Serhane Satout

Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Astronautics Corporation of America

07.2019 - Current

Track and Implement Requirements: Designed and conceptualized customer requirements into comprehensive hardware designs, ensuring alignment with project specifications and industry standards
Identified and implemented internal and external requirements for critical components
Reviewed Lessons Learned from previous models to improve design processes
Collaborated closely with project leaders to mitigate risks in hardware testing and verification phases
Deliver High-Quality Design on Time: Led development verification activities, including prototype testing with oscilloscopes, programmable electronic loads, logic analyzers, and climatic chambers
Coordinated design and release documentation to SW and Mechanical engineering teams, including HITS (Hardware Internal Technical Specifications) and PCB design guidelines
Managed End of Line (EoL) specification documentation updates and release validation plans for EMC, DV/PV test plans
Used HALT/HASS to verify the thermal performance of CCAs (Circuit Card Assemblies), ensuring systems met rigorous environmental requirements
Deliver Accurate and Robust Design: Ensured schematics followed project planning milestones and passed DRC (Design Rule Check)
Conducted in-depth critical circuit analysis using tools like LTSpice, LTPowerCAD, Power Analysis by Keysight, Ansys ICEPACK, and performed Montecarlo and sensitivity analysis
Executed, reviewed, and approved WCCA (Worst Case Circuit Analysis) using MathCAD, and carried out DFMEA with tools like IQ-FMEA
Executed Variant Consistency Analysis in alignment with customer specifications.