Paulo Malta

I provided technical support for passive components and discrete semiconductors, enhancing project outcomes and customer satisfaction. • Conducted thorough reviews of BOMs to recommend optimal components for various projects. • Fostered strong relationships with suppliers and product managers to negotiate favorable pricing. • Handled design registrations, ensuring compliance and efficiency in project execution.

Responsible for technical support for customer and solution development for IoT.

Responsible for technical support for customer and product development, mainly LED lighting. Work on requirement definition, design, test and technical documentation of products.

Coordinator of Product Engineering group. I hired and trained current Product Engineering group This group is responsible for: - Analyze and understand customer documentation - Quote components, external services and support equipment with suppliers - Prepare technical quotation of assembled board/product for commercial department - Organize customer documentation for other company areas - Prepare customer printed circuit board documentation for quote with suppliers - Introduce new components on ERP system - Support purchase department customs classification, alternate components finding and, when necessary, conduct negotiation with customer to get alternate component approval. - Help on continuos improvement of manufacturing process. I introduced use of personal kanban tools (trello) for quotation follow-up and priorization process Me and my group had made several improvements on Excel used for quotations I had also designed 2 products for customers from requirements until final board and started design analisys of other 3 products.

Interled was strong in representing foreign electronic components companies for Brazilian market. I organized Application Engineering department to provide deeper support for customer on development of innovative products with components we distribute. I am finishing implementation of engineering laboratory that will help in development or outsourcing small projects from our customers. Our target markets are LED Lighting, Energy Metering & Monitoring (SmartGrid) and Microcontrollers I designed several LED boards and LED drivers from requirement to final board and supervised tests with customers. During time Interled was Microchip distributor I was instructor on Microchip Masters Brasil seminars with classes: - Extreme Low-Power Processors (XLP) (2009) - Microchip solutions for energy metering (2010) - Intelligent Systems for energy metering and communications (2011) - Microchip solutions for energy metering: from SmartPlug to SmartMeter (2012) Responsible for Wireless Communication classes in SAE Brasil Specialization in Digital Embedded Systems Design (2012)

Management of engineering team on various R&D programs with focus on markets like: - RFID - AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) - Hardware and Software for digital TV and Automotive applications Definition of new business process to improve inovation and development of new technologies Build long-term relationship with customers.

Since 2006 supervising activities from other Field Application Engineers Permanently working on technical marketing and new business development of System on a Chip (SoC) components, sometimes personally developing marketing collateral material. Executed regional and segment market survey to identify new business opportunities in solid-state lighting, high power lasers, power semiconductors and electric energy measurement ICs . Successfully supported design of Switched-Mode Power Supplies for satellite receivers, business and industrial automation. Continuously developing training for internal sales team and provide technical support for customers from power transistors, analog ICs, High-Intensity LEDs, Microcontrollers, to SoC. Since 2006 was a technical speaker on Microchip Masters Brasil seminars and had taught classes on: - Analog Signal Conditioning (2006) - LDO Regulators & Charge-Pump (2007)

Started analyzing Business Plans for Latin America market cell phones, built relationship with engineering, manufacturing and marketing. Act as R&D PCS Latin America liaison at New Business Development Department in Motorola USA (Libetyville, IL). Participated in Business Plan elaboration mainly on definition of features and analyzing requests from operators. Worked on user interface definition. As Technical Marketing specialist developed new features for TDMA and CDMA cell phones and analyzed LA Market identifying requests for 2.5G and 3G phones Performed CDG field test in CDMA cell phones, for design debug and operator acceptance

Responsible for project management of hardware development and introduction of new products in production line. Built relationship with components, R&D and manufacturing supplies and equipment suppliers and sub-contractors. Successfully introduced new engineering process, documentation practices and was the focal point of department during ISO9000 and SAP/R3 implementation task force. Together with Purchase Dept manager, established a new practice of components procurement and new suppliers evaluation & approval process. Successfully prevent production line stops identifying, evaluating and approving alternate components in record time. Started designing sensors, analog and RF circuit blocks for car alarms and associated electronics like door-locks and power windows. Was R&D engineer responsible for market survey of new technologies, components, engineering equipment, sub-contractors (after evolved to new procurement practices)

Successfully introduced the design and use of low-cost Switched-Mode Power Supplies for fixed cell phone product. Analyzed their application in low-cost satellite receivers. Developed DC/DC converters for vairous satellite circuits. Defined specification for dedicated power supply IC for satellite Low-Noise block (LNB) Built relationship with component suppliers during procurement of ku-band digital satellite receiver components

Trainee engineer in Systems and Energy Control Dept (DSCE - Dpto. Sistemas e Controle de Energia) in development of instrumentation (HW & SW) for of Power Line quality measurement (Flicker Effect).