B.S. in Electrical Engineering
June 2000 -
Aeroflex Test Solutions, (Formerly Goodrich JcAIR Test
Systems), New Century, KS
Present
(July 2006-Present) Business Team Manager
Selected
development of new products to meet strategic goals.
Set goals for bookings and sales and directed activity of
Engineering, Field Service, and Marketing teams to meet those goals.
Created bids and quotes for products and services.
Sold product to customers in N&S America.
Developed strategic OEM relationships and agreements.
Planned product production mix.
Created department budgets, analyzed project profit & loss,
and made revenue recognition decisions per Sarbanes-Oxley
requirements.
Teamed
with the Director of Business Development, established a joint
venture with the French Airbus division
EADS Test and Services,
resulting in the design and marketing of a RF Automatic Test System
for the Boeing 787 and other new generation aircraft.
(2003-2006) Engineering Manager
Directed
new product development, sustaining engineering, and customer
support for all avionics automatic test products.
Planned and managed engineering and operations activities
related to design and manufacture of custom test products.
Created bids and quotes for custom products, product
enhancements, and engineering services.
Assured on-time delivery of products to meet revenue goals.
Assisted Business Team Manager with budgets, profit & loss
analysis, and revenue recognition decisions per Sarbanes-Oxley
requirements. Developed
and maintained strategic OEM relationships.
Through
cost reduction, improved industry reputation, and marketing efforts,
transformed the Software Revision Service program from a $1M
sustaining cost to a profit center. Directed transition of
department from a vertically aligned Engineering / Manufacturing
group to an Engineering team
utilizing existing operations facilities, resulting in reduced costs
and staff. Revamped
design process for custom CE-marked automatic test systems,
resulting in reduction of a two-week design cycle to ½ day with
improved quality.
(2001-2003) Engineering Group Leader
Managed
product development, sustaining engineering, and customer support
for automatic test stations used in RF, analog, and digital testing
of avionics. Directed
activity of a team of 20 hardware/software engineers, field
engineers, and technicians supporting these products.
Created
and implemented improved ISO9000 development processes, resulting in
enhanced product quality and faster development cycles.
Acquired management of Field Engineering group, and
established commitment to excellence in customer support, reducing
customer support open incident count from over 400 to fewer than 20.
Backlog of non-revenue producing projects was reduced from
over 15 man-years to six man-months.
Turn time of program revision services was reduced from three
years to four months. As
measured by challenges at a yearly industry forum, lagging industry
confidence in the product was re-established.
Results were achieved despite staff reductions of nearly 50%.
(2000-2001) Senior Project Engineer
Developed
C language software used in an automated test system for military
avionic pressure transducers.
This included applications software as well as software
drivers for a wide variety of IEEE-488 based instruments and
MIL-STD-1553 communications.
February 1990 -
Harold Beck and Sons,
May 2000
Project Engineer
Designed and
maintained a line of position control products, including fixed and
variable frequency AC motor drives, and rotary position sensors.
Tasks included analog and digital hardware design, as well as
C, assembler, and Visual Basic software development for PC and
embedded applications. Developed
embedded C software for a new “smart” control drive using the HART
bus protocol. Created
debugger/emulator tools to support HART development, and a HART
“Device Description” for control via handheld instruments.
Championed and
implemented a company wide transition to automated product testing.
Designed analog/digital test hardware and software for
product test, burn-in, and calibration.
Implemented transition to PC-based engineering operations,
including purchase of CAD and design of engineering productivity
tools. Served as liaison
to Underwriter’s Laboratories and Canadian Standards Association and
maintained all agency projects and reports, as well as supervising
plant inspections.
September 1988 - Fischer and Porter,
February 1990
Project Engineer
Redesigned analog
and digital electronics for a Coriolis-effect mass flowmeter,
improving the stability and temperature performance by an order of
magnitude. Introduced
new analytical techniques resulting in redesign of the device’s
mechanical system.
Improved the design of flow
measurement products including magnetic flowmeters and ultrasonic
level detectors.
June 1985 -
Integrated Electronic Technologies,
September 1988
Chief Engineer
Developed and patented a series of low-cost contactless linear and
rotary position sensors for the automotive market, including a
custom analog/digital IC.
Developed and patented a unique FM detector, a rugged digital
encoder, and a high sensitivity low-cost accelerometer.
Directed all development activities.
Appointed to the Board of Directors of
Sensor Technologies, Inc.,
a joint venture with Schaevitz Engineering, which was then purchased by
Lucas Instruments.
January 1979 -
Kulicke and Soffa Industries,
November 1984
(1982-1984) Assistant Group Leader
Group Leader for
15 Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, and Technicians.
Developed the system level hardware and software design of
multi-microprocessor electronic controls for a high-speed integrated
circuit die bonder.
Designed all digital electronics to component level.
(1980-1982) Associate Electrical Engineer
Designed a family
of microprocessor, memory, and I/O cards used for control of
integrated circuit wire bonders.
Developed a control system for a high-speed wire bonder using
these cards. Supervised
technicians and student co-op engineers.
(1979-1980) Electronics Technician
Optimized the
hardware design of temperature control equipment used in
semiconductor manufacturing.
Wrote assembly language routines to control a high speed I.C.
wire bonder.
FCC First Class Radiotelephone license.
(1974)
Amateur Radio Extra Class license.
(1975)
Graduate of and Graduate Assistant for The Dale Carnegie Course in Human Relations.
Drew W. Vonada-Smith
5235 NE Kincaid Road
Topeka, KS 66617
(785) 286-3793 home
(913) 940-2616 cell
drew@whisperingwoods.org