GENERAL RESUME - ALFRED OLIVER FINGULIN 28555 - 810th Avenue / Hollandale, Minnesota 56045 507.402.3153 / fingula@FinguSite.com / www.FinguSite.com/resume Decided to change and downsize my career (former software/electronics engineer). Seeking a position in manufacturing, quality assurance, or technical documentation. HIGHLIGHTS Veteran of the utility metering (gas, water), cellular, automotive, and defense industries; the rare engineer who's actually worked customer service and retail. o Shepherded over ten projects from planning to production. o Persistent and committed, refusing to bury tough bugs. o Plan and execute to plan; always ready to demonstrate something. o Know the big picture and bird-dog details (I expect feedback). o End up being the "go-to" person for many product questions. EXPERIENCE Process Technician (temporary); February 2012 - Present, and October 2011 - November 2011 Calamp 1401 North Rice Avenue / Oxnard, California 93030 805.987.9000 / www.calamp.com/products/private-wide-area-networks at now-closed facility: 299 Johnson Avenue, Suite 110 / Waseca, Minnesota 56093 507.833.8819 Acted as electronics technician, manufacturing engineer, and quality engineer. o As technician - tune and test production line output - troubleshoot and repair failures o As manufacturing engineer - developed troubleshooting guides for use by repair technicians - identified manufacturing defects from a subcontractor - improvements helped reduce fall-out/rework o As quality engineer - cataloged over 300 failing items - identified fault trends Inventory Control Associate; September 2010 - June 2011 Wal-Mart #1020 1550 Blake Avenue / Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007 507.377.2998 / www.walmart.com Something to occupy my time. o Pulled items from backroom inventory for floor stocking. o Audited inventory, both floor and backroom, for accuracy; corrected things as needed. o Did just about anything requested to keep the sales floor stocked. Customer Service, Firearm Safety Greeter, and Cashier; October 2007 - July 2010 Cabela's 3900 Cabela Drive / Owatonna, Minnesota 55060 507.451.4545 / www.cabelas.com Part-time "pocket money" job at this hunting and fishing outfitter while I worked on my house. o Handled customer product returns and exchanges; special orders; resolved complaints. o Ensured every firearm entering the store is unloaded in chamber and magazine. (If a loaded firearm gets in the store, you lose your job.) o Rang-up purchases; suggested add-on sales. o Front-door security, and theft prevention and detection. Principal Engineer (direct hire); September 2005 - August 2007 Contract Engineer (Manpower Professional); February 2003 - August 2005 Itron Post Office Box 1735 / Waseca, Minnesota 56093 507.837.4300 / www.itron.com Embedded software/firmware in automatic meter reading equipment used by water and gas utilities. o Helped organize and execute several product development projects deployed in United States, Japan, and the Middle East. o Coordinated efforts with teammates located in Washington and South Carolina. o Architected a product design and guided other engineers. o Several "crunch-mode" projects with many nights and weekends. Unpaid Political and Legislative Volunteer; September 2002 - January 2004 (self-imposed sabbatical from engineering) Name of group and references on request. Worked to elect candidates to the Minnesota legislature and make the final push to pass a controversial law. We succeeded. o Helped organize the group in 1996. o Maintained membership, snail-mail, and email alerts. o Represented the group at public events and sympathetic venues. o Staffed and trained volunteers. o Helped write, lay-out, and distribute a yearly legislative guide (sample on request) and voter's guides. o Graded legislative candidates. Senior Software Engineer; July 1994 - August 2002 ADC, Wireless Unit (now Tyco Connectivity) PO Box 1101 / Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 952.938.8080 / www.adc.com Delivered embedded software used in cell phone tower-site products and ancillary PC software. o Helped organize and execute several product development projects, coordinating with departments outside engineering. Extensively documented plans, activities, and results. o Directed the activities of several external, out-of-state contractors. o Pursued several informal user studies. Unlike previous efforts, tried to discover how the user actually troubleshoots problems and created software to support him. Ended up with a "Here's how to do it" scheme. o Designed creative software solutions to technically challenging engineering problems. These allowed tower-site equipment to stay on-the-air in the face of faults. Contract Engineer; July 1992 - June 1994 Computer Aid, Inc. (now out of business) / Fridley, Minnesota o Maintained and enhanced existing software products for a primary developer. o Reverse engineered electronic systems and competing products. This required some creative finesse, communication, and digging. o Prepared reverse engineering tools for marketers in Australia and South America. A lot of patient explanation, cooperation, and hand holding. Project Engineer, Electronics; August 1989 - April 1992 SPX Corporation, OTC Division (now part of Robert Bosch GmbH) 655 Eisenhower Drive / Owatonna, Minnesota 55060 507.455.7000 / www.otctools.com Engineer for software products used in handheld diagnostic equipment targeted to automobiles and heavy trucks. o Brought five products to market. Led by example, bringing new techniques to staid software. o Grabbed initiative and wrote the reference manual for proprietary engineering tools given by company to external contractors. Acted as support person for it. o Quality improvement team member. Senior Engineer, Electronics; December 1981 - July 1989 McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing) PO Box 516 / Saint Louis, Missouri 63166 314.232.0232 / www.boeing.com (F/A-18, AV-8B, and F-15 programs) Engineer for electronics and software used in military avionics and test equipment. o Co-captain of an extensive development project. Organized planning, schedules, staffing, and team building. Initiated and codified the development process used, based on evolving techniques, and trained people on it. o Lead on an electronics and software development project. Guided the transition from development to production (a lot of detail and completeness work). o "Tiger Team" member bailing-out a subcontractor in trouble. o Variety of detail jobs, typical of the new graduate. EDUCATION BS, Mathematics with management minor GPA 3.52/4.00; August 1988 Maryville College (now Maryville University) 13550 Conway Road / Saint Louis, Missouri 63141 800.627.9855 / www.maryville.edu BS, Electronics Technology GPA 3.40/4.00; October 1981 Ohio Institute of Technology (now DeVry University) 1350 Alum Creek Drive / Columbus, Ohio 43209 614.253.7291 / www.cols.devry.edu FingulinGeneralResume_20120423.txt ###