| 2021-2025 |
Staff Engineer/Technician,
CU Aerospace
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| 2006-2021 |
Electronic Technician/Engineer,
Electronics Services Shop
at the University of Illinois,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Designed PCBs for monitoring and safety interrupt for the
experimental solar panels on the roof of the ECEB (images)
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Designed 8-layer PCB for LittleBeats project
(images)
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Designed, constructed and wrote C firmware for
elevator remote control
system for handicapped students (relay board)
(remote control)
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Designed, fabricated, and assembled button delay time boards for automatic handicapped doors on campus (images)
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Redid layout of Tux Controller boards for ECE391 (images)
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Designed, fabricated, and assembled numerous other PCBs
(examples)
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Advised students on electronic design, PCB design, soldering techniques, and mechanical construction
of class and research projects
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Fabricated thousands of PCBs for student and research projects using milling machines (
LPKF 93S,
LPKF S63,
LPKF ProtoLaser S,
T-Tech QuickCircuit 5000), having email conversations with
dozens of students simultaneously and organizing messages and files
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Designed and maintained shop web site with pages
instructing students and researchers on PCB design requirements and file submission procedures
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Created web site instructing other staff members on operation of PCB milling machines
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Trained students and student employees to solder, assemble, and test hardware
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Performed through-hole and surface mount rework on hundreds of PCBs with
pin spacings as small as 0.5 mm
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Organized parts, created labels for cabinets, drawers, shelves, etc., and maintained inventory spreadsheet
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Constructed cable assemblies for various projects including magnetic-material-free cables for
MRI research in Department of Nuclear Engineering
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Repaired and maintained robot cars for ECE110 freshman introductory electrical engineering lab
(videos)
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Co-designed control system to make synthesizer-type sounds with Tesla coils and generated control signal tracks
(video)
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Composed music for ECE110 intro video
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Tested and calibrated oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, power supplies, and other equipment in ECE labs
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Performed music on Continuum Fingerboard and Tesla coils at Engineering Open House
(2013 video)
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Designed, constructed and programmed
Beauchamp Harmonic Tone Generator Simulator for the Sousa Museum on the U of I campus
(details)
(video)
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Designed and constructed air-sensing LED Birthday Cake for Nick Holonyak's 80th birthday party
(article)
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| 1990-2006 |
Technician/Engineer/Programmer, CERL/PLATO/NovaNET/Pearson
- Performed wire-wrap changes on
Zephyr custom-built mainframe computers
- Populated and repaired through-hole and surface-mount circuit boards, including
boards with 240-pin PQFP microprocessors
- Wrote scripts in Procomm/Aspect and Tcl/Expect to:
- Transfer log files from servers and generate web stats reports
- Retrieve and store configuration data from field equipment
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Was solely responsible for testing and repair of custom communications hardware for NovaNET
system (the successor of the PLATO computer system) from 1995-2005:
- Received IPC 7711 Class 2 Rework Skills Certification with no formal training
- Did rework on surface mount components with pin spacing as small as 0.5 mm
- Tested and repaired hundreds of custom communications units
- Wrote Procomm/Aspect and Visual Basic software to automate test procedures
- Kept log of repair history for each unit
- Maintained stock of electronic and mechanical parts
- Programmed, installed, removed, and reprogrammed surface-mount flash ROMs
- Designed and built logic comparator for in-circuit testing of ICs
(details)
- Designed and implemented electrical and mechanical changes to units
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| 1993-94 |
Studio Technician,
University of Illinois Computer Music Project
- Rewired entire studio using loopless grounding scheme
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| 1993-95 |
Technician,
Symbolic Sound Corporation
- Tested 56000-based DSP hardware before shipment
- Modified through-hole circuit boards
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| 1989-90 |
Studio Technician,
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
- Repaired and calibrated modular Moog synthesizer
- Designed and built tape deck calibration oscillator, headphone intercom system,
and analog control interface for modular Moog
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| 1987-89 |
Co-op Engineer, Inland Steel Company
- Built TTL hardware and wrote software for industrial control systems
- Wrote QuickBasic software for pass schedule storage and steel providing
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Majored in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Received A grades in the following courses: