Christopher Means

Electrical Engineer @ Pivot International, Inc.

About

I'm an electrical engineer helping to design stable drones that operate in areas where GPS is unavailable such as in caves, under bridges, and inside buildings. My goal is to increase my skills in the areas of electronic design and describing hardware using languages such as VHDL and Verilog.

Country

United States

City

Overland Park

Industry

Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing

Skill

System Integration Testing, Allegro, OrCAD PSpice, Electronics Hardware Design, Debugging, System Testing, Functional Testing, Shell Scripting, system planning, High-speed Digital Design, OrCAD Capture CIS, Allegro PCB Editor, Cadence Virtuoso, Welding, Matlab, C++, Windows os, Java, Microsoft Office, Linux

Experience

Electrical Engineer

Pivot International, Inc.

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Closing Expert

Target

2025-3 - 2025-6 · 4 mos

Electrical Systems Design Engineer

Digital Aerolus

2019-5 - 2022-7 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

In this role, I was responsible for the design, layout, part sourcing, manufacturing, and testing of complex PCBs used in the companies drone and controller. As a result of my role I directly participated in the top-down planning of the drone and controller electrical systems. To aid in my responsibilities I would utilize the testing tools available to me including multimeters, oscilloscopes, and PCB design programs. I have also took it upon myself to design test scripts to be used in testing the functionality of different PCBs and the product as a whole.

Hardware Applications Intern

onsemi

2018-5 - 2018-8 · 4 mos

Beaverton, Oregon

In this role, I was responsible for assisting the engineering team with the design and layout of PCBs used to highlight the companies IC product line as well as testing and debugging board designed by others on the engineering team.