re detection. Invented, designed, and programmed new type of motion detectors with ultrasound and infrared sensors. Designed power supplies for HB-LEDs (LED Drivers), and AC/DC converters. 08/2006-03/2007 Cooper Wiring Devices (1099 Corp-to-Corp) Peachtree C ity, GA Invented and designed new adaptive power receptacle with PIC microcontrollers. Designed test fixtures. Tested Z-Wave RF circuits for innovative home lighting fixtures and home automat ion. 01/2005-02/2006 Ametek. Lamb Motors (6 mo W2, then 1099 Corp-to-Corp) Kent, OH Designed electrical motor controllers with PIC microcontrollers and IGBTs for BL DC motors. Active participated in market research for new products and new markets. Used DX Designer and PADS. 04/1998-05/2002 Welding Services Inc (6 mo W2, then 1099 Corp-to-Corp) No rcross, GA - Managed, designed, and programmed electro-mechanical systems with PCs, PLCs, V FD displays, microcontrollers, various sensors, TIG and MIG welding power supplies, high nois e immune DC/DC power converters, and precision motion control with optical sensors for DC and AC motors. - Designed very advanced Straight Tube robotic welding system used for new techn ology research: Three Industrial Single Board Computers and 16 microcontrollers controlled 8 servos, 6 moving clamps, 2 welding power supplies, many AC/DC and D C/DC power converters. I designed all cables, electrical circuits and PCBs in O rCAD; assembled and tuned all units, and wrote Borland C code controlling 3 indu strial computers (5000 lines!) and firmware for 16 PICs in C and PicBasicPro.

- Implemented new algorithms for communication between computers, PLCs, EEPROM m emory, and microcontrollers with RS232/RS485, ProfiBus, FieldBus, ModBus, I2C, and SPI interfaces. 08/1997-04/1998 OLIS Inc (1099 Corp-to-Corp) Bog art, GA Improved accuracy of research spectrophotometers by designibg motor control circ uits with PIC microcontrollers, high-speed ADC and DACs. Programmed PICs in C (CCS C) and PicBasic Pro. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE - Ukraine 10/1988-11/1993 Regional Branch Director. Private companies. Nikolaev, Ukraine. Managed sales and customer support in all Ukraine - semiconductors and PCs. 08/1983-10/1988 Lead Electrical Engineer. Government R&D labs. Nikolaev, Ukraine . Designed and managed electrical systems design: military, avionics, and space. A nalog, RF, and Digital circuits, Motion Control, Power Supplies & Chargers, Security Sy stems. 01/1981-08/1983 Senior Electrical Engineer. Government R&D labs. Nikolaev, Ukrai ne. Designed electrical systems: electronic components test systems, TVs, robots. An alog, RF, and Digital circuits, Precision Motion Control, Power Supplies and Chargers. 06/1979-01/1981 Electrical Design Engineer. Government R&D labs. Nikolaev, Ukra ine. Designed electronic components test systems for semiconductor industry, and supp liers for military, avionics, and space electronic, RF, and electromechanical systems. EDUCATION 1979 MSEE. RF and Electrical R&D Engineer. Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute, Russia. Permanent self-education: magazines, books, seminars, new electronic developers KITs... PERSONAL 6', 200 Lbs, strong, healthy. Married. Both children are financially stable entr epreneurs. Hobbies: Educational reading, Electrical Design, Programming, Home Improvements.