David R. Brelsford
Allentown, PA 18103-6849
Cell 610-***-****
Home email: ad7i5d@r.postjobfree.com
Objective The acquisition of a position in product development and manufacturing or testing that will allow me to utilize my problem-solving skills, product life-cycle background and transferable technical experience to benefit my employer. Skills and Training
Lafayette College 1/2004 to 1/2024
• Consulted with customers to evaluate and the nature of the printing work to be done.
• Performed work requirements as per customer requirements within department capabilities.
• Prepare, print, and finish college printed materials on the Xerox Versant 80, 4112 and 700 Digital Presses, Xante Illumia printer, Pitney Bowes Desktop mail inserters and postal meters as well as cutters, desktop laminators, GBC, Coil, and tape binders.
• Use of Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite products, EFI Fiery FreeFlow and, Xerox Makeready, to prepare materials to be printed.
• Maintained and designed department website using Wordpress editor and hand coded HTML.
• Performed user-required electro-mechanical maintenance on printing and inserting equipment where required.
Agere Systems (Formerly Lucent Microelectronics)
• Supported semiconductor products, responsible for introducing new products and maintaining existing products.
• Participated in cross-functional product design teams to facilitate product introduction and determine product manufacturability.
• Developed new products by interfacing with design, quality, management, and factory employees.
• Operated and programmed Automatic Test Equipment equipment.
• Employed statistical process control (SPC) to establish control product quality.
• Performed statistical analysis on product data with Excel, Klarity Ace, and JMP to increase return on investment (R.O.I.).
• Analyzed product test data for design verification, reliability, manufacturability and yield improvement.
• Practiced ESD control, followed ISO guidelines, actively sought continuous improvement, trained in Diversity.
• Microsoft Windows, Office Suite, UNIX/ Linux, and X-Windows literate.
• Shared duty for designing and maintaining department's internal web site.
• Familiar with most physical and electrical analysis tools. Integrated Power Designs
• Assisted in selection and requisition of lab and IT equipment domain name selection.
• NetWare 4.x Network Administrator training (40 hours) as Asst. LAN Manager
• IT worker. Set-up and maintained PC’s, and network infrastructure.
• Selected and designed and implemented hardware for twisted pair network.
• Design verification and testing of prototype switching power supplies.
• Bench Technician: cleaned, tested and reworked AC-DC and DC-DC power supply lines.
• Supported manufacturing process by sub-assembly fabrication and testing on Autotest ATE. Best Buy
• Operated PC based Point of Sale terminal as customer service.
• Sold service and replacement plans on purchased equipment.
• Trained temporary holiday help in use of Point of Sale terminal.
• Received recognition for training temporary help very well. Education
AASCS, May 2003, Lehigh-Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA Key courses: C++, Java/J2SE, HTML, DHTML, Oracle 8i, AutoCAD, and Visual Basic.NET.
BSEE, May 1993, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA ASEET, May 1989, Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke, PA Technical Skills/ Electrical Engineer and Electronic technician familiar with the following lab. Equipment equipment via various employment experiences: oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, curve tracer, four-point probe, volt, current, power, Ohmmeters and DC active load. Extensive soldering and assembly skills and knowledge of computers to from DOS to Windows 10 UNIX, and Linux.
Activities/ Interests Home and car ownership repair, computers maintenance and building, high-end home and car audio enthusiast including system design, custom audio interconnect fabrication. In college: Physics Club, Electronics Club. Employment History
• Lafayette College Easton, PA, 18042, 1/04- current. Digital Printer and Computer Operator in Print and Copy
• Best Buy Co. Whitehall, PA, 18052, 7/03- 12/04.
Operations Clerk
• Agere Systems (Formerly Lucent Technologies), Allentown PA, 7/97-8/01 Micro-electronics Product Engineer
• Integrated Power Designs, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 5/94 - 7/97 Asst. L.A.N. Manager
• FM Stereo, Kingston PA, 18704. 2/94 – 7/97
Assisted as bench technician and installer and customer relations/service.
• Burlington Coat Factory, Edwardsville, Pa. 10/87 - 5/94 Customer Relations/Service Men’s Department