This document provides a summary of Edward Ngai's work experience and qualifications. He has over 35 years of experience as an electronics technician working on government and high-tech manufacturing projects. Some of his roles included repairing surveillance equipment, designing test fixtures, and maintaining clearances to work on classified projects. He also has experience in cable installation, satellite TV installation, chemical manufacturing, and quality assurance testing.
1. Edward Ngai home email: res808c4@earthlink.net
403 W Hickory
Lompoc, California, 93436
760 408 8575
Work Experience:
I have 35+ years of working as an electronics technician in Government related field work & high
technology manufacturing environments. Fluent use of Test, Measurement, & Diagnostic
Equipment (TMDE) and carrying out Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) schedules, Repair
Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition (IST) equipment and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU).
Use of all power & hand tools connected w/ prototyping, manufacturing, customfabrication of
fixtures, electrical shields, wood, plastic and fiberglass modeling & steel. Fluent with company
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Capability for working on company based projects & research using PCs, scientific instruments,
calipers, chemical reagents, drill press & vertical knee mill.
Knowledgeable of safety procedure requirements working with, and, around hazardous chemicals
& obtaining MSDS's.
I am highly organized and have managed computer and paper filing systems.
Operating Systems: PC-DOS (15yr), Mac (2yr), UNIX (5yr), Win 95/98, NT4 (2yr), win 2000 (6yr),
Win XP (3yr), Win 7 (3yr.), MS Office: 2007, 2013
Clearance Level : Clearable , Inactive
Experience:
07-01-2015 self-employed, landlord
01-18-2012
Repair drywall, mix & pour cement walk way, plant plants, trim hedges, replace: door knobs, light
fixtures, bathroom fans, bathroomtowel racks, closet sliding doors, windows, Split AC unit and
evaporative cooler, build 3 wood storage sheds, install self-made sky light and LED lighting,
wrought iron fencing, install ceramic, travertine tile in 4 bedrooms, stainless steel double sink with
food disposal. Future plans to build a sandbag shed for my truck or green house with pellet stove.
01-17-2012 Adams Communication & Engineering Technology
11-07-2011 4696 Millennium Dr, Suite 110
Belcamp, Maryland, 21017
Debbie Hatton, ProgramDirector, dhatton@adamscomm.com
301 862 5022
Aerostat flight operator training, RTF, Rapid Training Facility, Yuma AZ
Read +100 pages of weather for a week, attend class 10 pm to 8 am, use PC software on aerostat
control
11-07-2011 self-employed, landlord
04-22-2011
2. 03-21-2011 Mantech International
01-04-2009 12015 Lee Jackson Highway
Fairfax, VA 22033
Douglas Brown, Program Manager Elevate Sensors, Douglas.Brown@ManTech.com
703 218-6000
Senior Lead Field Service Representative, FSR, stationed in South West Asia.
Repaired fielded equipment for Base Expeditionary Targeting Surveillance
Systems Combined, BETSS-C program. Field installed or removed, repaired
& maintained; RDISS camera system, MTU 3107 RAID tower 107 ft. & 86 ft.,
Cerberus Long range, Mobile Eagle Eye ll. Install & repair additional network &
phone lines where needed.
Work hours are 12 hr. on / off, 7 days a week. Logon to Raytheon website portals to order parts as
needed & maintain timesheet. Convoyed by air or ground to various military FOBs to repair
equipment. In Iraq spent 9 months repairing Mobile Eagle Eye ll at Motor Pool 8. Last assigned in
2010 at FOB Salerno, Afghanistan. Spent 2009 and 2010 in Iraq. I was given two Certificates of
Achievements Awards from two US Army Units, available upon request. Salary: $155k / year
12-01-2008 Military Sealift Fleet Support Command
10-01-2007 P O Box 120, Virginia Beach, VA, 23458-0120
757-217-1930
Sea Service: 06-01-2008 to 12-01-2008, USNS Shasta (T-AE-33)
Billet: Second Electrician. Repair; electrical outlets, fluorescent light fixtures, ammo cargo elevator
control circuitry, 440/220/120 VAC wiring, install mast camera, electric & diesel fork trucks, water
level security lights, aircraft approach warning lights, helicopter deck approach lights and other
electrical problems that arise on the ship.
Salary: $ 51,000 / year
Sea Service: 2-7-2008 to present, USNS Shasta
Billet: Wiper, job duties same as on USNS Alan Shepard
Sea Service: 11-1-2007 to 01-27-2008, USNS Alan Shepard
Billet: Wiper, scrub decks, clean up oil by; machinery, bilge & hulls of ship, paint, empty trash, apply
non-skid on decks, assist fuel oil transfer & oily waste water as phone talker. Watch, move & store
heavy equipment, mop up water or sewage spills, order parts with order forms, procure NSN
numbers. Assist electronic technician with various jobs.
10-2007
06-2007 unemployed
07-27-07 Crossroads Staffing, to Santa Barbara Mari-Pro
06-01-07 1213 State St # K, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805 962 0711, manager Juan Sanchez
General Laborer, sweep yard, assists welders, grind and paint equipment
05-24-2007 United Launch Alliance, Vandenberg AFB, CA, 93437
04-02-2007 HR John Allen 805 606 2286
Technician.Assist maintain classified records for building rockets/launch vehicles
3. 03-2007 Select Remedy, 111 E. Arrellaga st.
02-2007 Santa Barbara CA 93101, 805 965-0511
contract to SB Multiprobe, 819 Reddick St.
Don Hatfield test engineer
Test Technician, troubleshoot, repair surface mount circuit boards.
03-2007
06-2006 unemployed
06-02-2006 L-3 Communications, bldg. 9320, 6th st.,
10-01-2001 Vandenberg AFB, CA, 93437
HR: Ray Lacasse, 805 878 1768
Electronic Technical Specialist, level E-9
National Security Agency Clearance
Troubleshoot, repair thru-hole/surface mount PCBs to component level for; 40KV/80KV UPS
Systems, RADAR, Telemetry sites, 12GHz Automatic Train Surveillance System(ATSS),
Microwave Sensors, AC & DC Power Supplies, commercial equipment at RADAR, Telemetry sites.
Design breadboard test circuits to repair circuit cards & PCBs. Use DMMs, analog & digital
oscilloscopes, handheld clamp on Amp meters, RF watt meter, Spectrum Analyzers & test
equipment for RF testing & analysis using schematics, prints & written notes. Designed & built
spare scanning control module box used at TRS Telemetry site & other test fixtures. Assist &
Instruct System Maintenance Engineers troubleshooting & problem solving electro-mechanical
equipment. Traveled to various RADAR, Telemetry sites in California to repair electro/mechanical
equipment. Call vendors, manufacturers for availability, pricing & ordering of components. ESD
auditor for Electronics Shops, maintain ESD records for Quality Control/ISO Audits. Organize &
store components; resistors, capacitors, connectors,ICs, power supplies. Obtain MSDS's. Use
Maximo for purchase requisitions & other work orders. Use MS Office 2003, Word & Excel, to
generate documents forms as needed.
Salary $ 25.00/hr.
9-12-01 SB Newspress, 725 Kellog Ave., Goleta, CA , 93117
5-14-01 Yolanda HR 805 564 5268
Electronic technician
Answer trouble phone, repair mechanical/electrical/electronic equipment. Drive between Goleta
press plant & SB main office. Obtained MSDS's. Overtime to fix robotic self-guided forklifts &
related newspaper plant electrical/electronics. Order parts by phone from Marvac Dow Electronics.
Salary $ 20.00/hr.
4-24-2001 Condor Engineering, 101 West Anapamu St.,
9-05-2000 Santa Barbara, CA, 93101
805 965 8000 , Debbie Krionstad, production supervisor
Production Test Technician
Repair RMA & Repair in Process (RIP) broken boards to be tested, production testing to ship
product. Component level troubleshooting with analog o-scope, SMD soldering on
installing/removing chip res/caps & other IC's like high density 240 pin PQFP Altera. Use PCAD
2000 to read schematics & PCB layers for trouble shooting. Obtained MSDS for chemicals used in
company.
Salary $ 13.00/hr.
4. 8-01-00 ThaumDx, 7402 Hollister Ave.,
6-01-00 Goleta, CA , 93117 , 805 968-3099
Manpower to ThauMdx, worked for Larry Wade,
HR Tiffany Carter
Test Technician
Assembly, setup & test blood analysis machine. Build electronic circuits from engineering
schematics.
6-17-00 Turbodyne Corp., 6155 Carpenteria, Carpenteria, CA, 93013
5-24-99 805 684-4551
Test Technician
Bench setup & test diesel engine supercharges. Build electronic circuits from engineering
schematics. Use Orcad 7 to create schematics. Order all shop parts as needed.
05-14-99 contract w/ Manpower , 1600 State St., SB, CA 93101, 805 568-0098
10-01-96 Electronic technician for Applied Magnetics,
75 Robin Hill Rd., Goleta, CA 93117
Build electronic fixtures per engineering instructions with wire wrap, operate mill/drill machine,
Contact distributors for current pricing on electronic, electrical components. Use Protel 3 schematic
CAD (DOS) to design & make PCBs from previous schematics. Rework thru-hole/SMD PCBs.
Modify workstations for ESD safety in accordance w/ in house criteria. Solder SMD/thru-hole
components for experimental PCBs. Design, Build heater assembly for magnetic head testing w/
Eurotherm Programmable temperature controller & Omron DIN/16 temp controller. Configure
Omega relative humidity temp recorder. Authored ESD technical manuals with MS Office 4.2; Word
6.0 & Excel 5.0. Perform ESD auditing within Class 100 Clean Room. Aid engineers with installing
Pentium motherboards WIN95/NT4. Authored Clean Batch System manual for in house use. Test
MR heads w/ MR Tahoe tester (delta R/R), ESD zapping of MR heads, maintain PC backup,
maintain ESD lab inventory.
08-02-1996 contract with Manpower as R & D Technician for
06-01-1996 SBRC/Hughes, 7814 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA
Security clearance = Secret Test
technician
PCB/SMT assembly & testing for Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS project.
Certified NASA/JPL soldering spec.
05-01-96 unemployed
11-01-95
10/95 Electronic Technician
07/91 Advanced Computer Communications, 340 Stork Rd, Goleta, CA ,
(805) 961-0200
PCB repair, modification, prototyping of ACC, non-ACC electronic / electrical products. Setup test
LAN networks with related software, hardware & cabling. Initiate Part Qualification Reports for
active / passive devices, chassis components & power supplies. Test/debug prototypes per
engineering supervision. Follow prototype developments to product maturity. Designed/built; ESD
safe SMD repair/rework station, PCB test adapters. Maintain hardware engineering library,
hardware /software upgrades, electronic component inventory (ECI). Create training manuals with
Mac & Filemaker Pro database for ESD Control for ISO 9000 & ESD safety procedures/methods.
5. Maintain Engineering PC's in regards to; ordering hard/floppy drives, power supplies, tape back-up
units, graphics cards & other PC related interface cards. Backup PCs with Mountain tape software.
06-91 unemployed
02-91
01-01-1991 PC Support & LAN Technician
12-01-1989 Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, 820 State St., Santa Barbara, CA
Maintain, repair & install PC-DOS software at required bank locations. Maintenanceof Novel 2.15
LAN at 3 bank locations. Register software for licensing & audit control. Backup LAN's with
Emerald software.
11-89 unemployed
02-89
5/87 to Quality Assurance Technician
1/89 Spectrum Technologies, 300 Lopez Rd., Goleta, CA
Security clearance = Secret
Create training manual for ESD Control in compliance with DOD Handbook 264, DOD-STD 1686
ESD Control Program, MIL Spec 1649, ESD Procedures, FED STD 209 Clean Room & Work
Station Specifications, MIL STD 38510 General Specification for Micro-circuits, MIL STD 55565
Packaging of micro-circuits, MIL STD 883C Test Methods & Procedures for Micro Electronics.
Electronic component fabrication for prototype builds, repair, modification of all test fixtures,
maintain HEPA filtering. Install, maintain in house vacuum system, compressed air system, CO2 &
LN2 system.
9/85 to Co-Owner of Tri-Counties Satellite, 11 Fremont Lane,
1/87 Santa Barbara, CA
Satellite TV installs & sales, measurement of terrestrial interference, install cabling per Unified
Building Code.
11/85 to Cable Crew Leader
3/86 System Services Corp, 301 Lopez Rd., Goleta, CA
Drive company truck to cable TV installation locations, supervisionof three man crew, provide
training for installing RG-6U, 500/P3 cable & all related cable/wire related hardware.
10-85 unemployed
04-85
3/82 to Manufacturing Chemical Technician
3/85 Thick Film Systems, 27 Castilian Dr, Goleta, CA
Inventory, mixing, manufacturing of heavy metal chemical compounds for sintering, soldering for
military, industrial, commercial use. Obtain Material Safety Data Sheets.
11/80 to Manufacturing Chemical Technician
3/82 McGhan Medical Corp, 400 Ward Dr. Santa Barbara, CA
6. Repair, maintenance of chemical mixing & dispensing equipment, welding of in-plant equipment,
maintenance of vacuum & compressed air systems.
Awards & Certificates:
ESD Membership Certificate, ESD Association
April 26 2006 L-3 Comm Excellence Award, System Sustainment Award
Aug 18 2002 ITT Systems, Excellence Award
May 2005 L-3 Comm Excellence Award, MTSS sustainment Award
June 3 2005 Lockheed Martin RSA, Network Manager Overview Training
Education:
6/06 Solid Modeling & Design, RIT On-Line, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
John Stratton, board of directors
Rochester Institute of Technology:Admissions , www.rit.edu
60 Lomb Memorial Dr
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 475-6631
8/05 Applied RF Techniques1, Besser Associates, Sunnyvale, CA
480 San Antonio Road
Suite 215
Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone: 650-949-3300
Fax: 650-949-4400
Email: info@besserassociates.com
12/04 RF Measurements: Principles & Demonstration, Besser Associates, Sunnyvale, CA
4/04 RF & Wireless Made Simple ll, Besser Associates, Sunnyvale, CA
11/02 RF & Wireless Made Simple l, Besser Associates, Sunnyvale, CA
7/96 Advanced Unix Utilities & Shell Programming, UCSB, CA
5/96 FCC Amateur TechnicianLicense: KF6DZL
1/96 Networking with the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, UCSB, CA
4/92 Introduction of Data Communications, UCSB, CA
3/91 Advanced Novell Netware/LAN Workshop, UCSB, CA
1/88 - 8/88 Differential Mathematics 5A, 5B, 5C , UCSB, CA
1/86 - 1/87 Electronic Technician l/ll, SBCC, CA
6-82 Associate in Arts, SBCC, CA
Military :
1973 to 1976 US Navy , Engineman E-3
7. Personnel Reference:
Clinton Bartee
604 N 4th, Apt B
Lompoc, CA, 93436
Visual Basic Programmer, retired USMC
805 819 0490
clinton_bartee@comcast.net
Ray Lacasse
Strategic Human Resources Consultant
1317 Palmetto Ave.,
Lompoc, CA 93436
raylacasse2@gmail.com
805-717-2040
Lynn Swenson Teamsters Union Principal Officer
115 W. Bunny Ave.
Santa Maria, CA , 93458
805 922 7875
lswenson@teamsters381.org
John Miller, Electrical Engineer,
669 Branch St
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
805 544 3361
Lloyd Anderson, proprietor of The Door Man, Machinist
6768 Sueno Rd. , Isla Vista. CA, 93117
805 685 5045