Pratik Shah has over 11 years of experience in electrical design and project management. He has extensive experience designing hardware systems including microcontroller and microprocessor-based boards. He has managed complex technical projects from proposal through delivery and ensured they were completed on time and under budget. He is proficient in areas like system architecture, mixed-signal circuit design, PCB layout, integration, and project management.

1. PRATIK SHAH
patrikshah@gmail.com  (224) 301-9104
SYSTEMS DEVELOPER/PROJECT LEAD
Over 11 years’ experience in electrical design and development projects. Superb design engineering and
project management skills with extensive hands-on experience in microcontroller and microprocessors
based board designs. High levels of professionalism at all times, with superb problem solving and
communication/team collaboration ability.
 Skillful and dedicated Electronic Hardware Engineer with extensive experience in the research,
development, coordination, planning and support of operational and administrative functions.
 Hardware-focused system developer, designing high-performance systems that require high-speed
interconnects, reduced power mode design, low power cost/performance tradeoffs.
 Able to provide producible, cost-effective implementations from conceptual marketing
requirements.
 Exceptional analytical skills, experience transforming the needs of the Business User and
stakeholder into functional requirements.
 Proven history of success improving efficiencies and coming under budget; saved $130K per year
in most recent project.
CORE SKILLS
 Proficient in system architecture and control algorithm development, mixed-signal circuitry design,
PCB layout, system integration, to customer product support and project management.
 Schematic capture and PCB layout experience with Orcad, Altium, Cadence and Mentor Graphics
design suites.
 High Speed PCB design and layout, signal integrity and EMI analysis, created bills of materials
 Analog/digital bring-up with oscilloscopes, multimeters, frequency counters, logic analyzers and
signal generators.
 Distributed DC power supply development using switch-mode regulators and LDO’s in low noise
applications.
 Experienced in IEC standard based design and UL353 based safety control device.
 Experience in Reliability Analysis (DFMEA, Risk Analysis, SWCA).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LARSEN & TOUBRO TECHNOLOGY SERVICES — Morton Grove, IL & Mumbai, India
System Developer, Project Lead, August 2005 – Present
 Manage complex technical projects at all levels of project lifecycle from proposal through project
deliverables, while staying on time and under budget.
 Coordinate directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.
 Produce creative designs with high consumer value to meet size, cost, time to market, and quality
targets.
 Contributed to a wide variety of products. A representative sample may be found below.

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REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS
Hot and Steam Boiler (PSE800 series) Safety Controls improvement, July 2014 – December 2015
Client: Xylem Inc. Role: Project Lead (Hardware and Software)
Tools: Microchip Mplab, Altium and In house EMI/EMC instruments
Project Description:
Steam boiler safety controls used for multiple applications. Due to steam, these controls have a foam
detection algorithm for early boiler shutdown to prevent dry fire. These controls were failing in the field
due to number of unknown issues.
Responsibilities
 Gathered field data, performed root cause analysis and simulated the situation in the lab to
determine effective solutions.
 Performed design review (HW & SW) analysis discerns the known root causes of the field issues.
 Designed “Smart Algorithm to Determine Steam Boiler Water Condition”, a unique algorithm which
is now under provisional patent.
 Performed software architecture design, implementation and testing.
 Handled EMI/EMC testing – RS, CS, RE, CE, EFT, Surge and ESD testing as per the available
standard.
 Handled UL353 documentation and approval.
Residential Valve Remote Monitoring and Control System, September 2013 – June 2014
Client: Watts Water Role: System Developer
Tools: VMware Virtual machine, Linux Ubuntu and Eclipse for C and JAVA
Project Description:
Product used to measure all water inlets and outlets temperature, pressure and flow. Define leakage in
system, per event water flow, total flow in a day and prevent house flooding by turning on and off
master solenoid valves. Entire system is accessible remotely through dynamic IP and through cloud.
 Residential Valve monitoring system
 Motherboard Selection (Freescale IMX51 Microcontroller)
 Linux Ubuntu Flavor Operating system
 Valve Monitoring algorithms C code implementation
 Tomcat Web server
 JAVA JDK Application Programming
 Remote monitoring over web
 Dynamic IP Automatic configuration
 Ethernet and USB Wireless Module
 Cloud Implementation to access the monitor each unit data installed in different field
Responsibilities
 Managed entire project from proposal through project deliverables.
 Trained team on valve monitoring systems to ensure a well-informed final product.
 Selected motherboard and webserver.
 Implemented cloud selection and application.
 Oversaw complete system design architecture and hardcore algorithms.
 Implemented Java Application and Cloud Application on Google Cloud, as well as valve monitoring
algorithms in C code.
 Implemented DNS Exit for Dynamic IP Configuration.
 Coordinated directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.

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Flood Protection Valve Monitoring and Control System, December 2012 – June 2013
Client: Watts Water Role: System Developer
Tools: Altium, Microchip mplab and AutoCAD
Project Description:
Flood protection valve monitoring system sense the back flow of water and turn off the solenoid valve
to protect house/industry from flooding. Can be control over WiFi protocol and provide notification
either through email or SMS. Battery powered with 4 days of operating time.
 Flood protection Valve Remote monitoring and control
 MSP430 based Low power architecture
 GSM and WiFi Module Interface
 IP65 Mechanical off the shelf Enclosure selection and PCB Placement
 Water presence sensor Interface
 Battery charging and Monitoring Interfacing
 Multiple DC-DC Converter design
 Multiple PCB stackup and component placement
 Labview Application design and Implementation for Remote monitoring
Responsibilities
 Managed project and acted as hardware lead from proposal to project deliverables.
 Provided in-depth manufacturing support.
 Completed Firmware and Hardware design and implementation, as well as Labview Application.
 Coordinated directly with customer to deliver project and provide project deliverables review.
Gravity Gradiometer Data Acquisition Design, December 2012 – September 2013
Client: Rio Tinto Role: Project Lead
Tools: Altium, Hyperlynx for SI analysis, PROE
Project Description:
 Flood protection Valve Remote monitoring and control
 Vertex-6 (1156 pin BGA package) based high speed data acquisition design
 ARM Microcontroller and Vertex-6 FPGA interfacing
 High Speed ADC & DAC interfacing with very low acquisition & settling time.
 Programmable Gain amplifier Interfacing with low noise spectral density
 5th Order Butterworth filter using Op-amp and switched capacitors method
 20 Channel high speed ADC interfacing with virtex-6
 11 channel high speed DAC with differential output driving 15mA current interfacing with virtex-6
 Low RMS noise requirement of 150uVRms at ADC Input
 Platform Flash & EPROM Interfacing
 DDR3 memory interfacing operates at 100MHZ
 10/100MB RGMII PHY interfacing
 32GB SD Card Interface
 32 Channel Digital input & Digital Output Interface
 Multiple DC-DC Converter design with power sequence logic
 Multiple PCB (6 PCB’s) stackup and component placement
 Mechanical Enclosure design and PCB Placement
Responsibilities
 Designed, developed and validated FPGA – Microcontroller based high speed data acquisition
design.
 Procured and verified necessary components.
 Handled Hierarchical Schematic entry – 8 Schematics with high speed inter board connectors.
 Performed PCB Stackup and Component placement.

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 Verified footprint & placement, PCB routing & layout, and Gerber review.
 Picked and placed component assembly and module testing.
 Performed noise figure calculation and completed mechanical enclosure design.
 Handled signal integrity analysis for all high speed interfaces.
Single Board Computer Design, December 2011 – September 2012
Client: ITW Role: Senior Hardware Engineer
Tools: ORCAD, PADS, HyperLynx and AutoCAD
Project Description:
 600MHz Intel EP80579 based single board computer design
 DDR2 memory interfacing operates at 433MHZ
 NAND Flash Memory, SRAM, EPROM interfacing
 10/100MB RGMII PHY interfacing
 Product design in two phase Alpha & Beta
 Alphas contains all features in one mother board & Beta contains multiple high speed boards
 Din Rail Enclosure based PCB assembly
 USB Hub, CAN & RS-232 interfacing
 Multiple DC-DC Converter design with power sequence logic
 10 layer PCB validation & verification
Responsibilities
 Designed, developed, and validated single board computer as per the requirement.
 Procured and verified components.
 Handled hierarchical schematic entry (60 Pages)
 Verified footprint & placement, PCB routing & layout, and Gerber review.
 Tested PCB assembly and module.
 Analyzed and estimated requirements based on all relevant data.
 Assisted draftsman for PCB layout and software engineer for algorithm development.
 Prototype has been tested for the approval of EMI/EMC standard as per CISPR22- class B and
immunity as per IEC61000 series.
 Designed, developed and validated following:
o Power circuits, control circuits, EMI/EMC filter design and problem mitigation
o Component selections with proper QFD for controller, Inverter module etc.
o Design of analog /digital section
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Hardware
 8 bit /16 bit/ 32 bit Microcontroller based complete product design
 TMS320 based circuit breaker design
 Intel EP80579 32-Bit Embedded Microprocessor based product design
 Virtex-6 FPGA based product design
 Mixed signal design (High Speed ADC, DAC and FPGA-ARM interfacing)
 Multilayer PCB Placement and Layout Review
 BOM Generation using SAP part number & Component procurement
 Design of battery operated instruments
 Motor protection
 Analog Noise Figure & RMS noise calculation

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Tools
 ORCAD & Altium for schematic entry and simulation.
 PADS, PCAD & Altium for layout design
 HyperLynx for signal Integrity
 Experience with Logic analyzer, DSO, Spectrum analyzer
 MATLAB/SIMULINK.
 Knowledge of PROE & AutoCAD
 PSPICE/LTSPICE for analog circuit simulation
 Relax and RAM Commander for Reliability prediction
Hardware Interfaces/Protocol
 Embedded device drivers for DAC, ADC, PGA, Analog Switch,
 I2C based I/O expander & SPI based Flash Memory
 Driver for character, Graphic & OLED Display
 CAN, RS-232, RS-485, USB, SATA, Ethernet, Super I/O
 NAND Flash Memory & SRAM.
 DDR2 RAM Interface
 DDR3 Interface
Design/Safety Standards
 ISO
 IEC
Testing
 EMC/EMI testing as per IEC61000
 Environmental testing as per IEC60068
 Product design, FMEA and Risk Analysis
as per UL353
 SWCA, FMEA & MTBF Analysis
Configuration Management
 Tortoise CVS
 Visual Source safe 6
 PLM – Wind-chill
Project Management Tools
 MS Project
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics), Mumbai University
PATENTS FILED
 Testing device to simulate three phase AC real time field waveform & verify circuit breaker
response – (1841/MUM/2008 – India)
 Display Unit for Battery Operated Breaker Testing Device (765/MUM/2008 – India)
 Smart Algorithm to determine “Steam Boiler Water Condition” (62/287,727 – Provisional)
 Converting Mechanical Low water cutoff switch to Electronic Switch (62/328,684 – Provisional)
 Field configurable low water cutoff controls (62/348,271 - Provisional)
 Remote monitoring and troubleshooting Low water cutoff controls (62/353,284 – Provisional)