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Eduardo Coronado Mendoza

Summary

Talented Senior Automation Controls Engineer highly effective at translating vision into reality. Knowledgeable about materials, construction techniques and timeline management. Decisive and persuasive leader with exceptional creativity and technical knowledge.


Hardworking versed in PLC / HMI / Robotics / Vision / Industrial communications protocols / Data acquisition. Produces designs quickly and incorporates feedback on demand. Successful at generating detailed, accurate designs.


Talents include project, team and schedule management, strong communication skills ande ability to adjust work for various environments. Handles modifications, requests and feedback from colleagues, clients and vendors in efficient manner, understanding needs of all parties involved. Flexible in adapting work style to fit different projects and juggling multiple assignments within tight deadlines.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager / Electrical Sr. Engineer Designer

Strata Robotics
01.2023 - Current
  • Manage project budgets and timelines for completion
  • Track project progress and creating related reports
  • Hire and train engineering staff
  • Communicating project needs and metrics to other managers and teams
  • Help staff run tests and troubleshoot issues with projects
  • Manage and delegate tasks to engineering teams
  • Systems controls design development based on product specs and mechanical concepts
  • Vendors development, for new technologies to be used in new systems
  • Work closely with mechanical designers for systems development
  • Controls design depending on project specs
  • Control components selection
  • Electrical schematics design/creation
  • PLC, HMI, IPC controls programs creation/development
  • Robot applications design and programming
  • Systems Installation at customers' facilities
  • New devices setup, and programming.

Electrical Sr. Engineer Designer

Bright Machines
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Systems controls design development based on product specs and mechanical concepts
  • New projects concepts/design development/implementation
  • Vendors development, for new technologies to be used in new systems
  • Work closely with mechanical designers for systems development
  • Controls design for Base BRC modification/addition depending on project specs
  • Control components selection
  • Robot applications design and programming
  • Safety risk analysis for BRC applications
  • Electrical schematics design/creation
  • Help integration team during assembly, debugging and systems startup
  • Systems Installation at customers' facilities
  • New devices setup, and programming.

Automation Controls/Programming Sr. Designer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2010 - 01.2020
  • New projects concepts/design development/implementation
  • Projects budget management and timeline management
  • New projects quoting
  • Vendors development for new technologies to be used in new systems
  • Customer contact to effectively communicate the systems requirements to the development team
  • Interaction with mechanical designers for systems development
  • Systems controls design development based on product specs and mechanical concept
  • Test systems design development based on product spec and system requirements
  • Software design development based on customer requirement & system concept
  • Electrical schematics design/creation
  • PC based control design/programming/implementation
  • PLC based control design/programming/implementation
  • Robot cell Integration/programming with system controls
  • HMI design/programming/implementation
  • Motion control design/programming/implementation
  • Vision systems design/programming/implementation
  • Safety risk analysis for robotic cells
  • Systems documentation, user manual, machine operations manual, maintenance manual design/creation
  • Systems Installation at customers' facilities
  • Customer support via phone or on site.

Automation Controls/Programming Designer Engineer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2006 - 01.2010
  • Systems controls design based on mechanical concepts
  • Software design based on customer requirement & system concept
  • Electrical schematics design/creation
  • PC based control design/implementation
  • PLC based control design/implementation
  • Robot cell Integration/programming with system controls
  • HMI design/implementation/programming
  • Motion control design/implementation/programming
  • Vision Inspection design Implementation/programming
  • Safety risk analysis for robotic cells
  • Systems documentation, user manual, machine operations manual, maintenance manual
  • Systems Installation at customers' facilities
  • Customer support via phone or on site.

Field Service Engineer / Automation Design Programmer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2002 - 01.2006
  • Solve machine problems at customer facilities
  • Production machines / lines installation / start up support
  • Phone support to customers
  • Software maintenance / changes on existing machines / systems
  • Electrical / Electronic design on new machines
  • Software design / programming for new machines
  • Communicate customer's new requirements to the design team
  • New customers / projects development.

Test Systems Engineer / Field Service Engineer

Softest Designs Corp.
01.1998 - 01.2002
  • Field service engineering work
  • Develop Test programs for new test systems
  • Design electronics circuits for new test systems
  • Develop standard program routines to be used in other projects
  • Develop standard electronic circuits to be used in other projects
  • Generate user manuals for the new test systems.

Field Service Engineer

Softest Designs Corp.
01.1997 - 01.1998
  • Solve test systems problems at customer facilities
  • New test systems Installation
  • Phone support to customers
  • Communicate customer's new requirements to the design team
  • Training customers to use and maintain the new and existing systems
  • Implement software and hardware changes required in the test systems
  • Improve test systems by changing the test program, electronic circuits or mechanical parts.

Automated Test Equipment Engineer Sr.

Nokia Reynosa
01.1996 - 01.1997
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance to the test systems used to test batteries and cellular phones
  • Modify test programs to improve test efficiency up to 99%
  • Test equipment technician management
  • Phone and battery label printing control.

Automated Test Equipment and Maintenance Engineer

ITT Automotive (Valeo)
01.1995 - 01.1996
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance to the test systems used to test all the ignition car switches, multi-function switches, and all the products made in the plant
  • Startup of new production lines
  • Test equipment personnel management
  • Purchase order generation and control for spare parts
  • Maintain all the assembly machines that use PLC
  • Give support to the production line supervisors, about the testers and assembly machines
  • Preventive maintenance planning and scheduling, to avoid corrective maintenance in all the test systems and assembly machines
  • Design new test systems or modify existing ones (software and hardware), to accommodate new product, or products modifications
  • Develop of calibration procedures, and operation instructions used in the test systems and assembly machines.

Process and Automated Test Equipment Engineer Sr.

Delnosa (Delco Electronics)
01.1993 - 01.1995
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance to the test systems, robots, and machines used to assemble the J-CAR gauge cluster
  • Preventive maintenance planning and scheduling, to avoid corrective maintenance in all the test systems and process machines
  • Software maintenance in the in-circuit tester and robots
  • Develop of new component placement programs for the pick and place machines
  • Purchase order generation and control for spare parts
  • Develop of calibration procedures, and operation instructions used in the test systems and process machines.

Systems and Maintenance Manager

DICCSA S.C.
01.1992 - 01.1993
  • NetWare Novel server administrator
  • Custom based, database application programs development
  • Training courses developing, and class teaching
  • Configuration and general maintenance to PC's, printers, modems, networks, and all kinds of electronic equipment.

Automated Test Equipment Sr. Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1990 - 01.1992
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance to the test systems used to test and adjust the intermediate frequency (IF) section, video output alignment, stereo alignment, high voltage test and channel selector verification, in the TV set board
  • Design electronic reference cards and software routines to implement the auto diagnostics feature in the test systems
  • Test equipment personnel management
  • Test equipment personnel training on new test systems concepts and new technologies
  • Develop new automated test systems
  • Change test programs to improve test systems efficiency up to 99%
  • Help test equipment designers in Chicago, to find bugs in the test program written by them.

Automated Test Equipment Jr. Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1989 - 01.1990
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance to the test systems used to test and adjust the intermediate frequency (IF) section, video output alignment, stereo alignment, high voltage test and channel selector verification, in the TV set board
  • Change test programs to improve test systems efficiency up to 99%
  • PC's repair and maintenance
  • Develop auto diagnostics routines to check test systems performance
  • Develop statistics about test systems failures and product failures.

Electronic Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1988 - 01.1989
  • Develop the electronic test process to be used in the TV sets in the final assembly line
  • Operator movement and timing analysis
  • Help industrial engineers to develop the assembly process charts.

Education

Master in Electronics (Not finished) -

Texas A & I University
Kingsville, TX
12.1992

Ingenieria en Comunicaciones y Electronica -

Universidad de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jal.
12.1988

Skills

  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Field Operations
  • Resourceful nature
  • Project Management

General Hardware Experience

  • Personal computers (Industrial and Desktops).
  • PLCs - Allen Bradley, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, Automation Direct (Koyo), Beckhoff, IDEC, Unitronics, Festo, Toyopuc, Turck, etc.
  • National Instruments Industrial Controllers.
  • HMIs - Allen Bradley, Siemens, Crimson, C-More, Maple Systems, etc.
  • Robots - ABB Robots, Universal Robots (URx), Fanuc Robots, Denso Robots, Kawasaki Robots, Nachi Robots, Adept Robots, Yaskawa Robots, Omron, XYZ Cartesian Robots.
  • Vision Systems - Cognex, National Instruments, Keyence, Matrox, Banner Engineering, SICK, Omron.
  • Rockwell / Allen Bradley, Kollmorgen, Galill, etc. Motion controllers.
  • Safety controllers, Safety laser scanners, Safety light curtains, Safety Door access/interlocks.
  • Discrete electronics devices (Digital ICs, Analog ICs, TTL, CMOS, transistor, etc).
  • Data acquisition (DAQ, DAC, ADC).
  • Intel and Motorola micro controllers 8748, 8751, 68HC11.
  • Raspberry and Arduino micro controllers.
  • 3D and 2D Scanners.
  • LED vision systems illumination.
  • Laboratory and measurement instruments (DMM, oscilloscopes, function generators, RF generators, curve tracers, etc).
  • Operational amplifiers.
  • Servomotors, servomotor controllers, stepper motors, stepper motor controllers, encoders, DC motors, AC motors (single phase, three phase), VFD's, Air motors, etc.
  • Vision technology (Vision sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, color sensors, lenses, lighting systems, etc).
  • PID controllers, thermometers, etc.
  • Sensing technology, inductive, capacitive, strain gauge, laser, ultrasonic, optical, flow, pressure, level, temperature, force, torque, speed, weight, etc.
  • Networking and communications technology (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Profibus, DeviceNet, EtherCAT, MQTT, CC-Link, Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, RS485, RS232, GPIB, Ethernet, CAN, I2, J1850, etc).

General Software Experience

  • National Instruments Labview.
  • PLC programming, Ladder Diagram (LD), Structured Text (ST), Sequential Function Chart (SFC), Function Block Diagram (FBD).
  • Robots Programming (ABB, UR, Yaskawa, Kawasaki, Fanuc, Denso, Adept, etc.)
  • Studio 5000 Programming Software.
  • RS Logix 500 Programming Software.
  • Factory Talk View ME.
  • Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 Programming Software.
  • Codesys Programming Software.
  • Siemens TIA Portal.
  • Automation Direct PLC / HMI programming Environments (Productivity, C-More, Koyo PLCs)
  • Toyopuc Programming Software.
  • Mitsubishi GX programming Software.
  • Keyence Vision Systems Programming Software.
  • Keyence Safety Controllers Programming Software.
  • Cognex Vision Systems Programming Software.
  • Servo motors programming software (Kollmorgen, Allen Bradley, Applied motion, Beckhoff, etc.).
  • RED Lion HMI, Crimson, etc.
  • National Instruments Vision Builder.
  • C and C++ Language.
  • Visual Basic.
  • AutoCAD.
  • AutoCAD Electrical.
  • Raspberry and Arduino programming.
  • Delphi.
  • Turbo Pascal.
  • Quick basic.
  • Assembler.
  • Solid Works.
  • P-CAD.
  • OrCAD.
  • Entivity Studio.
  • Think & Do Software.
  • HP Basic.
  • Clipper.
  • Windows.
  • Linux.
  • MS DOS.
  • UNIX.
  • MS Office.
  • MS Access.
  • Dbase III, IV.

Special Courses

  • ABB IRC5 Robot Controller Advanced rapid programming.
  • Yaskawa YRC1000 Robot Controller Material Handling.
  • Universal Robots Advanced Programming.
  • Universal Robots Certified System Integrator.
  • National Instruments Labview Advanced Programming.
  • Certified Labview Associate Developer (CLAD).
  • Database Systems Development / Programming.
  • Keyence XG Vision System.
  • Cognex Vision Systems Advanced Training.
  • Turbo Pascal and C Language Programming.
  • CRT alignment for TV and computer monitors.
  • HP VXI equipment use.
  • SMD SIEMENS machines 80S, 80F operation, maintenance and calibration.
  • Universal radial machine III user programming and maintenance.
  • HP370 production maintenance, problems solving.
  • HP370 system, test developing.
  • ADEPT V/V+ Programming I for adept robots.
  • ADEPT I robot maintenance.
  • STEPS (Statistical Techniques Problems Solving).
  • Get it all done (organization).
  • QS9000 Quality System.
  • Entivity Studio
  • DVT Machine Vision.

Timeline

Engineering Manager / Electrical Sr. Engineer Designer

Strata Robotics
01.2023 - Current

Electrical Sr. Engineer Designer

Bright Machines
01.2020 - 01.2023

Automation Controls/Programming Sr. Designer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2010 - 01.2020

Automation Controls/Programming Designer Engineer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2006 - 01.2010

Field Service Engineer / Automation Design Programmer

ITM Partners Ltd.
01.2002 - 01.2006

Test Systems Engineer / Field Service Engineer

Softest Designs Corp.
01.1998 - 01.2002

Field Service Engineer

Softest Designs Corp.
01.1997 - 01.1998

Automated Test Equipment Engineer Sr.

Nokia Reynosa
01.1996 - 01.1997

Automated Test Equipment and Maintenance Engineer

ITT Automotive (Valeo)
01.1995 - 01.1996

Process and Automated Test Equipment Engineer Sr.

Delnosa (Delco Electronics)
01.1993 - 01.1995

Systems and Maintenance Manager

DICCSA S.C.
01.1992 - 01.1993

Automated Test Equipment Sr. Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1990 - 01.1992

Automated Test Equipment Jr. Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1989 - 01.1990

Electronic Engineer

Zenith (Partes de Television de Reynosa)
01.1988 - 01.1989

Master in Electronics (Not finished) -

Texas A & I University

Ingenieria en Comunicaciones y Electronica -

Universidad de Guadalajara
Eduardo Coronado Mendoza