Profile
I am a motivated and enthusiastic Electronics PCB Design Engineer with experience designing and implementing complex electronics boards for 12 years, with post graduate experience in an university environment for 6 years and 3 years as an instructor, teaching electronics and electrotechnology courses. I have a strong understanding and practical knowledge of complex analog and high-speed digital circuits with emphasis on designing, simulating, implementing, debugging and soldering. I have a broad knowledge of working with oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, signal generators, digital analyzers, hot air stations and electronic boards. I possess a good knowledge of psychology and pedagogy subjects, managing well a class of students. I am a very curious individual with good manners.
Employment History
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07/2013 – Present Electronics PCB Design Engineer – RemoteI have successfully completed various projects taking into account all the detailed requirements and have met all the expectations.Most important projects:
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Projects for Ralab:
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Projects for ZEF Energy:
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Projects for Eventos:
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Project for Consens:
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Projects for Radiantis:
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Project for MIT Media Lab:
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10/2011 – 10/2015 Teaching Assistant in the Electronics and Communications Systems Department – Maritime University ConstantaBrought in by Maritime University of Constanta to teach the Analog Electronics Systems, Digital Electronics Systems, Digital Signal Processing and Communications Processors laboratories.Main activities:
- Setting up the experimental apparatus involving passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors and/or transformers) and active components (diodes, LEDs, MOS transistors, microcontrollers, microprocessors, PLDs and/or FPGAs);
- Using different types of connector cables and wires (simple jumpers, coaxial, RS232, IDE, USB, HDMI and SATA cables);
- Using and setting up multimeters (voltmeter, miliampermeter, ampermeter, ohmmeter or transistor meter), analog and digital oscilloscopes, spectrum and digital logic analyzers;
- Using variable current and voltage supply sources which were often connected in the experiments;
- Using JTAG and USB programmers to load software binary files in the microcontroller’s or FPGA’s SRAM and/or EEPROM/FLASH memory;
- Using analog and digital electronic circuits designing software (Orcad Suite, Altium Designer, and Altera Quartus II);
- Using different types of electronics like character LCD and LCD TFT displays, 7 segment displays, temperature, pressure, humidity sensors, CMOS optical sensors and Bluetooth communications modules;
- Using high speed Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog converter modules to acquire analog data in a digital form that were processed using C algorithms on a computer;
- Writing educational materials for the above mentioned laboratories in accordance to the internal and external pedagogical standards;
- Managing teaching activities with a class of students.
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06/2012 – 08/2012 Researcher Electronics Design Engineer – Grenoble Institute of Technology, GIPSA LabBrought in by GIPSA Lab to design various digital electronics systems that were used to detect electric arcs in the free field.Main activities:
- The design of a digital controller for an infrared camera using VHDL language;
- The implementation of the digital controller in an FPGA development board;
- The design of an algorithm, written in ANSI C programming language, that computed in real time the spectrogram of a digitized acoustic signal.
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10/2009 – 09/2011 Teaching Assistant in the Electronics Department – “Ovidius” University ConstantaBrought in by “Ovidius” University Constanta to teach the Digital Electronics Systems and Microcontroller Circuits laboratories.
Technical Summary
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Advanced level:
- Altium Designer;
- Autocad;
- Circuit Studio;
- Cadence Orcad;
- C Programming;
- Altera Quartus II;
- VHDL Language;
- Design Spark Mechanical;
- Designing Electronic Boards;
- Finding Electronic Faults;
- Repairing Electronic Boards;
- Soldering SMD/THD Components.
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Intermediate level:
- Embedded C Programming;
- Modelsim;
- Signal Tap II;
- Verilog;
- Aveva;
- Optiwin.
Education/Training
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10/2009 – 10/2015 Postgraduate experience in Communications Systems with emphasis on Underwater Acoustics Communications Systems – Polytechnic University of BucharestMain activities:
- Research and design of a novel architecture for an analog and digital transmitter and receiver for a low-cost underwater acoustic modem;
- Research, algorithm development and digital signal processing of underwater communication data;
- Writing scientific articles for conferences (COMMS, ATOM-N) and journals (Journal of Communication and Computer at Chicago University, Annals of Maritime University of Constanta).
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09/2004 – 09/2009 Electronics Engineer Diploma (Major: Applied Electronics Engineer) – “Ovidius” University ConstantaMain activities:
- Design of a high resolution SONAR using VHDL, implementation in an FPGA platform and simulation using Matlab for the Final Project;
- Studying main courses like:
- Analog Circuit Design;
- Analysis and Synthesis of Electronic Circuits;
- Digital Logic Design;
- Microprocessors Architecture;
- Programmable Logic Controllers;
- Computer Organization and Design.
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06/2011 – 09/2023 Courses attended during employmentMITx, EDx and Coursera online platforms:
- Circuits and Electronics (June 2011);
- Discrete Time Signals and Systems (February 2013);
- Digital Systems Design with VHDL (July 2013);
- Introduction to Electronics (January 2014);
- A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (February 2014);
- Linear Circuits (December 2014);
- Electricity and Magnetism (September 2022).
Zyante online platform:- Programming in C (April 2015);
- Programming Embedded Systems (with emphasis on Task Schedulers in C) (November 2015).
- Web Programmming (September 2023).
Fedevel Academy online platform:“Ovidius” University Constanta:- Intensive Psychology and Pedagogy course completed with A grade.
Personal
- Spending time with my family;
- Watching football matches (Aston Villa fan);
- Playing football;
- Walking or running in the park;
- Watching superhero movies;
- Listening Trance music (Armin van Buuren fan).