Subramanian Ramasamy is an electrical engineer with experience in switch mode power supply design, lighting systems, and product testing and validation. He has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UNLV and is currently an Electrical Engineer at Magtech Industries Corp, where he designs LED lighting products and power supplies. He has expertise in safety testing, dimming controls, thermal and EMC testing, and new product development.

1. SUBRAMANIAN RAMASAMY
4255 Tamarus Street, Apt # 271, LV, NV ­ 89119 PH No: 702­299­5217 Email: subu.ramasamy@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2009, GPA: 3.8
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics, July 2006
Expertise
Understanding of Switch mode power supply (SMPS) design topologies, SMPS performance testing and design validation
procedures, Worse case analysis testing, Safety (UL, CE) and Harmonic (FCC) standards testing, Product qualification
and approval, Client application Support, PCB board layout design (Orcad, Protel), Individual component level experience
on a whole lighting system, Power Electronics, Electrical Power Systems
Personal Traits
Passionate about exceeding self expectations and organizational goals, Energetic, optimistic, forward thinking, self-
motivated, dedicated to self-set and team driven goals and firm believer in team rapport
POWER SUPPLY/LIGHTING SYSTEM EXPERIENCE
Electrical Engineer, Magtech Industries Corp, Las Vegas August 2009 to present
Core Experience: Switch Mode Power Supplies with focus on LED lighting
• Customizing AC-DC, DC-DC power supplies to client/market specifications
• Overall understanding of lighting system both on system and component level: Dimming controls, Sensors, SMPS and
LED fixtures applications
• LED driver design and product approval after validation and testing to evaluate performance, safety and reliability
compliance to electrical, dimming, thermal, EMC and environmental requirements
• Perform UL safety validation tests for compliance with UL 1310, UL 8750, CSA 22.2 No. 223 standards
• Develop Engineering Validation standards and Testing procedures for use by production team and product design team
• Generate Dimmer evaluation procedures and standards
• Provide Application Support to clients on Optimal Product application, Client Engineering Validation and Testing, Field
Failure Analysis
• New Product Development: Product definition, Design selection, Demo design validation, IC approval, provide design
support and conduct periodic design reviews
• Interface with Cross-Functional Departments: Production, Quality assurance, Marketing and Sales, Senior management
and Clients
• Generate Engineering Documentation: Product specification, Application notes and Product testing and Qualification
reports
• Market analysis for future product development due in 2-3 years time frame
Extended Roles
• Periodically conduct product application training to internal/client sales and marketing team
• Interface with manufacturing to provide solutions for engineering related production issues
• Factory visits to Taiwan/China for product quality inspection and joint R&D efforts
• Magtech Co-ordinator for Emerge Alliance
Hands On
• Working knowledge of Triac, reverse phase, 0-10 V dimming controls compatibility with SMPS
• UL (UL 1310, UL 1012, UL 8750), CE, FCC standards for SMPS and lumunaires
• Performed conduction EMI emission tests as per FCC PART 15 CLASS B
• Designed PCB board layout in ORCAD for DC-DC power supplies
• Generate worse case analysis test procedures for design durability validation
• Calculated Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and generated MIL-217 Failure Report using ITEM software
• Fault location identification and analyze cause of failure on failed RMA products
Software Skills
Orcad Layout, Orcad Capture, MATLAB, Simulink, MPLAB IDE, LT- Spice, ITEM software (MTBF calculation), Protel, P-Spice,
MAGIC Layout Editor, Adobe Photoshop

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HIGH POWER/ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Power Engineer Intern, Reliance Energy (BSES Ltd), India May 2003 to September 2003
• Performed testing and calibration of over head transmission cables and handled underground fiber optic cables
• Monitored SCADA systems connectivity through Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) in power transmission and distribution
sector for transformer operations, power theft detection and prevention and frequency stabilization
• Generated test reports for periodic oil circuit breaker testing
• Trained in real time single line diagram understanding and functionality for an electric power distribution network
Power Engineer Intern, GMR Operations Pvt Ltd, India April 2004 to August 2004
• Worked on Distributed Control System (DCS) software for supervision of a 220 MW power generation plant
• Worked in the boiler feed division, monitored the PLC control to the inlet valve of the steam turbine boiler feed
• Maintenance of a 132 KV vacuum circuit breaker in a sub-station with a step up transformer
• Assisted with optimum fuel analysis for the gas turbine division
Test and Calibration Engineer, Marutham Developers, India August 2005 to September 2006
• Performed regular testing and calibration of electrical installations at project sites
• Tested sample electronic components and embedded electronic devices at model homes of each apartment sites
• Trained in the electrical wiring and lighting division for residential (apartments) building projects
• Handled equipments ranging from high voltage devices to light load devices
• Attended to routine electrical faults at the customer ends
SOFTWARE INDSUSRY EXPERIENCE
Assistant Systems Engineer, Team Leader, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India September 2006 to July 2007
• Designed Functional Specification Documents with detailed system specifications including technical feasibility analysis,
resource allocation, effort estimation on projects after high level requirements gathering from clients
• Managed and executed a project through entire software development life cycle for Woolworths, Australia
• Completed three IBM Mainframe software projects for Woolworths (Australia) as a development/test engineer and team
leader of a six member team. Chaired project status meetings
• Discharged duties as an onsite-offshore coordinator & assistant resource manager. Client side representative for Tata
Consultancy Services Indian operations
Engineering Intern, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies May 2008 to August 2008
• Digitalized the I-15 highway in Las Vegas through wireless GPS data transmission. Used MATLAB programming for
data analysis and live tracking of the test vehicle from the control room
• Assembled, maintained and performed periodic testing of the electrical and electronic components in the custom made
test vehicle
• Established wireless communication between the moving test vehicle and the control room. Used Batch programming
Technical Analyst, Transportation Research Center, UNLV June 2009 to August 2009
• Performing combined data analysis of the safety seat belt surveys in Nevada from 2003-2009
• Designing a website for interactive user analysis and querying of the seat belt surveys in Nevada through the web
• Developing a software in Java for Policies of Highway Financing: Gasoline Taxes and Other Alternatives, to make
available the existing analysis on the web and allow other users to perform analysis by changing the variables
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV August 2007 to May 2009
• Taught electronic circuits, feedback and digital control systems as a laboratory instructor
• Designed experiments for various motor control operations using PID controller design
• Over 20 months of electronics hardware equipment handling and software lab work experience
• Won the “Outstanding ECE Teaching Assistant” award (2007-2008) at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Consecutively won “Outstanding ECE Teaching Assistant” award twice (also, 2008-2009)
JOURNALS/CONFERENCES
• “Biology-Inspired Robust Dive Plane Control of Nonlinear AUV using Pectoral-Like Fins”, Ramasamy, Subramanian and
Singh, Sahjendra N.(2010), Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 7: 2, 153 — 168

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• “Bifurcation of Periodic Orbits in Inferior Olive Neurons”, 20th International Conference on Systems Engineering),
Coventry University, UK, September 8th - 10th, 2009
• “Adaptive Sliding Mode 3-D Trajectory Control of F/A-18 Model Via SDU Decomposition”, 26th AIAA Applied
Aerodynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007
AWARDS/LEADERSHIP/MEMBERSHIPS
• Recognized in person by former Indian president Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam for meritorious performance in Physics
• Graduated with Master of Science degree from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, awarded full scholarship
• Awarded the “ICICI Bank Scholarship” for two consecutive years (2002-2004), for meritorious academic performance
• Student member of IEEE. Was elected the IEEE chairman (2005-2006) of IEEE Branch 29861. Was elected the IEEE
Graduate Advisor at UNLV from 2008-2009
• Vice President of the Indian Students Association at UNLV from 2007-2008
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
• Digital control design: Designed and simulated discrete controllers for trajectory control of autonomous underwater
vehicles. Used tools like MATLAB and SIMULINK
• Knowledge of design, operation and inspection of generators, motors, batteries, relays, circuit breakers, switchgear,
transformers and field instrumentation
• Senior design project: Enabled RF transmission based, FSK modulated, full duplex wireless communication between
two PC’s, with self designed encryption and decryption techniques during data transmission/reception
• Presented a technical paper on “Novel Digital Energy Meter” in IEEE national level technical conference at Vellore
Institute of Technology (India), won “Best Paper Award” at KSRM College of Engineering (India)
MASTERS THESIS
• Designed and simulated multiple nonlinear control design methods for the control of Biorobotic Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (BAUVs), using biologically-inspired pectoral-like fins
• Designed an adaptive controller for controlling the heading angle of a BAUV in the yaw plane
• Designed a robust servoregulator for the control of BAUVs based on the nonlinear internal model principle
• Discrete-time indirect adaptive controller was designed for servoregulation of BAUVs using output feedback control
• The stability analysis for the all the control law design methods was done using Lyapunov stability. Controller design
and simulations were done using MATLAB/ SIMULINK
References will be made available upon request