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Drew Ferguson
Kitchener,Canada
Summary
9+ Years electronics design engineer for motor systems of varying size and applications. Industries include industrial vehicle, tier 1 automotive, HVAC and bus/truck. Previously spent 2 years in Power generation/distribution. Seeking leadership roles and constant career progression. Strong mixed signal design skills from drives requiring external digital communications, internal peripheral comms and high quality analog feedback signals for accurate and stable control algorithms. Experienced designing to industry specific safety, emc and performance standards.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Electronics Designer
Turntide Technologies
01.2022 - Current
- Architectural design of motor controllers including system level requirements, block diagrams and Hardware software interface documentation
- Certification of design to UL61800-5-1
- Electronic design of motor controller targeting an ASIL D traction application
- Block level design of electrical circuits including calculations and simulations using LT spice, Excel and hand calculations
- PCBA testing; Bring-up and debugging, FAA, block level and system testing encompassing full verification testing with hand off to test team for validation
- Collaborate with firmware, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams. Maintaining a silo-less work environment despite separate reporting paths
- Certified worker representative of the JHSC
- Leading hardware design reviews including block requirement, schematic and layout reviews. Participating in systems reviews SFR, PDR and CDR
Systems Test Engineer
Turntide
11.2020 - Current
- Specified and commissioned lab equipment for system efficiency, thermal and sound performance.
- Develop TT test methods for efficiency and sound characterization of motors.
- Product requirements management for controllers using Polarion life cycle management tool.
Hardware Engineer
BorgWarner
02.2017 - 11.2020
- Architectural design and sub-system requirements management of new products.
- Component specification and verification.
- Analog and digital circuit design and simulation for > 25kW motor controllers.
- Test procedure generation for verification of both module and system level requirements.
- Analyze test results and debug electronic circuits.
Electrical Designer
OneLine Engineering
04.2012 - 06.2014
- AutoCAD Electrical for single line, three line, DC, AC and connection wiring diagrams for 4.7kV to 500kV substations.
- Select intelligent relays, lock out relays, FT switches & power meters to meet project requirements.
Education
Electrical
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON01-2016
Electrical Engineering Technology Diploma - Advanced
Niagara College
01.2013
Skills
- 9 Years Work Experience in Electronics Design
- Analog and Digital Circuit Design
- PCB Constraints, Stackup and Layouts
- 800V Bus SiC Motor Drive
- Architectural Electronics Design
- Ethernet
- ADCs
- Op-Amps
- Functional Safety
- LDOs
- Microcontrollers
- Automotive Electronics
- CAN/CAN-FD
- Current Sensors
- Multi-board designs Interconnects
- Altium Designer
- Mentor Graphics Xpedition
- Oscilloscopes and Multimeters
- Power analyzers
- PCB/Circuit Debugging
- Power Electronics
- Requirements
- Resolver
- PCB Comms: I2C, SPI, UART
- SPICE Simulation
- Test Specification
- Component selection
- Failure analysis
- 8D Problem solving Methodology
- Prototyping
Interests
Timeline
Senior Electronics Designer
Turntide Technologies
01.2022 - Current
Systems Test Engineer
Turntide
11.2020 - Current
Hardware Engineer
BorgWarner
02.2017 - 11.2020
Electrical Designer
OneLine Engineering
04.2012 - 06.2014
Electrical
Lakehead University
Electrical Engineering Technology Diploma - Advanced
Niagara College
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Designed HVAC Motor Drive to meet safety certification of UL 61800-5-1 allowing connection of an electric drive to the Canadian and US electrical grid for industrial and commercial applications.
- Designed and tested an 800V Bus motor controller with SiC technology for high power and performance applications
- Equipped the Waterloo lab with power and measurement equipment including: 45kW AC sources, HBM power analyzers, Siemens load dyno, Siemens SCADAS sound and vibration measurement system, Oscilloscopes and probes. Commissioned test stations which are used for system characterization of electrical, mechanical, noise and vibration performance.
- Developed requirements, block diagram, mechanization and test procedures for a common controller to be utilized on all future BorgWarner motor controller projects.
- Reduced customer incidents on their manufacturing line from 6000ppm to sub 300ppm.
- Developed electrical CAD drawings for >200MW of renewable energy on the Ontario electrical grid.