Positions (most recent first):

• Controls Specialist - HVAC / Building Automation (Andover, EcoStruxure with B3s, StruxureWare Lite, I/A with R2 and WPT) - Havel (an Emcor Company)
• Project Engineer / Leader - Electrical Control Panel Manufacture (~ 2500 in 6 months) - Marengo Fab Steel
• Systems Tester - Military/FAA Radio Electronics - ITT Corporation Communications Systems (Exelis, now Harris)
• Independent Contractor - Electrical Control Panel Manufacture (~ 7500 delivered)
• Electrical Test Engineer - Telecommunications - Lucent Technologies
• R & D / Senior Engineer - Transit Bus Manufacturer - Flxible Corporation
• Product Design / Production Support Engineer - Automotive Electronics - Delco Electronics

Synopsis of Experience:  (some images may be expanded)

• Various microprocessor and PLC controlled projects with programming.
• Vehicle electrical system integration and multiplexing, PLC control and programming, flowcharting.
• Functional, in-circuit test, troubleshooting of circuit boards and systems.
• X-ray machine experience for circuit board component solder verification.
• Extensive use of macro programming in Excel for multitude of uses.  This one tested the software during the writing phase of an update to a VB program.
• Visual basic programs written to perform useful work.
• Website experience.
• Gcode Sequential Engraving written in VB for CNC stepper motor controlled XYZ unit.
• System level testing of Military and FAA radio applications.
• Management/manufacture of contracting assignment (8 years, ~ 10,000 units delivered of various UL listed electrical control panel configurations).  Designed and programmed cable testing unit using Basic Stamp 2 as the core (thousands of cables tested successfully).
• in process for HVAC and Building Automation (as time permits).
• simple macro I wrote years ago to help my son with one of his jobs.  The current update (September 2013)  automatically uploads to the internet if a connection is available (for viewing by smart phone).

Programming Languages Used:

• Machine/Assembly (college and before).
• PLM80, Basic, Visual Basic, Excel VB Macros.
• Labview Trained.
• Ladder Logic.
• Briefly Touched Upon Netbeans, PHP, MySQL, ASP, Wordpress, and others.
• Plain English.
• Lua.
  

Hobbies and Interests:

• FPV Droning:
• DadHouse031818, BobHouse032218, DadHouse050118, DadHouse051918, GGHouse052518, DadHouse060218, DadHouse060618, JacobHouse070718, RogHouse072119, JacobHouse072918, GGHouse090818, BobHouse091918

• Battery Electric Vehicles
• Solar and Wind Technologies
• Tesla (inventions and patents)
• Wireless
• Web Pages (chronological)
1. Personal 
2. Business - no longer active (since January 2011)
3. Multiple
4. America (August 2010)
5. America  (WP4.5 - May 2016)
6. Downloads 

Graduated from: 

• Purdue University - Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Technology

Ken      

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