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PATRICK K. REES

8054 Chestnut Barr Dr.

CONVERSE, tx 78109

(936) 827-8450 or (936) 827-8424

Professional overview

Electrical Engineer with a Master of Business Administration offering a unique combination of personnel management, engineering experience with P&L responsibility.

Experienced in all levels of design, development and maintenance of electrical systems including avionics, electronic hardware, and control systems software.

Proven project manager with expertise in building and motivating teams, developing and implementing project plans, communicating verbally and in writing, and providing leadership through goal definition and achievement.

Proven development and debug ability, resulting in timely project completion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fountain People Inc., San marcos, TX2008-2009

Electrical Engineering Manager

Manage a team of Electrical Engineers that design electrical control systems for architectural fountains, water play areas and advanced entertainment park displays.

  • Managed an Electrical Engineering Department.
  • Work with UL and ETL testers and inspectors to acquire and maintain product listings.
  • Develop procedures and practices to make department more efficient.
  • Write and direct production of interactive fountain and lighting shows in DMX.
  • Produce electrical drawing packages in AutoCad for fountain control systems.
  • Design controls using 480 and 208 three phase and 240 and 120 single phase power.

Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Houston, TX2004-2008

Electrical Engineering, Project Lead Sr. Electrical Engineer

Lead a team that designed, developed and maintained various electrical systems in a modern forge plant.

Principal engineering duties are controls design and development.

  • Managed a project team of three people that developed new hardware and software with a budget of $400,000.
  • Developed and directed the installation of new controls hardware and software for two major press complexes, and two robotic manipulators using RMX and QNX RTOS(s).
  • Committee member and active in OSHA’s VPP Safety program.
  • Training two engineers in C programming and press controls theory and development.
  • Wrote load-stroke analysis software in Visual Basic.
  • 24 / 7 support of press complexes that are essential to a $500 M / annual facility.

Continental Airlines, Houston, TX2001-2004

Avionics Engineering, Electrical Engineer

Designed, installed, certified and instructed maintenance personnel in the proper maintenance of various avionics systems on board Boeing 777, 767, 757, 737 and MD80 aircraft. Principal engineering duties are on ACARS, SELCAL and AIMS communications function (777).

  • Program management, project scheduling, contract negotiation and STC coordination and completion.
  • Wrote maintenance directives, produced wiring diagrams, wrote and updated maintenance manuals and trained and supported maintenance personnel.

Compaq Computer Corporation,Houston, TX2000-2001

Electrical HW Design Engineer II

Performed platform development which included schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation, circuit design, vendor component selection and validation, signal integrity, test plan development, platform prototyping, rework, performance analysis, costs analysis and test personnel training and support.

  • Designed computer motherboards using Intel x86 processors and chipsets.
  • Proficient with PCI, AGP, DDR and Ranbus memory protocols.
  • Developed all daughter boards for a low-end computer that met requirements for the system and maintained a cost-effective solution.
  • Debugged critical systems late in design cycle of a Professional Workstation, allowing time-to-market launch of product and release of initial part of $35,000,000 order to major customer.

DSC Communications, Inc., Plano, TX1997

Student/Coop

Responsible for testing of all new products for feasibility of manufacture using TQM principles.

  • Oversaw all new product builds to enable timely development of all new products.

Motorola, Libertyville, IL Electronics Technician II1994-1995

US Navy, Pensacola, FL Electronics Technician 2 (E-5)1990-1994

Restaurant ManagementTraining Manager 1987-1990

EDUCATION

Texas A&M System - PrairieViewA&MUniversity, Prairie View, TX

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Overall GPA 3.9.2006

TexasA&MUniversity, College Station, TX1999

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Emphasis in Controls, Communications, and Microelectronics, Overall GPA 3.3/4.0; Major GPA 3.5

U.S.NavyElectronicsTechnicianSchool, Great Lakes, IL1991

Electronics Technician, Finished 3rd out of 63, NEC 1403, High power HF transmitters.

Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, LA1986

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration/Marketing, Major GPA 3.3