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Product Engineer

Passionate and dedicated researcher committed to delivering technologically perfected products. 

Areas of Interest:
- Analog Electronics: Design, Debug, Assembly, Rework, Test, PCB, Simulation
- Overseas Product Manufacturing
- Lighting and Color Science: LED, Phosphor, CIE, Ballast Engineering
- Optoelectric Sensors: Readout Electronics, Data Acquisition, Device Physics


Technical Skills:

- Competencies: Electronics, Statistics, Materials & Solid-State Physics, Mathematics, Quantum Processes, Thermodynamics, Computation, General Machining

- Manufacturing: Overseas Factory Management, PCB, Vacuum Tube, Semiconductor Device, LED

- Computing: Numerical, Database, AutoCAD, MATLAB, 3D CAD, FEA, Coding (C/C++, extendable), PC Unix Mac

- Electronics: Analog Design, Cadence, SPICE, Eagle PCB layout, Microcontroller / Embedded, Soldering, Debugging, Assembly, Signal Readout and DAQ

- Color Science: Luminescent Materials, CIE system, Additive Mixing, Coordinate Transformations

- Laboratory: General Safety Technique, Equipment Operation & Instrumentation, High-Voltage, Cleanroom, Laser, Cryogenics, Oscilloscope, Radiation

- Communication - Office Suite, LaTeX, English Native, Spanish / French Intermediate, German / Italian Basic

- General: Independent Worker as well as Team Player, Quick Learner, Problem Solver, Passionate about Product Realization

Working with a small team of engineers in designing, prototyping, optimizing, and manufacturing of an energy efficient, vacuum-tube (CRT) light bulb for the residential market.

- Shipped first order (~1000pcs) to client, February 2015.
- Select / assemble / test / document electronic components for ballast circuit.
- Document procedures and travel to Chinese manufacturing facilities to oversee implementation
- Diagnosed a failure mode in high-voltage multiplier electronics, proposed superior design. 
- Optimized a graphite application procedure to prevent electric arcing in the vacuum tube product
- Corrected colored phosphor mix ratio to ensure the bulb color was luminous and white. Calculated theoretical mixes, ran trials, analyzed results, and optimized the final blend for production
- Calculate radiation rates, verify experimentally, cross check versus FDA approved guidelines

Find out detailed information about Colin Parker, Product Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Colin Parker: Product Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Colin Parker

Vu1 Corporation

University of California, Santa Cruz