GRANT L. MARTIN
GRANT(at)GRANTMARTIN.US
636 947 1072
St. Charles, Missouri
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Engineering Support Specialist: Highly experienced in concept qualification and electronic product testing for failure free operation before and after customer delivery.
Extensive experience with test management processes for embedded firmware based products.
Demonstrated performance in the creation, implementation and execution of product and system level test programs from concept validation through the end of product life.
Recognized for effectively working in team oriented, high stress environments requiring immediate results.
Experienced with intensely rapid corporate growth: Personally responsible for the initial design and construction of the product test department for Distribution Control Systems Incorporated. In less than eight years, this company grew from $500,000 in annual sales and 40 local employees to $500 million in sales and 500+ employees world wide. This period resulted in the fielding of over 25 million metering endpoints with zero firmware related product recalls.
During this period, the test equipment and test process that I developed was responsible for preventing more than $300 million in product recalls.
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Test Process Design
- Pioneered, implemented and executed a Functional Acceptance Test (FAT) process for AMR/AMI based TWACS enabled electric meters. This process resulted in a 48 hour comprehensive test suite which replaced a limited, manual, error prone six week non-regression based test effort.
- Personally responsible for the prevention of more than $50 million in losses due to product recalls.
- In ten years, this system, equipment and process was used by the test department to prevent more than $250 million in losses due to product recalls.
- Led a three month effort that resulted in this test process gaining ISO 9000:2001 certification. This process efficiently and effectively validates new product designs and upgrades with follow-on automated regression testing in compliance with ISO standards.
Project Management
- Managed and conducted more than 30, TWACS enabled electric meter test programs resulting in the recall-free fielding of over 25 million endpoints.
- Served as principal test engineer in support of concept validation, design verification and field testing of the Concurrent Phase signaling concept resulting in the award of patent #6940396. The initial design verification phase required the design, validation and support of several three phase 240VAC test jigs. Final field test required the design, construction, qualification and fielding of a 150KVA three phase 18 phasor mobile test unit running on 277/480 VAC. (See here ).
- Oversaw and directed various test programs in support of proof of concept validation for various proprietary communications protocols.
Team Leadership
- Served as test manager for unique, customer driven test products.
- Trained and mentored new hires on technical aspects of proprietary technology and test methodologies.
- Test Lead with multiple test engineers on several critical FAT projects.
- Lead designer and project manager integrating vendors, contractors, unions and investor owned utilities for the successful completion of proprietary product development and test programs.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Design, assembly and qualification of prototype electronic products, test equipment and fixtures. These designs consist of Discrete Digital & Analog technologies (<= 500 MHz) as well as embedded Systems, firmware, Microprocessors and Programmable logic controllers.
- Programming of embedded products using C, Python, Assemblers, Plx and Basic.
- Highly adept with test methodologies for software, hardware and embedded controller applications. These test methodologies include:
- Development
- Design verification
- Integration (component, module and system)