Consultant

I work as a freelancer on special mission related to quality assurance, quality management system, root cause analysis, factory optimization, factory training, factory pre-certification briefing (ISO 9001)

I am particularly in charge of operating quality control and inspection on technical products:
- Electronic parts such as PCB, PCBA, components
- Electronics (consummer, industrial electronics, medical device, automotive)
- Machine (mechanical + electrical)
- Plastic injection (process, part)
- Metal
- Automotive
- Construction

I help factories to get their production more reliable and more efficient by implementing production and quality management processes, lean manufacturing, total quality management so they can reduce their defective rate, accelerate delivery time, and lower their cost

- Support developpment and setup of training platform for inspectors and auditor
- Overseas developpment of ERP and online platform.

I am typically capable to do the following on my own if necessary:

- Perform system engineeering and architecture establishment for electronic pcba. It particulary consist in selecting the right components to achieve the requirement of customer specification by selecting the following : processing unit (MCU, CPU, DSP, FPGA), peripherals input/output (sensor, actuator, display, etc...), memory (DDR, RAM, ROM, Flash, TF Card), interfaces and communications port/protocol (I2C, UART, SPI, CAN, USB, RF), PMU/PMIC (DC-DC, LDO, AC-DC), antena choice. This activity consist in optimizing quality,cost, lead time, supply chain, and power consumption (for battery handled devices)

- Decide and source components to use: tradeoff consideration westernized components vs exotic asian components, for consumer goods or specific industry as well such as industrial, medical or automotive grade

- Establish PCBA design by going all the steps trough: foootprint design, symbol creation, schematic establishment, layer stack management, pcb layout drawing (placement + routing) including High Speed Frequency, High Density PCB and RF design consideration, DRC, signal integrity, power integrity, impedance matching, EMI/EMC, output file for manufacturing (Gerber), design for manufacturing optimization for components and connector, generate 3D CAD PCB for mechanical integration, BOM generation

- Managed embedded software engineering ressources for firmware development in C language for RISC, ARM, MIPS and 8051 architecture: managing with clock configuration, watchdog time, ADC/DAC, interrupt, GPIO, PWM, ,DMA, communication interface protocol (I2C, UART, SPI, LVDS, RGB, MIPI, I2S, TWI, IR, HDMI), LPM

- Management of prototype making: Bare PCB prototype, component soldering, test, verification, validation

- Compliance, test and certification (IPC 7351, CE, Rohs, FCC, UL, etc...)

- PCBA manufacturing and QA management (bare pcb, SMT, wave,, through hole)

I was in charge of:

- Review and manage with customer specifications and requirement

- Search and identify potential suppliers capable to handle customer request

- Perform audit of quality management system of Asian supplier

- Discuss potential challenges related to fabrication and production

- Predicting and anticipating potential issues which may occur during

production and product development