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Strategy | Leadership | Product Dev | Impact

About

I build and ship products. Modes of Operation: 1. Keep customers prioritized at all times. 2. Lead and execute to create bottom line impact. Customer: Hey, can we do this? Me: Yes! It begins from a conversation like this - turn ideas and concepts into innovative, profitable and sustainable products or services and provide end-to-end technical leadership and business management operations. Over 15 years of diverse experience in new product development in the field of biotechnology, oil and gas, industrial and consumer electronics. With customer focused engineering and data driven decision making, lead the team to ‘get it done'.

Location

Houston

Work experience

Senior Engineer at VICI, Feb 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos, Houston, Texas Area, Lead strategic product development of gas and liquid chromatography instruments. Execute using principles of multi disciplinary engineering and technology domains to realize high performance products that resolve customer challenges and are sustainable, profitable and scalable. Champion recent M&A, on-boarding of personnel and launch new product, the Ion Mobility Spectrometer expanding VICI's diverse offerings for Trace Gas Analyzer (TGA) business unit. Initiate and implement a master plan to handle the supply chain and logistics for variety of components for NPI and high volume products serving customers worldwide. Lead cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Production, Engineering and external partners to meet the surge in customer demand. VICI's analytical products cater to a wide variety of customers worldwide from semiconductors, industrial, biotechnology and oil & gas sectors to overcome novel challenges with precision and reliability. If you are facing an analytical challenge in your lab, please reach out: https://www.vici.com/contact/contact_sales.php Product Portfolio: - Highly acclaimed product design in gas chromatography industry, the 3rd generation Thermal Conductivity Detector – TCD senses 1 ppm concentration of gases with full digital remote control, extreme 10 m°C temperature stability and high sensitivity. - Company’s best revenue generator, the Reduction Gas Detector – RGD for sub-ppb level measurement of reducing gases like hydrogen and CO. Designed, quoted and delivered in record 5-months. - Ultra-low noise Flame Ionization Detector – FID with integrated low leakage high-voltage bias circuit achieves 75 femto-ampere current measurements. This state of the art performance can analyze hydrocarbons down to 1 ppb level. - Custom designed Flame Photometric Detector – FPD for high volume and quick turn-around incorporating a programmable photo-multiplier tube power supply and target customer sensitivity for analyzing phosphorous compounds.

Analog Engineer at Gyrodata, Aug 2010 - Jan 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Greater Houston, - Lead the down-hole tool data acquisition system design for high temperature and harsh environment. The new system with major improvement can handle higher temperature, provide higher reliability, capable of processing more data, more power efficient and more accurate. - Delegate tasks to other members of the team and provide solutions and guidance to all the engineering problems related to the project from hardware to firmware and PC based software. - Implementation of ultra stable low drift, low hysteresis voltage reference for A/D converter and calibration scheme for improving system accuracy. - Multi-layer PCB Design conforming to Down-hole Tool standards. - Extensive high temperature testing and characterization of all active and passive components. - Research and evaluate new sensors to upgrade technology used in company's broad range of products.

Circuit Designer - Analog at Vertex Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2009 - May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, - Analog front-end design for temperature and vibration sensors including low pass filter design, programmable op amps, A/D converter along with noise reduction and over-voltage protection features. - Instrumentation amplifier design for strain gauge to measure the pressure on a linear 0-10 V scale with zero and span adjustment circuits. - Temperature switch to detect a set threshold and controlling the power to AC loads using TRIACS, optocouplers and digital logic along with 0-10 V linear analog output for PLCs. - Power supply design using Switch Mode Power Supplies, DC-DC converters and battery charger systems. - Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control algorithm.

Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Texas at Arlington, Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Course: Circuit Analysis - Department of Electrical Engineering, Sophomore Level - Help undergraduate students understand electronic circuit design concepts, grade exams and take review and fill-in lectures.

Design and Development Engineer at Core Research, Nov 2005 - Nov 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Vadodara Area, - Manufacturing manager with supervision of 4 technicians and responsible for efficient and timely delivery of consumer electronics product. - Circuit design - analog/digital using 80C51, ARM7 micro-controllers, CMOS image sensor, ADC and DAC design and circuit trouble-shooting. - Proof of concept, component sourcing, product development, hardware testing and CE certification of new engineering initiatives.

Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Bahelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication, Sardar Patel University