PRATIK SHAH patrikshah@gmail.com (224) 301-9104

SYSTEMS DEVELOPER/PROJECT LEAD Over 11 years’ experience in electrical design and development projects. Superb design engineering and project management skills with extensive hands-on experience in microcontroller and microprocessors based board designs. High levels of professionalism at all times, with superb problem solving and communication/team collaboration ability.

Skillful and dedicated Electronic Hardware Engineer with extensive experience in the research, development, coordination, planning and support of operational and administrative functions.

Hardware-focused system developer, designing high-performance systems that require high-speed interconnects, reduced power mode design, low power cost/performance tradeoffs.

Able to provide producible, cost-effective implementations from conceptual marketing requirements.

Exceptional analytical skills, experience transforming the needs of the Business User and stakeholder into functional requirements.

Proven history of success improving efficiencies and coming under budget; saved $130K per year in most recent project.

CORE SKILLS

Proficient in system architecture and control algorithm development, mixed-signal circuitry design, PCB layout, system integration, to customer product support and project management.

Schematic capture and PCB layout experience with Orcad, Altium, Cadence and Mentor Graphics design suites.

High Speed PCB design and layout, signal integrity and EMI analysis, created bills of materials

Analog/digital bring-up with oscilloscopes, multimeters, frequency counters, logic analyzers and signal generators.

Distributed DC power supply development using switch-mode regulators and LDO’s in low noise applications.

Experienced in IEC standard based design and UL353 based safety control device.

Experience in Reliability Analysis (DFMEA, Risk Analysis, SWCA).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LARSEN & TOUBRO TECHNOLOGY SERVICES — Morton Grove, IL & Mumbai, India System Developer, Project Lead, August 2005 – Present

Manage complex technical projects at all levels of project lifecycle from proposal through project deliverables, while staying on time and under budget.

Coordinate directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.

Produce creative designs with high consumer value to meet size, cost, time to market, and quality targets.

Contributed to a wide variety of products. A representative sample may be found below.

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REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Hot and Steam Boiler (PSE800 series) Safety Controls improvement, July 2014 – December 2015

Client: Xylem Inc. Role: Project Lead (Hardware and Software)

Tools: Microchip Mplab, Altium and In house EMI/EMC instruments

Project Description:

Steam boiler safety controls used for multiple applications. Due to steam, these controls have a foam detection algorithm for early boiler shutdown to prevent dry fire. These controls were failing in the field due to number of unknown issues.

Responsibilities

Gathered field data, performed root cause analysis and simulated the situation in the lab to determine effective solutions.

Performed design review (HW & SW) analysis discerns the known root causes of the field issues.

Designed “Smart Algorithm to Determine Steam Boiler Water Condition”, a unique algorithm which is now under provisional patent.

Performed software architecture design, implementation and testing.

Handled EMI/EMC testing – RS, CS, RE, CE, EFT, Surge and ESD testing as per the available standard.

Handled UL353 documentation and approval.

Residential Valve Remote Monitoring and Control System, September 2013 – June 2014

Client: Watts Water Role: System Developer

Tools: VMware Virtual machine, Linux Ubuntu and Eclipse for C and JAVA

Project Description:

Product used to measure all water inlets and outlets temperature, pressure and flow. Define leakage in system, per event water flow, total flow in a day and prevent house flooding by turning on and off master solenoid valves. Entire system is accessible remotely through dynamic IP and through cloud.

Residential Valve monitoring system

Motherboard Selection (Freescale IMX51 Microcontroller)

Linux Ubuntu Flavor Operating system

Valve Monitoring algorithms C code implementation

Tomcat Web server

JAVA JDK Application Programming

Remote monitoring over web

Dynamic IP Automatic configuration

Ethernet and USB Wireless Module

Cloud Implementation to access the monitor each unit data installed in different field

Responsibilities

Managed entire project from proposal through project deliverables.

Trained team on valve monitoring systems to ensure a well-informed final product.

Selected motherboard and webserver.

Implemented cloud selection and application.

Oversaw complete system design architecture and hardcore algorithms.

Implemented Java Application and Cloud Application on Google Cloud, as well as valve monitoring algorithms in C code.

Implemented DNS Exit for Dynamic IP Configuration.

Coordinated directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.

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Flood Protection Valve Monitoring and Control System, December 2012 – June 2013

Client: Watts Water Role: System Developer

Tools: Altium, Microchip mplab and AutoCAD

Project Description:

Flood protection valve monitoring system sense the back flow of water and turn off the solenoid valve to protect house/industry from flooding. Can be control over WiFi protocol and provide notification either through email or SMS. Battery powered with 4 days of operating time.

Flood protection Valve Remote monitoring and control

MSP430 based Low power architecture

GSM and WiFi Module Interface

IP65 Mechanical off the shelf Enclosure selection and PCB Placement

Water presence sensor Interface

Battery charging and Monitoring Interfacing

Multiple DC-DC Converter design

Multiple PCB stackup and component placement

Labview Application design and Implementation for Remote monitoring

Responsibilities

Managed project and acted as hardware lead from proposal to project deliverables.

Provided in-depth manufacturing support.

Completed Firmware and Hardware design and implementation, as well as Labview Application.

Coordinated directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.

Gravity Gradiometer Data Acquisition Design, December 2012 – September 2013

Client: Rio Tinto Role: Project Lead

Tools: Altium, Hyperlynx for SI analysis, PROE

Project Description:

Flood protection Valve Remote monitoring and control

Vertex-6 (1156 pin BGA package) based high speed data acquisition design

ARM Microcontroller and Vertex-6 FPGA interfacing

High Speed ADC & DAC interfacing with very low acquisition & settling time.

Programmable Gain amplifier Interfacing with low noise spectral density

5th Order Butterworth filter using Op-amp and switched capacitors method

20 Channel high speed ADC interfacing with virtex-6

11 channel high speed DAC with differential output driving 15mA current interfacing with virtex-6

Low RMS noise requirement of 150uVRms at ADC Input

Platform Flash & EPROM Interfacing

DDR3 memory interfacing operates at 100MHZ

10/100MB RGMII PHY interfacing

32GB SD Card Interface

32 Channel Digital input & Digital Output Interface

Multiple DC-DC Converter design with power sequence logic

Multiple PCB (6 PCB’s) stackup and component placement

Mechanical Enclosure design and PCB Placement

Responsibilities

Designed, developed and validated FPGA – Microcontroller based high speed data acquisition design.

Procured and verified necessary components.

Handled Hierarchical Schematic entry – 8 Schematics with high speed inter board connectors.

Performed PCB Stackup and Component placement.

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Verified footprint & placement, PCB routing & layout, and Gerber review.

Picked and placed component assembly and module testing.

Performed noise figure calculation and completed mechanical enclosure design.

Handled signal integrity analysis for all high speed interfaces.

Single Board Computer Design, December 2011 – September 2012

Client: ITW Role: Senior Hardware Engineer

Tools: ORCAD, PADS, HyperLynx and AutoCAD

Project Description:

600MHz Intel EP80579 based single board computer design

DDR2 memory interfacing operates at 433MHZ

NAND Flash Memory, SRAM, EPROM interfacing

10/100MB RGMII PHY interfacing

Product design in two phase Alpha & Beta

Alphas contains all features in one mother board & Beta contains multiple high speed boards

Din Rail Enclosure based PCB assembly

USB Hub, CAN & RS-232 interfacing

Multiple DC-DC Converter design with power sequence logic

10 layer PCB validation & verification

Responsibilities

Designed, developed, and validated single board computer as per the requirement.

Procured and verified components.

Handled hierarchical schematic entry (60 Pages)

Verified footprint & placement, PCB routing & layout, and Gerber review.

Tested PCB assembly and module.

Analyzed and estimated requirements based on all relevant data.

Assisted draftsman for PCB layout and software engineer for algorithm development.

Prototype has been tested for the approval of EMI/EMC standard as per CISPR22- class B and immunity as per IEC61000 series.

Designed, developed and validated following:

o Power circuits, control circuits, EMI/EMC filter design and problem mitigation

o Component selections with proper QFD for controller, Inverter module etc.

o Design of analog /digital section

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Hardware

8 bit /16 bit/ 32 bit Microcontroller based complete product design

TMS320 based circuit breaker design

Intel EP80579 32-Bit Embedded Microprocessor based product design

Virtex-6 FPGA based product design

Mixed signal design (High Speed ADC, DAC and FPGA-ARM interfacing)

Multilayer PCB Placement and Layout Review

BOM Generation using SAP part number & Component procurement

Design of battery operated instruments

Motor protection

Analog Noise Figure & RMS noise calculation

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Tools

ORCAD & Altium for schematic entry and simulation.

PADS, PCAD & Altium for layout design

HyperLynx for signal Integrity

Experience with Logic analyzer, DSO, Spectrum analyzer

MATLAB/SIMULINK.

Knowledge of PROE & AutoCAD

PSPICE/LTSPICE for analog circuit simulation

Relax and RAM Commander for Reliability prediction

Hardware Interfaces/Protocol

Embedded device drivers for DAC, ADC, PGA, Analog Switch,

I2C based I/O expander & SPI based Flash Memory

Driver for character, Graphic & OLED Display

CAN, RS-232, RS-485, USB, SATA, Ethernet, Super I/O

NAND Flash Memory & SRAM.

DDR2 RAM Interface

DDR3 Interface

Design/Safety Standards

ISO

IEC

Testing

EMC/EMI testing as per IEC61000

Environmental testing as per IEC60068

Product design, FMEA and Risk Analysis as per UL353

SWCA, FMEA & MTBF Analysis

Configuration Management

Tortoise CVS

Visual Source safe 6

PLM – Wind-chill

Project Management Tools

MS Project

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics), Mumbai University

PATENTS FILED

Testing device to simulate three phase AC real time field waveform & verify circuit breaker response – (1841/MUM/2008 – India)

Display Unit for Battery Operated Breaker Testing Device (765/MUM/2008 – India)

Smart Algorithm to determine “Steam Boiler Water Condition” (62/287,727 – Provisional)

Converting Mechanical Low water cutoff switch to Electronic Switch (62/328,684 – Provisional)

Field configurable low water cutoff controls (62/348,271 - Provisional)

Remote monitoring and troubleshooting Low water cutoff controls (62/353,284 – Provisional)