Rafael — Project Engineering Manager

Yeasrs of exprinece with Allen Bradley controllers and Rockwelll Automation software

Program multiple automation project with TIA Portal, servo system, Safety PLC, HMI and PLC programming.

Develop automation project for a high speed packging applications using Mistbishi servo drives, PLC and HMI

Integrate a flex picker robot into a packging system using ABB Pickmaster software.

Cranford, New Jersey Provide engineering design services to companies, offer expertise in complete system design of laboratory instruments, process instrumentation and Packaging machines.  Project management of international cross functional teams to develop four new life science products for an international company. Manage customer engineering team and 3rd party design team to provide deliverables and design documents according to specification.  Manage and develop electrical control system and software for OEM to harvest unused powder from a tablet printing machine. Develop URS, HDS and SDS for packaging lines and packaging machinery. Specify requirements for facility services and utilities.  Manage and develop electrical control system and software for high end Machinery with robotics and vision systems. Develop URS, HDS and SDS for packaging lines and packaging machinery.  Design control system and programming for Process control systems.

New Brunswick Scientific, Edison, New Jersey Supervise 7 direct reports in the US and in the UK, provide technical direction and leadership for over 25 new product development projects for the Bioprocess industry and lab instrumentation. Introducing new technology to the NBS product line such as embedded PCs, touch screen interfaces, distributed controls and ARM microprocessor to create a new generation of lab instruments and Bioprocess controllers, which led to company growth and increase of revenues and from $60M to $100M.  Led a multi-functional international project team, to develop hardware and firmware for the next generation controllers, which reduced the product hardware cost by 35%.  Create departmental structure to provide job description, definitions, trainings and growth path for employees as part of increasing the talent pool in the company.  Created a CE and ETL certification program for all NBS products. This unique program allowed certified employees to perform in-house CE and ETL safety testing which decreases the safety testing time, allowed flexibility in project schedule and minimizes safety design issues.  Electrical and Software project management lead.  Program and develop Windows XP embedded image for Advantech single board computer which was utilized as a controller for NBS Bioprocess reactors.  Program, develop and support PLC programs on AB Compact Logix controller for large SIP Fermentors and Bioreactors.  Develop unique PID control algorithm for NBS Bioprocess product to improve system performance.

Princeton, New Jersey Led software and electrical design activities to control and process an optical instrument to image micro array plates for a single nucleotide polymorphisms detection system. Manage software engineers, consultants, vendors and contractors, interface with Service engineers to create service procedures and manuals.  Design electrical system to operate and control an imaging instrument, utilizing an embedded PC with PC104 buss to control a CCD camera, lasers, stepper motors, digital and analog I/O.  Manage and conduct products safety and performance testing at a certified CE and UL/ETL regulatory testing laboratory.  Design, develop and program software to control and operate an optical imaging instrument on Windows Embedded NT platform utilizing Visual Basic, and Visual C++.  Design, develop and program Graphical User Interface and software tool to view and analyze images.  Develop Graphical User Interface and software drivers to integrate a Plate handling robot to the Imaging instrument to provide a high throughput turnkey system.  Design and develop electrical system, software and Graphical User Interface to control various custom instruments using Visual Basic, Lab-View and Programmable Logic Controllers.

Springfield, New Jersey Led an engineering team with 6 direct reports to develop lab automation products for the drug discovery industry. Ultimately transition the company from a custom robot system integrator to a manufacturer of standard robot system and contributing to the company revenues $1M to $6M and from 4 to 25 employees.  Manage and lead an engineering team, which developed lab automation products, a three-axis robot, labeling and plate dispensing systems.  Develop software modules to control various robotics instruments, using C language and Visual Basic to operate and control robots and other automation products.  Design Electrical hardware, communication and system architecture.  Develop drivers to control various lab instruments such as: optical readers, liquid handling systems.  Manage and supported, products testing at a certified CE and UL regulatory testing laboratory.  Created quality control procedures to assure performance and product reliability.  Design custom Robot systems for Major Pharmaceutical companies in the drug discovery field.  Develop system architecture and controls to integrate various robotic equipment and instruments.

Somerville, New Jersey Design control systems for packaging lines and custom packaging machinery for the pharmaceutical industry. Manage project schedule, budget and develop URS, FRS and DDS and system manuals.  PLC programming of Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs.  Designed and programmed HMI using WonderWare.  Integration of Vision systems and Motion control.  Develop control system architecture and electrical drawings.

Carlstadt, New Jersey Design Control Systems for material handling systems, perform on site startups and customer training.  Allen Bradley PLC5 and SLC500 programming.  Design Control architecture and drawings.  Program user interface using 'C' and QNX operating system.  System startup, troubleshooting and training