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CONTACT INFORMATION
John Sniegowski
262-339-1406 cell
West Bend, WI
jcsniegowski@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/johnsniegowski

BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Engineering Leader with extensive and progressive design, new product development, project management,
sustaining of legacy products, and people management experience. Recognized for strong project management, team
leadership, logical problem solving, and embedded hardware design. Demonstrated strengths include:

Project Specification and Definition

Resource Allocation
Progress Reporting
Complete Product Documentation
Process Improvement

Project Planning
Activity and Milestone Scheduling
Qualification Testing
Product Performance Specifications
Coaching and Mentoring

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Enovate Medical, Murfreesboro TN

October 2014 to October 2015

Developer and Manufacturer of hospital computers, carts and asset tracking systems.
Director of Engineering
Led and managed a team of 15, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and software engineers and technicians for
both new product development and manufacturing operations.
Administrative responsibility for the product engineering group and manufacturing support.
Implemented new work product design review process.
Updated and altered engineering change process.

Smiths Medical, St. Paul, MN

October 2013 to October 2014

Manufacturer of home and hospital medical equipment and infusion pumps and disposables.
Senior Electrical Engineering Manager Product Engineering
Led and managed a team of 12 engineers and technicians across St Paul and India. Our team provides production
and field support and sustaining of all infusion pumps products.
Administrative responsibility for the product engineering group in St Paul with a support team in India.
Most significant accomplishment: Wrote new work product review process.
Completed conversion for all infusion pumps for RoHS compliance.

General Electric Transportation, Melbourne, FL

January 2011 to July 2013

Manufacturer of railway equipment for wayside signaling, crossing detection, track monitoring, and communication.
Subsection Manager - Hardware
Led and managed hardware and production engineering across the US, China, and India, with a total of 24 full
time employees and 15 contract engineers. Performed project and resource planning, new project estimation,
identified required training, developed, maintained, and enforced all development and design processes.
Supported design reviews from design requirements through PCB layout and design verification. My team
supported three product lines: on locomotive electronics, track monitoring and wayside signaling, and crossings.
We also supported manufacturing and field issues while sustaining legacy products with part obsolescence issues.
Administrative responsibility for the hardware engineering and production engineering groups collocated in
Florida, China, and India.
Most significant accomplishment: Built the hardware design group from two to ten full time engineers and
from three to fifteen contract engineers in Florida.
Coordinated resources for multiple simultaneous projects with analog and digital circuit design, qualification
testing, PCB layout, design reviews, and complete design documentation.
Implemented a new PCB design CAD system, which includes a new library of parts and processes for adding
parts to the library as well as standards for PCB design and documentation.

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Work directly with several associated GE design and manufacturing locations in Missouri, China, India, Italy,
Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.
Worked with and supervised all outside hardware design resources.
Performed and led hardware design process gap analysis for CMMI
Significant accomplishment: developed and implemented a process for prioritizing, servicing, and
documenting component obsolescence issues.

Hydro Electronic Devices, Hartford, WI

2008 to 2011

Manufacturer of intelligent electronic controls for heavy on road and off road equipment.
Engineering Lead / Manager - Hardware
Responsible to lead and manage the hardware design group in the planning, design, development, test, and
documentation of new and existing projects and products. HED is a high mix low volume producer of intelligent
controls modules, data loggers, operator interfaces, graphical displays, customizable intelligent switch panels, and
custom solutions as required and outlined by specific customers.
Administrative responsibility for the hardware design group.
Built the hardware design group from myself to 4 full time engineers.
Significant accomplishment: Completely updated electronic CAD tools (Cadence) for component library,
schematic capture and PCB layout.
Significant accomplishment: developed and implemented a process for prioritizing, servicing, and
documenting component obsolescence issues.
Responsible for analog and digital circuit design, qualification testing, PCB layout, design reviews, and
complete design documentation.
Designs include 16 bit microprocessors, analog feedback, power control of up to 10Amps dc per pin of
modules, and meeting regulatory standards for EMC both radiated and susceptibility.
Set standards for functional testing, new product qualification, the entire development process, and all
production documentation.
Coordinated out sourced design services and requirements for circuit design, PCB layout, and circuit board
assembly.
Responsible for manufacturing final assembly and customer support.
Supported customer service for returned material and root cause analysis of failures.
Developed a new Engineering Change Process that reduced the need to change 572 different documents to a
single Engineering Change.

Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley), Mequon, WI

1997 to 2008

Worldwide manufacturer of industrial controls, automation, and motor control systems.

Senior Project Engineer Systems Hardware
Responsible for hardware design and coordination of multiple design teams for the main control board for
Rockwells highest performance systems AC motor drive. These projects had design teams in Mequon WI,
Mayfield Heights OH, Euclid OH, and Japan.
Coordinated design efforts for main control board hardware for the Drivelogix systems drive.
Most significant project: Liquid cooled AC motor drive for hybrid electric vehicle.
Designed control boards with dual processors using RISC and DSP processors, programmable logic devices
using VHDL, for AC motor speeds to 15,000 RPM using relative and absolute position sensors.
Designed all control board circuitry, analog, digital, and communication circuits.
Designed and helped layout PCBs for surface mount components with up to 12 layers.
Last project was the control board for an AC drive motor for a hybrid electric military vehicle.
Active in the design for manufacturability of the complete drive systems.
Performed product verification and validation testing and documentation.
Supported manufacturing through pre-pilot, pilot and into volume production.
Mentored senior level co-op students.
Trained in Six Sigma techniques for voice of the customer and design of experiments.

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Johnson Worldwide Associates (Johnson Outdoors), Sturtevant, WI

1996 to 1997
Manufacturer of outdoor recreational equipment, including Minnkota, Scuba Pro, Old Town Canoes, Lake Electric
Motors, Johnson Fishing, Mitchell Reels, Eureka Camping, and others.
Electronics Group Leader
Responsible for design, project management, and supervision of all electronics and motors projects. Managed
projects for four different business units. Assigned, guided and mentored other design engineers. Coordinated
and managed outsourced electronics projects.
Led electronic design team of 5 engineers across two locations (Wisconsin and Minnesota)
Core member of the Innovation Spearhead Team.
Administrative and project responsibility for all electronic and motor designs and projects.
Designed trolling motor speed controls, battery charging systems, and an electronic compass.
Trained in Economic Value Analysis.
Designed with MOSFETs to control power to 70 amps dc and 24 volts dc.
Designed pulse width modulation for control of dc brushed motors.

Snap-On Tools, Kenosha, WI

1982 to 1996

Worldwide manufacturer of the highest quality hand, power, and industrial tools, tool storage units, and automotive
diagnostics test equipment, with total sales over $1.2 billion.
Senior Project Engineer/Manager
1995 to 1996
Project Engineer/Manager
1988 to 1995
Senior Design Engineer
1985 to 1988
Design Engineer
1982 to 1985
Responsible for assigned projects and project team, from concept to manufacturing and into field service.
Required to define, plan, schedule activities and milestones; allocate all assigned resources; provide progress
updates, performance specifications and instruction manuals; and complete product and component
documentation to meet the project design cycle and the predefined requirements.
Design expertise earned seven U.S. patents assigned to Snap-On.
Responsible for complete hardware and software efforts, resources, schedules, and quality.
Led cross functional design teams of up to 18 people across two locations (Kenosha, Crystal Lake).
Managed multiple simultaneous projects.
Responsible for projects with budgets to $3 million.
Most significant project: Bay Diagnostic System
Coordinated complete project documentation and facilitated all project design reviews.
Helped to develop and implement corporate standards: Project Design Cycle, Product Performance Standard,
and Component Documentation.
Trained in Quality Functional Development (for project definition), Statistical Process Control, Design of
Experiments, and ISO 9000 requirements and procedures.
Trained in Lean, Six Sigma, and Voice of the Customer techniques.
Designed linear analog circuits, complete signal conditioning, and embedded microprocessor systems.
Seven US patents for design efforts.

EDUCATION
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI