Jacobo — Sr. Automotive Electronics & Controls Engineer

EXPERIENCE DEPTH:
As a qualified Sr. Automotive Electronics & Controls Engineer with over 30 years’ experience leading process improvements, I have contributed to the profitability and success of large-scale plants by implementing control system standardization. I have successfully identified and corrected process gaps in multiple manufacturing environments and have worked with Internet of Things (IoT), Automotive Electronics R&D Engineering Laboratories & Industrial Automation teams to reconfigure and install new, more efficient control systems. As well as being adept at identifying underlying issues in control systems and very complex issues found on the Electrical Architecture and CANBUS vehicle communications SAE-protocols (for cars and trucks) and remedying them, I am also skilled in the design of new systems, and I have the ability to direct complex projects from conception to completion, even those ones related to the Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS), Infotainment, HVAC, Telematics, and Safety Car's Driving Systems where the most relevant are related to the Security Crash Avoidance - Line Departure, Airbag Controls Systems (Automotive Collision Data Imaging Analysis for Cars and Heavy Duty Vehicles - Buses & Tractor Trucks). HIGHLIGHTS
 Served as lead and focal point for process and controls engineering on assigned project teams at Chrysler Assembly Plants & Regional Engineering Centers, GM Assembly Plants & Regional Engineering Centers, KHS Beverage, Food & Packaging Automated Plants, Daimler-Freightliner Assembly Plants & Regional Engineering Centers, and Bombardier Marine Propulsion Systems to mention few of them.
 Provided system implementation, troubleshooting, and integration support for large control systems at a manufacturing plant and R&D Electrical Automotive Laboratory Tests (ISO-IEC 17025, A2LA-NIST traceability).
 Streamlined testing processes and reduced the efforts of defect maintenance by 85%.
 Experience in R&D of SCADA systems to apply them in:
o The automotive industry to collect and analyze data coming from: (Powertrain Cold Start Testing – HVAC Testing (Coolant Systems) – Air Braking Systems for Tractor Trucks to test the braking performance in normal situations, traffic situations and emergency braking situations (wet floor, dry floor, dusty-gravel floor, snow and icy floor), data collection of the airbag non deployment and deployment systems for cars and trucks, electrical charging car systems and ignition systems, ADAS systems, and telematics systems using the GPS modularity and adding as well the use of Kalman Filters for the purposes of gyroscopes to measure the tilt, orientation (x, y, z - pitch, roll, yaw) when doing deceleration testing over tractor trucks and cars to assure the good behavior of the electronic stability control system for ABS, FFT analysis and modal analysis to measure the potential risk of stress and strain effects (failures - ruptures) over the mobile dynamics systems in the chassis, engine compartments, and passengers compartment, squeak and rattle testing to measure potential effects of creating an uncomfortable ambient inside the passengers compartment in order to avoid dangerous risks for drowsiness and headaches when a lot of background noise is created inside of the passenger compartments when driving a vehicle, pass by noise testing to measure the Sound Pressure Level of the noise created by cars and trucks to comply with the EPA (Environment Protection Agency) SPL levels of noise pollution, most of these testing and DAQ systems (implemented with National Instruments Lab View Software) were connected to the Industrial Automation (PLCs – HMI’s – sensors- industrial networking) using the CAN BUS – SAE J1939 network vehicle communications protocols to the TCP/IP Industrial Ethernet/Profinet/Modbus/Control Net/DH+/ Compaq RIO/HART Instrumentation Networking Communications Protocols interfaces using Vehicle Spy, and or Kvaser as monitoring systems for 2/7 the HEX Data Frames to detect issues when testing a vehicle in the road or in the Electronic Test Bench in the Lab.
o Vector CANoe/CANalyzer, Vehicle Spy interfaces, trained to manage and apply those platforms and interfaces to make R&D and Vehicle Diagnostics over the Vehicle Communications Network Protocols (SAE J1939, SAE-1850, and SAE-J1708, among others.
o In the bottling and beverage industry, SCADA systems that I did and applied where used to measure the amount of brix degrees (sugar for preparing the sodas beverages), the grade of purity and potability of the water, the amount of the syrup to prepare the drink, the measurement and activation/deactivation of the rinser process to clean out all the stainless steel pipe lines and the machinery involved in the production of beverages, to measure the conductivity, flow, temperature, pressure, and the pH of the water and ingredients involved in the preparation of the drink (beverages), the power energy consumption, the emergency stop events, the start of the production when a shift is changed, the working hours of the machinery, the vibration of the production machinery when working for long time to prevent a maintenance program over this infrastructure, and many more.