Louis Ted Keys , P.E.
8400 Dogwood Trail
Haughton, La. 71037
Phone: (318) 949-3540 Work: (318) 424-8471
e-mail [email protected]
Professional Engineer registered in the state of Louisiana to practice Electrical Engineering
EDUCATION
B..S. Electrical Engineering, March, 1983, Louisiana Tech University. Individual specialization in microprocessor applications. Also several courses in computer science curriculum.
All course work completed toward a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University.
EXPERIENCE:
DESIGN ENGINEER: Delta Controls Corp. Shreveport, La 71107. June 1986 to present.
Hardware Design:
Responsible for all phases of the electronic design of new products, from product definition, circuit design, layout, prototyping, and testing through release for production. Products include:
Tank level Instrumentation using the following technologies:
Capacitance, Sounding Reel, Radar
Ultrasonic, Conductance, Transmission Line Reflectometry
Head Pressure, Laser Radar,Float, Tilt
Other Products:
Intrinsically Safe Loop Powered Pressure Transmitters
Loop Powered Indicators
Open Channel Flow Meters using capacitance, pressure,and ultrasonic level sensing
Pump Controllers
Signal Linearizers
Alarm Boards
Calibrators
Software Design
Developed all software for new products using assembler and C language implemented on 8051 and 6805, and PIC based microcontrollers. Wrote in-house software for inventory database lookup and document retrieval, and for automated production testing.
Other responsibilities
Direct supervision of engineering, technical, and drafting personel. Project scheduling. Allocation of personnel and resources. Setting and implementing company wide documentation standards. Authoring Operations Manuals. Training Production, Service, and Sales force on new products. Interface with Factory Mutual Research and C.S.A. for intrinsic safety approvals. Manage all the company's PC based computers. Novell NetWare network administrator.
CONSULTANT: ElectroTechnics, Marshall, Tx.
Wrote PC based host database software in Visual Basic to communicate with thousands of timing controllers via radio and modem.
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR: Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier City, La.
Evening job teaching sensor and instrumentation electronics lecture and lab in a two-year industrial instrumentation curriculum. Also taught an introduction to microprocessor architecture, interfacing and programming.
PROGRAMMER: UGC Industries, Shreveport, La . June 1983 - June 1986
Assisted in hardware design of a process gas chromatograph used to calculate heating value, specific gravity, and water content from component analysis of natural gas.
Wrote applications software for general purpose flow computers calculating volumetric and mass flow of petroleum and natural gas and controlling flow rates in multistream pipelines.
Wrote real-time operating system software in Z80 assembler for a titrating natural gas moisture analyzer, General purpose flow computers, Process gas chromatograph, Vibrating Densitometers, Chart Processor, Circular Chart Optical Scanner / Analyzer
Wrote automatic calibration software for in-house temperature and pressure compensation of vibrating densitometers.
CONSULTANT: Burnes Electronics; Ruston, La. 71272
Designed dial-up telemetry system used for monitoring power substations.
TECHNICIAN: Radio Station KXKZ, Ruston, .
Installation and maintenance of audio equipment in a broadcast radio station.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT: La. Tech Univ. Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. Ruston, La. January 1980 - May 1981.
Designed and constructed various microcomputer peripherals for a handicapped student rehabilitation projects.
Electronic technician and computer programmer for various department projects.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Christian Student Center. Ruston, La. August 1980 - March 1983.
Coordination of student activities, representative to sponsoring organization and to campus functions, and supervision of facilities.
PROGRAMMER: Micro Mike's, Inc., Amarillo Texas. Summer 1979
Developed business software suite for hotel management.