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Socrates Abreu

Lancaster,PA

Summary

Skilled Electrical Engineer ready to support operations from conception through post-release support. Skilled handling a wide variety of electrical and software projects and upgrades that support and improve the production equipment / area. Great with supporting maintenance with electrical / controls downtime in the plant. Experience with preparing plans for projects, oversee, and provide updates on progress, lead the install of projects, and work through issues that arise during the projects. Exceptional communication skills and team player.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Specialist of Power and Electronics

Johnson Controls
New Freedom, PA
07.2022 - Current
  • HVAC systems and controls service industry
  • Power conversion circuits (1 kWatt+) and various system topologies such as single-phase/three-phase bridge, half-bridge/full bridge, buck and boost.
  • High power components including IGBT's, MOSFETs, electrolytic/film capacitor and thermal management products.
  • Three phase power from 389V to 600V.
  • Troubleshooting electronic circuits
  • solving EMC
  • VFD’s
  • power circuit analysis, such as worst-case circuit analysis, failure method effectivity and criticality, and reliability.
  • hands-on experience with lab instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, electronic loads, and signal generators.
  • PCB layout for power circuits.
  • Electronic circuit design including simulation and worst-case circuit analysis (WCCA)
  • Write hardware-software interface requirements.
  • Use measurement and test equipment’s
  • Write technical test plans and test specifications.
  • Selects materials and components needed for completion of designs, fabrications, and repairs.
  • Provides technical assistance, instruction, and consultation for the resolution of problems.
  • Reads, interprets, and uses blueprints and schematics, instructions, manuals, or shop drawings to understand specifications of work.
  • Assists with training and provides technical guidance to others.
  • Advises on product design.
  • Recommends modifications and determines feasibility.
  • Performs maintenance and repair on malfunctioning equipment to include modification, replacement of parts, adjustment, and calibration.

Deployment Software Engineer

Berkshire Grey INC
Edison, NJ
12.2021 - 07.2022
  • Work as part of a team to develop software solutions for automated material-handling workflows and robotic manipulation systems
  • Troubleshoot, install and modify conveyor systems.
  • Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
  • Investigates problem areas.
  • Installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
  • Knowledgeable and experience with tool such as ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana,Jira)
  • Troubleshoot network issue
  • Troubleshoot Robotic Operating system (ROS).
  • Able to troubleshoot AD, LDAP, SSL, Remote access, VPN, DNS issue.
  • Troubleshoot HMI (Human Machine Interface) issues.
  • Lead selection, prototyping, and initial design of new sensing options (e.g., barcode scanners, beam-breaks, pressure sensors, force sensors, etc.)
  • Troubleshoot early-stage and early-production design and functionality problems
  • Performance test for updated systems.
  • Analyzed solutions and coding fixes for software problems.
  • Scheduled ongoing performance quality assurance checks for software applications and automated performance test scripts.
  • Recommended enhancements and updates to system software based on performance data and user feedback.
  • Perform SQA testing.
  • Reviewed and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability.

Automation System Technician (Internship)

Berry Global Plastics
Monroe Township, NJ
05.2021 - 12.2021
  • Sets up equipment for robot automation packing.
  • Troubleshoot, install and modify conveyor systems.
  • Set up and maintain leak detectors and vision systems.
  • Performs PM's on robots, leak detectors and vision systems.
  • Sets up a new robot application for automated packaging.
  • Troubleshoots in-process automation application issues.
  • Supports and adheres to all BERRY safety policies (lock-out tag out, etc.).
  • Follows and supports all BERRY GMP's.
  • Repairs automation equipment as necessary.
  • Performs general maintenance on downstream (conveyors), automation equipment (robots, leak detectors and vision systems).
  • Recommends case counts and packaging sizing to allow effectiveness of automated packaging systems.
  • Modifies software and programs as necessary for automated systems.
  • Setup, troubleshoot and debug new automation applications.
  • Perform set-up on automation equipment.
  • Maintains in-house expertise on automation issues.
  • Provide secondary support to the Maintenance department on specific tasks.
  • Works closely with vendors on specific projects that involve equipment installations, troubleshooting, part availability, etc.
  • Conduct the proper training of new and existing personnel throughout the operation on automation equipment.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

DeVry University
Iselin, NJ
03-2021

Certification - Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

George Brown College
Toronto, Canada

Skills

  • Integration of automation peripherals: labelers, checkweighers, barcode readers, vision cameras,
  • Electrical schematics interpretation and supervision of electrical tasks
  • Documentation of equipment and project
  • Automation skills
  • Basic PLC control - Allen- Bradley
  • Ladderlogic, C, HMI, JavaScript, CSS, Java,Python
  • Highly experienced with testing Conveyor systems and installation
  • Planning and execution system installation
  • Program Vision system
  • Machine Learning
  • Software debugging and testing
  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub
  • SOFTWARE: NetBeans IDE, MATLAB, Proteus, Microsoft Visual Studio, Multisim, Quartus, TutorTims, LogixPro
  • SQL server
  • NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Full Professional

Timeline

Technical Specialist of Power and Electronics

Johnson Controls
07.2022 - Current

Deployment Software Engineer

Berkshire Grey INC
12.2021 - 07.2022

Automation System Technician (Internship)

Berry Global Plastics
05.2021 - 12.2021

Bachelor of Science -

DeVry University

Certification - Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

George Brown College
Socrates Abreu