Christian A. Guerra

Objective

To apply engineering skills acquired from formal education and employment experience to provide solutions to challenges presented as an integral part of a team.

Employment Experience

Technical Applications Engineer

January 22, 2001 - present          Intel, Corporation        Hillsboro, OR

• Tested and analyzed ‘leaky’ Willamette E0 processors, which were important to the release of the 2.0 GHz Socket N P4P.
• Researched and developed a BKM presentation for field rollout procedure.
• Introduced to functional subsystem testing (PCI, I/O), high speed measurement techniques, ACPI/Power management testing, and OS installations testing compatibility issues.
• Rotated through validation labs (PSL, CEL, FRST, SAL) and learned what roles each lab plays within the validation process of a platform.
• Fulfilled the role of a validation engineer during the Billings/Pendleton/Pendleton ELX platform's validation process.

Development Engineering Intern

June 9, 1998 - December 2000          Motorola, Inc.          Schaumburg, IL
(Intermittent during summer AND winter breaks)

• Utilized MIB browser in conjunction with SNMP to communicate with the CMTS head-end.
• Devised and executed a plan from design idea to production and troubleshooting of a buffer cicuit on a PCB.
• Facilitated testing by automating an HP Vee script using an Excel spreadsheet via Active-X controls.
• Administered and analyzed results for sensitivity and overload tests on the Cybersurfr Wave© cable modem.
• Compiled a database for the components of the cable modem.
• Introduced to an array of lab equipment and protocol.

Student Aide in the Personnel Office

September 1997 - June 9, 1998     W. R. Harper College    Palatine, IL

• Create and maintain all new and existing employee files.
• Assist in various special projects including transcript verification, recruitment record-keeping and follow-up (using Access© database), and part-time faculty termination processing.
• Organized new part-time faculty employee files for completeness.

Military Experience

Aviation Electronics Technician

September 1997 - September 1999   US Naval Reserve     Great Lakes, IL

• Responsible for the troubleshooting of any electronic component on an airplane.
• Position requires on-going educational correspondence courses.
• Train one weekend a month and two weeks a year.

Machinist's Mate

August 1992 - August 1996        US Navy (Active)    Pearl Harbor, HI

• Obtained a secret clearance in order to serve on board a nuclear fast-attack submarine.
• Managed the maintenance of, both preventive and corrective, mechanical systems on board the submarine.
• Attained special skills and authorization to handle the driving of a submarine both on the surface and subsurface.

Education

University of Illinois

August 1998 - December 2000                       Urbana/Champaign, IL

• Graduated from the College of Engineering as an undergraduate Computer Engineering major with a Mathematics minor.
• Courses taken: Solid State Electronic Devices; Electronic Circuits; Electronic Circuits Laboratory; Computer Organization and Design; Theory and Fabrication of IC Devices; Data Structures, Algorithms and Software Principles; Elements of Electromagnetic Engineering; Digital Systems Laboratory; Analog Signal Processing; Communication Networks; Computer Networks and Distributed Systems; Combinatorial Mathematics.
• Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the National Society of Professional Engineers.
• Graduation date is December 2000.

William Rainey Harper College

August 1996 - July 1998                                   Palatine, IL

• Cumulative GPA is 3.90 / 4.00.
• Member of Phi Theta Kappa, an honorary society for two-year colleges.
• Recipient of the National Hispanic Scholarship award.
• Completed the "Excel Leadership Program" (topics include resolving conflicts, diversity, etc.).
• Member of the Honors Society at Harper College.

Special Skills

• Proficient with the computer; Windows 3.X, 9X, DOS, and UNIX environments, and many programs including Microsoft Office, Mentor Graphics, Renoir, and HP VEE.
• Familiar with C, C++, Java, Pascal, VHDL, Assembly, and the HTML languages.
• Speak and write Spanish fluently.