GARY LYNCH
10375 W. Plum Tree Cir., #206
Hales Corners, WI 53130
(414)425-0821
gary.lynch@ieee.org
SUMMARY
R&D Electronic Design Engineer with
emphasis on embedded control; microprocessor hardware and
firmware. Accomplished in all phases of product life cycle,
including concept, requirements, design, serial production,
field support, and project management for a variety of
industries.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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COOPER POWER SYSTEMS,
Franksville and South Milwaukee, WI
| 1997 to Present
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Utility protective equipment manufacturer
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- Advanced Design Engineer
- Responsible for digital hardware design in micro-based
protective relay.
- Achieved reductions of over 30% in cost
and 65% in failure rate by converting 4
boards from through-hole to SMT.
Supervised conversion of 4 more,
bringing into compliance with company
specs (eliminated jumpers, obsolete
components).
- Analyzed corporate spec for conformal
coating of pcbs, adding new requirement
for extreme humidity. Tested boards,
re-drafted and released spec.
- Converted electro-mechanical relay
control to solid-state, programmable
control. Wrote specification, completed
hardware design and release of
documentation. Assembled and tested
prototype unit in time for trade show.
- Re-designed product to comply with
UL/CE/IEC safety/environmental/EMC
standards.
- Assimilated 14-board, partially
documented protective relay into
employer's MRP system.
- Tested and certified new board to IEEE
C37.90-2 standard.
- Responsible for coordinating product
shipments, MRP planning, purchase orders
and part substitutions of acquired
product for four months.
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EDSTROM INDUSTRIES, INC,
Waterford, WI
| 1996 to 1997
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Animal watering products manufacturer.
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- Senior Project Engineer
- Designed hardware and software of
micro-based watering, and environmental
monitoring systems.
- Developed and released company’s
first dimming fluorescent light control;
speech-enabled modem. Designed and built
functional demo unit for company booth
at trade show under ambitious time
constraints. (Also worked in
booth.)
- Designed byte-wide flash memory with
write-(un)protect/ capability. Wrote,
tested, and released device drivers for
application program to access
feature.
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OMNION POWER ENGINEERING CORPORATION,
East Troy, WI
| 1993 to 1996
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Solid state inverter manufacturer.
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- Project Engineer
- Responsible for hardware and software
design of micro-based control boards in
company's latest line of intelligent
inverters.
- Took multiple control boards from
concept to schematic, pcb place &
route, software design in c and
assembly, documents for serial
production and test.
- Retrofitted design a year later to run
on 50 Hz systems. Opened European
market.
- Hired back as consultant to
trouble-shoot installed system, modified
software to provide remote diagnostics,
located and corrected problem without
ever visiting installation.
- As System Administrator, maintained 20+
node network critical to
productivity.
- Implemented virus control &
automated backups. Connected firm to
Internet for 10% of industry standard
cost, support e-mail, WWW, UseNet, &
ftp.
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CAMTRONICS MEDICAL SYSTEMS, LTD.,
Hartland, WI
| 1991 to 1993
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Medical image processing equipment manufacturer.
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- Design Engineer
- Accountable for design of proprietary
interface boards between x-ray equipment
and image processor to improve image
quality.
- Designed and produced four interface
boards improving time to production by
33% to meet on-site, changing
requirements of customers.
- Authored a program utility to improve
speed by 300% and reduce errors by 25%
in data entry of bills of
material.
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Prior to 1991
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Held progressively responsible positions
as R&D Staff Engineer, Digital
Design Engineer, and Software Engineer
for companies including
Texas Instruments,
Lovejoy Electronics, and
ABB Industrial Systems.
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- Completed design of all digital hardware
(including 1000-gate custom IC) in
company's first digital motor
controller, reduced part count, cost by
30% and failure rate from 20% to less
than 1% in compressed time schedule.
Earned award for meeting all
deadlines.
- Supervised production line start-up,
overcoming documentation and budget
constraints, receiving
commendation.
- Isolated and corrected, in co-operation
with Intel, a design flaw in a
microcontroller which was causing
product to fail in field.
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EDUCATION
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, cum laude
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, cum laude
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, magna cum laude
University Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
Fulbright Hays Fellow - Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering
Technische Universität München, Munich,
Germany
(Published Thesis in German language.)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS / AFFILIATIONS
Hardware: 8051, 80C196, 80x86, MPC-860, ASICs,
PLDs, RS-232, PLCs
Software: c, c++, VB, Pascal, PL/M,
UNIX, Assemblers, LonWorks
Multi-lingual: Fluent in German,
Russian, Spanish; reads French
Member, Institute of Electrical &
Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
(Published in (IEEE) Transactions
& other industry journals)