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Christian T Bird

Apt 806, 550 W. Arlington
Chicago , IL 60614
Phone: 773-318-4140

Work History:
University of Vermont, Burlington VT
Department of Electrical Engineering, Spring 2004
Graduate Teaching Assistant for senior design class and RF Telecommunications laboratory.

Department of State, Washington, DC, Engineering Internship,
Office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, Jan 2003 - Jun 1st. 2003

Here, I provide technical support for the formulation of science and technology related foreign policy.
IBM Micro Electronics, Burlington, VT
Field Design Engineer, Jan 2000 - Aug 2002
Gained experience with different aspects of preparing ASIC’s for production including physical design, timing closure, design verification, JTAG and test structure insertion.
Bioanalytical Systems, Lafayette, IN
Software Design Engineer, May-November 1999
Worked on software development projects including creation of software of Intel 8051 micro controller in C language and a PID thermo-electric cooler and interface.
Participated in an embedded software project that controlled an automated blood sampling machine.
GE Industrial Control Systems, Ft. Wayne, IN
Design and Test Engineer, Summer 1998
Optimized a switching power supply used to power the computer on an ECM motor.
Performed temperature and performance tests in developed hardware.
GE Noise and Vibration Engineer, Fall 1997
Analyzed customer products in order to minimize noise or vibration caused by GE motors in customer applications.
GE ECM Quality Control Engineer, Spring 1997
Analyzed statistics of field returns in order to identify manufacturing process defects.
Tested solutions and suggested design improvements for ECM motors.
GE Hermetic Motor Engineering, Summer 1996
Worked to improve and update the engineering department UNIX based documentation system.
Maintained departmental database for motor designs and customer orders.
GE Industrial Control Systems, Murfreesboro, TN
Industrial Engineer, Fall 1995
Improved product quality by performing extensive life tests and analyses on motors.
Identified flaws in manufacturing process and evaluated design/vendor changes.
Education
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
   Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Jan 2004
John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL
   J.D. (2008)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
   Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Fields and Optics.
Research Experience:
Participated in a project to characterize the super-conductive properties of gold doped YtBaCuO Material (Physica C 324 (1999), pp 133-136.)
Constructed Argon Eximer laser to investigate UV laser action @ IPFW.
Miscellaneous
(DoS) secret level security clearance.

 

 

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