GRANT L. MARTIN
Gmhome(AT)sbcglobal.net
St. Charles, Missouri
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Engineering Support Specialist: Highly experienced in concept qualification and electronic product testing for failure free operation before and after customer delivery.
Extensive experience with test management processes of imbedded firmware based products.
Demonstrated performance in the creation, implementation and execution of product and system level test programs from concept validation through the end of product life.
Recognized for effectively working in team oriented, high stress environments requiring immediate results.
Experienced with intensely rapid corporate growth: For example, I built and supported the product test department for a business that in less than 8 years grew from $500,000 in annual sales and 40 local employees to $500 million in sales and 500+ employees world wide. This resulted in over 100 million metering endpoints installed with zero product recalls.
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Test Process Design
Pioneered, implemented and executed the Functional Acceptance Test (FAT) process for TWACS enabled electric meters. This process replaced a purely manual but error prone six week non-regression based test effort with an automated tool that allows a comprehensive test suite to be run in 48 hours.
Led a three month effort that resulted in the test process gaining ISO 9000:2001 certifications. This process allowed the company to efficiently and effectively evaluate new product designs and upgrades with follow-on automated regression testing in compliance with ISO standards.
Project Management
Managed and conducted more than 30 electric meter test programs resulting in the recall-free fielding of over 100 million single and polyphase residential and commercial TWACS enabled electric meters.
Served as principal test engineer in support of concept validation, design verification and field testing of the Concurrent Phase signaling concept resulting in the award of patent #6940396. The initial design verification phase required the design, validation and support of several three phase 240VAC test jigs. Final field test required the design, construction, qualification and fielding of a 150KVA three phase 18 phasor mobile test unit running on 277/480 VAC. (See link).
Oversaw and directed various test programs in support of proof of concept validation for various proprietary communications protocols.
Team Leadership
Served as test manager for unique, customer driven test products.
Trained and mentored new hires on technical aspects of proprietary technology and test methodologies.
Test Lead with multiple test engineers on several critical FAT projects.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Design and assembly of prototype electronic products, test equipment and fixtures. These designs consist of Discrete Digital & Analog technologies (<= 100 MHz) as well as embedded Systems, Microprocessors and Programmable logic controllers.
Programming of embedded products using C, Python, Assemblers, PLx and Basic.
Highly adept with test methodologies for software, hardware and embedded controller applications. These test methodologies include design verification, functional acceptance, system, customer acceptance, integration, production, development, qualification, specification, verification & validation and installation.