Rick Edwards

Rick edwards

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Product Engineer at Linear Technology

  • Education

    • University of california at

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      Bs electrical & computer engineering

      Relevant Coursework: Power Electronics, Solar Energy Utilization, Relational Database Management Systems and renewable energy systems.

    • Uc san diego

      1983 - 1985
      Bs solid state engineering
  • Experience

    • Hughes technology center

      Jan 1985 - Jan 1991
      Mts r/d engineer

      Designed custom test fixtures and circuits for chip tests.Developed test procedures for radiation characterization of discrete devices and FPA's.Responsible for characterization and diagnostics on FPA designs.Created test software for various test and wafer sort operations.

    • Loral infrared & imaging systems

      Jan 1991 - Jan 1996
      Mts r/d engineer

      Developed software and hardware for Focal Plane Array (FPA) tests on automated equipmentPerformed device characterization and root cause analysis of failures.Developed test procedures for radiation characterization of discrete devices and FPA's.Developed Software and Hardware for IC test on automated equipment.

    • Analog devices

      Jan 1996 - Jan 2010

      Lead Product Engineer (PE), maintained products well being, met design and reliability standards for volume manufacturability. Served as key technical contact between manufacturing, design, test material operations, and contract manufacturing to meet schedules. • Demonstrated a path for ongoing PE support that improved product quality and usability • Served as primary customer contact for sustaining product concerns such as Failure Analysis (FA) and Quality Assurance (QA).• Documented daily production statistics and held weekly production meetings with engineering, QA, and World Wide Manufacturing (WWM) for products which ran at shipping rates of millions of units per month. Maintained yields near defect density level.• Led team in solving complex HAST issue to qualify new process. Show less Developed test software and hardware for mixed-signal audio products. Advanced to test team leader for mixed signal audio codec product line.Released codec products into high-volume production.Led datasheet creation through data collection, and analysis using Six-Sigma methodologies.Increased productivity by transferring production to new platform to utilize offsite test capabilities more efficiently which contributed to a significantly lower test cost and higher margins per part tested.Worked with design teams and FA to determine root-cause for problem resolution, enabling rapid time to market of key products. Show less

      • Senior Product Engineer

        Jan 2001 - Jan 2010
      • Product Development Engineer Computer Audio

        Sept 1996 - Jan 2001
      • Mixed Signal Software Test Engineer

        Jan 1996 - Jan 2001
    • Distributed data systems, web development and renewable energy focus

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2012
      Professional development

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2009- 2012University of Massachusetts Lowell, Cambridge and Lowell, MAProfessional Technical TrainingMeet-Up Groups Boston• Cloudera Hadoop Apache Developers training(completed 12/11/12)• Think Big Analytics AWS EMR training(cpmpleted 11/07/12)• Smart Grid PES IEEE Training• Attended free classes with the Massachusetts Institute of technology in RDMS• Attended UMass Lowell as a student to take classes in the renewable energy industry.• Member of web development Meet-Up groups. Show less

    • Avalon systems corporation

      Mar 2011 - Apr 2012
      Eam/consulting and solutions architect

      EAM Consulting/ Solutions Architect• EAM Software Application implementations • Tivoli Process Automation Engine Architecture(TPAE)• Tivoli Service Request Manager(TSRM)• Application Designer implementations• BIRT Report Generation for Maximo 7.X versions• Workflow Implementations• Trained in ITIL best practices

    • Raytheon ids

      Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
      Senior manufacturing engineer

      RAYTHEON INTERGRATED DEFENSE SYSTEMS 2013-2014PATRIOT MISSILE TEST ENGINEER Automatic Inspection and Test Process improvement for Patriot system and sub-systems:• Experience in RF and Microwave test and troubleshooting• Six Sigma improvement methodologies• Assisted and directed represented employees in the troubleshoot of production hardware• Collected, reviewed and presented analysis of test failure data through the use of statistical analysis • Labview Associate Developer (certified 1/17/14) Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Applied data science with python - level 2

      Ibm
      Jan 2018
    • Machine learning foundations: a case study approach

      Coursera course certificates
      Mar 2016
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    • Machine learning with big data (2015)

      Coursera course certificates
      Feb 2016
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    • Hadoop platform and application framework

      Coursera course certificates
      Dec 2015
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    • Introduction to big data (2015)

      Coursera course certificates
      Nov 2015
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    • Machine learning foundations: a case study approach

      Coursera course certificates
      Mar 2016
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    • R programming

      Coursera course certificates
      Jun 2014
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    • The data scientist’s toolbox

      Coursera course certificates
      May 2014
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    • Graph analytics for big data (2015)

      Coursera course certificates
      Mar 2016
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